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19th Century Timeline

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1. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






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






3. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






4. Independence of Luxembourg.






5. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






6. 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.






7. France invades and occupies Algeria.






8. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






9. SecondIndustrial Revolution






10. Russo-Persian War.






11. Discovery of Antarctica






12. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






13. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






14. First section of the London Underground opens.






15. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






16. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






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






18. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






19. Dreyfuss Affair






20. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






21. Germany gains control of Camaroon






22. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






23. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






24. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






25. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






26. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






27. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






29. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






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






31. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






32. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






33. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






34. Basketball is invented.






35. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






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






37. Slavery banned in Brazil.






38. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






39. 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






40. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






41. 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).






42. Cairo falls to the British.






43. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






44. Navarino Massacre






45. Slavery banned in Brazil.






46. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






47. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






48. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






49. Suez Canal is constructed.






50. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo