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1900 |
Cary Nation
begins attacking saloons
with her hatchet. |
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Guglielmo Marconi
sends the first radio signal across the English Channel. |
1899 |
US refuses to
recognize Philippine independence igniting the Philippine-American War. |
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| June 12
General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims Philippines independent of Spain. |
1898 |
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1896 |
May
19 US Supreme Court upholds "separate but equal" policy in
Plessy v. Ferguson. |
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1895 |
May
19 Jose Marti killed in battle.
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| Rudolf Diesel
invents the diesel engine.
January 1 Ellis Island began to operate as a port of entry for immigrants to the US. |
1892 |
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1890 |
December
29 US massacres Big Foot and about
300 Lakotas in an attempt to suppress the "Ghost Dance." |
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| Nikola Tesla invents the
induction electrical motor.
May 16 Emile Berliner invents flat-disc
recording.
May 13 Princess Isabel of Brazil abolishes slavery.
January 27 US National Geographic Society founded. |
1888 |
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| Heinrich Hertz
generates an electromagnetic wave. |
1887 |
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| Karl Benz build
the first practical automobile. |
1885 |
February
5 Belgian King Leopold II
claims the Belgian Congo as his personal possession. |
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| Carl Gustav de Laval develops the impulse steam turbine.
H.S. Maxim
invents the machine gun. |
1883 |
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1882 |
US Congress passes the
Chinese Exclusion Act. |
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| May
21 Clara Barton creates American Red Cross. |
1881 |
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| Thomas Swan of
England invents the light bulb. |
1878 |
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| Thomas Edison
invents the phonograph. |
1877 |
September
5 Sioux chief Crazy Horse
killed by US soldier after resisting arrest
at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. |
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| Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. N.A. Otto develops the four-stroke internal combustion engine. |
1876 |
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1873 |
Comstock Act
bans contraceptives and obscene material sent through US postal service. |
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| December
24 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida
premiers in Cairo, Egypt. |
1871 |
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| Richard
Greener becomes first African American Harvard graduate. |
1870 |
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| February
17 Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev completes first periodic table. Americans complete the
U.S. transcontinental railroad.
Suez canal completed. |
1869 |
Pius IX declares infallibility
of popes at First
Vatican Council. |
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| Christopher
Sholes invents the typewriter. |
1868 |
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| June 10
Richard Wagner's Tristan und
Isolde premiers in Munich, Germany.
December 18 Slavery in the United States is abolished with the
ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. |
1865 |
Ku Klux Klan
formed. February 3 Attempt to end
American Civil War fails.
April 15 Abraham Lincoln
dies.
April 14 John Wilkes Booth shoots
Abraham Lincoln. |
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1864 |
December 8 In
Quanta cura,
Pius IX denounces freedom of religion, separation of church and state,
and accuses Jews of seeking world domination. |
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| January 1
Abraham Linclon signs the Emancipation Proclamation. |
1863 |
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| July 4
Lewis Carroll begins to narrate
Alice in Wonderland to
Alice Liddell and other children. |
1862 |
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| Broca of France
associates brain damage with physiological problems. |
1861 |
February
4 Confederate States of America
draft a Constitution
explicitly
condoning human slavery. |
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| Etienne Lenoir of
Belgium invents the internal combustion engine. |
1860 |
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Charles
Darwin publishes
On the Origin of Species |
1859 |
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1857 |
US
Supreme Court rules that
Dred Scott must remain a slave in
Scott v. Sandford. |
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| Florence Nightingale takes 38 women
to Turkey to nurse wounded and sick
Crimean War soldiers. |
1854 |
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| America imports
swallows from Germany as defense against caterpillars. |
1852 |
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1851 |
Dr. Samual A.
Cartwright describes "drapetomania." |
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| January
23 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman doctor in the Western hemisphere. |
1849 |
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| Serfdom abolished
in Austria. July 19 Seneca Falls
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions published.
May 22 Martinique abolishes slavery. |
1848 |
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| September
10 Farmer Elias Howe
patents the first practical sewing machine. January 29 Edgar Allen Poe
writes
"The Raven." |
1846 |
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| July 4
Henry David Thoreau begins his journal
at Walden Pond. |
1845 |
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| April 20
Edgar Allen Poe publishes
his first detective story,
"The Murders in the Rue
Morgue." |
1841 |
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1840 |
Manifest Destiny |
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Charles Goodyear
discovers vulcanization. |
1839 |
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| John Ericsson
develops the screw propeller.
January 6 Samuel Morse demonstrates his telegraph. |
1838 |
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| September
6 Mary Hosford, Mary Fletcher Kellogg, Elizabeth Smith Prall, and Caroline Mary
Rudd enroll at Oberlin
College, Ohio. |
1837 |
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| Oberlin College,
Ohio, votes to admit African American students. |
1835 |
February
10
Russian poet and novelist Aleksandr Pushkin killed in a duel. |
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| John Lane
develops the steel plow. |
1833 |
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| Benoit Fourneyron
develops the water turbine. |
1832 |
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| October 4
Belgium wins independence. |
1830 |
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| April 14
Noah Webster publishes An American
Dictionary of the English Language.
February 21 First Cherokee newspaper published. |
1828 |
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| Stockton-Darlington
railway opens. |
1825 |
French law makes
sacrilege a capital offense. |
|
| September
7 Crown Prince Pedro declares Brazil's independent of Portugal. |
1822 |
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| Hans Oersted
discovers electromagnetism. |
1820 |
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|
| T. R. Malthus
publishes
An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent. |
1815 |
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| Treaty of Ghent
is signed. |
1814 |
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February 12 Charles Darwin
and Abraham Lincoln born. Louis Braille invents reading system for the blind. |
1809 |
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| Napoleon
abolishes the Inquisition
in France and Spain. |
1808 |
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| May
22
Lewis and Clark Expedition begins. January 1
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
declares Saint Domingue independent, restoring its original name, Haiti. |
1804 |
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| Daniel Webster
publishes
The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War. |
1802 |
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