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Date |
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| 1 | 1874 | - 1874: The impressionists. Paris.
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| 2 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1876: The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
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| 3 | 1878 | - 1878: First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
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| 4 | 1879 | - 1879: Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
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| 5 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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| 6 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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| 7 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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| 8 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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| 9 | 1901 | - 1901: First transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi.
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| 10 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., President; Charles W. Fairbanks, V.P.
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| 11 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright Brothers - first powered flight.
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| 12 | 1908 | |
| 13 | 1913 | - 1913: The Suffragettes. Women struggle for the vote.
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| 14 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins.
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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 1918 - 191 | - 1918 - 191: The Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 21 million people worldwide.
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| 18 | 1918 | |
| 19 | 1919 | |
| 20 | 1928 | - 1928: Penicillin discovered.
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| 21 | 1929 | |
| 22 | 1932 | - 1932: Radio's golden years.
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| 23 | 1933 | - 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor.
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| 24 | 1933-1945 | |
1872 - 1938 (~ 65 years)