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19th Century Timeline

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1. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






3. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






5. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






6. Suez Canal is constructed.






7. Independence of Argentina






8. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






9. Cairo falls to the British.






10. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






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






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






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






15. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






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






18. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






19. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






20. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






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






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






23. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






24. 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






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






26. Russo-Persian War.






27. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






28. The New Zealand Land Wars






29. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






30. The quagga is rendered extinct.






31. The Pony Express started.






32. Victorian gold rush in Australia






33. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






34. Germany gains control of Camaroon






35. Navarino Massacre






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






37. Second Anglo-Sikh War






38. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






39. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






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






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






43. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






44. Chilean Civil War.






45. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






46. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






48. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






49. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






50. 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).