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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






4. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






5. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






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






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8. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






9. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






10. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






12. The Soci






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






14. The Soci






15. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






16. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






17. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






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






19. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






20. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






21. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






22. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






23. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






24. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






25. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






26. 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.






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






28. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






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






30. The Pony Express ended.






31. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






32. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






34. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






35. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






36. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






37. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






38. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






40. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






41. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






42. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






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






44. Telegraphy patented.






45. The Pony Express ended.






46. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






47. Suez Canal is constructed.






48. The quagga is rendered extinct.






49. Famine in Finland.






50. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing