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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Famine in Finland.






3. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






4. Basketball is invented.






5. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






7. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






8. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






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






10. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






11. First section of the London Underground opens.






12. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






13. Russia abolishes serfdom.






14. Wilhelm R






15. 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






16. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






17. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






18. The Communist Manifesto published.






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






20. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






21. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






22. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






23. 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.






24. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






26. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






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






28. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






30. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






31. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






32. Suez Canal is constructed.






33. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






34. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






35. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






36. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






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






39. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






40. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






41. Peterloo massacre in England.






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






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






44. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






45. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






46. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






47. Independence of Luxembourg.






48. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






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






50. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.