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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






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






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






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






6. Navarino Massacre






7. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






8. Th






9. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






10. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






12. Volleyball is invented






13. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






14. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






15. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






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






17. The Caste War of Yucat






18. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






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






21. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






22. Peterloo massacre in England.






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






24. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






25. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






26. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






27. The cardboard box is invented.






28. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






29. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






30. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






31. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






32. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






33. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






34. Greco-Turkish War.






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






36. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






37. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






38. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






39. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






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






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






42. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






43. Germany gains control of Camaroon






44. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






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






46. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.






47. Indian famine begins.






48. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






49. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






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







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