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19th Century Timeline

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1. 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






2. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






3. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






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






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






6. July Revolution in France.






7. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






8. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






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






10. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






11. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






12. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






14. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






15. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






16. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






17. The German Customs Union is formed.






18. The Pony Express started.






19. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






20. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






21. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






22. Th






23. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






24. Victorian gold rush in Australia






25. Cairo falls to the British.






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






27. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






29. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






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






31. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






32. The Soci






33. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






34. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






35. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






36. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






37. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






38. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






40. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






41. First Republic in Spain.






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






43. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






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






45. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






46. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






47. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






48. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






49. Missouri Compromise






50. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






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