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19th Century Timeline

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1. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






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






3. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






4. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






5. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






8. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






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






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11. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






13. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






14. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






15. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






16. Chilean Civil War.






17. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






18. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






19. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






20. Missouri Compromise






21. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






22. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






23. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






24. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






26. World population reaches 1 billion.






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






28. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






29. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






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






31. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






32. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






33. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






34. Greco-Turkish War.






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






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






37. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






38. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






39. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






40. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






41. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






42. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






43. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






44. Independence of Luxembourg.






45. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






46. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






47. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






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






49. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






50. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo