1800s Timeline

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    Napoleonic Wars

    Napoleon wages war all across Europe, making France fight against many European powers.
  • Congress of Vienna meet

    The first meeting to help fix nations borders.
  • Congress of Vienna meet

    A meet so that Europe can put monarchies and nobles back into control and fix nation's borders.
  • Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo

    The defeat that ended Napoleons wars on Europe.
  • Greek Independance

    The greeks gain fight for independance.
  • Liverpool-Manchester Railroad opens

    It is one of Britian's firt railways to rely soaly on steam power.
  • Queen Victoria begin her reign

    Queen Victoria begins her reign and starts the Victorian Era in Britian.
  • British grants Canada self-rule

    The British grant Canada independance.
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    Potatoe Famine in Ireland

    Ireland goes into a famine in which the British makes worse.
  • Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto

    It was a book that described Communism and how it's superior to other goverments.
  • Revolutions of 1848

    The revolution wars to remove old feudal stuctures and forming that swept across Europe.
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    Italian unification

    Italy begins to unify.
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    Crimean War

    A war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire when Russia tries to claim more land.
  • Bessemer Process is invented

    It was the first industrial process to manufactor steel cheaply.
  • Britian begins to rule India

    India begins to be ruled by the British. Bringing them under a new government.
  • Charles Darwin publishes the Origin of Species

    Charles Dawrin publishes his book that favors the theory of evolution, which goes against the bible.
  • Czar Alexander II frees the Serfs

    Czar of Russia brings the emancipation of the Serfs.
  • Dynamite was invented

    This invention met a boom when it came to the needs of mining and demolition.
  • Dual monarch of Austria-Hungary

    The Austro-Hungarian compromise is establish as the successor for the Austrian Empire.
  • French built-Suez Canal opens

    The french finish the construction of theSuez Canal and open it.
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    The Franco-Prussian war

    The war between France and the German states led by the kingdom of Prussia
  • Germany Unifies

    The German states, after gaining their independance, unifies.
  • Czar Alexander II is assassinated

    Czar Alexander II is assassinated traveling to the Winter Palace.
  • European actions carve up Africa at the Berlin Conference

    During the scramble for Africa the Berlin Conference meet to carve up Africa nations.
  • Dreyfus convicted for treason

    The French Jewish artillery officer is convicted for treason on thr Dreyfus Affair that divided France politically.