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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






2. SecondIndustrial Revolution






3. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






4. First isolation of aluminum.






5. First steam locomotive begins operation.






6. The Trumpet gets valves.






7. Mormon migration to Utah.






8. The cardboard box is invented.






9. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






10. Missouri Compromise






11. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






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






14. Indian famine begins.






15. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






16. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






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






18. Italy annexes Eritrea.






19. Basketball is invented.






20. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






21. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






22. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






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






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






25. 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).






26. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






27. The Soci






28. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






29. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






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






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






32. Death of Alexander Pushkin






33. 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.






34. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






35. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






36. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






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






39. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






40. Independence of Bolivia.






41. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






42. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






43. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






44. Telegraphy patented.






45. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






46. Siege of Khartoum






47. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






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






49. Morphine first isolated.






50. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt