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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






2. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






3. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






4. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






5. Independence of Chile






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






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






8. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






9. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






11. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






12. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






14. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






15. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






16. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






17. Suez Canal is constructed.






18. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






19. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






20. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






21. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






22. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






23. First electric motor built.






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






25. 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.






26. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






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






29. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






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






31. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






33. Second Anglo-Sikh War






34. Discovery of Antarctica






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






36. Mormon migration to Utah.






37. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






39. The cardboard box is invented.






40. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






41. Uruguayan Civil War






42. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






43. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






44. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






45. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






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






47. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






48. The Communist Manifesto published.






49. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






50. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






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