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19th Century Timeline
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1. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.
1879
1849
1801
1822
2. 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
1822
1845
1815
1896
3. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.
1854
1814
1880
1853
4. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.
1804
1808
1884
1850
5. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published
1837
1867
1883
March 18 - 1871
6. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.
1806-1812
1897
1833
1842
7. Germany gains control of Camaroon
1880
1815
1819
1884
8. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest
1879
1890
1895
1882
9. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.
1842
1892
1821
1883
10. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.
1866
1818
1874
1869
11. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.
1892
1830
1825
1872
12. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain
1830
1876
1895
1804
13. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.
1862
1896
1874
1831
14. The Bront
1847
1854
1839
1801
15. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
1868
1871
1869
1844
16. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain
1897
1834
1895
1801
17. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.
1830
1858
1839
1877
18. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift
1835
1872
1818
1886
19. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
1854
1813
1806
1866
20. Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851
1863
1818
1835
21. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.
1854
1810
1820
1896
22. First isolation of aluminum.
1825
1810
1843
1870
23. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest
1857
1873
1895
1830
24. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.
1868
1874
1881
1831
25. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1877
1837
1889
1803
26. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.
1881
1801
1869
1898
27. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.
1846
1867
1812
1866
28. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.
1897
1801
1837
1857
29. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.
1886
1803
1890
1817
30. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
1865-April 14 - 1865
1816
1806
1871
31. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.
1803
1865-April 14 - 1865
1840
1882
32. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.
1836
1815
1865
1867
33. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1873
1894
1876
1889
34. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand
1860
1868
1816
1883
35. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep
1837
1895
1821
1875
36. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.
1898
1884
1890
1840
37. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.
1898
1848
1851
1839
38. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.
1846
1816
1852
1851
39. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.
1839
1829
1843
1847
40. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.
1884
1858
1883
1854
41. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.
1879
1804
1886
1865
42. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.
1887
1866
1806
1804
43. Greco-Turkish War.
1897
1870s-1890s
1865
1831
44. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (
1897
1815
1846
1816
45. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance
1848
1836
1872
1865
46. The Mahdist War in Sudan.
1881
1851
1803
1818
47. Death of Alexander Pushkin
1860
1876
1837
1886
48. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'
1874
1812
1898
1886
49. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain
1881
1897
1868
1867
50. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).
1896
1841
1834
1810