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19th Century Timeline

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1. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






2. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






3. Victorian gold rush in Australia






4. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






5. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






6. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






7. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






8. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






9. The Pony Express ended.






10. World population reaches 1 billion.






11. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






12. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






14. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






15. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






16. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






17. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






18. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






19. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






20. Dreyfuss Affair






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






22. Egyptian






23. Death of Alexander Pushkin






24. Canadian Confederation formed.






25. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






26. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






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






28. Persian Prophet the B






29. The cardboard box is invented.






30. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






31. First steam locomotive begins operation.






32. Peterloo massacre in England.






33. Navarino Massacre






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






35. California Gold Rush






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






37. July Revolution in France.






38. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






39. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






40. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






41. Wilhelm R






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






43. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






44. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






45. Suez Canal is constructed.






46. Greco-Turkish War.






47. Dreyfuss Affair






48. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






49. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






50. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.