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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






2. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






3. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






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






5. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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






7. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






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






9. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






10. Basketball is invented.






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






12. Persian Prophet the B






13. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






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






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






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






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






18. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






19. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






20. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






21. Dreyfuss Affair






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






23. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






24. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






25. Missouri Compromise






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






27. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






28. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






29. First isolation of aluminum.






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






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






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






33. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






34. Slavery banned in Brazil.






35. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






36. World's first oil refinery in Romania






37. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






38. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






39. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






40. The Decembrist revolt






41. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






42. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






43. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






44. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






46. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






47. Cairo falls to the British.






48. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






50. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.







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