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19th century
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Events
It is the first century of contemporary age, a century of great social, political, cultural and economic transformations starting from the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the subsequent Restoration, revolutionary motions, the constitution of many modern states including the kingdom of Italy and the Germanic empire, the war of American secession, the second industrial revolution between positivism, evolutionism and decadentism, imperialism and finally the great depression.
Europe
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of the French at the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
15 February 1804: the beginning of the first Serbian revolt, led by Karađorđe Petrović for the liberation from the Ottoman Empire, celebrated with the National Day of Serbia.
21 October 1805 - Battle of Trafalgar: decisive victory of the British forces on the French ones of Napoleon Bonaparte
2 December 1805: Napoleon Bonaparte obtained his greatest victory in the battle of Austerlitz.
1805: the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte's king of Italy takes place in the Duomo of Milan.
1806: Napoleon Bonaparte is the independent Republic of Andorra.
12 July 1806: Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Liechtenstein into the Confederation of the Rhine thus making it a sovereign state.
1806: the Gregorian calendar, after the suppression of the French revolutionary calendar in 1805, will come into force in France,
1807: Denmark: Battle of Copenhagen, between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway; English victory
17 September 1809: Finland's war ends, between armies of the Russian Empire and Sweden: victory of the Russian Empire.
17 May 1814: the Constitution of Norway is signed in Eidsvoll.
1814: Following the Treaty of Kiel the Faroe Islands pass under Danish control.
1814: Napoleon's apogee and definitive defeat, in 1814 the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was held with the intention of Restoration among the European domains.
16 March 1815: After Napoleon's defeat, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was born (until 1839).
18 June 1815 - Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon Bonaparte's definitive defeat by the British and Prussian forces
1815 - Congress of Vienna: new order to Europe
1815: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Vienna Congress.
1816: the Kingdom of Illyria was established, the state of the Austrian Empire with the capital of Ljubljana, which also included Venice Julia and Istria (hard until 1849).
25 March 1821: the beginning of the Greek insurrection against the Ottoman Empire (Patras, Greece): today an event commemorated with the 1821 Greek Revolution celebration
4 September 1827: Great fire of Turku, the most serious of Finland and the Nordic countries
Revolutionary Motes in Berlin and Paris
1830: Belgium: Belgian Revolution against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands: Belgian victory and independence of the B