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19th Century Timeline
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1. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.
1829
1852
1814
1832
2. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.
1864
1898
1825
1843
3. 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.
1843
1836
1864
1893
4. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.
1896
1881
1801
1876
5. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.
1884
1894
1849
1830
6. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.
1803
1825
1876
1820
7. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.
1808
1803
1864
1810s
8. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.
1801
1851
1836
1845
9. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.
1836
1831
1808
1826
10. Siege of Khartoum
1897
1884
1822
1834
11. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.
1885
1803
1898
1806
12. Carlist Wars in Spain.
1833
1861
1892
1893
13. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.
1897
1806-1812
1850
1848
14. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1865
1889
1876
1853
15. Chilean Civil War.
1891
1883
1869
1819
16. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.
1848
1879
1863
1817
17. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
1824
1804
1817
1856
18. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1865-April 14 - 1865
1889
1882
1821
19. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1884
1831
1873
1805
20. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony
1836
1815
1808
1859
21. Suez Canal is constructed.
1882
1859
1821
1830
22. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.
1892
1888
1848
1884
23. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.
1884
1830
1876
1865-April 9 - 1865
24. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.
1876
1844
1836
1829
25. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.
1848
1803
1801
1820
26. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
1804
1881
1839
1853
27. Independence of Chile
1818
1877
1862
1821
28. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
1821
1890
1813
1889
29. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.
1844
1810s
1835
1843
30. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.
1864
1874
1879
1853
31. Greco-Turkish War.
1810
1897
1834
1844
32. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
1893
1885
1848
1898
33. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)
1801
1809
1806
1825
34. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.
1886
1848
1854
1871
35. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.
1803
1896
1880
1864
36. Wilhelm R
1893
1825
1895
1812
37. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.
1877
1834
1859
1803
38. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.
1886
1850
1876
1830
39. Missouri Compromise
1825
1889
1871
1820
40. 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
1894
1845
1803
1895
41. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.
1872
1806
1896
1840
42. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.
1816
1848
1851
1850
43. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.
1815
1848
1827
1830
44. France annexes Cambodia.
1801
1803
1863
1877
45. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada
1844
1840
1868
1896
46. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom
1812
1885
1863
1838
47. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
1851
1802
1801
1834
48. Morphine first isolated.
1821
1843
1806-1812
1804
49. France invades and occupies Algeria.
1831
1805
1868
1836
50. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.
1810
1837
1819
1876