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19th Century Timeline

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1. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






2. World's first oil refinery in Romania






3. The Pony Express ended.






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






5. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






6. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






7. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






8. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






9. Persian Prophet the B






10. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






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






12. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






13. The quagga is rendered extinct.






14. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






15. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






16. Peterloo massacre in England.






17. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






18. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






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






20. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






22. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






23. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






24. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






25. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






26. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






27. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






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






29. 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.






30. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






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






33. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






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






35. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






36. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






37. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






38. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






39. Greco-Turkish War.






40. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






41. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






42. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






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






44. Bah






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






46. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






47. Independence of Argentina






48. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






50. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile