1800s Timeline

By dkennedy-lares
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    Napoleonic Wars

    When in Rome, do as the Roman's do, including trying to conquer Europe.
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    Italian Unification

    Italy became as unified as spaghetti and tomato sauce.

  • Napoleon's Defeat at Waterloo

    Ironic, since penguins are usually great in water.

  • Congress of Vienna

    Now to pick up the pieces of Napoleon's whole thingamajig.

  • Queen Victoria's Reign Begins

    Becoming a British monarch was where she was victorious.

  • Greek Independence

    Greece slips out of the Ottoman Empire like it's covered in oil.

  • Liverpool-Manchester Railroad opens

    People railed for the ease of transportation.

  • Irish Potato Famine Begins

    Mashed the Irish economy.
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    Berlin Conference

    Now Africa is part of Europe.
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    Revolutions of 1848

    Yet another revolution in France ends up taking Europe by storm.

  • Communist Manifesto Published

    At first, it was considered just classless.
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    Crimean War

    They hoped to keep it from being a crime to be Cristian in the Holy Land, which was Ottoman owned.

  • Bessemer Process Invented

    It made the prices of a certain metal a steel.

  • Britain Begins Rule of India

    The East India Company just wasn't enough for them.

  • Origins of Species Published

    Charles Darwin really evolved into something bigger after this.

  • Czar Alexander II Frees the Serfs

    The serfs were almost as excited as a gas.
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    Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary

    Two heads are better than one.

  • Dynamite Invented

    Alfred Nobel's invention exploded in popularity.

  • Canadian Independence

    So Britain granted it autonomy, eh?

  • Suez Canal Opens

    The French decide to break away from Africa.
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    Franco-Prussian War

    The French tried to keep Prussia from unifying Germany, but they ended up twisted like a pretzel.

  • Germany Unifies

    Though there's still tension throughout the new nation, as Germany turned out to be kind of diverse.

  • Czar Alexander II Assassinated

    The People's Will quite ironically assassinated themselves in the foot, as his successor abolished the legislative commissions Alexander II signed that day.

  • Dreyfus Affair

    And not the fun kind, the kind where antisemitism gets an innocent person convicted of treason.