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19th Century Timeline

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1. Slavery banned in Brazil.






2. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






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






4. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






5. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






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






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






8. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






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






10. France annexes Cambodia.






11. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






12. The Decembrist revolt






13. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






14. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






15. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






16. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






17. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






18. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






19. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






20. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






21. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






22. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






23. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






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






26. Independence of Luxembourg.






27. Independence of Chile






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






29. First electric motor built.






30. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






32. World's first oil refinery in Romania






33. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






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






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






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






37. First isolation of aluminum.






38. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






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






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






41. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






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






43. The Decembrist revolt






44. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






45. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






46. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






47. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






48. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






49. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






50. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)