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19th Century Timeline

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1. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






2. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






3. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






5. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






6. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






7. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






8. First Anglo-Sikh War






9. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






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






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12. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






13. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






14. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






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






16. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






17. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






18. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






19. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






20. Second Anglo-Sikh War






21. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






22. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






23. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






24. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






25. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






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






28. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






29. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






30. Death of Alexander Pushkin






31. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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






33. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






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






35. 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.






36. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






37. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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






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






40. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






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






42. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






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






44. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






45. First gramophone record






46. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






47. Suez Canal is constructed.






48. Dreyfuss Affair






49. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






50. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.