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19th Century Timeline

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1. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






2. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






3. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






4. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






5. The Caste War of Yucat






6. 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






7. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






8. The Trumpet gets valves.






9. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






10. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






11. Morphine first isolated.






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






13. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






14. 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.






15. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






16. Peterloo massacre in England.






17. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






18. Siege of Khartoum






19. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






20. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






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






22. Cairo falls to the British.






23. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






24. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






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






27. 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.






28. The Trumpet gets valves.






29. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






30. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






32. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






33. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






34. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






35. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






36. Dreyfuss Affair






37. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






39. First gramophone record






40. Wilhelm R






41. Discovery of Antarctica






42. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






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






44. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






45. Persian Prophet the B






46. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






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






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






49. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






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