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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Independence of Bolivia.






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






7. Independence of Argentina






8. 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.






9. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






10. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






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






12. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






13. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






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






15. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






16. First isolation of aluminum.






17. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






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






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






21. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






22. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






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






24. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






25. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






26. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






27. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






28. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






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






31. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






32. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






33. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






34. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






35. Dreyfuss Affair






36. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






37. First electric motor built.






38. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






39. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






40. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






41. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






42. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






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






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






46. Mormon migration to Utah.






47. France annexes Cambodia.






48. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






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







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