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19th Century Timeline

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1. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






3. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






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






5. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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






8. The Caste War of Yucat






9. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






10. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






11. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






12. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






14. Peterloo massacre in England.






15. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






16. July Revolution in France.






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






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






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






20. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






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






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






24. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






25. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






27. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






28. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






29. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






30. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






31. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






32. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






33. 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






34. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






35. The Soci






36. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






37. TheFirst Boer War.






38. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






39. Greco-Turkish War.






40. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






41. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






42. The Decembrist revolt






43. France annexes Cambodia.






44. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






45. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






46. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






47. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






48. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






49. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






50. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.