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| 1 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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| 2 | 1860 | - 1860: The Unification of Italy.
- 1860: Scotland hosts the first Open Golf Championship.
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| 3 | 1861 | - 1861: Joseph Lister changes surgery with antiseptics.
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| 4 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War.
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln, President; Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, V.P.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1867 | - 1867: July 1st - Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick join in one federal union.
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| 7 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant, President; Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, V.P.
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| 8 | 1874 | - 1874: The impressionists. Paris.
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| 9 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1876: The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
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| 10 | 1878 | - 1878: First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
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| 11 | 1879 | - 1879: Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
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| 12 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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| 13 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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| 14 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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| 15 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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| 16 | 1901 | - 1901: First transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi.
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| 17 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., President; Charles W. Fairbanks, V.P.
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| 18 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright Brothers - first powered flight.
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| 19 | 1908 | |
| 20 | 1913 | - 1913: The Suffragettes. Women struggle for the vote.
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| 21 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins.
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| 22 | 1916 | - 1916: WW I - The Battle of the Somme. In a bid to help the French, the British launched an assault on the Germans that cost 19,000 dead in the first day.
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| 23 | 1917 | - 1917: Bolsheviks sieze Russia. Communism reigns for next 70 years.
- 1917: Dec 16th - Halifax Explosion - largest before the atomic bomb, kills 1600 and injures 9000 in Canada's worst disaster.
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| 24 | 1918 - 191 | - 1918 - 191: The Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 21 million people worldwide.
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| 25 | 1918 | |
| 26 | 1919 | |
| 27 | 1928 | - 1928: Penicillin discovered.
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| 28 | 1929 | |
| 29 | 1932 | - 1932: Radio's golden years.
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| 30 | 1933 | - 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor.
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| 31 | 1933-1945 | |
| 32 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins - Canada declares war on Germany - 7 days after Britain and France.
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| 33 | 1940 | - 1940: Battle of Britain.
- 1940: Prime Minister Winston Churchill - "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
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| 34 | 1941 | - 1941: Pearl Harbor attack.
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| 35 | 1944 | - 1944: WW II D-Day - Allies land at the beaches of Normandy. The invasions lead to the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation.
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| 36 | 1945-1953 | - 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman, President; Alben W. Barkley, V.P.
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| 37 | 1945 | - 1945: 6 Aug - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. World War II ends.
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| 38 | 1952 | - 1952: Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens. First bridge to connect Eastern & Western MD.
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1857 - 1953 (96 years)