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19th Century Timeline

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1. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






2. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






3. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






4. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






5. July Revolution in France.






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






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






8. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






9. Discovery of Antarctica






10. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






11. Uruguayan Civil War






12. Persian Prophet the B






13. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






14. Death of Alexander Pushkin






15. Slavery banned in Brazil.






16. The cardboard box is invented.






17. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






18. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






19. Russo-Persian War.






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






21. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






22. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






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






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






25. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






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






27. Basketball is invented.






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






29. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






30. France invades and occupies Algeria.






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






32. The Pony Express ended.






33. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






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






35. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






36. Th






37. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






39. Indian famine begins.






40. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






41. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






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






43. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






44. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






46. 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.






47. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






48. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






49. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






50. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.







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