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1 | 1825 -1829 | - 1825 -1829: John Quincy Adams, President; John C. Calhoun, V.P.
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2 | 1827 | - 1827: The birth of photography.
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3 | 1829-1837 | - 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson, President; Martin Van Buren, V.P.
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4 | 1829 | - 1829: Welland Canal Opened. Links Lake Erie and Ontario for the first time.
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5 | 1831 | - 1831: Michael Faraday converts magnetism into electricity.
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6 | 1832 | - 1832: Cholera Epidemic in Europe and America interupts transatlantic travel and emigration to the US and Canada. 10% of Canadian population dies.
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7 | 1837-1841 | - 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren, President; Richard Mentor Johnson, V.P.
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8 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler, President.
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9 | 1844 | - 1844: Samuel Morse sends first "morse code" message.
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10 | 1845-1849 | |
11 | 1845 - 184 | - 1845 - 184: Irish potato famine - thousands die of starvation.
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12 | 1848 | - 1848: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
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13 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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14 | 1860 | - 1860: The Unification of Italy.
- 1860: Scotland hosts the first Open Golf Championship.
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15 | 1861 | - 1861: Joseph Lister changes surgery with antiseptics.
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16 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War.
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln, President; Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, V.P.
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17 | 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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18 | 1867 | - 1867: July 1st - Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick join in one federal union.
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19 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant, President; Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, V.P.
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20 | 1874 | - 1874: The impressionists. Paris.
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21 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1876: The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
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22 | 1878 | - 1878: First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
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23 | 1879 | - 1879: Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
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24 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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25 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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26 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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27 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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28 | 1901 | - 1901: First transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi.
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29 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., President; Charles W. Fairbanks, V.P.
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30 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright Brothers - first powered flight.
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31 | 1908 | |
32 | 1913 | - 1913: The Suffragettes. Women struggle for the vote.
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33 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins.
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34 | 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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35 | 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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36 | 1918 - 191 | - 1918 - 191: The Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 21 million people worldwide.
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37 | 1918 | |
38 | 1919 | |
39 | 1928 | - 1928: Penicillin discovered.
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40 | 1929 | |