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19th Century Timeline

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1. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






2. Cairo falls to the British.






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






4. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






5. The Pony Express ended.






6. The Decembrist revolt






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






8. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






9. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






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






11. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






12. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






13. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






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






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






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






17. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






18. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






20. The Trumpet gets valves.






21. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






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






23. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






24. World population reaches 1 billion.






25. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






26. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






27. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






28. SecondIndustrial Revolution






29. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






30. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






31. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






32. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






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






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






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






36. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






37. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






38. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






39. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






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






41. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






42. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






44. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






45. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






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






48. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






49. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






50. California Gold Rush