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19th Century Timeline

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1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






2. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






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






4. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






5. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






6. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






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






8. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






9. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






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






11. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






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






13. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






14. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






15. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






16. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






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






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






19. Independence of Chile






20. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






21. Carlist Wars in Spain.






22. Russia abolishes serfdom.






23. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






24. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






25. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






26. The cardboard box is invented.






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






28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






29. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






31. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






32. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






33. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






34. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






35. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






36. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






37. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






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






39. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






40. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






41. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






42. France invades and occupies Algeria.






43. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






44. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






45. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






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






47. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






49. Missouri Compromise






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