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19th Century Timeline

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1. Russo-Persian War.






2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






3. Basketball is invented.






4. The Communist Manifesto published.






5. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






6. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






7. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






8. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






9. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






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






11. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






12. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






13. Chilean Civil War.






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






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






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






18. First isolation of aluminum.






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






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






21. The Caste War of Yucat






22. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






23. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






24. California Gold Rush






25. Navarino Massacre






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






27. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






28. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






29. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






31. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






32. Basketball is invented.






33. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






34. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






36. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






37. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






38. The Trumpet gets valves.






39. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






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






41. 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.






42. Independence of Chile






43. Missouri Compromise






44. First isolation of aluminum.






45. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






46. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






47. Egyptian






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






49. Morphine first isolated.






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







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