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19th Century Timeline

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1. Egyptian






2. Germany gains control of Camaroon






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






4. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






6. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






7. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






8. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






9. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






10. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






11. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






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






13. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






14. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






16. 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.






17. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






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






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






20. World population reaches 1 billion.






21. The Communist Manifesto published.






22. The German Customs Union is formed.






23. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






24. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






25. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






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






27. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






28. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






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






31. 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.






32. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






33. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






35. First isolation of aluminum.






36. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






38. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






39. Siege of Khartoum






40. Mormon migration to Utah.






41. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






42. The Decembrist revolt






43. First gramophone record






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






45. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






46. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






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






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






49. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






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






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