Husi in the Past: World Timeline 1820 to 1920

Husi in the Past: World Timeline 1820 to 1920
	1820s • 1820 Missouri Compromise attempts to balance free and slave states in U.S. • 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile • 1821-1830 Greece breaks free of Ottoman Empire • 1822 Blood libel in Husi • 1825 Bolivar founds Bolivia • 1826 Invention of internal combustion engine 1830s • 1830 Revolution in France • 1830 Belgium founded • 1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire • 1835 Bessarabia begins to be affected by anti-Jewish Russian laws; start of expulsion of Jews from various Bessarabian cities • 1836 Battle of the Alamo • 1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria I • 1838 Trail of Tears: eastern Native Americans forcibly relocated west 1840s • 1840 Upper and Lower Canada united • 1845-1849 Potato famine in Ireland leads to mass emigration • 1846-1848 Mexican-American War; California and N. Mexico ceded to U.S. • 1848 Communist Manifesto published • 1848 Seneca Falls Convention calls for equal rights for women • 1849 California Gold Rush 1850s • 1853-56 Crimean War: Russia fights Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia • 1854 Anti-slavery Republican party formed in the U.S. • 1855 Mass-production of steel made possible by invention of Bessemer process • 1857 British Empire takes control of India • 1859 John Brown attempts to start U.S. slave revolts 1860s • 1859-1866 Most of Italy united by Garibaldi • 1861 Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom in Russia • 1861-1865 American Civil War • 1863-1865 Poles rebel against Russian rule • 1865 Slavery banned in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment • 1865 Assasination of President Abraham Lincoln • 1866 Successful transatlantic telegraph cable • 1869 Completion of transcontinental railroad in the U.S. 1870s • 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War: leads to formation of Germany and Italy • 1873 Reform Judaism in U.S. established • 1876 Romanian law changed such that Jewish males eligible for military draft • 1876 Alexander Graham Bell gets patent for telephone • 1878 End of Russo-Turkish War: independence of some Balkan countries, including Romania • 1877 Thomas Edison invents phonograph 1880s • 1881 Assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia • 1881 Start of mass migrations of eastern European Jews due to Russian pogroms • 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded • 1886 Founding of Conservative Judaism • 1886 Karl Benz sells first commercial automobiles • 1888 Jack the Ripper murders in London • 1888-1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II reigns in Germany • 1889 Romanian Parliament makes it easier to force Jews out of trades and off farms 1890s • 1892 Jews no longer admitted to hospitals in Moldavia • 1894-1895 War between Japan and China: China cedes Taiwan • 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy • 1895 In France, Lumiere brothers patent motion picture cameras and projectors • 1896 Theodore Herzl publishes The Jewish State • 1897 First Zionist Congress • 1898 Spanish-American War: ends with Treaty of Paris and independence of Cuba • 1899-1904 Start of mass emigration of Romanian Jews 1900s • 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion in China • 1903 Wright brothers airplane • 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War • 1905 Revolution in Russia leads to constitution, Duma • 1906 San Francisco earthquake • 1908 Henry Ford produces 1st Model T car • 1909 Founding of Tel Aviv as Hebrew speaking Jewish city 1910s • 1912 Sinking of the RMS Titanic • 1914 Panama Canal opens • 1914-1918 World War I • 1917 Russian Revolution and the end of the Russian Empire • 1918 British troops occupy Palestine • 1918 Murder of Tsar Nicholas II and family • 1918 Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus declare independence from Russia • 1918-1920 Spanish Flu pandemic kills 3 to 5% of Earth's population • 1919 Treaty of Versailles redraws European borders • 1919 Ernest Rutherford splits the atom