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19th Century Timeline

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1. Peterloo massacre in England.






2. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






3. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






4. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






5. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






7. Mormon migration to Utah.






8. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






9. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






11. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






12. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






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






14. The Pony Express ended.






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






16. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






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18. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






20. Cairo falls to the British.






21. France annexes Cambodia.






22. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






23. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






25. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






26. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






27. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






28. Volleyball is invented






29. Greco-Turkish War.






30. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






31. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






32. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






33. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






34. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






35. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






36. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






37. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






38. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






39. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






40. Russo-Persian War.






41. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






42. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






43. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






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






46. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






47. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






48. Missouri Compromise






49. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






50. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile