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19th Century Timeline

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1. Basketball is invented.






2. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






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






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






5. Uruguayan Civil War






6. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






7. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






8. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






9. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






10. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






11. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






12. The New Zealand Land Wars






13. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






14. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






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






16. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






18. 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.






19. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






20. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






21. Aspirin patented.






22. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






23. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






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






26. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






27. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






28. SecondIndustrial Revolution






29. Independence of Bolivia.






30. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






31. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






32. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






33. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






35. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






37. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






38. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






39. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






41. Russia abolishes serfdom.






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






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






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






45. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






47. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






48. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






49. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






50. Peru declares its independence from Spain.