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19th Century Timeline
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1. Canadian Confederation formed.
1867
1874
1875
1833
2. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir
1870s-1890s
1806-1812
1801
1851
3. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.
1865
1845
1879
1850
4. World population reaches 1 billion.
1826
1804
1898
1834
5. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
1844
1820
1816
1895
6. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.
1827
1848
1837
1836
7. The Mahdist War in Sudan.
1803
1834
1801
1881
8. The Caste War of Yucat
1801
1833
1865-April 14 - 1865
1847
9. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust
1822
1895
1823
1844
10. SecondIndustrial Revolution
1894
1820
1871
1837
11. Dreyfuss Affair
1894
1819
1807
1887
12. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.
1820
1834
1801
1816
13. The Soci
1825
1841
1861
1874
14. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.
1871
March 18 - 1871
1803
1889
15. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep
1815
1877
1875
1851
16. California Gold Rush
1889
1805
1848
1831
17. Morphine first isolated.
1804
1856
1851
1820
18. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1873
1844
1865
1885
19. 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.
1830
1871
1871
1836
20. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.
1896
1840
1862
1897
21. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.
1879
1845
1832
1803
22. The German Customs Union is formed.
1829
1823
1892
1834
23. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.
1890
1897
1836
1823
24. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.
1808
1899
1844
1817
25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein
1801
1804
1818
1801
26. First gramophone record
1849
1894
1801
1845
27. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.
1814
1860
1844
1807
28. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.
1852
1892
1860
1838
29. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.
1874
1858
1876
1897
30. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.
1868
1892
1820
1858
31. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.
1865-April 14 - 1865
1892
1894
1839
32. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.
1817
1871
1884
1887
33. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)
1876
1839
1870s-1890s
1801
34. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.
1889
1886
1818
1869
35. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.
1893
1867
1839
1810
36. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.
1874
1825
1808
1895
37. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.
1895
1876
1884
1810
38. Slavery banned in Brazil.
1849
1846
1873
1888
39. Slavery banned in Brazil.
1888
1881
1821
1816
40. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.
1877
1895
1889
1875
41. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.
1874
1890
1837
1895
42. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.
1851
1864
1821
1881
43. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)
1879
1801
1866
1885
44. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.
1881
1877
1810
1866
45. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.
1825
1830
1856
1836
46. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.
1808
1848
1830
1843
47. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.
1830
1817
1886
1877
48. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
1841
1833
1895
1837
49. 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
1893
1804-1813
1815
1877
50. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1881
1804
1814
1840