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19th Century Timeline

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1. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






3. Aspirin patented.






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






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6. Morphine first isolated.






7. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






8. World's first oil refinery in Romania






9. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






10. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






11. Indian famine begins.






12. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






13. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






14. The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.






15. The Pony Express ended.






16. First Anglo-Sikh War






17. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






18. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






19. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






21. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






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






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






24. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






26. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






27. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






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






30. The German Customs Union is formed.






31. Second Anglo-Sikh War






32. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






33. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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






35. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






36. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






37. Dreyfuss Affair






38. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






39. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






40. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






41. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






42. 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.






43. Mormon migration to Utah.






44. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






46. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






47. Volleyball is invented






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






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






50. First section of the London Underground opens.