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19th Century Timeline

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1. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






2. Peterloo massacre in England.






3. 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.






4. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






5. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






6. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






7. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






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






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






10. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






11. Suez Canal is constructed.






12. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






13. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






14. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






16. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






17. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






18. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






19. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






20. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






21. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






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






23. California Gold Rush






24. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






25. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






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






27. The Pony Express started.






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






29. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






31. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






32. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






33. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






34. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






35. Missouri Compromise






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






37. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






38. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






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






40. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






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






43. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






44. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






45. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






46. TheFirst Boer War.






47. Independence of Chile






48. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






49. 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






50. The Mahdist War in Sudan.