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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






4. Independence of Luxembourg.






5. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






6. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






7. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






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






9. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






10. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






11. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






12. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






13. Cairo falls to the British.






14. Cairo falls to the British.






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






16. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






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






18. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






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






20. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






21. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






23. 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






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






25. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






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






28. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






29. Dreyfuss Affair






30. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






31. Germany gains control of Camaroon






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






33. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






34. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






35. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






37. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






38. Indian famine begins.






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






44. 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






45. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






46. Russo-Persian War.






47. Greco-Turkish War.






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






49. First Republic in Spain.






50. Navarino Massacre