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19th Century Timeline

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






2. First electric motor built.






3. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






4. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






5. The Pony Express started.






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






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






8. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






9. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






10. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






11. Morphine first isolated.






12. 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.






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






14. First Republic in Spain.






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






16. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






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






18. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






19. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






20. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






21. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






22. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






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






24. Independence of Chile






25. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






26. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






27. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






29. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






30. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






31. 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






32. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






33. 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.






34. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






36. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






37. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






38. First gramophone record






39. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






40. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






41. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






43. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






45. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






46. 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.






47. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






48. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






49. Cairo falls to the British.






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