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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






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






5. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






6. Independence of Argentina






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






8. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






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






10. First isolation of aluminum.






11. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






12. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






13. Greco-Turkish War.






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






15. World population reaches 1 billion.






16. Bah






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






18. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






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






20. Basketball is invented.






21. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






22. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






23. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






25. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






26. Telegraphy patented.






27. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






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






30. The Pony Express ended.






31. Independence of Argentina






32. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






34. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






35. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






36. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






38. Second Anglo-Sikh War






39. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






40. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






41. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






42. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






43. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






44. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






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






46. The Communist Manifesto published.






47. Germany gains control of Camaroon






48. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






49. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






50. First gramophone record