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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






3. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






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






5. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






6. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






7. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






8. 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.






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






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






11. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






12. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






13. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






14. Victorian gold rush in Australia






15. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






16. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






17. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






18. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






19. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






20. Siege of Khartoum






21. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






22. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






23. First isolation of aluminum.






24. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






25. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






27. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






28. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






29. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






30. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






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






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






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






34. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






35. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






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






37. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






38. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






39. 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






40. First Republic in Spain.






41. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






42. Siege of Khartoum






43. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






44. Discovery of Antarctica






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






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






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






48. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






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






50. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.







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