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19th Century Timeline

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1. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






2. 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






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






4. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






5. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






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






7. Germany gains control of Camaroon






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






13. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






14. The Bront






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






16. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






17. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






19. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






20. Victorian gold rush in Australia






21. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






22. First isolation of aluminum.






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






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






25. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






26. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






27. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






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






29. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






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






31. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






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






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






34. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






36. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






37. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






38. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






39. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






40. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






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






42. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






43. Greco-Turkish War.






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






45. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






46. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






47. Death of Alexander Pushkin






48. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






49. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






50. 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).