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19th Century Timeline

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1. Second Anglo-Sikh War






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






3. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






4. Famine in Finland.






5. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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






7. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






8. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






9. The quagga is rendered extinct.






10. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






11. TheFirst Boer War.






12. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






13. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






15. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






16. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






17. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






18. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






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






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






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






23. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






24. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






25. Basketball is invented.






26. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






27. Independence of Argentina






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






29. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






31. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






32. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






33. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






34. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






36. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






37. World's first oil refinery in Romania






38. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






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






40. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






42. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






43. The Bront






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






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






46. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






47. Peterloo massacre in England.






48. Morphine first isolated.






49. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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