19th century
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
Categories: | Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 19th century is 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.
Decades and years[change | change source]
Note: years before or after the 19th century are in italics.
Significant People[change | change source]
- Abraham Lincoln
- Alban Berg
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Antonin Dvorak
- Bela Bartok
- Claude Debussy
- David Livingstone
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frederic Chopin
- Frederick Douglass
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Harriet Tubman
- Johann Strauss II
- Johannes Brahms
- John Stuart Mill
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Luigi Cherubini
- Muzio Clementi
- Napoleon I
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Richard Strauss
- Richard Wagner
- Robert Schumann
- Thomas Edison