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19th Century Timeline

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1. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






2. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






3. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






4. Second Anglo-Sikh War






5. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






6. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






7. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






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






10. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






11. Independence of Bolivia.






12. First electric motor built.






13. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






14. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






16. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






17. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






18. Volleyball is invented






19. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






20. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






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






22. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






23. The Decembrist revolt






24. Missouri Compromise






25. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






26. Basketball is invented.






27. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






28. 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






29. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






30. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






31. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






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






33. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






34. Russia abolishes serfdom.






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






36. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






37. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






38. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






39. Famine in Finland.






40. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






41. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






42. Death of Alexander Pushkin






43. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






44. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






45. Cairo falls to the British.






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






47. Egyptian






48. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






49. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






50. Independence of Chile