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19th Century Timeline

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1. Italy annexes Eritrea.






2. Discovery of Antarctica






3. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






4. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






5. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






6. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






7. The Pony Express started.






8. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






9. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






11. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






12. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






14. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






15. Missouri Compromise






16. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






17. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






18. 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.






19. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






20. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






22. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






23. First Republic in Spain.






24. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






25. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






26. France invades and occupies Algeria.






27. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






28. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






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






30. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






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






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






34. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






35. Canadian Confederation formed.






36. Uruguayan Civil War






37. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






38. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






39. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






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






41. SecondIndustrial Revolution






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. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






44. Missouri Compromise






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






46. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






47. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






48. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






50. First Anglo-Sikh War