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19th Century Timeline

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1. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






2. Uruguayan Civil War






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






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






5. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






6. First Anglo-Sikh War






7. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






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






9. Wilhelm R






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






11. Slavery banned in Brazil.






12. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






13. 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.






14. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






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






16. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






17. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






18. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






19. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






20. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






21. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






22. 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






23. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






24. 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.






25. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






26. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






27. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






28. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






29. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






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






31. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






32. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






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






34. First isolation of aluminum.






35. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






36. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






37. First steam locomotive begins operation.






38. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






39. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






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






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






42. Indian famine begins.






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






44. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






45. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






46. Morphine first isolated.






47. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






48. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






49. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






50. World population reaches 1 billion.