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19th Century Timeline

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1. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






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






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






4. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






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






6. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






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






8. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






9. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






10. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






11. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






12. First Republic in Spain.






13. Morphine first isolated.






14. Canadian Confederation formed.






15. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






17. Discovery of Antarctica






18. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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






20. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






21. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






22. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






23. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






24. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






26. First isolation of aluminum.






27. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






28. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






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






30. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






31. The Soci






32. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






33. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






34. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






35. Aspirin patented.






36. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






37. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






38. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






39. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






40. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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






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






43. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






44. Famine in Finland.






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






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






47. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






48. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






49. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






50. The New Zealand Land Wars