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 Bab announces his revelation on 23 May, founding Babism. He announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest". He is considered the forerunner of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i 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: Theodore Gericault 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 Bronte 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 Miserables.
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 premieres 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, Frederic 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
Frederic Chopin
Claude Debussy
Antonin Dvorak
Mikhail Glinka
Edvard Grieg
Scott Joplin
Alexandre Levy
Franz Liszt
Gustav Mahler
Felix Mendelssohn
Modest Mussorgsky
Jacques Offenbach
Niccolo Paganini
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Gioachino Rossini
Anton Rubinstein
Camille Saint-Saens
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
Simon Bolivar
John Wilkes Booth
Johannes Brahms
Luigi Cherubini
Frederic Chopin
Empress Dowager Cixi
Muzio Clementi
Leon Czolgosz
Claude Debussy
Frederick Douglass
Antonin Dvorak
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