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19th Century Timeline

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1. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






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






3. 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






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






5. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






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






7. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






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






9. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






10. Canadian Confederation formed.






11. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






12. Slavery banned in Brazil.






13. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






14. Russo-Persian War.






15. TheFirst Boer War.






16. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






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






18. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






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






21. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






23. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






24. The New Zealand Land Wars






25. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






26. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






27. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






28. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






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






30. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






31. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






32. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






33. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






34. The Decembrist revolt






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






36. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






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






38. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






39. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






40. Suez Canal is constructed.






41. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






42. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






43. Greco-Turkish War.






44. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






45. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






46. Egyptian






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






48. 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.






49. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






50. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.