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19th Century Timeline
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1. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain
1838
1840
1858
1868
2. The quagga is rendered extinct.
1823
1833
1883
1872
3. 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.
1863
1859
1829
1836
4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.
1887
1877
1845
1831
5. Morphine first isolated.
1852
1804
1836
1830
6. Volleyball is invented
1884
1895
1833
1866
7. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen
1890
1884
1841
1804
8. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.
1848
1837
1803
1823
9. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.
1810
1837
1831
1816
10. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1851
1898
1884
1889
11. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.
1863
1864
1868
1834
12. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.
1892
1821
1836
1868
13. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada
1840
1892
1823
1884
14. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed
1838
1834
1877
1837
15. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.
1889
1802
1820
1821
16. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.
1896
1824
1881
1875
17. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.
1873
1839
1820
1865
18. The British Empire takes over Balochistan
1887
1883
1803
1804
19. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.
1840
1875
1839
1813
20. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.
1831
1869
1820
1895
21. Russia abolishes serfdom.
1835
1886
1801
1861
22. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London
1854
1868
1866
1888
23. Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851
1839
1898
1884
24. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom
1805
1820
1888
1837
25. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile
1847
1886
1825
1840
26. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.
1885
1850
1822
1830
27. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.
1831
1826
1847
1876
28. Persian Prophet the B
1836
1895
1844
1857
29. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.
1861
1849
1866
1897
30. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.
1870
1819
1877
1878
31. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1859
1891
1833
1817
32. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
1801
1833
1837
1824
33. The Mahdist War in Sudan.
1850
1881
1820
1836
34. First Seminole War begins in Florida.
1803
1879
1817
1803
35. First section of the London Underground opens.
1830
1851
1863
1894
36. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.
1876
1810s
1852
1871
37. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented
1821
1804
1897
1849
38. Missouri Compromise
1820
1825
1848
1859
39. Carlist Wars in Spain.
March 18 - 1871
1833
1851
1896
40. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.
1897
1863
1801
1838
41. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom
1894
1804
1812
1897
42. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.
1854
1869
1895
1881
43. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist
1816
1875
1837
1863
44. The Decembrist revolt
1825
1874
1831
1801
45. First steam locomotive begins operation.
1829
1804
1825
1888
46. First commercial film release by Jean Aim
1883
1894
1815
1821
47. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.
1837
1855
1868
1886
48. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.
1838
1821
1866
1860
49. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.
1890
1830
1871
1886
50. First Republic in Spain.
1822
1888
1874
1849
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