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19th Century Timeline

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1. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






2. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






3. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






4. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






5. 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






6. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






7. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






8. Aspirin patented.






9. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






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






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






12. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






13. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






14. Chilean Civil War.






15. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






16. The Trumpet gets valves.






17. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






18. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






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






20. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






21. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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






23. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






24. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






25. 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






26. Death of Alexander Pushkin






27. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






28. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






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






31. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






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






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






34. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






35. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






36. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






37. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






38. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






39. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






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






41. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






42. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






43. 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.






44. First section of the London Underground opens.






45. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






46. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






47. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






48. The Trumpet gets valves.






49. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






50. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)