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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






3. The German Customs Union is formed.






4. 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.






5. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






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






7. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






8. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






10. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






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






12. Discovery of Antarctica






13. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






14. Volleyball is invented






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






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






17. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






18. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






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






20. California Gold Rush






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






22. First section of the London Underground opens.






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






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






25. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






26. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






27. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






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






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






30. 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






31. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






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






33. 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.






34. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






35. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






36. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






37. Dreyfuss Affair






38. The Caste War of Yucat






39. Suez Canal is constructed.






40. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






41. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






42. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






43. 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).






44. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






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






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






47. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






48. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






49. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






50. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published