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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






4. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






5. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






6. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






7. The Decembrist revolt






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






9. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






11. Independence of Argentina






12. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






13. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






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






15. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






16. Siege of Khartoum






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






18. Navarino Massacre






19. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






20. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






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






23. SecondIndustrial Revolution






24. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






26. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






27. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






28. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






29. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






30. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






31. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






32. Second Anglo-Sikh War






33. Independence of Chile






34. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






35. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






36. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






37. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






39. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






40. July Revolution in France.






41. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






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






43. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






44. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






45. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






47. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






48. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






49. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






50. Persian Prophet the B