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19th Century Timeline

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1. Germany gains control of Camaroon






2. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






3. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






4. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






5. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






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






7. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






8. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






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






10. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






11. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






12. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






13. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






14. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






16. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






17. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






18. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






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






21. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






22. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






23. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






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






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






27. Russia abolishes serfdom.






28. Independence of Chile






29. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






30. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






31. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






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






33. The Soci






34. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






35. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






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






37. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






38. Suez Canal is constructed.






39. First section of the London Underground opens.






40. Mormon migration to Utah.






41. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






42. Italy annexes Eritrea.






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






44. 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.






45. Mormon migration to Utah.






46. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






47. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






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






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