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19th Century Timeline

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1. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






2. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






4. Wilhelm R






5. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






6. 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






7. The Bront






8. Carlist Wars in Spain.






9. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






11. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






12. Dreyfuss Affair






13. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






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






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






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






18. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






19. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






20. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






21. 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.






22. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






23. California Gold Rush






24. First steam locomotive begins operation.






25. France invades and occupies Algeria.






26. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






27. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






28. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






29. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






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






31. First Anglo-Sikh War






32. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






33. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






34. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






35. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






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






37. Germany gains control of Camaroon






38. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






39. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






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






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






42. First isolation of aluminum.






43. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






45. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






46. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






47. First Republic in Spain.






48. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






49. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






50. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world