| Year | Event |
| 1800 | Act of Union between England and Ireland |
| 1800 | Alessandro Volta makes first battery |
| 1800 | Beginning of Napoleonic Wars (to 1815) |
| 1801 | Richard Trevithick builds steam carriage |
| 1802 | First paddle steamer used in Scotland |
| 1802 | Peace of Amiens between England and France |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase in U.S.A. |
| 1804 | Napoleon made Emperor |
| 1805 | British defeat French and Spanish at Trafalgar |
| 1807 | Abolition of slave trade in British Empire |
| 1808 | Peninusular War begins (to 1814) |
| 1809 | Death of Joseph Haydn |
| 1810 | Chile and Mexico declare independence from Spain |
| c. 1810 | John Dalton presents basis for atomic theory |
| 1811 | Amedeo Avogardo formulates hypothesis on gas molecules |
| 1811 | Alfried Krupp founds ironworks at Essen |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte invades Russia |
| 1812 | War between Britain and the U.S.A. |
| 1812 | Luddite riots in England |
| 1812 | Invention of cylinder printing press |
| 1815 | Defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Battle of Waterloo |
| 1815 | Congress of Vienna |
| 1816 | Argentina declares independence from Spain |
| 1816 | René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec invents stethoscope |
| 1817 | Defeat of Marathas by British in India (to 1818) |
| 1819 | Florida Purchase in U.S.A. |
| 1819 | Foundation of Singapore |
| 1819 | Peterloo Massacre at Manchester |
| 1820 | War of Greek Independence begins (to 1828) |
| 1822 | Foundation of Liberia for freed slaves |
| 1822 | First photographic image made by Nicéphore Niépce |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine formulated |
| 1824 | First Ashanti War (to 1866) |
| 1824 | Death of Byron |
| 1825 | First passenger steam railway in England |
| 1825 | Opening of the Erie Canal |
| 1827 | Death of Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| 1828 | Publication of Noah Webster's Dictionary in U.S.A. |
| 1829 | Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain |
| 1829 | Braille invents system of touch-reading for blind |
| 1829 | Joseph Henry invents electromagnetic motor |
| 1829 | First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race |
| 1829 | George Stephenson constructs the 'Rocket' |
| 1830 | July Revolution in France |
| 1830 | Independence of Belgium |
| 1831 | Charles Darwin begins voyage on the Beagle |
| 1832 | First Reform Act in Britain |
| 1832 | First railway constructed in U.S.A. |
| 1832 | Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 1834 | German customs union (Zollverein) officially founded |
| 1834 | Cyrus McCormick patents harvesting machine |
| 1835 | Samuel Colt patents revolver |
| 1835 | Beginning of construction of Great Western Railway in England |
| 1835 | Foundation of Melbourne |
| 1835 | Samuel Morse develops telegraph in U.S.A. |
| 1836 | Boer Great Trek in South Africa |
| 1836 | Siege of the Alamo in Texas |
| 1837 | Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system |
| 1838 | Anti-Corn Law League founded in Manchester |
| 1838 | First continuous steam crossing of Atlantic by Sirius |
| 1839 | First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) |
| 1839 | First Grand National steeplechase in Liverpool |
| 1840 | Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prinice Albert |
| 1840 | Introduction of penny postage stamps in Britain |
| 1840 | Bicycle invented in Scotland |
| 1841 | Act of Union joins Upper and Lower Canada |
| 1841 | British annexation of New Zealand |
| 1841 | David Livingstone begins explorations in Africa |
| 1842 | British annexation of Hong Kong |
| 1842 | Khyber Pass massacre |
| 1843 | Opening of Mark Isambard brunel's tunnel under the Thames |
| 1845 | U.S. annexation of Texas |
| 1846 | Britain repeals Corn Laws |
| 1846 | Mexican War begins (to 1848) |
| 1846 | Oregon Treaty defines U.S. - Canadian Boundary |
| 1846 | Foundation of Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. |
| 1846 | Elias Howe invents sewing machine |
| 1847 | Mormons emigrate to Utah |
| 1848 | Revolutionary movements throughout Europe |
| 1848 | Abdication of Louis Philippe in France |
| 1848 | Communist Manifesto published |
| 1848 | Linus Yale invents cylinder lock |
| 1848 | Gold discovered in California |
| 1849 | Death of Frédéric Chopin |
| 1849 | Punjab annexed by Britain |
| 1850 | Taiping rebellion in China (to 1864) |
| 1851 | Great Exhibition in London |
| 1851 | First publication of New York Times |
| 1852 | Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor of France |
| 1852 | Elisha Otis invents lift with automatic brake |
| 1852 | Wells Fargo & Co founded in U.S.A. |
| 1854 | Beginning of Crimean War (to 1856) |
| 1854 | Georges Haussmann begins reconstruction of Paris |
| 1855 | David Livingstone reaches Victoria Falls |
| 1856 | Introduction of Bessemer process for steel |
| 1857 | Indian Mutiny |
| 1858 | Laying of First Atlantic cable |
| 1858 | John Speke and Richard Burton reach Lake Tanganyika |
| 1859 | Movement for unification of Italy begins (to 1870) |
| 1859 | Publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species |
| 1859 | Ferdinand de Lesseps begins work on Suez Canal |
| 1859 | First American oil-wells drilled in Pennsylvania |
| 1860 | Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand |
| 1861 | U.S. Civil War begins (to 1865) |
| 1861 | Emancipation of Russian serfs |
| 1861 | Germ theory of disease proposed by Louis Pasteur |
| 1862 | Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister of Prussia |
| 1862 | Gatling patents machine gun |
| 1863 | Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
| 1863 | Beginning of underground railway in London |
| 1864 | Paraguayan War begins (to 1870) |
| 1864 | Foundation of Red Cross in Geneva |
| 1865 | U.S. Civil War ends |
| 1865 | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865 | Publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland |
| 1866 | Prussia defeats Austria in Seven-Weeks War |
| 1866 | Nobel produces dynamite |
| 1866 | Winchester introduces repeating rifle |
| 1866 | Gregor Mendel proposes laws of inheritance |
| 1867 | U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia |
| 1867 | Establishment of Dominion of Canada |
| 1867 | Dual Monarchy established in Austria-Hungary |
| 1867 | Publication of Karl Marx's Das Kapital |
| 1867 | South African daimond fields discovered |
| 1867 | Chistopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden design first commercial typewriter |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration in Japan |
| 1869 | Opening of Suez Canal |
| 1869 | Completion of first trans-continental railway in U.S.A. |
| 1869 | Dmitri Mendeleyev draws up table of elements |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War begins (to 1871) |
| 1870 | Papal infallibility declared |
| 1870 | Death of Charles Dickens |
| 1871 | German Empire proclaimed |
| 1871 | Third Republic begins in France |
| 1872 | Claude Monet's 'Impressionism: Sunrise' gives name to Impressionists |
| 1873 | James Clerk Maxwell publishes treatise on electricity and magnetism |
| 1875 | William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produce their first operetta |
| 1876 | Mary Baker Eddy founds Christian Science movement |
| 1876 | George Custer defeated at Battle of Little Big Horn |
| 1876 | Alexander Bell invents telephone |
| 1876 | Nikolaus Otto devises four-stroke-cycle gas engine |
| 1876 | Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
| 1877 | Thomas Edison invents the phonograph |
| 1879 | War of the Pacific begins (to 1883) |
| 1879 | Zulu War in South Africa |
| 1879 | Woolworths opens first store |
| 1880 | First Boer War (to 1881) |
| 1881 | Death of Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 1881 | Louis Pasteur develops immunization against anthrax |
| 1882 | Phoenix Park murders in Dublin |
| 1882 | Robert Koch discovers tuberculosis bacillus |
| 1882 | Mahdi proclaimed as Messiah in Sudan |
| 1883 | Opening of Brooklyn Bridge, New York |
| 1883 | Krakatoa volcanic explosion |
| 1884 | Germany acquires South-West Africa |
| 1884 | Discovery of gold in Transvaal |
| 1885 | Belgium acquires Congo |
| 1885 | Death of Charles Gordon at Khartoum |
| 1885 | Foundation of Indian National Congress |
| 1885 | Karl Benz builds his first motor cars in Germany |
| 1885 | Completion of Canadian Pacific Railway |
| 1886 | Partition of East Africa by Germany and Britain |
| 1886 | Foundation of Johannesburg |
| 1886 | Gottlieb Daimler produces motorcycle |
| 1886 | Statue of Liberty erected in the U.S.A. |
| 1887 | French establish Indo-Chinese Union |
| 1887 | Michelson-Morley experiment on relative velocity of light |
| 1887 | Goodwin invents celluloid film |
| 1887 | Invention of pneumatic tyre by Dunlap |
| 1887 | Heinrich Hertz discovers electromagnetic waves |
| 1887 | First book of Esperanto published |
| 1888 | Tesla makes alternating-current motor |
| 1888 | Eastman produces Kodak camera |
| 1889 | Foundation of British South Africa Company |
| 1889 | Gustav Eiffel completes Tower in Paris |
| 1889 | First skyscraper in America (in Chicago) |
| 1890 | Dismissal of Bismarck |
| 1890 | Death of Vincent Van Gogh |
| 1891 | Beginning of Trans-Siberian Railway |
| 1893 | Death of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| 1893 | Lumiere brothers invent cinematograph |
| 1894 | Beginning of Sino-Japanese War (to 1895) |
| 1894 | Opening of Blackpool Tower |
| 1894 | Opening of Manchester Ship Canal |
| 1895 | Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays |
| 1895 | Guglielmo Marconi invents wireless telegraphy |
| 1895 | Henry Wood begins Promenade Concerts in London |
| 1896 | Italians defeated by Ethiopians at Battle of Adowa |
| 1896 | Jameson Raid in South Africa |
| 1896 | Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity |
| 1897 | Launch of first steam-turbine ship (Turbinia) |
| 1897 | Death of Johannes Brahms |
| 1897 | First Women's Institute, in Canada |
| 1897 | Joseph Thomson discovers the electron |
| 1897 | Diesel demonstrates compression-ignition engine |
| 1898 | The Curies isolate radium |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War |
| 1898 | Hundred Days of Reform in China |
| 1898 | U.S.A. annexes Hawaii |
| 1898 | Ebenezer Howard proposes 'garden city' concept |
| 1899 | Second Boer War begins (to 1902) |
| 1899 | Permanent Court of Arbitration established in The Hague |
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)