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19th Century Timeline

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1. The cardboard box is invented.






2. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






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






5. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






6. Victorian gold rush in Australia






7. Death of Alexander Pushkin






8. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






10. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






11. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






12. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






13. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






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






15. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






16. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






17. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






18. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






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






20. France invades and occupies Algeria.






21. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






22. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






23. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






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25. The New Zealand Land Wars






26. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






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






28. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






30. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






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






32. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






33. Navarino Massacre






34. Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to British forces.






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






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






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






38. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






39. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






40. Italy annexes Eritrea.






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43. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






44. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






45. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






46. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






47. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






49. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






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