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19th Century Timeline

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1. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






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






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






4. First Anglo-Sikh War






5. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






6. First steam locomotive begins operation.






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






8. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






9. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






11. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






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13. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






14. First section of the London Underground opens.






15. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






16. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






17. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






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






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






21. Russo-Persian War.






22. 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.






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






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






25. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






26. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






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






28. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






29. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






30. Victorian gold rush in Australia






31. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






32. Morphine first isolated.






33. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






35. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






36. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






37. Basketball is invented.






38. Cairo falls to the British.






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






40. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






41. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






42. Italy annexes Eritrea.






43. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






44. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






45. The Decembrist revolt






46. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






47. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






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






50. First steam locomotive begins operation.