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19th Century Timeline

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1. Independence of Bolivia.






2. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






3. The Decembrist revolt






4. Independence of Argentina






5. Carlist Wars in Spain.






6. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






7. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






9. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






10. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






11. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






12. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






13. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






14. First electric motor built.






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






16. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






17. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






18. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






19. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






20. Suez Canal is constructed.






21. First steam locomotive begins operation.






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






23. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






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






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






26. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






27. Navarino Massacre






28. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






29. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






30. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






31. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






32. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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34. Second Anglo-Sikh War






35. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






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






38. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






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






40. World population reaches 1 billion.






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






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






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






44. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






45. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






46. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






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






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






49. Morphine first isolated.






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