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19th Century Timeline

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1. Navarino Massacre






2. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






3. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






4. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






5. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






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






7. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






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






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






10. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






11. The Pony Express started.






12. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






13. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






14. California Gold Rush






15. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






16. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






18. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






20. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






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






23. Peterloo massacre in England.






24. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






25. Peterloo massacre in England.






26. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






27. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






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






29. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






30. Mormon migration to Utah.






31. Morphine first isolated.






32. Death of Alexander Pushkin






33. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






34. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






35. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






36. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






37. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






38. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






39. The Decembrist revolt






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






41. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






42. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






43. Cairo falls to the British.






44. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






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






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48. The cardboard box is invented.






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






50. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.







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