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19th Century Timeline

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1. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






2. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






3. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






4. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






5. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






6. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






7. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






8. SecondIndustrial Revolution






9. France annexes Cambodia.






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






11. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






12. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






13. Chilean Civil War.






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






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






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






17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






18. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






19. The quagga is rendered extinct.






20. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






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






22. Suez Canal is constructed.






23. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






24. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






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






26. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






27. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






28. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






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






30. Independence of Chile






31. First section of the London Underground opens.






32. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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






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






35. Uruguayan Civil War






36. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






37. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






38. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






39. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






40. Persian Prophet the B






41. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






42. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






43. Canadian Confederation formed.






44. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






45. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






46. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






47. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






48. July Revolution in France.






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






50. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.