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19th Century Timeline

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1. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






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






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






4. Persian Prophet the B






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






6. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






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






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






10. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






11. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






12. Slavery banned in Brazil.






13. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






14. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






15. Death of Alexander Pushkin






16. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






17. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






18. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






19. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






20. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






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






22. Peterloo massacre in England.






23. The Bront






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






25. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






26. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






27. First gramophone record






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






29. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






31. Volleyball is invented






32. 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.






33. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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






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






36. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






38. The Pony Express ended.






39. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






40. Egyptian






41. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






42. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






43. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






44. Navarino Massacre






45. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






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






48. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






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






50. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.