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19th Century Timeline

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1. Indian famine begins.






2. Persian Prophet the B






3. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






4. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






5. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






6. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






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






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






10. First gramophone record






11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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






13. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






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






15. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






17. SecondIndustrial Revolution






18. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






19. 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.






20. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






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






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






23. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






24. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






25. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






26. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






28. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






29. Siege of Khartoum






30. Siege of Khartoum






31. The Communist Manifesto published.






32. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






33. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






34. Victorian gold rush in Australia






35. Slavery banned in Brazil.






36. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






37. Slavery banned in Brazil.






38. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






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






40. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






41. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






42. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






44. Wilhelm R






45. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






46. July Revolution in France.






47. Independence of Bolivia.






48. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






50. France invades and occupies Algeria.







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