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19th Century Timeline

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1. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






2. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






3. Cairo falls to the British.






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






5. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






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






8. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






9. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






10. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






11. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






12. Wilhelm R






13. First Republic in Spain.






14. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






15. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






16. First isolation of aluminum.






17. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






18. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






19. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






20. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






21. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






22. Siege of Khartoum






23. 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).






24. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






25. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






26. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






27. The Bront






28. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






30. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






31. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






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






33. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






34. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






35. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






37. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






38. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






39. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






41. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






42. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






43. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






44. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






45. Dreyfuss Affair






46. California Gold Rush






47. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






48. Aspirin patented.






49. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






50. 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.