Frank Blish1862 through 1899
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
1861-1865 Civil War
1862 US Homestead act
1863 Arizona organized as a territory
1863 Idaho organized as a territory
1863 West Virginia enters the union - 35th
1863 Battle of Gettysburg
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
1864 Louisiana organized as a territory
1864 Nevada enters the union - 36th
1865 Ku Klux Klan founded
1865 President Lincoln assassinated
1865 Lister invents Disinfection
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
1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd
1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory
1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
1893 Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
1896 Utah enters the union - 45th
1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
1898 Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
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