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19th Century Timeline

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2. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






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






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






5. Dreyfuss Affair






6. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






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






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






10. Discovery of Antarctica






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






12. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






13. Morphine first isolated.






14. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






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






16. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






17. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






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






19. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






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






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






23. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






24. Missouri Compromise






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






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






27. Aspirin patented.






28. Aspirin patented.






29. Uruguayan Civil War






30. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






31. Basketball is invented.






32. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






33. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






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






35. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






37. Egyptian






38. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






39. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






40. Canadian Confederation formed.






41. 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.






42. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






43. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






44. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






45. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






46. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






47. TheFirst Boer War.






48. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






49. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






50. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.