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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






4. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






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6. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






8. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






9. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






10. Independence of Chile






11. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






12. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






13. Chilean Civil War.






14. Basketball is invented.






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






16. The cardboard box is invented.






17. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






18. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






19. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






20. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






21. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






22. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






23. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






24. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






25. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






26. Second Anglo-Sikh War






27. First Anglo-Sikh War






28. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






29. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






30. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






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






32. The Pony Express ended.






33. World population reaches 1 billion.






34. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






35. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






37. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






38. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






39. France annexes Cambodia.






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






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






42. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






44. The Bront






45. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






47. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






48. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






49. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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