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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






3. Siege of Khartoum






4. Second Anglo-Sikh War






5. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






6. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






8. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






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






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






11. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






13. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






14. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






15. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






16. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






17. World's first oil refinery in Romania






18. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






19. The Soci






20. The cardboard box is invented.






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






22. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






23. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






25. The Decembrist revolt






26. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






28. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






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






30. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






31. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






32. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






33. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






34. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






35. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






36. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






37. France annexes Cambodia.






38. First steam locomotive begins operation.






39. 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.






40. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






41. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






42. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






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






44. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






45. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






46. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






47. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






48. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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






50. The Soci