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19th Century Timeline

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1. Italy annexes Eritrea.






2. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






3. Telegraphy patented.






4. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






5. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






6. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






7. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






8. The Decembrist revolt






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






10. 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.






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






12. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






13. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






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






15. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






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






18. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






19. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






20. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






21. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






22. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






23. Wilhelm R






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






25. The German Customs Union is formed.






26. Cairo falls to the British.






27. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






28. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






29. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






30. Persian Prophet the B






31. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






33. 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.






34. Aspirin patented.






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






36. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






38. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






39. Greco-Turkish War.






40. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






41. Uruguayan Civil War






42. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






43. Suez Canal is constructed.






44. The Trumpet gets valves.






45. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






46. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






47. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






48. 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.






49. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






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