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19th Century Timeline

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1. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






2. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






4. Uruguayan Civil War






5. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






7. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






8. Greco-Turkish War.






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






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






11. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






12. France invades and occupies Algeria.






13. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






14. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






15. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






16. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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18. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






19. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






20. The cardboard box is invented.






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






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






23. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






24. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






26. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






27. First electric motor built.






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






29. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






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






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






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






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






34. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






35. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






36. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






37. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






38. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






39. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






40. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






41. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






42. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






43. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






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






45. France annexes Cambodia.






46. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






47. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






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






49. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






50. Olympic Games revived inAthens.