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19th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






5. Independence of Luxembourg.






6. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






7. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






8. Slavery banned in Brazil.






9. World population reaches 1 billion.






10. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






12. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






13. Uruguayan Civil War






14. Independence of Bolivia.






15. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






17. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






18. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






20. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






21. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






23. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






24. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






25. The quagga is rendered extinct.






26. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






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






28. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






29. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






30. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






31. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






33. Independence of Chile






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






35. Persian Prophet the B






36. Persian Prophet the B






37. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






38. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






39. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






40. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






41. Independence of Chile






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






43. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






44. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






46. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






47. Bah






48. Cairo falls to the British.






49. Victorian gold rush in Australia






50. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.







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