19th century : 19th Century

(18th century - 19th century - 20th century - more centuries)

Events

The Little Ice Age ended.
Napoleon conquers much of Europe, is ultimately defeated (1814); some old European regimes are restored, others not.
Final phase of the Industrial Revolution, including Rail Transport, telegraph, and telephone.
Discovery of the relationships between magnetism and electricity and light by Hans Christian Ørsted and James Maxwell. (See:electromagnetism)
Mass migration from Europe to the United States.
Political revolution and constitutional reform across Europe severely limits powers of monarchs, advances democracy.
Gold discovered in Australia and throughout the west of the United States, leading to huge increases in national wealth and encouraging mass migration of free settlers there.
Slavery ended in British colonies and in America. See American Civil War. End of global slave trade enforced by British navy.
Charles Darwin revolutionizes biology with his theories of evolution, 1858.
Europeans conquer and colonize large parts of Africa and Asia.
Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto, encouraging workers to revolt against owners.
Meiji Restoration in 1868 opens Japan to modern influences and returns the emperor to power.
Germany and Italy are formed as nations.
Railroads make fast mass transit available to many. First Transcontinental Railroad finished in 1869 linking east to west in the United States.
The electric telegraph and undersea cables make instant global communication possible for the first time.
Postage Stamps introduced in Great Britain and soon thereafter, in many other countries.
Manufactured goods become widely availible by mail order

Significant people

Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Otto von Bismarck, German politician
Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, thinker
Charles Darwin, biologist
Charles Dickens, author
Benjamin Disraeli, novelist and politician
Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
Antonio de La Gandara, painter, pastelist and draughtsman
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, thinker
Victor Hugo, author
Abraham Lincoln, American president
Karl Marx, political philosopher and economist
William Morris, social reformer, one of the first people to detect and warn of the drawbacks of standardisation, the profit motive and the division of producer/consumer interests
Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
Louis Pasteur, biologist
Edgar Allan Poe , author
Dr. John Snow, the founder of epidemiology
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), author

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Decades and Years

1790s 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799
1800s 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809
1810s 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
1820s 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
1830s 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839
1840s 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
1850s 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
1860s 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

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