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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Volleyball is invented






4. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






5. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






6. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






7. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






9. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






10. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






11. Cairo falls to the British.






12. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






13. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






15. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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






17. Russia abolishes serfdom.






18. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






19. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






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






21. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






22. The New Zealand Land Wars






23. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






24. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






25. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






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






28. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






30. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






31. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






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






34. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






35. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






36. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






37. Carlist Wars in Spain.






38. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






39. Peterloo massacre in England.






40. Basketball is invented.






41. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






42. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






43. Carlist Wars in Spain.






44. Wilhelm R






45. Mormon migration to Utah.






46. World's first oil refinery in Romania






47. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






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






50. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.