Timeline of the 19th century

This is a timeline of the 19th century.

Napoleon 's retreat from Russia in 1812. The war swings decisively against the French Empire.
William Wilberforce (1759–1833), politician and philanthropist who was a British leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade .
Puffing Billy, 1813 steam locomotive in England
French Empire on World 1812
The boundaries set by the Congress of Vienna, 1815.
1819: 29 January, Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a trading post for the British East India Company .
1816: Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom . Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane ("Crushing") that depopulated large areas of southern Africa.
Decembrists at the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia .
The earliest saved photographic image (Heliograph on pewter plate) by Nicéphore Niépce, taken at Le Gras, France, in 1827.
Emigrants leaving Ireland . From 1830 to 1914, almost 5 million Irish people went to the United States alone.
The Great Exhibition in London. Starting during the 18th century, the United Kingdom was the first country in the world to industrialise.
The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War .
Liberal and nationalist pressure led to the European revolutions of 1848 .
After escaping from slavery in Maryland , Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
The first vessels sail through the Suez Canal .
Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis bacilli. The disease killed an estimated 25 percent of the adult population of Europe during the 19th century. [ 7 ]
The first batch of recordings of audio Made in April 1860. The recordings include a tuning fork, Au clair de la lune, opening lines of Torquato Tasso's Aminta, vocal scale and Fly, little bee. [ 8 ]
David Livingstone , Scottish explorer and missionary in Africa.
From 1865 to 1870 Paraguay lost more than half of its population in the Paraguayan War against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Black Friday, 9 May 1873, Vienna Stock Exchange. The Panic of 1873 and Long Depression followed.
A barricade in the Paris Commune , 18 March 1871. Around 30,000 Parisians were killed, and thousands more were later executed.
Thomas Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph , the motion picture camera , and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb .
First motor bus in history: the Benz Omnibus, built in 1895 for the Netphener bus company.
Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush .
Studio portrait of Ilustrados in Europe, c. 1890