Whole Period - Immigration of the Welsh to Great Britain due to Industrial Revolution jobs
1812 - First use of a steam-powered locomotive
1816 - Spanish migration to Argentina
1837 - First passenger steamship crosses the Atlantic in 1/4 the time of a sail-powered ship
1840 - Great Potato Famine in Ireland leads to global migration from the island
1840s - First Chinatown in San Francisco
1847 - First propeller-driven ship crosses the Atlantic. The more efficient propellers increased the popularity of travel by steamship.
1847-1857 - Immigration of almost 200,000 people from France
1861 - Italian Diaspora following the unification of Italy
1862 - Circassian Diaspora to Russia and the Ottoman Empire
1892 - Opening of Ellis Island immigration station
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