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19th Century Timeline

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1. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






2. Volleyball is invented






3. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






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






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






7. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






9. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






10. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






12. Telegraphy patented.






13. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






14. Dreyfuss Affair






15. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






16. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






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






18. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






19. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






20. First electric motor built.






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






22. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






23. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






24. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






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






26. 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






27. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






28. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






29. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






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






31. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






33. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






34. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






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






36. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






37. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






38. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






39. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






40. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






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






43. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






44. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






45. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






46. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






47. Canadian Confederation formed.






48. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






49. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






50. The German Customs Union is formed.