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19th Century Timeline

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1. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






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






3. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






5. Cairo falls to the British.






6. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






7. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






8. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






9. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






10. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






11. Slavery banned in Brazil.






12. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






13. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






14. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






15. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






17. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






18. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






19. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






21. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






22. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






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






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






25. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






27. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






28. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






29. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






30. France invades and occupies Algeria.






31. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






32. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






33. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






35. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






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






38. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






39. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






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






41. 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.






42. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






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






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






45. Egyptian






46. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






47. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






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






49. Famine in Finland.






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