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19th Century Timeline

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






2. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






3. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






5. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






6. Independence of Argentina






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






8. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






9. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






10. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






11. France invades and occupies Algeria.






12. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






13. 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






14. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






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






16. Second Anglo-Sikh War






17. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






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






19. 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






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






21. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






22. Cairo falls to the British.






23. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






24. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






25. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






26. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






28. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






30. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






31. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






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






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






34. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






35. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






36. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






37. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






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






39. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






40. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






41. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






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






44. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






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






46. Volleyball is invented






47. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






48. Chilean Civil War.






49. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






50. Basketball is invented.