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19th Century Timeline

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1. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






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






3. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






4. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






6. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






7. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






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






9. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






10. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






11. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






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






14. The Pony Express started.






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






16. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






17. First electric motor built.






18. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






19. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






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






22. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






23. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






24. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






25. Aspirin patented.






26. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






27. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






28. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






29. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






30. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






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






32. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






33. The Pony Express ended.






34. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






36. First steam locomotive begins operation.






37. 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.






38. The Communist Manifesto published.






39. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






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






41. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






43. Canadian Confederation formed.






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






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






46. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






47. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






49. Discovery of Antarctica






50. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.