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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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






4. Uruguayan Civil War






5. Navarino Massacre






6. The Bront






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






8. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






9. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






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






12. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






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






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






15. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






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






17. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






18. California Gold Rush






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






20. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






21. 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.






22. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






23. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






24. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






25. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






26. Navarino Massacre






27. The Pony Express started.






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






29. Missouri Compromise






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






31. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






32. TheFirst Boer War.






33. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






34. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






35. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






36. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






37. Italy annexes Eritrea.






38. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






39. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






40. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






41. The Trumpet gets valves.






42. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






43. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






44. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






45. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






46. First isolation of aluminum.






47. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






48. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






49. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






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







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