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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






2. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






3. 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






4. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






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






6. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






7. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






9. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






10. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






11. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






12. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






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






15. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






16. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






17. TheFirst Boer War.






18. First Anglo-Sikh War






19. France annexes Cambodia.






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






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






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






23. Russo-Persian War.






24. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






25. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






26. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






27. Italy annexes Eritrea.






28. Second Anglo-Sikh War






29. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






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






31. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






32. Mormon migration to Utah.






33. The Trumpet gets valves.






34. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






35. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






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






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






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






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






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






41. First Anglo-Sikh War






42. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






43. 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






44. Greco-Turkish War.






45. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






46. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






48. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






49. The Communist Manifesto published.






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