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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The Communist Manifesto published.






3. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






4. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






5. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






6. Telegraphy patented.






7. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






8. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






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






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






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






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






13. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






14. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






15. France invades and occupies Algeria.






16. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






17. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






18. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






19. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






20. 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.






21. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






22. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






24. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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






26. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






27. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






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






29. Victorian gold rush in Australia






30. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






31. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






32. Volleyball is invented






33. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






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






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






36. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






37. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






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






39. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






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






41. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






42. Siege of Khartoum






43. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






44. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






46. 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.






47. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






48. Second Anglo-Sikh War






49. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






50. The Pony Express ended.







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