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19th Century Timeline

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1. First steam locomotive begins operation.






2. Telegraphy patented.






3. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






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5. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






6. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






7. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






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






9. Uruguayan Civil War






10. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






11. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






12. Dreyfuss Affair






13. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






14. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






15. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






16. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






17. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






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






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






20. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






21. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






22. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






23. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






24. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






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






26. Volleyball is invented






27. Mormon migration to Utah.






28. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






29. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






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






32. First electric motor built.






33. France annexes Cambodia.






34. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






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






36. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






37. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






38. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






40. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






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






42. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






43. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






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






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






46. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






47. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






48. Indian famine begins.






49. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






50. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars