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19th Century Information

The 19th century (1801–1900) was a period in history marked by the collapse of the Spanish, Portuguese, First and Second French, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, Russian Empire, German Empire, the United States and the Empire of Japan, spurring military conflicts but also advances in science and exploration.

After the defeat of the French Empire and its allies in the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire became the world's leading power, controlling one quarter of the world's population and one fifth of the total land area. It enforced a Pax Britannica, encouraged trade, and battled rampant piracy. The 19th century was an era of invention and discovery, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that lay the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.[1] The Industrial Revolution began in Europe.[2] The Victorian era was notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines.[3] In Japan, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarked on a program of rapid modernization. Then Japan went to war against Qing-ruled China, and won the First Sino-Japanese War.

Advances in medicine and the understanding of human anatomy and disease prevention took place in the 19th century, and were partly responsible for rapidly accelerating population growth in the western world. Europe's population doubled during the 19th century, from roughly 200 million to more than 400 million.[4] The introduction of railroads provided the first major advancement in land transportation for centuries, changing the way people lived and obtained goods, and fueling major urbanization movements in countries across the globe. Numerous cities worldwide surpassed populations of a million or more during this century. London was transformed into the world's largest city and capital of the British Empire. Its population expanded from 1 million in 1800 to 6.7 million a century later. The last remaining undiscovered landmasses of Earth, including vast expanses of interior Africa and Asia, were discovered during this century, and with the exception of the extreme zones of the Arctic and Antarctic, accurate and detailed maps of the globe were available by the 1890s. Liberalism became the preeminent reform movement in Europe.[5]

Engraving of African slave transportation, 19th century

Slavery was greatly reduced around the world. Following a successful slave revolt in Haiti, Britain forced the Barbary pirates to halt their practice of kidnapping and enslaving Europeans, banned slavery throughout its domain, and charged its navy with ending the global slave trade.[6] The first empire to abolish slavery was the Portuguese Empire, followed by Britain, who did so in 1834. America's 13th Amendment following their Civil War abolished slavery there in 1865, and in Brazil slavery was abolished in 1888 (see Abolitionism). Similarly, serfdom was abolished in Russia.

The 19th century was remarkable in the widespread formation of new settlement foundations which were particularly prevalent across North America and Australasia, with a significant proportion of the two continents' largest cities being founded at some point in the century. In the 19th century approximately 70 million people left Europe.[7]

The 19th century also saw the rapid creation, development and codification of many sports, particularly in Britain and the United States. Association football, rugby union, baseball and many other sports were developed during the 19th century, while the British Empire facilitated the rapid spread of sports such as cricket to many different parts of the world.

It also marks the fall of the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans which led to the creation of Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Romania as a result of the second Russo-Turkish War, which in itself followed the great Crimean War.

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Events

Map of the world from 1897. The British Empire (marked in pink) was the superpower of the 19th century. Napoleon's retreat from Russia. Napoleon's Grande Armée had lost near half a million of men. Stephenson's Rocket, preserved in the Science Museum, London William Wilberforce (1759–1833), politician and philanthropist who was a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

1800–1809

See also: Timeline of the Napoleonic era The discoveries of Michael Faraday formed the foundation of electric motor technology

1810s

1820s

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.

1830s

The Great Exhibition in London. The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to industrialise. The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War

1840s

1850s

Dead Confederate soldiers. 30% of all Southern white males 18–40 years of age died in the American Civil War.[9] The first vessels sail through the Suez Canal

1860s

Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis bacilli. In the 19th century, tuberculosis killed an estimated one-quarter of the adult population of Europe.[10] David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary in Africa From 1865-1870 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.

1870s

1880s

First bus in history: a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895) Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War in South Africa

1890s

For later events, see Timeline of modern history.

Significant people

Abraham Lincoln in 1863, 16th President of The United States, presided during the American Civil War, assassinated in April 1865 Tsar Alexander II, also known as Alexander the Liberator, was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881 José Rizal, a patriot and an advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era in the late 19th century

Show business and theatre

Franz Boas one of the pioneers of modern anthropology Sarah Bernhardt, 1877 Konstantin Stanislavski, creator of the Stanislavski's system Ellen Terry, c.1880 P. T. Barnum, c. 1860

Athletics

Main articles: Baseball Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, List of bare-knuckle boxers, List of heavyweight boxing champions, and Olympic Games John L Sullivan in his prime, c.1882.

Business

J. P. Morgan Main articles: Robber baron (industrialist) and business magnate Roald Amundsen

Famous and infamous personalities

Jesse and Frank James, 1872 Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody, Montreal, Quebec, 1885 Geronimo, 1887, prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache William Bonney aka Henry McCarty aka Billy the Kid, c. late 1870s

Anthropology, archaeology, scholars

Heinrich Schliemann, Archaeologist

Journalists, missionaries, explorers

Photography

One of the first photographs, produced in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce Mathew Brady, Self-portrait, c.1875 See also: History of photography, List of photojournalists, Photojournalism, and Daguerreotype

Visual artists, painters, sculptors

Main articles: History of painting, Western painting, and Ukiyo-e Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830, Louvre) Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, 1872, gave the name to Impressionism Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1880-1891, State Russian Museum Paul Cézanne, Self-portrait, 1880–1881 Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1889

The Realism and Romanticism of the early 19th century gave way to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the later half of the century, with Paris being the dominant art capital of the world. In the United States the Hudson River School was prominent. 19th century painters included:

Music

Main articles: List of Romantic composers, Romantic music, and Romanticism Ludwig van Beethoven Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Niccolo Paganini, (c.1819), charcoal drawing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Chopin, by Delacroix, 1838.

Sonata form matured during the Classical era to become the primary form of instrumental compositions throughout the 19th century. Much of the music from the 19th century was referred to as being in the Romantic style. Many great composers lived through this era such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. The list includes:

Literature

Main articles: Romantic poetry and 19th century in literature Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879 Mark Twain, 1894 Jane Austen Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Rimbaud c.1872 Anton Chekhov Ralph Waldo Emerson Emile Zola, c.1900

On the literary front the new century opens with romanticism, a movement that spread throughout Europe in reaction to 18th-century rationalism, and it develops more or less along the lines of the Industrial Revolution, with a design to react against the dramatic changes wrought on nature by the steam engine and the railway. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are considered the initiators of the new school in England, while in the continent the German Sturm und Drang spreads its influence as far as Italy and Spain.

French arts had been hampered by the Napoleonic Wars but subsequently developed rapidly. Modernism began.

The Goncourts and Emile Zola in France and Giovanni Verga in Italy produce some of the finest naturalist novels. Italian naturalist novels are especially important in that they give a social map of the new unified Italy to a people that until then had been scarcely aware of its ethnic and cultural diversity. On February 21, 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto.

There was a huge literary output during the 19th century. Some of the most famous writers included the Russians Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoevsky; the English Charles Dickens, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Jane Austen; the Scottish Sir Walter Scott; the Irish Oscar Wilde; the Americans Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Mark Twain; and the French Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Jules Verne and Charles Baudelaire. Some other important writers of note included:

Science

Charles Darwin Dmitri Mendeleev Nadar, Louis Pasteur, 1878 Mme. Marie Curie, c.1898

The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell.[11] Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin, who in 1859 published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Dmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table of elements. Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals. Thomas Alva Edison gave the world a practical everyday lightbulb. Karl Weierstrass and other mathematicians also carried out the arithmetization of analysis for functions of real and complex variables; they also began the use of hypercomplex numbers. But the most important step in science at this time was the ideas formulated by Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Their work changed the face of physics and made possible for new technology to come about. Other important 19th century scientists included:

Philosophy and religion

Karl Marx Friedrich Nietzsche Mikhail Bakunin

The 19th century was host to a variety of religious and philosophical thinkers, including:

Politics and the Military

See also

External links

Media related to 19th century at Wikimedia Commons

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References

  1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Inventions. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. ^ "The United States and the Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century"
  3. ^ Laura Del Col, West Virginia University, The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England
  4. ^ Modernization – Population Change. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  5. ^ Liberalism in the 19th century. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. ^ Sailing against slavery. By Jo Loosemore. BBC.
  7. ^ The Atlantic: Can the US afford immigration?. Migration News. December 1996.
  8. ^ Spring Hermann (1997) "Geronimo: Apache freedom fighter". Enslow Publishers. p.26 ISBN 0894908642
  9. ^ "Killing ground: photographs of the Civil War and the changing American landscape". John Huddleston (2002). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6773-8
  10. ^ Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  11. ^ "William Whewell". Stanford University. http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/whewell/. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
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