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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






3. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






4. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






5. France invades and occupies Algeria.






6. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






7. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






8. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






9. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






10. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






11. The Pony Express started.






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






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






14. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






15. Navarino Massacre






16. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






17. The Trumpet gets valves.






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






19. France annexes Cambodia.






20. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






21. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






22. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






23. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






24. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






25. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






27. July Revolution in France.






28. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






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






30. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






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






32. The Pony Express ended.






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






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






35. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






36. 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.






37. The New Zealand Land Wars






38. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






39. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






40. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






41. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






43. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






44. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






46. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






47. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






48. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






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






50. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance