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19th Century Timeline

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1. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






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






3. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






4. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






5. Indian famine begins.






6. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






7. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






8. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






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






11. Navarino Massacre






12. Independence of Argentina






13. First gramophone record






14. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






15. SecondIndustrial Revolution






16. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






17. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






18. The Pony Express ended.






19. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






20. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






21. France annexes Cambodia.






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






23. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






24. The Caste War of Yucat






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






26. July Revolution in France.






27. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






28. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






29. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






30. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






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






32. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






33. TheFirst Boer War.






34. 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






35. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






36. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






38. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






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






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






41. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






42. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






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






44. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






45. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






46. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






48. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






49. The German Customs Union is formed.






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






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