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19th Century Timeline

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1. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






2. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






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.






4. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






5. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






6. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






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






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






9. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






10. Siege of Khartoum






11. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






12. Carlist Wars in Spain.






13. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






14. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






15. Chilean Civil War.






16. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






17. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






18. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






19. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






20. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






21. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






23. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






24. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






25. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






26. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






27. Independence of Chile






28. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






30. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






31. Greco-Turkish War.






32. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






34. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






35. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






36. Wilhelm R






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






38. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






39. Missouri Compromise






40. 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






41. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






42. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






43. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






44. France annexes Cambodia.






45. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






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






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






48. Morphine first isolated.






49. France invades and occupies Algeria.






50. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.