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19th Century Timeline

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






2. The New Zealand Land Wars






3. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






4. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






5. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






6. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






8. The German Customs Union is formed.






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






10. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






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






12. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






13. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






14. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






15. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






17. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






18. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






19. First Anglo-Sikh War






20. TheFirst Boer War.






21. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






22. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






23. Italy annexes Eritrea.






24. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






25. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






26. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






27. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






28. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






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






30. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






31. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






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






33. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






34. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






35. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






36. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






37. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






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






39. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






40. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






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. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






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






44. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






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






46. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






47. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






48. Indian famine begins.






49. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






50. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing