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19th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






5. Death of Alexander Pushkin






6. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






7. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






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






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






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






11. Slavery banned in Brazil.






12. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






13. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






14. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






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






16. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






18. First isolation of aluminum.






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






20. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






21. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






22. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






23. Navarino Massacre






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






25. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






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






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






28. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






30. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






31. 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.






32. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






33. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






34. 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






35. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






36. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






37. Independence of Luxembourg.






38. The Pony Express started.






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






40. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






41. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






42. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






43. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






44. Canadian Confederation formed.






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






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






47. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






48. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






50. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.