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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






2. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






3. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






4. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






5. Morphine first isolated.






6. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






7. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






8. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






9. First isolation of aluminum.






10. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






11. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






12. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






13. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






14. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






15. Cairo falls to the British.






16. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






17. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






18. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






19. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






20. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






21. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






22. The Caste War of Yucat






23. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






24. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






25. TheFirst Boer War.






26. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






27. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






28. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






29. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






30. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






31. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






32. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






33. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






34. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






35. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






36. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






37. Russo-Persian War.






38. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






39. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






40. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






41. Russia abolishes serfdom.






42. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






43. The New Zealand Land Wars






44. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






45. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






46. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






47. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






48. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






49. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






50. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.