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19th Century Timeline
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1. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.
1863
1889
1846
1886
2. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
1830
1837
1806
1824
3. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy
1814
1825
1861
1816
4. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.
1843
1873
1873
1889
5. The Caste War of Yucat
1839
1865
1847
1813
6. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance
1823
1868
March 18 - 1871
1893
7. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1897
1891
1873
1881
8. The Trumpet gets valves.
1834
1803
1810
1861
9. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.
1876
1873
1828
1834
10. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented
1849
1802
1834
1892
11. Morphine first isolated.
1804
1801
1820
1845
12. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.
1865-April 14 - 1865
1892
1871
1898
13. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1844
1877
March 18 - 1871
1869
14. 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.
1834
1865-April 14 - 1865
1871
1804
15. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.
1876
1880
1803
1898
16. Peterloo massacre in England.
1808
1819
1850
1873
17. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.
1825
1868
1831
1844
18. Siege of Khartoum
1848
1884
1894
1832
19. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.
1865
1892
1864
1859
20. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.
1838
1873
1830
1876
21. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho
1834
1867
1892
1876
22. Cairo falls to the British.
1801
1804
1842
1856
23. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.
1809
1845
1820
1848
24. First Seminole War begins in Florida.
1817
1873
1843
1876
25. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
1807
1845
1816
1808
26. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.
1803
1887
1813
1817
27. 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.
1833
1848
1804
1836
28. The Trumpet gets valves.
1829
1810
1888
1895
29. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.
1845
1883
1873
1804
30. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.
1825
1876
1868
1801
31. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest
1816
1834
1895
1848
32. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.
1806-1812
1886
1851
1878
33. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1810
1814
1829
1863
34. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.
1847
1888
1863
1877
35. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.
1890
1844
1875
1895
36. Dreyfuss Affair
1896
1894
1806
1821
37. France invades and occupies Algeria.
1831
1848
1801
1861
38. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.
1872
1801
1895
1861
39. First gramophone record
1808
1894
1801
1801
40. Wilhelm R
1815
1813
1895
1837
41. Discovery of Antarctica
1863
1813
1820
1883
42. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed
1802
1893
1869
1871
43. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.
1820
1803
1823
1838
44. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.
1806
1839
1804
1801
45. Persian Prophet the B
1847
1850
1844
1812
46. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.
1804
1883
1888
1831
47. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (
1826
1816
1895
1893
48. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.
1869
1801
1831
1896
49. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia
1823
1844
1853
1886
50. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.
1871
1812
1863
1825