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19th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.






3. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






4. Italy annexes Eritrea.






5. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






6. Slavery banned in Brazil.






7. The Pony Express started.






8. 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.






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






10. The cardboard box is invented.






11. First section of the London Underground opens.






12. World population reaches 1 billion.






13. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






14. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






15. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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






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






18. The New Zealand Land Wars






19. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






20. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






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






22. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






23. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






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






25. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






26. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






27. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






28. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






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






30. Basketball is invented.






31. Italy annexes Eritrea.






32. Greco-Turkish War.






33. Independence of Bolivia.






34. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






35. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






36. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






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






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






40. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






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






42. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






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






44. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






45. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






46. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






47. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






48. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






49. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






50. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.