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19th Century Timeline

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1. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






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






3. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






4. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






5. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






6. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






7. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






8. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






9. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






10. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






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






12. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






13. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






14. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






15. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






16. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






17. California Gold Rush






18. Basketball is invented.






19. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






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






21. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






27. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






28. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






29. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






30. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






31. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






32. World's first oil refinery in Romania






33. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






34. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






35. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






36. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






37. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






38. 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






39. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






41. Slavery banned in Brazil.






42. Egyptian






43. Carlist Wars in Spain.






44. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






45. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






46. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






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






48. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






49. Siege of Khartoum






50. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.