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19th Century Timeline

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1. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






2. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






3. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






4. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






5. First section of the London Underground opens.






6. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






7. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






8. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






9. 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.






10. World's first oil refinery in Romania






11. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






12. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






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






14. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






15. First steam locomotive begins operation.






16. Wilhelm R






17. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






18. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






19. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






20. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






21. Cairo falls to the British.






22. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






23. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






24. Volleyball is invented






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






26. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






27. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






28. First electric motor built.






29. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






31. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






32. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






33. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






34. France invades and occupies Algeria.






35. Independence of Chile






36. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






37. Missouri Compromise






38. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






39. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






40. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






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






42. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






43. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






44. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






45. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






47. Morphine first isolated.






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






49. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






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