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19th Century Timeline

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1. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






2. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






3. First section of the London Underground opens.






4. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






5. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






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






7. Cairo falls to the British.






8. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






9. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






10. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






11. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






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






13. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






14. First steam locomotive begins operation.






15. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






17. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






18. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






19. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






20. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






21. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






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






23. SecondIndustrial Revolution






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






25. First section of the London Underground opens.






26. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






27. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






28. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






29. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






31. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






32. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






33. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






34. Persian Prophet the B






35. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






36. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






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






38. 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.






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






40. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






41. Egyptian






42. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






43. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






44. Greco-Turkish War.






45. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






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






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






48. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






49. The Soci






50. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.