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19th Century Timeline

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1. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






2. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






3. Death of Alexander Pushkin






4. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






5. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






6. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






7. First section of the London Underground opens.






8. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






9. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






10. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






11. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






12. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






13. First Anglo-Sikh War






14. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






15. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






16. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






17. Suez Canal is constructed.






18. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






19. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






20. The Pony Express started.






21. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






22. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






23. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






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






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






26. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






27. Independence of Argentina






28. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






31. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






32. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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






34. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






35. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






36. The Decembrist revolt






37. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






38. Chilean Civil War.






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






40. The cardboard box is invented.






41. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






42. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






43. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






44. Second Anglo-Sikh War






45. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






46. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






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






48. Chilean Civil War.






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






50. Persian Prophet the B