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19th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






2. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






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






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






5. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






6. World population reaches 1 billion.






7. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






8. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






9. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






10. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






11. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






12. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






13. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






14. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






15. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






16. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






17. Chilean Civil War.






18. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






19. Indian famine begins.






20. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






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






23. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






24. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






25. Indian famine begins.






26. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






27. First steam locomotive begins operation.






28. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






29. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






30. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






31. Uruguayan Civil War






32. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






33. France invades and occupies Algeria.






34. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






36. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






37. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






38. Second Anglo-Sikh War






39. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






41. TheFirst Boer War.






42. Uruguayan Civil War






43. Discovery of Antarctica






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






45. Italy annexes Eritrea.






46. 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.






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






48. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






49. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






50. Th