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19th Century Timeline

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1. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






2. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






3. 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






4. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






5. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






6. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






8. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






9. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






10. Carlist Wars in Spain.






11. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






12. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






13. TheFirst Boer War.






14. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






15. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






16. First section of the London Underground opens.






17. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






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






19. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






21. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






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






23. Russia abolishes serfdom.






24. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






25. France annexes Cambodia.






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






27. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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






29. Bah






30. Missouri Compromise






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






32. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






33. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






34. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






35. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






36. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






37. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






38. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






39. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






40. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






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






42. Volleyball is invented






43. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






44. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






45. Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I)






46. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






47. California Gold Rush






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






49. Aspirin patented.






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