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19th Century Timeline

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1. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






3. Peterloo massacre in England.






4. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






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






6. TheFirst Boer War.






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






8. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






9. First Anglo-Sikh War






10. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






11. Morphine first isolated.






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






13. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






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






15. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






16. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






17. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






18. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






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






20. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






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






22. The Trumpet gets valves.






23. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






24. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






25. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






26. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






27. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






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






30. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






31. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






32. Slavery banned in Brazil.






33. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






34. First steam locomotive begins operation.






35. Wilhelm R






36. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






38. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






39. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






40. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






41. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






42. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






43. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






44. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






45. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






46. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






48. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






49. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






50. Victorian gold rush in Australia