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19th Century Timeline

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1. Greco-Turkish War.






2. Morphine first isolated.






3. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






5. Second Anglo-Sikh War






6. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






7. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






8. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






10. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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






12. World population reaches 1 billion.






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14. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






15. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






16. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






17. Persian Prophet the B






18. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






19. Basketball is invented.






20. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






21. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






24. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






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






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






27. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






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






29. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






30. Telegraphy patented.






31. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






32. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






33. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






34. Russo-Persian War.






35. 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.






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






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






38. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






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






40. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






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






42. Missouri Compromise






43. 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.






44. First electric motor built.






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






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






47. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






48. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






49. The German Customs Union is formed.






50. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony