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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






2. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






3. Telegraphy patented.






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






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






6. First steam locomotive begins operation.






7. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






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






9. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






10. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






11. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






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






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






14. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






15. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






16. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






17. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






18. Siege of Khartoum






19. Missouri Compromise






20. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






21. 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






22. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






24. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






25. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






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






27. Independence of Argentina






28. First isolation of aluminum.






29. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






30. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






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






32. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






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






35. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






36. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






37. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






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






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






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42. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






43. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






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






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






46. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






47. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






48. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






49. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






50. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.