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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The Decembrist revolt






3. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






4. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






5. California Gold Rush






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






7. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






8. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






10. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






11. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






12. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






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






14. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






15. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






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






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






18. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






19. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






20. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






21. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






23. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






24. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






25. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






26. Wilhelm R






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






28. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






29. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






30. Basketball is invented.






31. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






32. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






33. 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






34. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






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






37. Famine in Finland.






38. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






39. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






40. First isolation of aluminum.






41. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






42. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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






44. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






45. Greco-Turkish War.






46. 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.






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






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






49. The Pony Express started.






50. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.