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19th Century Timeline

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1. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






2. Chilean Civil War.






3. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






4. Egyptian






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






6. The Decembrist revolt






7. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






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






9. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






10. The Trumpet gets valves.






11. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






12. World population reaches 1 billion.






13. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






14. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






16. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






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






19. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






21. Siege of Khartoum






22. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






23. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






24. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






25. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






27. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






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






29. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






30. Persian Prophet the B






31. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






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






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






34. Independence of Chile






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






36. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






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






38. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






39. Famine in Finland.






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






41. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






42. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






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






44. 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.






45. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






46. Russia abolishes serfdom.






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






48. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






49. Death of Alexander Pushkin






50. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist