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19th Century Timeline

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1. Dreyfuss Affair






2. First section of the London Underground opens.






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






4. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






5. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






6. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






7. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






8. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






9. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






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






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






12. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






13. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






14. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






15. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






16. 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.






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






18. Wilhelm R






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






20. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






22. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






23. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






24. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






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






26. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






27. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






28. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






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






30. Basketball is invented.






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






32. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






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






34. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






35. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






37. The quagga is rendered extinct.






38. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






39. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






40. First steam locomotive begins operation.






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






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






43. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






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






45. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






47. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






48. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






49. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






50. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.







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