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19th Century Timeline
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1. First section of the London Underground opens.
1876
1863
March 18 - 1871
1889
2. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir
1889
1868
1801
1892
3. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.
1848
1859
1864
1804
4. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table
1869
1876
1801
1859
5. Independence of Bolivia.
1825
1855
1889
1845
6. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.
1888
1844
1841
1896
7. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.
1815
1808
1820
1836
8. 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.
1851
1870
1814
1874
9. France invades and occupies Algeria.
1883
1831
1845
1889
10. Russia abolishes serfdom.
1868
1861
1835
1851
11. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi
1804-1813
1892
1879
1817
12. The German Customs Union is formed.
1834
1868
1816
1839
13. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.
1803
1867
1836
1823
14. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.
1835
1870s-1890s
1814
1851
15. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.
1812
1881
1836
1851
16. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.
1843
1804
1895
1884
17. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1867
1814
1854
1812
18. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.
1831
1825
March 18 - 1871
1863
19. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.
1817
1845
1804
1825
20. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.
1806-1812
1858
1877
1894
21. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
1879
1865
1813
1816
22. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.
1820
1803
1838
1892
23. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.
1831
1898
1881
1871
24. Death of Alexander Pushkin
1837
1895
1816
1874
25. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.
1817
1868
1813
1868
26. Persian Prophet the B
1804
1844
1876
1832
27. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.
1848
1809
1833
1859
28. Morphine first isolated.
1804
1821
1801
1879
29. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep
1801
1875
1809
1845
30. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)
1864
1885
1870
1803
31. Wilhelm R
1872
1804-1813
1895
1817
32. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo
1874
1895
1816
1887
33. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.
1871
1804
1818
1817
34. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage
1893
1880
1828
1804
35. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated
1885
1819
1845
1881
36. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.
1877
1858
1890
1851
37. Famine in Finland.
1803
1866
1830
1847
38. TheFirst Boer War.
1801
1880
1896
1804
39. 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
1815
1895
1821
1882
40. Greco-Turkish War.
1863
1836
1848
1897
41. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.
1804
1886
1892
1879
42. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
1827
1823
1839
1874
43. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
1801
1806
1834
1810
44. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated
1853
1856
1881
1862
45. World population reaches 1 billion.
1810
1804
1821
1822
46. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
1876
1825
1802
1831
47. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.
1846
1844
1873
1885
48. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.
1805
1895
1886
1844
49. Cro-Magnon man first identified.
1892
1849
1872
1868
50. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.
1838
1813
1825
1844