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19th Century Timeline

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1. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






2. Morphine first isolated.






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






4. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






5. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






7. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






8. France invades and occupies Algeria.






9. Persian Prophet the B






10. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






11. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






12. Independence of Chile






13. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






14. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






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






16. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






17. Aspirin patented.






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






19. Second Anglo-Sikh War






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






21. Telegraphy patented.






22. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






23. The Communist Manifesto published.






24. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






25. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






26. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






27. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






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






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






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






31. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






32. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






34. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






35. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






36. Russo-Persian War.






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






38. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. Victorian gold rush in Australia






45. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






46. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






47. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






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






49. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






50. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.