Event | (1)st or (2)nd |
Mexico gained independence from Spain | |
First Opium War began | |
Jack the Ripper murders occured in London | |
Victoria became Queen of Great Britain | |
H. G. Wells published 'The Time Machine' | |
New Zealand gave women the right to vote | |
Jane Austen published 'Pride and Prejudice' | |
First electric motor built | |
First recognized international soccer match | |
Leo Tolstoy published 'War and Peace' | |
Britain declared slave trade illegal | |
First successful vaccine against rabies | |
Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic Table | |
Aspirin patented | |
Emily Brontë published 'Wuthering Heights' | |
American Civil War began | |
Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species' | |
Napoleon invaded Russia | |
Construction of Suez Canal completed | |
Samuel Colt Patented the Revolver | |
Charles Dickens published 'Oliver Twist' | |
Thomas Edison tested his first light bulb | |
Herman Melville published 'Moby-Dick' | |
Thomas Jefferson became president of the US | |
First isolation of aluminum | |
Canadian Confederation formed | |
Monroe Doctrine declared | |
Beethoven performed 'Moonlight Sonata' | |
Basketball invented | |
First steam locomotive begins operation | |
Mexico gained independence from Spain | |
First Opium War began | |
Jack the Ripper murders occured in London | |
Victoria became Queen of Great Britain | |
H. G. Wells published 'The Time Machine' | |
New Zealand gave women the right to vote | |
Jane Austen published 'Pride and Prejudice' | |
First electric motor built | |
First recognized international soccer match | |
Leo Tolstoy published 'War and Peace' | |
Britain declared slave trade illegal | |
First successful vaccine against rabies | |
Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic Table | |
Aspirin patented | |
Emily Brontë published 'Wuthering Heights' | |