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19th Century Timeline

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1. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






2. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






3. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






4. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






5. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






6. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






7. The Communist Manifesto published.






8. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






9. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






10. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






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






12. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






13. Famine in Finland.






14. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






15. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






16. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






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






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






19. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






20. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






22. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






23. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






24. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






25. Missouri Compromise






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






27. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






36. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






38. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






39. Carlist Wars in Spain.






40. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






41. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






42. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






43. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






44. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






45. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






46. 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.






47. Independence of Luxembourg.






48. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






49. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






50. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.