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19th Century Timeline

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1. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






2. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






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5. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






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






7. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






8. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






9. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






10. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






11. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






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






13. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






14. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






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






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






17. Uruguayan Civil War






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






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






20. Morphine first isolated.






21. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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






23. France invades and occupies Algeria.






24. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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26. World population reaches 1 billion.






27. California Gold Rush






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






29. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






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






31. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






33. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






34. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






35. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






36. Independence of Argentina






37. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






38. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






39. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






40. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






41. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






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






43. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






44. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






45. Russo-Persian War.






46. Indian famine begins.






47. Greco-Turkish War.






48. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






49. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






50. First section of the London Underground opens.