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19th Century Timeline
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1. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.

2. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.

3. Second Anglo-Sikh War

4. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).

5. Kingdom of Belgium declared.

6. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.

7. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.

8. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)

9. Russo-Persian War.

10. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

11. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London

12. Death of Vincent van Gogh.

13. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.

14. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.

15. Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century - leading to the deaths of 20 million people.

16. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.