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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






3. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






4. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






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






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






7. 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






8. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






9. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






10. The German Customs Union is formed.






11. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






12. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






13. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






14. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






15. Canadian Confederation formed.






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17. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






18. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






19. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






20. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






21. Aspirin patented.






22. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






23. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






24. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






25. The Decembrist revolt






26. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






32. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






33. Famine in Finland.






34. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






35. Death of Alexander Pushkin






36. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






37. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






38. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






39. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






40. Independence of Argentina






41. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






42. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






43. The Pony Express started.






44. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






46. 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.






47. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






48. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






49. Mormon migration to Utah.






50. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift