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19th Century Timeline

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1. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






2. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






3. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






4. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






6. TheFirst Boer War.






7. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






8. Italy annexes Eritrea.






9. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






10. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






11. Peterloo massacre in England.






12. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






13. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






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






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






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






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






18. Uruguayan Civil War






19. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






20. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






21. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






22. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






23. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






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






25. The cardboard box is invented.






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






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






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






29. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






31. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






32. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






33. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






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






35. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






36. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






37. Dreyfuss Affair






38. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






39. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






40. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






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






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






44. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






46. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






47. First electric motor built.






48. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






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






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