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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






3. Indian famine begins.






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






5. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






6. First section of the London Underground opens.






7. First electric motor built.






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






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






10. Egyptian






11. The German Customs Union is formed.






12. World population reaches 1 billion.






13. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






14. Telegraphy patented.






15. 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






16. July Revolution in France.






17. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






18. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






19. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






21. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






22. Basketball is invented.






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






24. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






25. The quagga is rendered extinct.






26. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






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






28. Chilean Civil War.






29. Cairo falls to the British.






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






31. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






32. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






33. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






35. The Bront






36. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






37. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






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






40. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






41. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






42. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






43. Independence of Argentina






44. The Communist Manifesto published.






45. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






47. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






48. Greco-Turkish War.






49. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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