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19th Century Timeline

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1. Russia abolishes serfdom.






2. Cairo falls to the British.






3. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






4. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






5. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






6. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






7. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






8. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






9. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






10. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






11. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






12. Discovery of Antarctica






13. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






14. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






15. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






16. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






17. Dreyfuss Affair






18. Death of Alexander Pushkin






19. Persian Prophet the B






20. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






21. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






22. Germany gains control of Camaroon






23. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






24. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






25. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






26. Italy annexes Eritrea.






27. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






28. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






29. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






30. Aspirin patented.






31. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






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






33. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






34. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






35. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






36. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






37. SecondIndustrial Revolution






38. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






39. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






40. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






41. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






42. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






43. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






44. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






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






46. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






47. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






48. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






49. First electric motor built.






50. 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.