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19th Century Timeline

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1. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






2. The quagga is rendered extinct.






3. 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.






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






5. Morphine first isolated.






6. Volleyball is invented






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






8. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






9. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






10. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






11. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






12. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






13. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






14. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






16. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






18. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






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






20. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






21. Russia abolishes serfdom.






22. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






23. Victorian gold rush in Australia






24. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






25. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






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






28. Persian Prophet the B






29. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






30. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






31. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






32. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






33. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






34. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






35. First section of the London Underground opens.






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






37. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






38. Missouri Compromise






39. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






41. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






42. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






43. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






44. The Decembrist revolt






45. First steam locomotive begins operation.






46. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






47. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






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






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






50. First Republic in Spain.







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