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19th Century Timeline

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1. Italy annexes Eritrea.






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






3. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






4. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






5. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






6. The Trumpet gets valves.






7. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






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






9. The Communist Manifesto published.






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






11. Cairo falls to the British.






12. Death of Alexander Pushkin






13. Independence of Argentina






14. 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.






15. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






16. 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.






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






18. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






19. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






21. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






22. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






23. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






24. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






25. Wilhelm R






26. Carlist Wars in Spain.






27. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






28. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






29. Uruguayan Civil War






30. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






31. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






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






33. The Communist Manifesto published.






34. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






35. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






36. First Republic in Spain.






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






38. France annexes Cambodia.






39. Second Anglo-Sikh War






40. France invades and occupies Algeria.






41. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






42. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






43. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






44. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






45. Missouri Compromise






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






47. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






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






49. SecondIndustrial Revolution






50. 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