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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Siege of Khartoum






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






4. Independence of Chile






5. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






6. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.






7. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






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






9. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






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






11. World's first oil refinery in Romania






12. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






13. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






14. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






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






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






17. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






18. California Gold Rush






19. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






20. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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22. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






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






24. The Pony Express ended.






25. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






26. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






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






28. Basketball is invented.






29. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






30. Uruguayan Civil War






31. Carlist Wars in Spain.






32. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






33. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






34. Independence of Bolivia.






35. Suez Canal is constructed.






36. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






37. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






38. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






39. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






40. SecondIndustrial Revolution






41. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






42. Dreyfuss Affair






43. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






44. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






45. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






46. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






47. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






49. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






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