19th century timeline (1851-1899)

  • Mexico

    Mexico started to use the telegraph.
  • World

    The famous newspaper “New York Times” Began publishing on September 18
  • Arts

    ”Rhenisch”, the 3rd Symphony by Robert Schumann’s was premiered on February 6.
  • Science

    León Foucault shows the rotation of the earth by using pendulum
  • Mexico

    The Hospice Plan is por proclaimed
  • World

    The Transvaal Independence was reconized by British on January 17
  • Arts

    Ramiro II was painted by Rufino Casado.
  • Science

    Henri Giffard invented a dirigible that flew over Versallies.
  • Mexico

    Last presidental term of Santa Anna
  • World

    Franklin Pierce becomes USA president
  • Arts

    Pierre Joseph Proudhon and his children
  • Science

    Ignacy Łukasiewicz, creates the lamp of kerosene
  • Mexico

    Plan of Ayutla
  • World

    1st Revolution state convention
  • Arts

    Mexican national anthem is created
  • Science

    Antonio Mrucci invents the phone
  • Mexico

    Antonio López de Santa Anna leaves Mexico City to go to veracruz in order to fight the rebellion in that place.
  • World

    Cincinnati riots of 1855: street fighting between nativists and immigrants on election day
  • Arts

    Edgar Degas:
    Self-portrait
  • Science

    H.Spencer
    Principles of psychology
  • Mexico

    Law of Lerdo
  • World

    Peace between England and Russia
  • Arts

    Broken Bows by Philip Hermogenes
  • Science

    Paul Du Chaillu observed by the ñfirst time a gorilla in wildness
  • Mexico

    The Political Constitution of the Mexican Republic
  • World

    Indian rebellion.
  • Arts

    The art treasures of great britain exhibition is held in manchester
  • Science

    Elisha otis first elevator is installed.
  • Mexico

    Mexico earthquake
  • World

    Denver is found
  • Arts

    Ivan Aivazovsky "The Battle of Bomarsund".
  • Science

    William herschel initiates fingerprinting
  • Mexico

    Battle of Tacubaya in Reform War
  • World

    Karl Marx critics the political economy in his book
  • Arts

    Charles Dickens writes history of two cities
  • Science

    Charles Darwin publishes The Species Origin
  • Mexico

    Reform Laws are formulated to separate Mexico and the Catholic Church
  • World

    Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the U.S . And he finishes slavery
  • Arts

    Charles Dickens published his novel Great Hopes
  • Science

    Vulcano planet is discovered and it helps to explain the strange orbits of Mercury and Venus
  • Mexico

    Benito Juarez was named the Constitutional President
  • World

    American Civil War started
  • Arts

    Abraham Lincoln sculpture was finished by Thomas Dow Jones
  • Science

    Rubidium was discovered by
    Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen
  • Mexico

    Mexico won "La batalla de Puebla"
  • World

    Jamaica becomes independent from the British Empire.
  • Arts

    The movie Kid Galahad came out with Elvis Presley as the protagonist
  • Science

    April 26th The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the moon.
  • World

    The Union army establishes a “Bureau of Colored Troops”. To use African-American soldiers in the Civil War.
  • Mexico

    England, Spain and France assign Maximiliano I as emperor of Mexico.
  • Arts

    “Salon de Refusés” (1863) - An art exhibition to show rejected art by the “Paris Salon”
  • Science

    Thomas Henry publishes Man’s place in nature. Where he pushed the acceptance of Charles Darwin theory of evolution.
  • Mexico

    Maximiliano and her wife, Carlota assigned as emperors, enter Mexico City.
  • World

    Arlington Cemetery is founded as the 200 acre km around Arlington mansion are converted to military cemetery.
  • Arts

    National Art Gallery of Ireland opens in Dublin in a building designed by Francis Fowke
  • Science

    John Alexander creates the first periodic table of the elements.
  • Mexico

    President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes at Ford´s theatre in Washington D.C.
  • World

    The emperor Maximiliano issued a law in which he states death to the liberals or people who were linked to it.
  • Arts

    “Sheep by the sea” by Rosa Bonheur. It expresses natural habits of animals.
  • Science

    Louis Pasteur showed that the air is full of bacteria.
  • Mexico

    The president Andrew Johnson formally declares the US Civil War over.
  • World

    Mexican imperial troops had a battle in the frontier with Texas. As the republicans started to get the ports, Juarez and it´s cause began to win.
  • Arts

    “Prisoners from the front” was painted by Winslow Homer.
    It was about the civil war.
  • Science

    Huggings made the first spectroscopic observations of a nova
  • Mexico

    Take from Mexico city, in charge of Porfirio Díaz against the army of the already dismissed Maximiliano de Habsburgo.
  • World

    Murder of Maximiliano de Habsburgo.
  • Arts

    Approximated creation of “ The races of longchamp”
  • Science

    Death of Michael Faraday, as one of the leading scientists, discovering electromagnetic forces.
  • Mexico

    Armed uprising in the state of Puebla, headed by Miguel Negrete
  • World

    The 1868 Revolution, called the Glorious or September Revolution
  • Arts

    Foundation of the Literary Parthenon Society
  • Science

    Discovery of Helio
  • Mexico

    Antijuarista revolution
  • World

    In the Spanish Courts, a new Constitution is approved
  • Arts

    “The Sculpture”by El de la Olla. The Republican Monitor.
  • Science

    The chemist Dmitri Mendeléyev, presents a first version of his periodic table of elements
  • Mexico

    Díaz makes several attempts at rebellion
  • World

    2nd Industrial Revolution
  • Arts

    “Paul Alexis reading a mnuscript to Émile Zola” Paul Cézanne.
  • Science

    Joseph Priestly had collected and studied water soluble gases: ammonia, sulfur, dioxide and hydrogen.
  • Arts

    Aida’s opera show premiered at the Khedivial Opera in Cairo
  • Mexico

    Porfirio Diaz made the “Plan de Noria
  • World

    USA congress published the Civil Rights Act to protect African American population
  • Science

    The London–Australia telegraph cable was brought ashore at Darwin
  • Mexico

    Benito Juarez died because of a heart attack
  • World

    The third Carlista War began in Spain.
  • Arts

    New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened
  • Science

    The german mathematician Georg Cantor develops his theory of sets.
  • Mexico

    The reform lawson are incorporated in the mexican Constitution
  • World

    The long depression, it started in europe and north America.
  • Arts

    It was created one of the most important paintings of impressionism “the poppies”
  • Science

    George Johnstone Stoney propose that the atom had elementary electricity units
  • Arts

    Nacional tribute to Jose Agustin Arrieta an important character in mexican art.
  • World

    Maximo Gomez defeats the spaniards in Camaguey a important battle in the 10 years war
  • Mexico

    The reform laws, which sought the separation between church-state
  • Science

    George Johnstone Stoney propose that the atom had elementary electricity units
  • Science

    Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
  • Mexico

    The arrival to power of Porfirio Diaz
  • World

    Anti-slavery society forms in New York
  • Arts

    Georges Bizet's last and greatest opera "Carmen" premieres in Paris
  • Science

    Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
  • Arts

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"
  • Mexico

    In January 1876 Díaz revolted with his Plan of Tuxtepec, calling for no reelection and municipal freedom
  • World

    US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
  • Mexico

    Porfirio Díaz becomes officially the constitutional president of Mexico.
  • World

    Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire, starting the Russo-Turkish war that would end on the next year.
  • Arts

    Franz Schubert’s 2nd symphony in B premieres.
  • Science

    Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
  • Mexico

    Doroteo Arango, also known as Pancho Villa was born. He would later be one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution.
  • World

    German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of socialism
  • Arts

    Peter Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony in F premieres.
  • Science

    Physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns for the first time the dangers of smoking on a letter for The New York Times
  • Mexico

    Emiliano Zapata was born on August 8 1879.
  • World

    Dual Alliance
    Germany and Austria-Hungary, signed defensive alliance on October 7th, as part of Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent was.
  • Arts

    Vetheuil in the Fog- Claude Monet
    Monet capture the exact image he wanted before the sunlight shifted or faded away altogether
  • Science

    Thomas Edison perfects the Incandescent Light Bulb, the test was on October 22 and it lasted 13.5 hours, it wasn’t the first light bulb, it is considered the first practical incandescent lamp.
  • Mexico

    The president and Mexican general, Álvaro Obregón was born in Alamos.
  • World

    In November 2, Winfield Hancock was defines ny James Garfield in the U.S. Presidential election.
  • Arts

    Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov
  • Science

    The first successful two-stroke engine was built by Dugald Clerk
  • Mexico

    Morelos Railway accident occurred on june 23, killing over 200 people.
  • World

    March 31st, The anti-socialist Law was passed in Germany.
  • Arts

    Dante Gabriel published the Ballads and Sonnets.
  • Science

    Publication of a pioneering study in industrial archeology in England.
  • Mexico

    The mexican anarchist poet Gilberto Guerrero was born.
  • World

    Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May
  • Arts

    The gallery of botanical illustrations made and donated by Marianne North is opened at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Science

    Mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes proof that π is a transcendental number.
  • Mexico

    August 12 Jose Bonilla reported that he saw 300 dark undefined objects in the astronomy .
  • World

    Emil Christian develops a method for propagating pure yeast which evolves the revolutionises the brewing industry
  • Arts

    J-K Huysmans publishes the L’Art moderne.
  • Science

    Svante Arrhenius develops ion theory to explain conductivity.
  • Arts

    First annual exhibition of Les XX at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
  • Mexico

    Federal Elections were made.
  • World

    Greenwich Meridian begins to rule.
  • Science

    New galaxies were discovered
  • World

    The statue of Liberty arrives at New York in a French ship named “Isere”
  • Arts

    First public display of works of Vincent van Gogh, in The Hague
  • Science

    Louis Pasteur tests the first successful rabies vaccine
  • Mexico

    The construction of the Palace of Lecumberri started. Its purpose, to serve as a penitentiary.
  • Science

    Clemens Winkler, a german chemist, discovered the element Germanium.
  • Mexico

    Diego Rivera, the famous muralist was born in Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • World

    Karl Benz patents the world´s 1st automobile with a burning motor in Germany.
  • Arts

    “Storm” was painted by Claude Monet
  • Mexico

    Baja California is divided into two districts Baja California Norte and Sur
  • World

    Anne Sullivan starts teaching Hellen Keller
  • Arts

    Arthur Conan Doyle writes Sherlock Holmes
  • Science

    Louis Pasteur Anti Rabics investigations is defended in the Academy of National Science
  • Science

    Methyl isocyanate was discovered
  • Mexico

    Porfirio Diaz is named the President of Mexico for the fourth time.
  • World

    Minnesota, Nebraska and Dakota a snowstorm kills about 500 people
  • Arts

    National Geographic Society was created
  • Mexico

    The house of the tiles was created
  • World

    Ivory coast declared a protectorate of France.
  • Arts

    Vincent van Gogh paints the starry night
  • Science

    The first long distance electric power transmission in the United States is completed, running 14 miles 23 km)between a generator at willamette falls at Portland, Oregon
  • World

    First use of electricity in spain
  • Arts

    Death of Vincent Van Gogh
  • Science

    Invention of air-conditioning by Wills Carrier
  • Mexico

    The chamber of deputies approved the constitutional reform, than allows the reelection
  • Sience

    High voltage transformer of Nikola Tesla
  • Mexico

    Regulatory Law of Mandatory Instruction
  • World

    Civil war of Chile
  • Arts

    Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild
  • Mexico

    Porfirio Díaz opens the textile factor y in Rio Blanco
  • World

    The Cuban Revolutionary Party is created.
  • Arts

    Blasco Salvador painted “El Choque”
  • Science

    The mineral Baddeleyita is discovered
  • Mexico

    Tifo and viruela epidemies cause 50,000 deaths.
  • World

    New Zealand becomes the first country that got all women the right to vote.
  • Arts

    Giacomo Puccini’s Opera “Manon Lescaut” premieres.
  • Science

    Motor diesel was invented by Rudolph Diesel, this motor is used in trucks and buses.
  • Mexico

    Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
  • World

    Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
  • Arts

    The Swan Lake, ballet by Piotr Ílich Chaikovski, opens in St. Petersburg.
  • Science

    Guglielmo Marconi discovered wireless telegraphy.
  • Mexico

    It was made the first census in the country
  • World

    The Cuban war begins
  • Arts

    It was when Picasso started to win his name as an artist
  • Science

    It started the study of origin and formation of information sciences
  • Mexico

    David Alfaro Siqueiros, an important painter was born
  • World

    First Modern Summer Olympics, Games of the I Olympiad, Held in Athens, Greece.
  • Arts

    Thanks to Lumière, the cinema arrived to Mexico
  • Science

    Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius quantifies carbon dioxide’s role in warming the Earth.
  • Mexico

    President Porfirio Díaz suffered an attack in Alameda
  • World

    Crete is declared part of the Ottoman Empire(Turkey).
  • Arts

    Irish writer Bram Stoker publishes his novel “Dracula”.
  • Science

    The english scientist J.Thompson: relationship between charge and mass of the electron.
  • World

    The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and Spain representatives, ending the Spanish-American War.
  • Mexico

    In Coatepec, the Xalapa-Teocelo railway was inaugurated, better known as “El Piojito”, which became the presidential train.
  • Arts

    Don Juan Tenorio film, by Salvador Toscano who was Mexico’s first filmmaker.
  • Science

    Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sciences. Reproduction of an important históricas work.
  • Mexico

    The Diocese of Aguascalientes is founded by “Papa Leo XIII”, detaching itself from the territory of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.
  • World

    Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon"
  • Arts

    Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  • Science

    Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)