| 1801 June 6 | Event | Peace of Badajoz | between Spain and Portugal. |
| 1804 May 18 | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France. | |
| 1805 October 21 | Event | Battle of Trafalgar | Nelson defeats the French and starts a century of English Naval supremacy. |
| 1809 April 14 | Event | Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria | Napoleon defeats Austria. |
| 1812 April 5 | Event | British forces take Badajoz fortress | from the French and Spanish |
| 1812 June 18 | Event | War of 1812 begins | as US declares war on Britain. |
| 1812 September 19 | Event | Napoleon starts retreat from Russia | |
| 1813 September 10 | Event | Battle of Lake Erie | English defeated by Oliver H. Perry. |
| 1814 April 11 | Event | Napoleon banished to the Isle of Elba | and forced to abdicate but is allowed to keep his title of Emperor. |
| 1815 June 18 | Event | Battle of Waterloo | Wellington defeats Napoleon. |
| 1827 April 7 | Event | Sale of Matches | by John Walker a Stockton Chemist |
| 1828 May 18 | Event | Battle of Las Piedras | Ends conflict between Uraguay and Brazil. |
| 1830 November 22 | Event | Container Transport used for the first time | by Pickfords who had come to an arrangement with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. |
| 1832 November 26 | Event | The First Trams run in New York | Introduced by John Mason and running the Prince Street-14th Street route. They were horse drawn trolleys. |
| 1833 August 23 | Event | Britain abolishes slavery in the colonies | and 700,000 slaves get their freedom. |
| 1836 October 2 | Event | Charles Darwin returns to England | aboard HMS Beagle. |
| 1837 January | Event | Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert | |
| 1837 June 20 | Event | Queen Victoria ascends the throne of England | and reigns for 63 years until 1901. |
| 1838 April 12 | Event | Battle of Tugela | English settlers in South Africa fdefeat Zulus |
| 1838 April 8 | Event | SS Great Britain's maiden voyage | Brunel's great steam ship, 236ft long leaves Bristol for New York. |
| 1838 April 9 | Event | Opening of the National Gallery | in Trafalgar Square London |
| 1838 June 27 | Event | Queen Victoria Crowned | Queen of England |
| 1840 February 10 | Event | Marriage of Queen Victoria of England | to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| 1840 May 1 | Event | Penny Black Adhesive stamp issued | By the Post Office, The 1st of their type. |
| 1840 May 21 | Event | new Zealand becomes an English Colony. | |
| 1840 May 6 | Event | Penny Black stamp first issued in England. | |
| 1841 July 17 | Event | Punch Magazine first published | in England. |
| 1846 September 23 | Event | Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest locate Neptune | |
| 1847 June 14 | Event | Bunsen invents his burner! | |
| 1850 June 6 | Event | First Jeans created | by Levi Strauss. |
| 1851 August 22 | Event | Gold is discovered in Australia. | |
| 1851 May 1 | Event | Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace in London | |
| 1854 October 25 | Event | Battle of Balaklava (Crimean War) | The Light Brigade charges to fame (infamy?) |
| 1860 April 3 | Event | Start of the American Pony Express | Travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacremento |
| 1861 July 16 | Event | Battle of Bull Run | First major battle of the American Civil War. |
| 1862 April 6 | Event | Battle of Shiloh | American Union forces defeat Confederacy forces in South West Tennessee. |
| 1862 May 24 | Event | Opening of Westminster Bridge | in London. |
| 1863 April 11 | Event | Battle of Suffolk | ACW - VA (Northfleet House) |
| 1863 July 1 | Event | Battle of Gettysburg | Lee's advance northwards is halted. |
| 1865 April 11 | Event | Battle of Mobile | ACW - AL evacuated by Confederates. |
| 1865 April 14 | Event | president Abraham Lincoln Shot | by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre. |
| 1865 April 6 | Event | Battle of Sayler's Creek | One third of General Lee's army are cut off. |
| 1865 April 9 | Event | Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | and thus ends the American Civil War |
| 1865 July 5 | Event | Salvation Army founded in England | by William Booth. |
| 1867 April 23 | Event | Plans for a Channel Tunnel turned down | by Queen Victoria and Napoleon III of France. |
| 1867 November 26 | Event | Mrs Lily Maxwell votes in a parliamentary Election | She had been placed on the electoral register in error and had to be escorted by a bodyguard to protect her from loutish opponents to women’s suffrage. |
| 1867 October 18 | Event | America takes possession of Alaska | for $7.2 million from the Russians. |
| 1868 April 6 | Event | Klu Klux Klan formed in the USA. | |
| 1869 April 9 | Event | Hudson Bat Company cedes it's Territory to Canada. | |
| 1870 October 2 | Event | Rome and the Papal States annexed | by Italy and Rome is made the Italian Capital. |
| 1870 September 4 | Event | France declares the Republic. | |
| 1871 October 8 | Event | Great Fire of Chicago U.S.A. | destroys four square miles of the city. |
| 1874 May 9 | Event | Victoria Embankment opened in London | |
| 1875 June 3 | Event | Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call. | |
| 1876 June 26 | Event | Custers Last Stand takes place. | |
| 1879 June 21 | Event | F.W. Woolworth opens his first store | which failed and he relocated to a new place.... the rest is history! |
| 1879 May 16 | Event | Treaty of Gandamak | Sets up Afgan State between Russia and England. |
| 1879 October 21 | Event | Lightbulb becomes commercial | created by Thomas Edison. |
| 1881 April 18 | Event | National History Museum opens | in South Kensington England. |
| 1881 April 5 | Event | Transvaal regains independence | but under British Suzerainty |
| 1884 July 4 | Event | Statue of Liberty presented to United States | in Paris, France. |
| 1884 May 31 | Event | Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" | and so were born Kelloggs cornflakes. |
| 1885 May 12 | Event | Battle of Batoche | French Canadians rebel against Canada. |
| 1885 November 7 | Event | Canada completes trans-continental railway. | |
| 1886 May 8 | Event | Jacob's pharmacy in Altanta sells 1st Coca-Cola | originally containing cocaine) |
| 1889 April 6 | Event | First Kodak Camera goes on sale. | Sold by George Eastman |
| 1889 May 1 | Event | Bayer introduce asperin in powder form. | |
| 1894 April 14 | Event | Thomas Edison presents his Kinetoscope | the first peep show device. |
| 1895 April 5 | Event | End of trial of Oscar Wilde | who loses libel case brought against Marquess of Queensbury who had accused him of being a Homosexual |
| 1895 September 24 | Event | 1st round the world bicycle trip by a woman | which took fifteen months to complete. |
| 1896 April 5 | Event | First modern Olympic Games opens in Athens | |
| 1896 May 4 | Event | English Daily Mail published for the 1st time | and cost one penny. |
| 1898 June 11 | Event | US Marines land at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba | 600 of them! |
| 1898 June 9 | Event | China leases Hong Kong and territories | to Britain for a 99 year period. |
| 1900 May 17 | Event | British Troops relieve Mafeking | (Cape Colony) |
| 1900 May 18 | Event | Britain proclaimes protectorate over Island of Tonga | |
