Potted History: 1800 to 1900ad

• 1800 Population of the world estimated at 1 billion.
• 1814 Napoleon exiled to Elba - Burboun reign restored.
• 1815 Napoleon defeated by British & Prussian forces at battle of Waterloo.
• 1818 (to 1848) Emily Bronte.
• 1819 Factory act passed in Britain - no children under 9, under 16 less than 12hrs per day in textile mills.
• 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile in St Helena.
• Napolean III crowned.
• 1831 (27.12) Darwin sets sail on Beagle for 5years.
• 1837 Queen Victoria take throne. (1819-1901)
• 1840 The Treaty of Waitangi signed.
• 1840 Potato famine in Ireland begins (lasts through to 1851)
• 1840 Deportation of convicts to Australia officially ends. ?
• 1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British crown colony.
• 1844 Samuel Morse sends message from Washington to Baltimore.
• 1846 Anesthetic 1st used in a Massachusetts Hospital.
• 1851 (12.8) Isaac Singer granted patent on his Sewing Machine.
• 1859 Darwin publishes 'Origins of the species'.
• 1860 Paris commune.
• 1861 - 1865 American civil war.
• End of slavery in the USA.
• 1864 Waikato Wars
• 1865(26.5) end of U.S. Civil War.
• 1867 Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite in England
• Louis Pastor.
• 1874 (b.30.11) - 1965 Winston Churchill
• 1877 Edison records + plays back sound.
• 1879 (1.1) Edison demonstrates light bulb.
• 1880 Ned Kelly is wounded & captured.
• 1881 (25.10) Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain.
• 1887 (12.8) Edison makes 1st sound recording of 'Mary had a little lamb'.
• William Morris
• Liberty opens in London.
• Bell conducts 1st successful telephone experiments.
• Charles Worth goes to Paris.
• 1889 Eiffel Tower opened in Paris.
• 1893-7 Penny Farthing the rage.
• 1896 Marconi makes prototype radio