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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Aspirin patented.






3. First steam locomotive begins operation.






4. California Gold Rush






5. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






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






8. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






9. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






10. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






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






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






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






14. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






15. Independence of Luxembourg.






16. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






17. 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






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






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






20. The quagga is rendered extinct.






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






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






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






24. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






25. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






26. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






27. 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.






28. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






29. The German Customs Union is formed.






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






31. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






32. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






33. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






34. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






35. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






36. 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






37. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






38. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






39. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






40. The Pony Express started.






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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






43. 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






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






45. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






46. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






47. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






48. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






49. Indian famine begins.






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







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