Ralph Emerson1866 through 1889
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
1866 Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
1867 Confederation of Canada
1867 Diamonds discovered in South Africa
1867 Dynamite
1867 Nebraska enters the union - 37th
1867 Alaska purchased from Russia
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
1868 Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer)
1869 Suez canal opened
1869 Trans-continental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
1869 Cutty Sark built
1869 Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold
1870 US black men can vote
1870 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
1871 Great Fire destroys Chicago
1873 Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
1876 Colorado enters the union - 38th
1876 Little Big Horn - Battle
1876 Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
1876 US Centennial
1877 Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
1878 1st commercial telephone exchange in US
1879 Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
1879 Zulu war
1881 James A Garfield president of US
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
1881 President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1884 1st subway
1884 Motorcycle
1885 Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
1886 Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
1887 X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
1888 70...77 rpm musical records
1889 Holerith invents the punch card
1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
1889 Montana enters the union - 41st
1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th
1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th
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