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19th Century Timeline

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1. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






2. Morphine first isolated.






3. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






4. Russo-Persian War.






5. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






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






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






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






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






10. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






11. 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.






12. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






14. Navarino Massacre






15. The German Customs Union is formed.






16. The Soci






17. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






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






19. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






20. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






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






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24. Carlist Wars in Spain.






25. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






26. First isolation of aluminum.






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






28. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






29. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






30. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






31. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






32. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






34. France annexes Cambodia.






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






36. First electric motor built.






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






38. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






39. The Communist Manifesto published.






40. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






41. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






42. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






43. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






44. SecondIndustrial Revolution






45. Russia abolishes serfdom.






46. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






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






49. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






50. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.