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19th Century Timeline

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1. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






2. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






3. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






4. Independence of Bolivia.






5. Cairo falls to the British.






6. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






7. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






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






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






11. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






12. Independence of Luxembourg.






13. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






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






16. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






17. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






18. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






19. World population reaches 1 billion.






20. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






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






22. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






23. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






24. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






25. 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






26. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






27. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






28. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






29. Uruguayan Civil War






30. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






32. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






33. 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.






34. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






35. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






36. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






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






38. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






39. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






40. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






41. Famine in Finland.






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






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






44. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






45. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






47. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






48. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






49. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






50. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.