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19th Century Timeline

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1. Aspirin patented.






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






3. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






4. First Anglo-Sikh War






5. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






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






7. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






8. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






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






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






11. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






12. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






13. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






14. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






15. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






16. The Trumpet gets valves.






17. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






18. Italy annexes Eritrea.






19. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






20. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






21. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






22. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






23. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






24. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






25. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






26. Chilean Civil War.






27. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






29. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






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






31. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






32. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






34. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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






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






37. The Caste War of Yucat






38. Italy annexes Eritrea.






39. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






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






42. Wilhelm R






43. TheFirst Boer War.






44. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






45. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






46. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






48. Independence of Chile






49. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






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