 | Lutheran Confessional Revival |
| 1830 - first railroad |
| 1831 - Copyright Act of 1831 (first to include music) |
| Oxford Movement (1831-1861) |
| 1848 - Gold Rush |
| 1849 - Bach Society founded by William Bennet |
| Industrial Revolution in Europe |
| Growth of Capitalism and Socialism |
| Crimean War (1854-1856) |
| 1857 - Second Great Awakening in America |
| American Civil War (1861-1865) |
| 1863 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
| 1865 - Lincoln assassinated |
| 1865 - Slavery abolished in America |
| 1867 - Alaska purchased |
| 1869 - Suez Canal opens |
| Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) |
| 1877 - Thomas Edison invents sound recording (phonograph) |
| 1881 - Tsar Alexander II assassinated |
| 1881 - President Garfield shot |
| 1881 - Panama canal built |
| 1886 - Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York |
| 1894 - Schola Canorium (Paris) |
| 1898 - Spanish-American War |
