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19th Century Timeline

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1. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






2. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






3. Egyptian






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






5. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






6. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






7. First electric motor built.






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






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






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






11. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






12. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






13. Russo-Persian War.






14. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






15. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






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






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






18. The Trumpet gets valves.






19. Volleyball is invented






20. 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.






21. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






22. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






23. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






24. First steam locomotive begins operation.






25. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






26. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






27. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






28. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






29. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






30. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






32. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






33. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






34. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






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






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






37. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






38. Canadian Confederation formed.






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






40. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






41. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






42. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






43. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






44. World's first oil refinery in Romania






45. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






46. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






47. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






48. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






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