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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Famine in Finland.






3. First Anglo-Sikh War






4. The Bront






5. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






6. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






7. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






8. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






9. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






10. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






11. 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.






12. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






13. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






15. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






16. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






17. The Communist Manifesto published.






18. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






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






20. Slavery banned in Brazil.






21. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






22. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






23. 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






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






25. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






26. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






27. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






28. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






29. Indian famine begins.






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






31. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






32. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






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






35. First Republic in Spain.






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






37. Chilean Civil War.






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






39. Egyptian






40. The Communist Manifesto published.






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






42. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






43. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






44. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






45. Aspirin patented.






46. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






47. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






48. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






49. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






50. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.