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19th Century Timeline

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






2. First gramophone record






3. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






4. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






5. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






6. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






7. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






8. The Soci






9. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






10. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






11. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






12. Wilhelm R






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






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






15. Indian famine begins.






16. Slavery banned in Brazil.






17. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






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






19. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






20. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






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






22. First section of the London Underground opens.






23. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






24. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






26. Italy annexes Eritrea.






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






28. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






29. Egyptian






30. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






32. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






33. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






35. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






36. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






38. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






39. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






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






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






42. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






43. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






44. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






45. Russo-Persian War.






46. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






47. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






48. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






49. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






50. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice







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