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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The Pony Express ended.






3. The Caste War of Yucat






4. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






6. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






7. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






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






9. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






10. Morphine first isolated.






11. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






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






13. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






14. The Soci






15. The German Customs Union is formed.






16. Discovery of Antarctica






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






18. First isolation of aluminum.






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






20. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






21. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






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






23. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






24. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






25. Chilean Civil War.






26. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






27. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






28. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






29. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






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






31. Greco-Turkish War.






32. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






33. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






34. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






35. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






37. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






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






39. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






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






41. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






42. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






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






44. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






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






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






47. Russia abolishes serfdom.






48. First section of the London Underground opens.






49. Morphine first isolated.






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