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19th Century Timeline

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1. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






2. The Bront






3. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






4. The modern city of Singapore is established by the British EastIndia Company.






5. Death of Vincent van Gogh.






6. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






7. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






8. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






9. Siege of Khartoum






10. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






12. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






13. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






14. Greco-Turkish War.






15. 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).






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






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






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






19. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






21. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






22. 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.






23. Famine in Finland.






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






25. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






26. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






27. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






28. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






29. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






30. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






31. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






32. 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






33. Independence of Argentina






34. Russia abolishes serfdom.






35. First gramophone record






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






37. 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.






38. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






39. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






40. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






41. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






42. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






43. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






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






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






47. Th






48. The Pony Express started.






49. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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