19th century

The 19th century was the century from 1801 to 1900. Most of this century is normally called the Victorian period because Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom.

The Industrial Revolution started in this century in most western countries. George Burns was also born in the 19th century until he died at the age of 100 in 1996.

Featured characters at the 19th century
 John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 - February 25, 1914) - the creators of Gary Manfield, first appearance on January 1, 1841.
 Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) - the creators of Rosie the Mouse, first appearance on January 1, 1855.
 Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) - the creators of Chowder, first appearance on January 1, 1878.

Religion
 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on 6 April 1830.
 1844: Persian Prophet the Báb announces his revelation on 23 May, founding Bábism. He announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest". He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.
 1848: The Christadelphians founded by John Thomas (Christadelphian).
 1871–1878: In Germany, Otto von Bismarck challenged the Catholic Church in the Kulturkampf ("Culture War")
 1879: Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist.
 1879: first issue of "The Watchtower", a religious magazine currently published and distributed by the Jehovah's Witnesses
 1889: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a reform sect of Islam.
 1891: Pope Leo XIII launches the encyclical Rerum novarum, the first major Catholic document on social justice

Culture

 1808: Beethoven composes Fifth Symphony
 1812: Brothers Grimm fairy tale edition writes his Snow White.
 1812: Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm - two princesses characters including Snow White and Cinderella meet for the first time.
 1813: The first 6-year-old child little pink princess Lola Loud, from two princesses characters Snow White and Cinderella.
 1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
 1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein.
 1819: John Keats writes his odes of 1819.
 1819: Théodore Géricault paints his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, and exhibits it in the French Salon of 1819 at the Louvre.
 1824: Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
 1829: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
 1837: Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist.
 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Self-Reliance.
 1845: Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
 1847: The Brontë sisters publish Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.
 1849: Josiah Henson publishes The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself.
 1851: Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
 1851: Sojourner Truth delivers the speech Ain't I a Woman?.
 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
 1855: Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
 1855: Frederick Douglass publishes the first edition of My Bondage and My Freedom.
 1862: Victor Hugo publishes Les Misérables.
 1865: Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
 1869: Leo Tolstoy publishes War and Peace.
 1875: Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premiers in Paris.
 1876: Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.
 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published.
 1884: Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
 1886: "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
 1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet.
 1889: Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night.
 1889: Moulin Rouge opens in Paris.
 1892: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premières in St Petersberg.
 1894: Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is published
 1895: Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
 1897: Bram Stoker writes Dracula.
 1900: L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Music

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, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. The list includes:

 Mily Balakirev
 Ludwig van Beethoven
 Hector Berlioz
 Georges Bizet
 Alexander Borodin
 Johannes Brahms
 Anton Bruckner
 Frédéric Chopin
 Claude Debussy
 Antonín Dvořák
 Mikhail Glinka
 Edvard Grieg
 Scott Joplin
 Alexandre Levy
 Franz Liszt
 Gustav Mahler
 Felix Mendelssohn
 Modest Mussorgsky
 Jacques Offenbach
 Niccolò Paganini
 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 Gioachino Rossini
 Anton Rubinstein
 Camille Saint-Saëns
 Antonio Salieri
 Franz Schubert
 Robert Schumann
 Alexander Scriabin
 Arthur Sullivan
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Giuseppe Verdi
 Richard Wagner

and many more.

Decades and years

Significant People

 Bela Bartok
 Clara Barton
 Otto von Bismarck
 Ludwig van Beethoven
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Alban Berg
 Simón Bolívar
 John Wilkes Booth
 Johannes Brahms
 Luigi Cherubini
 Frederic Chopin
 Empress Dowager Cixi
 Muzio Clementi
 Leon Czolgosz
 Claude Debussy
 Frederick Douglass
 Antonín Dvořák
 Thomas Edison
 Albert Einstein
 Friedrich Engels
 Robert Ford
 Charles J. Guiteau
 Jesse James
 Abraham Lincoln
 Franz Liszt
 David Livingstone
 Karl Marx
 Henry McCarty (Billy the Kid)
 Felix Mendelssohn
 John Stuart Mill
 Napoleon I
 Franz Schubert
 Robert Schumann
 Johann Strauss II
 Richard Strauss
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Harriet Tubman
 Giuseppe Verdi
 Richard Wagner