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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Discovery of Antarctica






3. Death of Alexander Pushkin






4. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






5. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






6. TheFirst Boer War.






7. Morphine first isolated.






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






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






10. Greco-Turkish War.






11. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






12. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






13. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






14. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






15. 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






16. 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.






17. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






18. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






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






21. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






22. Cairo falls to the British.






23. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






24. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






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






26. Peterloo massacre in England.






27. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






28. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






29. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






30. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






31. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






32. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






33. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






34. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






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






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






37. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






38. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






39. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






40. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






42. Independence of Luxembourg.






43. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






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






46. Russo-Persian War.






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






48. Mormon migration to Utah.






49. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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