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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






2. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






3. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






8. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






9. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






10. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






11. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






12. Russo-Persian War.






13. Cairo falls to the British.






14. SecondIndustrial Revolution






15. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






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






17. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






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






19. The Caste War of Yucat






20. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






21. First Republic in Spain.






22. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






23. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






24. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






25. The Pony Express ended.






26. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






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






28. California Gold Rush






29. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






31. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






32. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






33. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






35. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






37. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






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






39. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






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






41. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






43. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






44. The Decembrist revolt






45. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






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






48. California Gold Rush






49. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






50. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.