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19th Century Timeline

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1. Persian Prophet the B






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






3. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






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






5. 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






6. The German Customs Union is formed.






7. First Anglo-Sikh War






8. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






10. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






11. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






12. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






14. France invades and occupies Algeria.






15. First steam locomotive begins operation.






16. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






17. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






18. Discovery of Antarctica






19. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






20. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






21. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






22. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






23. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






24. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






25. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






26. The Pony Express ended.






27. July Revolution in France.






28. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






29. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






30. Independence of Chile






31. 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.






32. Peterloo massacre in England.






33. World's first oil refinery in Romania






34. Persian Prophet the B






35. The German Customs Union is formed.






36. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






38. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






40. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






41. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






43. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






44. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






45. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






46. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






47. TheFirst Boer War.






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






49. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






50. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep