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19th Century Timeline

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1. Morphine first isolated.






2. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






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






4. The German Customs Union is formed.






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






6. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






7. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






8. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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






10. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






11. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






12. The German Customs Union is formed.






13. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






14. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






15. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






16. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






17. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






19. First isolation of aluminum.






20. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






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






22. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






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






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






25. Slavery banned in Brazil.






26. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






27. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






28. First steam locomotive begins operation.






29. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






31. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






32. Independence of Bolivia.






33. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






34. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






35. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






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






37. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






38. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






40. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






41. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






42. France annexes Cambodia.






43. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






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






45. Morphine first isolated.






46. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






47. Germany gains control of Camaroon






48. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






49. The Bront






50. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated