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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






2. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






4. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






5. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






6. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






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






8. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






9. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






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






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






13. SecondIndustrial Revolution






14. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






15. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






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






17. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






18. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






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






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






21. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






22. Morphine first isolated.






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






24. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






25. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






26. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






27. 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.






28. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






29. 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






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31. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






32. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






33. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






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






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






37. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






38. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






39. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






40. Independence of Chile






41. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






42. The New Zealand Land Wars






43. Discovery of Antarctica






44. Persian Prophet the B






45. November Uprising in Poland against Russia.






46. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






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






48. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






49. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






50. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance