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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Communist Manifesto published.






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






3. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






5. 26 millionIndians perish inIndia due to famine.






6. After the Meiji Restoration - Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.






7. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






9. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






10. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






11. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






12. Volleyball is invented






13. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






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






15. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






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






17. Chilean Civil War.






18. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






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






20. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






21. Famine in Finland.






22. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






23. Second Anglo-Sikh War






24. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






25. 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.






26. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






27. Mormon migration to Utah.






28. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






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






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






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






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






33. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






34. France annexes Cambodia.






35. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






36. Aspirin patented.






37. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






38. Basketball is invented.






39. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






40. Russia abolishes serfdom.






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






42. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






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






44. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






45. Slavery banned in Brazil.






46. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






47. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






48. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






49. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






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