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World History Timeline: 1801 - 1850



Year Rulers War and Politics Entertainment Literature Art and Architecture Science and Technology India Historic Events / Personalities
1801-1805 Thomas Jefferson becomes third US president(1801)

Napoleon becomes Emperor of the French (1804)
Battles of Trafalgar (British naval victory) and Austerlitz (French army victory) (1805)     Robert Fulton builds first submarine (1801)

First oil lamp made in England, designed by Frenchman Argand (1804)
   
1806-1810   The Peninsular War in Spain (1808 - 1814)     Braille invents reading system for the blind (1809)    
1811-1815   British-American War (1812)

Napoleon defeated in the "Battle of the nations", Leipzig (1813)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph (1814)     George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive (1814)

The first plastic surgery is performed in England (1814)
   
1816-1820   Spanish Revolution (1820)       René Laënnec invents the stethoscope (1819)    
1821-1825   Greek War of Independence, against Turks (1821 - 1829)       Death of Napoleon (1821)

San Martin wins independence for Peru (1821)
1826-1830   Russia begins war with Turkey (1828)

Revolution in France (1830)
  Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone. (1827)

American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter (1829)

Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing (1829)

Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine (1830)
  Death of Thomas Jefferson (1826)

Uruguay becomes independent (1828)
1831-1985       Reappearance of Halley's comet (1835)

Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator (1835)
   
1836-1840 Queen Victoria begins her reign (1837)
Britain - China Opium War (1839)
    Samuel Colt invented the first revolver (1836)

Samuel Morse invents the telegraph (1837)

English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp (1837)

Samual Morse invents Morse Code (1838)

Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle (1839)
  Penny postage stamp introduced in Britain; postage stamps transform postal systems (1840)
1841-1845       Samuel Slocum patents the stapler (1841)

First use of ether as surgical anesthetic (1842)

Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile (1843)

American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine (1845)
  First effective Factory Act in Britain (1844)
1846-1850   US war against Mexico; California and New Mexico ceded to United States (1846-1848)

Publication of the Communist Manifesto (1848)

Mexico City captured by US troops (1847)
  Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction (1846)

Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics (1847)

Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair (1848)

Walter Hunt invents the safety pin (1849)

Jeans invented in California, United States (1850)
   
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