Test your basic knowledge |

19th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






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






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






4. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






5. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






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






8. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






9. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






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






11. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






12. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






13. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






14. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






15. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






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






17. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






18. Famine in Finland.






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






20. The Decembrist revolt






21. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






22. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






23. 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.






24. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






25. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






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






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






28. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






30. Navarino Massacre






31. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






32. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






33. Victorian gold rush in Australia






34. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






35. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






36. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






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






38. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






39. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






40. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






42. 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






43. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






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






45. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






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






47. Aspirin patented.






48. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






49. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






50. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.