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| 1 | 1817 | - 1817—1825: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825
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| 2 | 1824 | - 1824 : Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon
- 1824 : nglishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material
- 1824 : American Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, is welcomed with enthusiasm during a return visit to the United States from his native France.
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| 3 | 1824 | - 2 Mar 1824: Gibbons v. Ogden: Landmark Supreme Court decision broadly defines Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce (March 2).
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| 4 | 1825 | - 1825 —1829: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829
- 1825 : William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
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| 5 | 1826 | - 26 Oct 1826: Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River to Lake Erie, is opened for traffic
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| 6 | 1827 | - 1827: James(95) Oldham obtained land in Rush County, Indiana
- Jun 1827: James(95) Oldham Will probated in Fayette County, Indiana
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| 7 | 1827 | - 1827 : Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone
- 1827 : John Walker invents the modern matches
- 1827 : Artist and ornithologist John James Audubon publishes the first of his drawings of the hundreds of colorful birds of North America.
- 1827 : John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish of New York City publish the first African-American newspaper, Freedom's Journal
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| 8 | 1828 | - 1828 : Noah Webster completes his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language, after working on it for 20 years.
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| 9 | 1828 | - 4 Jul 1828: Construction is begun on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first public railroad in the U.S. (July 4).
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| 10 | 1829 | - 1829 —1837: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837
- 1829 : William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter
- 1829 : Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing
- 1829 : American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
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| 11 | 1830 | - 1830 : Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
- 1830 : Louis Godey publishes the Lady's Book, the first successful women's magazine in the United States.
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| 12 | 1830 | - 28 May 1830: President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River (May 28). By the late 1830s the Jackson administration has relocated nearly 50,000 Native Americans.
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| 13 | 1831 | - 1831 : Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of about 80 followers launch a bloody, day-long rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The militia quells the rebellion, and Turner is eventually hanged. As a consequence, Virginia institutes much stricter slave laws.
- 1831 : Cyrus McCormick invents a labor-saving mechanical reaper, allowing farmers to harvest grain more efficiently.
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| 14 | 1832 | - 1832 —1836: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836
- 1832 : Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope
- 1832 : The first school for the blind opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
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| 15 | 1833 | - 4 Mar 1833: Jackson's second inauguration
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| 16 | 1834 | - 1834 : Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine)
- 1834 : Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
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| 17 | 1835 | - 1835 : Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller
- 1835 : Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography
- 1835 : Solymon Merrick patents the wrench
- 1835 : Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
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| 18 | 1836 | - 1836 : Samuel Colt invented the first revolver
- 24 Feb 1836 —6 Mar 1836: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 200 Texans are killed when the Alamo, a fort in San Antonio, Texas, is captured by Mexican leader Santa Anna.
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| 19 | 1837 | - 1837 —1841: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841
- 1837 : Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
- 1837 : English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp
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| 20 | 1838 | - 1838: "Trail of Tears" claims 4,000 lives as 15,000 Cherokee Native Americans are forced to leave their lands in Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, and travel to new lands in Oklahoma
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| 21 | 1839 | - 1839 : Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography
- 1839 : Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
- 1839 : American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization
- 1839 : Welshman, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell
- 1839 : Charles Goodyear invents a process for vulcanizing rubber, hardening the naturally sticky substance for use in many different products.
- 1839 : The era of photography begins in the United States, as Louis Daguerre's process for capturing photographic images is introduced.
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| 22 | 1839 | - 1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales
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| 23 | 1840 | - 1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
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| 24 | 1840 | - 1840 : The Underground Railroad, a secret network of hiding places and routes for helping enslaved persons escape to the North or Canada, is well established by this time
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| 25 | 1841 | - 1841 : Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
- 4 Mar 1841 —4 Apr 1841: William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the ninth president (March 4). He dies one month later (April 4) and is succeeded in office by his vice president, John Tyler.
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| 26 | 1841 | - 4 Apr 1841—1845: John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president
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| 27 | 1842 | - 1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator
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| 28 | 1842 | - 1842 : The first gummed postage stamps bring changes in the postal system, as senders--rather than the receivers--begin paying for a letter to be delivered.
- 1842 : The state of Massachusetts passes a law that limits children under 12, who worked in factories, to a ten-hour day.
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| 29 | 1843 | - 1843 : Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile
- 1843 : African American Sojourner Truth starts her travels speaking against enslavement
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| 30 | 1844 | - 1844 : Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton
- 1844 : Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland
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| 31 | 1845 | - 1845 : American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine
- 1845 : Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire
- 4 Mar 1845 —1849: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849
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| 32 | 1846 | - 1846 —1848: Mexican-American War 1846-1848 - U.S. annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress (March 1). James Polk is inaugurated as the 11th president (March 4). The term “manifest destiny†appears for the first time in a magazine article by John L. O'Sullivan (July–August). It expresses the belief held by many white Americans that the United States is destined to expand across the continent.
- 1846 : Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction
- 1846 : Oregon Treaty signed with Great Britain sets the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel.
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| 33 | 1846 | - 4 Mar 1846—1850: James Polk is inaugurated as the 11th president
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| 34 | 1847 | - 1847 : Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics
- 1847 : Thousands of Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine in Ireland come to the United States.
- 1847 : Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, Massachusetts discovers a new comet, later becoming the first woman professor of astronomy in the United States.
- 1847 : Frederick Douglass, an African American, begins publication of an abolitionist newspaper, The North Star.
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| 35 | 1848 | - 1848 : Mexico recognizes Rio Grande as new boundary with Texas and, for $15 million, agrees to cede territory comprising present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
- 1848 : Women's Rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, New York.
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| 36 | 1848 | - 24 Jan 1848: Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California (Jan. 24); gold rush reaches its height the following year.
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| 37 | 1849 | - 1849 : Walter Hunt invents the safety pin
- 5 Mar 1849 —9 Jul 1850: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office
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| 38 | 1849 | - 1849: Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated members of the Underground Railroad.
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| 39 | 1850 | - 1850 : Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent
- 9 Jul 1850 —1853: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor\'s death
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| 40 | 1851 | - 1851 : Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine
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| 41 | 1852 | - 1852 : Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel about the cruelty of enslavement, increasing the desire of many northerners to abolish enslavement in the United States.
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| 42 | 1853 | - 1853 : Commodore Matthew Perry sails to Japan, which had been closed to foreigners for almost two hundred years, opening that country to trade with the United States.
- 4 Mar 1853 —1857: Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th president (March 4). Gadsden Purchase treaty is signed; U.S. acquires border territory from Mexico for $10 million (Dec. 30).
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| 43 | 1854 | - 1854 : John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics
- 1854 : Naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau writes Walden, a book which suggests that life is best lived simply, in harmony with nature and with few material possessions.
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| 44 | 1855 | - 1855 : Financier Ezra Cornell begins organizing a national telegraph system, the Western Union Telegraph Company.
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| 45 | 1856 | - 1856 : Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization
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| 46 | 1857 | - 1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel
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| 47 | 1857 | - 1857 : In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court denies African Americans the rights of American citizenship
- 4 Mar 1857 —1861: James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861
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| 48 | 1858 | - 1858 : Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
- 1858 : Overland mail service by stagecoach begins, connecting the east and west coasts of the United States.
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| 49 | 1858 | - 1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine
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| 50 | 1859 | - 1859 : John Brown, an abolitionist, leads an attack on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
- 1859 : The drilling of an oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, changes the way most Americans light their homes, as kerosene made from the oil replaces whale oil and candles.
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| 51 | 1860 | - 1860 —1861: Pony Express mail service begins. Only lasts one year.
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| 52 | 1860 | - 20 Dec 1860: South Carolina secedes from the Union (Dec. 20).
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| 53 | 1861 | - 1861 : Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator
- 1861 : Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock
- 4 Mar 1861 —1865: Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865
- 12 Apr 1861 : USA Civil War begins 12 April 1861, battle of Ft. Sumter.The American Civil War begins when Confederate troops capture Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
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| 54 | 1861 | - 2 Feb 1861: Texas secedes (March 2).
- 8 Feb 1861: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana secede (Jan.). Confederate States of America is established (Feb. 8).
- 9 Feb 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy (Feb. 9).
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| 55 | 1862 | - 1862 : Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic
- 1862 : Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun
- 1862 : Homestead Act offers 160 acres of public land in the western United States to settlers willing to settle on the land for 5 years.
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| 56 | 1863 | - 1863 : Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln signs law declaring freedom for enslaved persons living in states under the control of the Confederacy.
- 1 Jul 1863 —3 Jun 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania marks a turning point in the Civil War, as Confederate forces retreat to the South after losing this important battle.
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| 57 | 1863 | - 19 Nov 1863: President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
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| 58 | 1864 | - 1864 : General Sherman and 62,000 Union soldiers sweep a 60-mile wide path of destruction in Georgia, severely weakening the Confederacy.
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| 59 | 1865 | - 9 Apr 1865 : USA Civil War ends when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
- 14 Apr 1865 : Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day
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| 60 | 1865 | - 15 Apr 1865—1869: Lincoln is assassinated (April 14) by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC, and is succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson.
- 6 Dec 1865: Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery
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| 61 | 1866 | - 1866 : Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo
- 1866 : J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener
- 1866 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
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| 62 | 1867 | - 1867 : Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
- 1867 : The United States purchases the Alaska territory from Russia
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| 63 | 1868 | - 1868: J P Knight invents traffic lights
- 24 Feb 1868: President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives (Feb. 24), but he is acquitted at his trial in the Senate (May 26).
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| 64 | 1868 | - 1868 : George Westinghouse invents air brakes
- 1868 : Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel
- 9 Jul 1868 : The 14th Amendment grants rights and priviledges of American citizenship to African Americans.
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| 65 | 1869 | - 1869 : First transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah, providing continuous railroad transportation across the entire United States.
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| 66 | 1869 | - 4 Mar 1869—1877: Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877
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| 67 | 1870 | - 1870 : The 15th amendment guarantees that no male citizen will be deprived of the right to vote because of race, color or previous condition of servitude
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| 68 | 1871 | - 1871 : Great Chicago Fire. A fire destroys the city of Chicago, Illinois.
- 1871 : The first professional baseball association, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, is organized.
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| 69 | 1872 | - 1872 : A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog
- 1872 : J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill
- 1872 : Yellowstone National Park is established for the enjoyment of the public
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| 70 | 1873 | - 1873 : Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
- 1873 : The United States experiences an economic depression, as over 5,000 companies go out of business after a stock market panic.
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| 71 | 1873 | - 4 Mar 1873: Grant's second inauguration
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| 72 | 1874 | - 1874 : American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher
- 1874 : First American Zoo - America gets its first public zoo, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens.
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| 73 | 1875 | - 1875 : Congress passes a Civil Rights Bill prohibiting discrimination in public places.
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| 74 | 1876 | - 1876: Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine
- 25 Jun 1876: Gen. George Custer and his soldiers are killed in a battle with the Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn in Montana
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| 75 | 1876 | - 1876 : Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
- 1876 : Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper
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| 76 | 1877 | - 1877 : Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph
- 1877 : Edward Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
- 1877 : President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws the last federal soldiers from the South, leaving the rights of African Americans unprotected.
- 1877 : Nez Perce war with the United States ends when federal troops capture Chief Joseph and his tribe.
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| 77 | 1877 | - 5 Mar 1877—1881: Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president
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| 78 | 1878 | - 1878 : Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb
- 1878 : Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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| 79 | 1879 | - 1879 : Frank Woolworth opens his first successful five-and-ten cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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| 80 | 1880 | - 1880 : Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph
- 1880 : The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper
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| 81 | 1881 | - 1881 : David Houston patents the roll film for cameras
- 1881 : Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector
- 1881 : Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano
- 1881 : Booker T. Washington becomes the first president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- 4 Mar 1881 —19 Sep 1881: James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881
- 19 Sep 1881 —1885: Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield
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| 82 | 1882 | - 1882 : Chinese Exclusion Act - Widespread resentment against immigrant Chinese laborers results in suspending Chinese immigration for ten years
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| 83 | 1882 | - 18 Nov 1882: The United States and Canada substitute standardized time zones for local time to make it easier to coordinate railroad schedules.
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| 84 | 1883 | - 1883 : United States Supreme Court rules the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination in public places, to be unconstitutional.
- 1883 : Brooklyn Bridge, hailed as the eighth wonder of the world, opens.
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| 85 | 1884 | - 1884 : James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register
- 1884 : Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
- 1884 : Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen
- 1884 : Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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| 86 | 1884 | - 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
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| 87 | 1885 | - 1885 : Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine
- 1885 : Harim Maxim invents a machine gun
- 1885 : Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
- 1885 : Washington monument is dedicated in the nation's capitol.
- 1885 : P.T. Barnum's famous circus elephant, Jumbo, is killed in a train collision.
- 4 Mar 1885 —1889: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889
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| 88 | 1886 | - 1886 : John Pemberton invents Coca Cola
- 1886 : Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher
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| 89 | 1886 | - 28 Oct 1886: Statue of Liberty is dedicated
- Dec 1886: American Federation of Labor is organized
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| 90 | 1887 | - 1887 : German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar
- 1887 : Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
- 1887 : F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses
- 1887 : Edward Bellamy writes a best selling Utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887, about a man who wakes up in an ideal society in the year 2000, where everyone is equal politically and economically
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| 91 | 1888 | - 1888 : John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire
- 1888 : Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer
- 1888 : Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws
- 1888 : A box camera, the first Kodak, is introduced for use by amateur photographers.
- 1888 : The first issue of National Geographic magazine includes an account of the Great Blizzard that ravaged the eastern United States.
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| 92 | 1889 | - 1889 : Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder
- 1889 : Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook
- 1889 : Oklahoma Land Rush - 50,000 settlers swarm into Oklahoma to homestead former Indian lands.
- 4 Mar 1889 —1893: Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893
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| 93 | 1890 | - 1890: In reporting the results of the 1890 census, the Census Bureau announces that the West has been settled and the frontier is closed.
- 2 Jul 1890: National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. Sherman Antitrust Act is signed into law, prohibiting commercial monopolies
- 29 Dec 1890: Last major battle of the Indian Wars occurs at Wounded Knee in South Dakota
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| 94 | 1891 | - 1891 : Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
- 1891 : YMCA trainee James Naismith invents basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts. Within 10 years the indoor team sport was very popular not only among YMCA programs, but also at colleges, high schools and athletic clubs.
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| 95 | 1892 | - 1892 : Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask
- 1892 : Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine
- 1892 : Carnegie Steel Works at Homestead, Pennsylvania lock outs employees in a labor contract dispute, and several strikers and plant guards are killed
- 1892 : Ellis Island opens in New York City and the first of 12 million immigrants passes through its doors, seeking a better life in America.
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| 96 | 1893 | - 1893 : American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper
- 1893 : J. Frank and Charles Duryea build the first successful gasoline-powered automobile in the United States.
- 1893 : The Ferris wheel is introduced at the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois.
- 4 Mar 1893 —1897: Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897 The only president to serve two non-consecutive terms of office.
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| 97 | 1894 | - 1894 : American Railway Union members support Pullman Palace Car Company workers in the most notable strike in American history, tying up most of the railroads in the midwestern United States
- 1894 : Economic depression which began the previous year leaves 1 in 5 American workers without a job.
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| 98 | 1895 | - 1895 : Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person
- 1895 : In the first practical demonstration of of large-scale power generation, Westinghouse Electric Co. harnesses the power of Niagara Falls to supply low-cost energy for hundreds of miles.
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| 99 | 1896 | - 1896 : American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel
- 1896 : Henry Ford drives his first automobile through the streets of Detroit, Michigan.
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| 100 | 1896 | - 18 May 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South (May 18).
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| 101 | 1897 | - 4 Mar 1897 —1901: William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901
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| 102 | 1898 | - 1898: U.S. annexes Hawaii by an act of Congress (July 7).
- 15 Feb 1898: Spanish-American War: USS Maine is blown up in Havana harbor (Feb. 15)
- 25 Apr 1898: U.S. to declare war on Spain (April 25) Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War (Dec. 10); Spain gives up control of Cuba, which becomes an independent republic, and cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and (for $20 million) the Philippines to the U.S.
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| 103 | 1898 | - 1898 : Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
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| 104 | 1899 | - 1899: U.S. acquires American Samoa by treaty with Great Britain and Germany (Dec. 2
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| 105 | 1899 | - 1899 : J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
- 1899 : I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
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| 106 | 1900 | - 1900 : The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- 1900 : Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
- 1900 : L. Frank Baum writes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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| 107 | 1901 | - 1901 : King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor
- 1901 : The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
- 1901 : Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner
- 1901 : Carrie Nation begins a crusade against alcohol, using an ax to demolish the interiors of saloons.
- 6 Sep 1901 —3 Mar 1909: Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley
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| 108 | 1901 | - 4 Mar 1901—6 Sep 1901: McKinley's second inauguration (March 4). He is shot (Sept. 6) by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, N.Y., and later dies from his wounds (Sept. 14). He is succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
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| 109 | 1902 | - 1902 : Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
- 1902 : rench physicist George Claude invents neon light
- 1902 : The birth of the Teddy Bear
- 1902 : Congress makes free mail delivery to rural residents a permanent part of the United States postal system.
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| 110 | 1902 | - 1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie
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| 111 | 1903 | - 1903 : Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons
- 1903 : Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens
- 1903 : Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers
- 1903 : William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs
- 1903 : Wright Brothers fly the first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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| 112 | 1903 | - 1903: U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty signed Nov. 17)
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| 113 | 1904 | - 1904 : Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan
- 1904 : Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
- 1904 : Ice cream cones are introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair.
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| 114 | 1905 | - 1905 : Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2
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| 115 | 1906 | - 1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes
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| 116 | 1906 | - 18 Apr 1906 : San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city (April 18).
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| 117 | 1907 | - 1907 : Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- 1907 : The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
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| 118 | 1908 | - 1908 : The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry
- 1908 : Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger
- 1908 : Model T automobile first sold
- 1908 : J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter
- 1908 : Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates
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| 119 | 1908 | - 1908: Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is established
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| 120 | 1909 | - 1909 : Instant coffee invented by G. Washington
- 3 Mar 1909 —1913: William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913. Mrs. Taft has 80 Japanese cherry trees planted along the banks of the Potomac River.
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| 121 | 1910 | - 1910 : Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture
- 1910 : Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris
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Oldham Family History
1824 - 1910 (86 years)