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19th Century Timeline

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1. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






2. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






3. Peterloo massacre in England.






4. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






5. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






6. The Caste War of Yucat






7. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






8. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






10. First Republic in Spain.






11. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






12. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






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






14. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






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






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






17. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






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






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






20. Independence of Chile






21. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






22. First section of the London Underground opens.






23. Independence of Chile






24. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






25. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






26. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






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






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






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






30. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






31. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






32. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






33. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






34. Independence of Luxembourg.






35. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






36. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






37. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






38. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






39. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






40. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






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






42. Slavery banned in Brazil.






43. First Anglo-Sikh War






44. Volleyball is invented






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






46. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






47. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






48. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






49. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






50. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain