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19th Century Timeline

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1. Aspirin patented.






2. Discovery of Antarctica






3. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






4. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






6. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






7. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






8. Italy annexes Eritrea.






9. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






10. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






11. Germany gains control of Camaroon






12. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






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






15. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






16. Independence of Argentina






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






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






19. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






20. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






21. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






22. Persian Prophet the B






23. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






24. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






25. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






26. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






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28. Basketball is invented.






29. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






30. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






31. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






32. 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.






33. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






34. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






35. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






37. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






38. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






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






40. Independence of Bolivia.






41. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






42. France annexes Cambodia.






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






44. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






45. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






46. 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






47. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






48. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






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






50. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.