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19th Century Timeline

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1. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






2. Discovery of Antarctica






3. Volleyball is invented






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






5. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






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






7. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






8. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






9. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






10. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






11. Navarino Massacre






12. Telegraphy patented.






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






14. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






15. Famine in Finland.






16. The German Customs Union is formed.






17. Morphine first isolated.






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






19. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






20. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






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






23. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






24. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






25. The Communist Manifesto published.






26. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






27. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






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






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






31. The Pony Express started.






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






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






34. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






35. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






36. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






37. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






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






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






40. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






41. Germany gains control of Camaroon






42. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






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






44. The Decembrist revolt






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






46. Peterloo massacre in England.






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






48. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






49. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






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