19th century
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| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
- Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical)
The 19th century lasted from 1801 to 1900 in the Gregorian calendar (using the Common Era system of year numbering). Common usage almost invariably regards it as lasting from 1800 to 1899, but this is considered by some to be technically incorrect due to the nonexistence of a "Year Zero" before AD 1. The 19th century is also sometimes known as the eighteen hundreds (1800s), referring to the latter usage. Decades are almost always considered as starting with the "0" year and named accordingly ("1890s", etc.), so the first decade of a century technically overlaps back into the preceding one.
Historians sometime use "Nineteenth Century" as a label for the era stretching from 1815 (The Congress of Vienna) to 1914 (The outbreak of the First World War).
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Events
- 1801: The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.
- 1801-15: Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa
- 1803: The United States buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase.
- 1804-06: Americans Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead an expedition to the Pacific Coast and back.
- 1805-48: Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.
- 1806: Holy Roman Empire dissolved.
- 1810-21: Mexican War of Independence
- 1810s-20s: South American Wars of Independence
- 1812-15: War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain
- 1815: Congress of Vienna redraws the European map.
- 1815: Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1816: Year Without a Summer
- 1816-28: Shaka's Zulu kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.
- 1819: The modern city of Singapore is established by the British East India Company.
- 1820: Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.
- 1821-32: Greek War of Independence
- 1830: France invades and occupies Algeria.
- 1830: Belgian Revolution
- 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
- 1833-76: Carlist Wars in Spain.
- 1834: Spanish Inquisition officially ends.
- 1835-36: Texas Revolution in Mexico
- 1837-1901: Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.
- 1839-60: After two Opium Wars, Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia gain many concessions from China.
- 1845-49: Irish Potato Famine
- 1846-48: The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.
- 1848: The Communist Manifesto published.
- 1848: Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
- 1848-58: California Gold Rush
- 1851-60s: Victorian gold rush in Australia
- 1851-64: The Taiping Rebellion in China
- 1854: The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of Sakoku.
- 1854-56: Crimean War between Great Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and Russia
- 1855: Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.
- 1856: World's first oil refinery in Romania
- 1857-58: Indian rebellion of 1857
- 1859: The Origin of Species published.
- 1861-65: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy
- 1864-67: French intervention in Mexico
- 1865-77: Reconstruction in the United States
- 1866: Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.
- 1866: Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation.
- 1866-69: Meiji Restoration in Japan
- 1867: The United States purchased Alaska from Russia.
- 1867: Canadian Confederation formed.
- 1869: First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States.
- 1869: The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
- 1870-71: Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy.
- 1872: Yellowstone National Park created.
- 1874: The British East India Company is dissolved.
- 1877: Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.
- 1877-78: The Balkans are freed from the Ottoman Empire after another Russo-Turkish War.
- 1878: First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1879: Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.
- 1879-84: War of the Pacific between Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
- 1880-1902: Great Britain conquers Dutch settlers in South Africa in two Boer Wars.
- 1882: First electrical power plant and grid in Manhattan.
- 1884-85: The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European Scramble for Africa. Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.
- 1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre is the last battle in the American Indian Wars.
- 1894-95: After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.
- 1895-1896: Ethiopia defeated Italy in the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1896: Olympic games revived in Athens.
- 1896: Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
- 1898: The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
- 1898-1900: The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.
- 1899-1913: The Philippine-American War
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Significant people
- Báb, Persian prophet and founder of Bábísm
- Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader and founder of Bahá'í Faith
- Charles Baudelaire, poet
- Henri Becquerel, physicist
- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French general, first consul and emperor
- Johannes Brahms, composer
- Frédéric Chopin, composer
- Kate Chopin, author
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, thinker
- Charles Darwin, biologist
- Charles Dickens, author
- Emily Dickinson, poet
- Benjamin Disraeli, novelist and politician
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist, philosopher/theologian
- Antonin Dvorak, composer
- Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
- Michael Faraday, scientist
- Gottlob Frege, mathematician, logician and philosopher
- Antonio de La Gandara, artist
- Guiseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy and Piedmontese soldier
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, physicist, astronomer
- Gilbert and Sullivan, playwright, composer
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, thinker
- Vincent van Gogh, painter
- William Gilbert Grace, English cricketer
- Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. general and president
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher
- Hong Xiuquan, revolutionary, self-proclaimed Son of God
- Victor Hugo, poet, politician/theologian, and author
- Andrew Jackson, U.S. general and president
- Thomas Jefferson, American statesman, philosopher, and president
- Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
- Sándor Körösi Csoma, explorer of the Tibetan culture
- Libertadores, Latin American liberators
- Robert E. Lee, Confederate general
- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president; led the nation during the Civil War
- Franz Liszt, composer
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow, writer and explorer
- Karl Marx, political philosopher and economist
- James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
- Gregor Mendel, biologist
- Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer
- John Stuart Mill, philosopher
- William Morris, social reformer
- Mutsuhito, Japanese emperor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
- Nikolai of Japan, religious leader who introduced Eastern Orthodoxy into Japan.
- Louis Pasteur, biologist
- Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short-story writer
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Hindu mystic
- Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
- Ignaz Semmelweis, founder of hygiene
- Joseph Smith, Jr., religious leader, founder of Mormonism
- Dr. John Snow, the founder of epidemiology
- F R Spofforth, Australian cricketer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
- Nikola Tesla, inventor
- Leo Tolstoy, novelist, philosopher/theologian, social reformer
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), author
- Giuseppe Verdi, composer
- Jules Verne, writer
- Queen Victoria, British monarch
- Richard Wagner, composer
- Walt Whitman, poet
- Oscar Wilde, poet, writer, playwright
- Brigham Young, Mormon religious leader
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Inventions, discoveries, introductions
List of 19th century inventions
- Electromagnetism
- Epidemiology
- Philology
- Department stores
- Mail order businesses
- Postage stamps
- Public busses
- Subways
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Decades and years
| Romanticism | |
|---|---|
| 18th century - 19th century | |
| Romantic music: Beethoven - Brahms - Strauss - Wagner | |
| Romantic poetry: Blake - Burns - Byron - Goethe - Keats - Mickiewicz - Wordsworth | |
| Romantic art - Copley - Goya - Hudson River School - Leutze | |
| Romantic culture: Bohemianism - Romantic nationalism | |
| ...Preceded by the Age of Enlightenment | Followed by Victorianism... Followed by Modernism... |
