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19th Century Timeline

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1. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






2. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






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






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






6. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






7. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






8. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






9. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






10. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






11. 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.






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






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






14. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






15. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






16. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






18. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






19. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






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






21. First steam locomotive begins operation.






22. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






23. 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.






24. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






25. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






26. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






28. First isolation of aluminum.






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






30. Germany gains control of Camaroon






31. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






32. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






33. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






35. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






36. First Republic in Spain.






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






38. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






39. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






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






41. Dreyfuss Affair






42. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






43. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






44. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






45. The Caste War of Yucat






46. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






47. Second Anglo-Sikh War






48. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






49. The Communist Manifesto published.






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







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