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19th Century Timeline
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1. Indian famine begins.
1884
1895
1888
1899
2. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.
1898
1876
1867
1818
3. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.
1871
1847
1804
1876
4. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.
1888
1837
1850
1855
5. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.
1890
1801
1820
1862
6. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.
1852
1890
1875
1825
7. Anaesthesia used for the first time.
1819
1896
1838
1842
8. Victorian gold rush in Australia
1852
1876
1851
1880
9. California Gold Rush
1874
1848
1808
1842
10. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.
1896
1838
1884
1874
11. Telegraphy patented.
1837
1808
1895
1821
12. First gramophone record
1894
1846
1848
1842
13. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.
1801
1854
1804
1889
14. The Mahdist War in Sudan.
1801
1845
1804
1881
15. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi
1829
1851
1866
1892
16. Death of Alexander Pushkin
1886
1825
1837
1889
17. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.
1816
1898
1890
1813
18. Kingdom of Belgium declared.
1873
1873
1839
1819
19. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.
1814
1890
1823
1873
20. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.
1846
1845
1874
1803
21. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.
1832
1876
1896
1876
22. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.
1813
1847
1872
1886
23. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.
1809
1814
1857
1879
24. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.
1869
1806
1837
1879
25. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.
1867
1890
1894
1816
26. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
1816
1866
1862
1868
27. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.
1831
1854
1861
1823
28. Cairo falls to the British.
1888
1889
1801
1889
29. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.
1844
1820
1858
1821
30. Missouri Compromise
1897
1871
1820
1805
31. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.
1879
1836
1844
1834
32. July Revolution in France.
1876
1830
1825
1817
33. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.
1834
1807
1828
1884
34. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds
1863
1893
1818
1898
35. The New Zealand Land Wars
1829
1877
1845
1801
36. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
1802
1809
1804
1812
37. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
1889
1813
1829
1825
38. First Republic in Spain.
1874
1849
1848
1895
39. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.
1877
1887
1843
1884
40. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.
1877
1801
1807
1855
41. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.
1849
1801
1864
1804
42. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage
1862
1893
1847
1881
43. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1835
1863
1884
1817
44. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.
1886
1879
1866
1871
45. 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.
1870
1848
1826
1817
46. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1877
1828
1850
1801
47. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.
1893
1869
1870
1830
48. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.
1881
1894
1887
1879
49. The German Customs Union is formed.
1834
1875
1887
1890
50. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.
1887
1898
1809
1852
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