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19th Century Timeline

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1. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






2. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






3. Slavery banned in Brazil.






4. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






5. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






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






8. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






9. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






10. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






11. 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.






12. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






13. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






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






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






16. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






17. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






18. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






19. World's first oil refinery in Romania






20. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






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






22. Carlist Wars in Spain.






23. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






24. July Revolution in France.






25. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






26. First section of the London Underground opens.






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






28. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






29. Navarino Massacre






30. 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.






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






32. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






33. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






34. Siege of Khartoum






35. World's first oil refinery in Romania






36. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






37. The cardboard box is invented.






38. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






39. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






40. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






41. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






42. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






43. 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






44. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






45. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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






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






48. Basketball is invented.






49. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






50. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.