 | 1801:- Battle of Copenhagen |
| 1802:- Beethoven becomes deaf |
| 1803:- The USA doubles in size by buying land from
France (the Louisiana Purchase) |
| 1804:- Haiti becomes the first free state in the
Caribbean |
| 1804:- Napoleon crowns himself Emperor |
| 1804:- The first steam locomotive is built in Wales |
| 1805:- Lord Horatio Nelson wins the Battle of Trafalgar |
| 1806:- Birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 1807:- Napoleon Bonaparte builds the largest empire
since Roman times |
| 1809:- Birth of Charles Darwin |
| 1809:- Birth of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1812:- Birth of Charles Dickens |
| 1812:- Napoleon makes a big mistake: he invades
Russia |
| 1813:- Birth of David Livingstone |
| 1814:- Napoleon loses the Battle of Leipzig and
is exiled to the island of Elba |
| 1815:- Battle of Waterloo |
| 1818:- Birth of Karl Marx |
| 1819:- Birth of Queen Victoria |
| 1821:- Napoleon dies in the island of St. Helena
in the south Atlantic |
| 1822:- Birth of Louis Pasteur |
| 1823:- In the Monroe Doctrine, President James
Monroe warned Europeans against interfering in the affairs of any country in the
Western Hemisphere. |
| 1825:- Railways first used for carrying passengers |
| 1826:- Invention of the camera by Frenchman Joseph
Neipce |
| 1826:- Faraday starts the famous Royal Institution
lectures |
| 1827:- Beethoven, who wrote 9 symphonies only, dies |
| 1828:- Arthur Wellesley Wellington becomes Prime
Minister of England |
| 1833:- End of slavery in the British empire |
| 1837:- Victoria becomes Queen of England |
| 1840:- Birth of Piotr Tchaikovsky |
| 1843:- Great Britain, the first transatlantic
steamship, is designed by Brunel |
| 1843:- Great Comet, the longest comet ever seen,
330 million km long |
| 1848:- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The
Communist Manifesto" |
| 1848:- Death of George Stephenson |
| 1850:- Death of Williams Wordsworth |
| 1851:- Great Exhibition in London |
| 1851:- Death of Joseph Turner |
| 1852:- Death of Arthur Wellington |
| 1853:- Birth of Vincent van Gogh |
| 1854:- Start of the Crimean War |
| 1856:- End of the Crimean War |
| 1856:- Pasteur discovers pasteurization |
| 1859:- Death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 1859:- The Origin of Species written by Darwin
causes an uproar |
| 1860:- First woman doctor begins work in England |
| 1861:- Discovery of Arachaeopteryx (the earliest
known fossil of a bird) in Germany |
| 1861:- American Civil War between the North and
South begins |
| 1861:- William Booth forms the Salvation Army |
| 1863:- Rules of modern football are written |
| 1863:- Piotr Tchaikovsky becomes a musician |
| 1864:- The Red Cross is set up |
| 1865:- 500,000 people died by the end of the American
Civil War |
| 1865:- Abraham Lincoln assassinated |
| 1865:- End of slavery in America |
| 1867:- Workers in towns get the right to vote |
| 1867:- Birth of Marie Curie |
| 1867:- Death of Michael Faraday |
| 1867:- The USA purchases Alaska from Russia. |
| 1869:- Birth of Mohandas Gandhi |
| 1870:- Charles Dickens dies of a stroke |
| 1870:- Unification of Germany and Italy |
| 1870:- Birth of Lenin or Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov |
| 1870-1890:- The last Native American tribes were
defeated by government forces and pushed onto reservations. |
| 1872:- FA Cup first played |
| 1873:- Death of David Livingstone |
| 1874:- Birth of Winston Churchill |
| 1874:- American football is founded |
| 1875:- Public Health Act |
| 1876:- Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham
Bell |
| 1879:- Birth of Albert Einstein |
| 1881:- Birth of Pablo Picasso |
| 1882:- Death of Darwin |
| 1883:- Quagga becomes extinct |
| 1883:- Mount Karakatau, in Indonesia, erupts; 4
islands disappear; the volcanic eruption is heard by people in Australia |
| 1883:- Karl Marx dies while writing Dos Capital
(Capital) |
| 1884:- Workers in Britain get the vote |
| 1888:- Air-filled tyres for bicycles are introduced |
| 1890:- Vincent van Gough commits suicide. The paintings
of the Dutch artist now cost millions of pounds |
| 1893:- Birth of Mao Zedong |
| 1893:- Death of Piotr Tchaikovsky |
| 1895:- Death of Louis Pasteur |
| 1897:- Bram Stoker writes Dracula |
| 1899:- The beginning of the Boer War |
