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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






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






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






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






6. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






7. TheFirst Boer War.






8. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






10. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






11. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






13. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






14. First isolation of aluminum.






15. Carlist Wars in Spain.






16. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






17. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






18. Greco-Turkish War.






19. 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






20. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






21. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






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






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






24. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






26. Italy annexes Eritrea.






27. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






28. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






29. SecondIndustrial Revolution






30. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






31. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






32. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






33. Chilean Civil War.






34. 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.






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






36. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






37. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






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






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






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






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






42. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






43. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






44. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






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






46. World's first oil refinery in Romania






47. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






48. The Bront






49. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






50. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.