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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






3. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






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






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






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






7. Cairo falls to the British.






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






9. Volleyball is invented






10. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






11. Morphine first isolated.






12. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






13. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






14. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






16. Uruguayan Civil War






17. Persian Prophet the B






18. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






19. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






20. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






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






22. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






23. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






24. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






25. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






26. France annexes Cambodia.






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






28. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






30. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






31. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






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






33. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






34. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






36. Victorian gold rush in Australia






37. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






38. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






39. Missouri Compromise






40. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






41. Peterloo massacre in England.






42. The quagga is rendered extinct.






43. World population reaches 1 billion.






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






45. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






47. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






48. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






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






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