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19th Century Timeline

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1. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






2. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






4. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






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






6. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






7. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






8. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






9. The Trumpet gets valves.






10. First section of the London Underground opens.






11. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






12. The Bront






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






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






15. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






17. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






18. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






19. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






20. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






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






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






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






24. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






25. First isolation of aluminum.






26. Discovery of Antarctica






27. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






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






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






31. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






32. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






33. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






34. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






35. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






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






37. Volleyball is invented






38. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






39. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






40. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






41. Dreyfuss Affair






42. The Caste War of Yucat






43. Bah






44. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






45. Telegraphy patented.






46. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






48. The Pony Express ended.






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






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