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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






3. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






4. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






5. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






6. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






7. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






9. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






10. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






11. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






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13. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






14. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






15. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






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






17. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






18. World population reaches 1 billion.






19. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






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






21. Basketball is invented.






22. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






23. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






24. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






25. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






26. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






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






28. Telegraphy patented.






29. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






30. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






31. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






32. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






33. Independence of Chile






34. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






35. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






36. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






38. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






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






40. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






41. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






42. Russia abolishes serfdom.






43. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






44. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






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






46. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






47. First gramophone record






48. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






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