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19th Century Timeline

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1. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






2. Canadian Confederation formed.






3. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






4. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






6. Death of Alexander Pushkin






7. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






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






9. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






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






11. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






12. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






13. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






14. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






15. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






16. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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18. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






20. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






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






23. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






24. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






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






26. Dreyfuss Affair






27. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






28. The cardboard box is invented.






29. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






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






31. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






32. 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






33. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






34. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






35. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






36. Mormon migration to Utah.






37. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






38. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






39. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






40. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






41. The Bront






42. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






43. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






44. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






45. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






46. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






47. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






48. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






49. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






50. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.