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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






2. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






3. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






4. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






5. First Anglo-Sikh War






6. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






7. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






9. Slavery banned in Brazil.






10. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






11. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






12. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






13. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






15. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






16. First isolation of aluminum.






17. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






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






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






20. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






21. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






22. Carlist Wars in Spain.






23. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






24. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






25. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






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






28. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






29. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






30. Chilean Civil War.






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






32. The Decembrist revolt






33. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






34. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






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






36. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






37. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






38. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






39. Cairo falls to the British.






40. Carlist Wars in Spain.






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






42. France invades and occupies Algeria.






43. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






44. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






45. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






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






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






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






49. France invades and occupies Algeria.






50. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.