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19th Century Timeline

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1. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






2. The Caste War of Yucat






3. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






4. Aspirin patented.






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






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






7. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






8. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






9. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






10. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






11. 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






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






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






14. The Communist Manifesto published.






15. Italy annexes Eritrea.






16. California Gold Rush






17. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






18. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






19. The cardboard box is invented.






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






21. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






22. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






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






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






25. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






26. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






27. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






28. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






29. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






30. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






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






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






33. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






35. Dreyfuss Affair






36. First Republic in Spain.






37. SecondIndustrial Revolution






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






39. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






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






41. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






42. First steam locomotive begins operation.






43. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






45. Siege of Khartoum






46. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






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






48. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






49. First section of the London Underground opens.






50. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






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