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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. 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.






4. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






5. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






6. Canadian Confederation formed.






7. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






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






9. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






10. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






11. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






12. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






13. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






14. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






15. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






16. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






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






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






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






20. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






21. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






22. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






23. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






24. Chilean Civil War.






25. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






26. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






27. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






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






29. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






30. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






31. The Communist Manifesto published.






32. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






33. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






34. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






35. Independence of Bolivia.






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






37. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






38. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






39. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






40. The Bront






41. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






42. Dreyfuss Affair






43. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






44. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






45. World population reaches 1 billion.






46. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






47. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






48. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






49. Discovery of Antarctica






50. Italy annexes Eritrea.