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19th Century Timeline

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1. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






2. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






3. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






4. The Caste War of Yucat






5. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






6. California Gold Rush






7. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






8. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






9. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






10. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






11. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






12. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






13. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






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






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






16. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






17. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






18. The Pony Express started.






19. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






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






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






22. Famine in Finland.






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






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






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






26. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






27. Missouri Compromise






28. Navarino Massacre






29. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






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






31. 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.






32. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






33. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






34. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






35. First electric motor built.






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






37. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






38. The Soci






39. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






41. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






42. 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.






43. Volleyball is invented






44. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






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






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






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






48. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






49. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






50. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain