History Timeline

1801 - 1849 AD

1801 Robert Fulton builds first submarine
   Joseph Jacquard introduces the mechanical loom
1802 Birth of Victor Hugo
1803 Louisiana Purchase
   Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson
   Birth of Berlioz
1804 Beginning travels of Lewis and Clark
   Haiti becomes the first black, autonomous republic
1806 Birth of John Stuart Mill
   Napoleon ends the Holy Roman Empire
1807 Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   Birth of Louis Agassiz
   Britain abolishes the slave trade
1809 Birth of Abraham Lincoln
   Birth of Charles Darwin
   Birth of Lord Tennyson
   Birth of Edgar Allan Poe
   End of Neo-classical period
1810 South American colonies split from Spain
1811 Birth of Franz Liszt
   Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe
   Birth of Zeng Guofan
1812 War between Britain (in Canada) and the U. S. (War of 1812)
   Birth of Charles Dickens
   First tin cans used in Britain for preserving food
1813 Birth of Kierkegaard
1814 Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics of Egypt deciphered
   Birth of Hong Xiuquan
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeated
   Birth of Andreas Achenbach - father of 19th century German landscape painting
1816 Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish in Venezuela
   Invention of stethoscope
1818 Birth of Karl Marx
   Birth of Emily Bronte
1819 Birth of John Ruskin
   Birth of Walt Whitman
   Birth of Herman Melville
   Birth of Queen Victoria
   Diving suit invented
   John Couch Adams deduces mathematically the location of the planet Neptune
1820 Birth of Friedrich Engels
   Missouri Compromise in the US ensures balance between free and slave states
1821 Birth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   Birth of Baudelaire
   Michael Faraday builds electricity-powered motor
1821 - 1829 Greek war of independence from Turkey
1822 Brazil breaks away from Portugal
   Birth of Louis Pasteur
1823 Monroe Doctrine
   Birth of Li Hongzhang
1824 Birth of Anton Bruckner
1825 Shaka rules Zululand (southern Africa)
1828 Birth of Leo Tolstoy
   Birth of Henrik Ibsen
1829 Beginning of Smithsonian Institution
1830 Establishment of the Mormon church
   Birth of Emily Dickinson
   Kingdom of Belgium founded
1831 Birth of James Clerk Maxwell
   Birth of Sitting Bull
   Birth of Louisa May Alcott
1832 Birth of Horatio Alger - writer
1833 Birth of Brahms
   Beginning of Victorian era
1834 Charles Babbage designs the first automatic digital computer, the    "Analytical Engine"
1835 Birth of Andrew Carnegie
   Samuel Morse develops Morse Code
1836 Texas wins independence from Mexico
1837 Samuel Morse debuts the telegraph
   Invention of the daguerreotype - first practical form of photographic    reproduction
1838 Birth of John Muir
   Trail of Tears
   Birth of Cleveland Abbe - meteorologist and founder of U.S. Standard Time
1839 Birth of Paul Cezanne
   Opium wars in China
   Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber
1840 Birth of Claude Monet
   Penny postage stamps introduced in Britain
   Canada becomes self-governing entity
   Birth of Peter Tchaikovsky
1842 William James, an American philosopher is born
   First surgical operation using anaethesia is performed
1843 Birth of Edvard Grieg
1846 Neptune discovered
1844 Birth of Nietzsche
1846 - 1848 U.S. battles Mexico
1847 Foundation of the Vegetarian Society U.K.
   Birth of Alexander Graham Bell
   Creation of the Associated Press (AP)
1848 Publication of the Communist Manifesto
1849 California gold rush