what major events were going on in the world during the 1800s?

Answer 1

1800 - Washington chosen as U.S. capital - Alessandro Volta constructs first electrical battery
1805 - Nelson's naval forces defeat combined Spanish and French fleet at Tragalgar
1812 - Napoleon enters Moscow, but is forced to retreat - U.S. declares war on Britain
1813 - Mexico declares independence from Spain - Jane Austen writes Pride and Prejudice
1814 - George Stevenson constructs first locomotive
1818 - First steamship crossing of the Atlantic
1829 - Greece freed from Turkish rule: Ottoman Empire in decline
1831 - Cholera pandemic sweeps much of Europe
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria
1845 - Engels writes 'The Condition of the Working Class in England'
1848 - Worker uprisings throughout Europe - Marx and Engels 'The Communist Manifesto'
1857-1858 - Mutiny in India
1859 - Construction of the Suez Canal begins - Darwin's 'Origin of Species'
1861 - Serfs emancipated in Russia - U.S. Civil War begins
1870 -1871 - Franco-Prussian War - FA Cup founded
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1882 - Britain occupies Egypt
1890 - Global Influenza epidemic
1893 - Karl Benz builds his first motor car
1896 - Italy defeated in Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1898 - Spanish-American War - Metro opens in Paris
1899 - Anglo-Boer War in South Africa (until 1901)

Answer 2

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what major events were going on in the world during the 1800s?

Answer 3

Napoleon was going on...and on....and on. The French sold a big chunk of real estate to the Yanks, which is referred to as the Louisiana Purchase. Moving right along here, the War Between The States kicked off in 1863 or thereabouts, and shortly after the end of that war, Lincoln was assassinated by a southern patriot named John Wilkes Booth. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1830 at a very young age, later married a German prince named Albert and had enuf kids to keep the thrones of Europe filled with her descendants--including the last Tzarina of Russia.

Answer 4

War of 1812, Trail of Tears, Gold Rush of 49, War of Northern Aggression, Little Big Horn, First auto manufactured, organized labor