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19th Century Timeline

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1. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






2. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






3. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






4. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






5. First section of the London Underground opens.






6. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






7. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






8. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






9. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






10. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






11. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






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






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






14. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






15. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






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






18. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






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






20. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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23. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






24. Second Anglo-Sikh War






25. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






26. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






27. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






28. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






29. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






30. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






31. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






32. Independence of Argentina






33. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






34. The Decembrist revolt






35. Slavery banned in Brazil.






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






37. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






38. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






39. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






40. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






41. Independence of Chile






42. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






43. Chilean Civil War.






44. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






45. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






46. Famine in Finland.






47. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






48. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






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






50. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed