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1 | 1837-1841 | - 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren, President; Richard Mentor Johnson, V.P.
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2 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler, President.
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3 | 1844 | - 1844: Samuel Morse sends first "morse code" message.
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4 | 1845-1849 | |
5 | 1845 - 184 | - 1845 - 184: Irish potato famine - thousands die of starvation.
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6 | 1848 | - 1848: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
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7 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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8 | 1860 | - 1860: The Unification of Italy.
- 1860: Scotland hosts the first Open Golf Championship.
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9 | 1861 | - 1861: Joseph Lister changes surgery with antiseptics.
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10 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War.
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln, President; Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, V.P.
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11 | 1865 | - 1865: Slavery is abolished in Kentucky and other border states by ratification of the 13th Ammendment of the US Constitution.
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12 | 1867 | - 1867: July 1st - Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick join in one federal union.
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13 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant, President; Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, V.P.
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14 | 1874 | - 1874: The impressionists. Paris.
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15 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1876: The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
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16 | 1878 | - 1878: First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
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17 | 1879 | - 1879: Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
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18 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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19 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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20 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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21 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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