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19th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






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






6. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






7. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






9. Slavery banned in Brazil.






10. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






11. The Pony Express ended.






12. Basketball is invented.






13. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






15. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






16. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






17. Morphine first isolated.






18. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






19. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






21. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






22. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






23. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






24. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






25. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






26. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






27. Germany gains control of Camaroon






28. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






29. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






30. Independence of Chile






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






32. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






33. First steam locomotive begins operation.






34. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






35. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






36. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






37. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






38. 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.






39. July Revolution in France.






40. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






41. 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.






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






43. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






44. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






45. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






46. Mormon migration to Utah.






47. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






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






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






50. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.