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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. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






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






4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






5. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






7. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






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






9. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






10. Egyptian






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






12. SecondIndustrial Revolution






13. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






14. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






15. Missouri Compromise






16. Independence of Luxembourg.






17. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






19. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






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






21. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






22. First Republic in Spain.






23. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






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






26. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






27. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






28. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






29. 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.






30. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






31. SecondIndustrial Revolution






32. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






33. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






34. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






35. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






36. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






37. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






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






39. The Communist Manifesto published.






40. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






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






42. Second Anglo-Sikh War






43. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






44. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






45. The Bront






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






47. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






48. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






49. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






50. Telegraphy patented.