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19th Century Timeline

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1. Indian famine begins.






2. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






3. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






4. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






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






6. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






7. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






8. Victorian gold rush in Australia






9. California Gold Rush






10. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






11. Telegraphy patented.






12. First gramophone record






13. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






14. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






15. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






16. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






18. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






19. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






20. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






21. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






23. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






24. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






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






27. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






28. Cairo falls to the British.






29. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






30. Missouri Compromise






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






32. July Revolution in France.






33. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






35. The New Zealand Land Wars






36. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






37. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






38. First Republic in Spain.






39. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






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






41. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






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






43. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






44. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






45. 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.






46. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






47. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






48. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






49. The German Customs Union is formed.






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







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