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19th Century Timeline

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1. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






2. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






3. Greco-Turkish War.






4. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






6. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






7. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






9. The Trumpet gets valves.






10. First section of the London Underground opens.






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






12. First gramophone record






13. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






15. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






17. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






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






20. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






21. First Republic in Spain.






22. California Gold Rush






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






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






25. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






26. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






27. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






28. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






29. Chilean Civil War.






30. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






31. Morphine first isolated.






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






33. TheFirst Boer War.






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






35. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






36. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






37. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






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






39. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






40. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






42. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






44. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






45. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






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






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






48. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






49. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






50. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest