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Exploring the 19th Century: Key Events and Figures

This quiz explores significant events and influential figures of the 19th century, testing your knowledge on topics such as political movements, wars, and cultural contributions.

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1 Mathew Brady documented the ________

2 [2] The ________ was notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines.

3 1815: The ________ redraws the European map.

4 1805–48: Muhammad Ali modernizes ________.

5 William Poole aka Bill the Butcher, member of the New York City gang, the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the ________ political movement.

6 William M. Tweed, aka Boss Tweed, influential New York City politician, head of ________

7 1876–1914: The massive expansion in population, territory, industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the ________.

8 1839–60: After two ________, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.

9 ________, Naturalist, conservationist, writer

10 ________, Emperor of Austria and brother of Mexican Emperor

💡 Interesting Facts

  • misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play.
  • original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona, a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears, command prices of over $20,000 when they come up for sale.
  • the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two female criminals as bouncers.
  • the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide.
  • in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna's nobility.
  • in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with a adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding.
  • during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century.
  • former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford.
  • in penny gaffs, theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England, the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached.
  • the Jagiellonian Library (pictured) of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts.
  • the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas.
  • the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century.
  • the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary.
  • the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding.
  • the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century.
  • the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions.
  • the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories.
  • the North American Phalanx was a mid-19th century Utopian community in Monmouth County, New Jersey based on the idea of French socialist Charles Fourier.
  • the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state.
  • a study on chemical analysis by Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque (pictured), a Portuguese military officer, scientist and statesman of the 19th century, motivated a special report by two of the most prestigious scientists of the time: Jean-Antoine Chaptal and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.
  • Walerian Łukasiński, a 19th century Polish Army officer, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire, and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions.
  • English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century.
  • Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000.
  • Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate, investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839.
  • Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America.
  • English opera singer and actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century.
  • Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months.
  • 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location.
  • nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland's main export.
  • California's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century.
  • Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero.
  • Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children.
  • Joseph M. Street, a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War.
  • sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians.
  • St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century.
  • Jaja, one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria, began his life as a slave in Bonny.
  • feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century.
  • Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile.
  • Dupuy de Lôme was a 19th century French naval architect, who developed the first steam battleship, the first sea-going ironclad warship, and the first large airship in history.
  • Edward Palmer, an early-19th century utopian socialist, advocated the complete abolition of money.
  • 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today.
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