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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Bront






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






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






4. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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






6. First steam locomotive begins operation.






7. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






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






11. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






12. First section of the London Underground opens.






13. Persian Prophet the B






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






15. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






16. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






17. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






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






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






20. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






21. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






22. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






23. First Republic in Spain.






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






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






26. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






27. SecondIndustrial Revolution






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






29. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






31. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






32. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






33. First isolation of aluminum.






34. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






35. The Pony Express started.






36. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






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






39. Canadian Confederation formed.






40. Independence of Chile






41. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






42. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






43. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






44. First Republic in Spain.






45. Siege of Khartoum






46. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






47. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






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






49. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






50. Peterloo massacre in England.