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19th Century Timeline

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1. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






3. California Gold Rush






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






5. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






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






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






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






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






11. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






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






13. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






14. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






15. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






17. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






18. Russo-Persian War.






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






20. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






21. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






22. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






23. Greco-Turkish War.






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






25. The German Customs Union is formed.






26. The Bront






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






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






29. Dreyfuss Affair






30. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






31. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






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






33. The Bront






34. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






35. Greco-Turkish War.






36. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






38. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






39. Missouri Compromise






40. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






41. California Gold Rush






42. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






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






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






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






47. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






48. The Pony Express ended.






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






50. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.