1851 through 1878
1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
1851 Gold rush in Australia
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
1853 Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory
1854-1856 Crimean War
1854 Nebraska organized as a territory
1854 Kansas organized as a territory
1856 Celluloid, the first thermoplastic
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1857 Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens
1858 Minnesota enters the union - 32nd
1858 India bill transfers government of India to England
1859 Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
1859 Oil Well
1859 Oregon enters the union - 33rd
1860 South Carolina Secedes from the Union
1860 Rifled barrel invented
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
1861 Gold rush in New Zealand
1861 Colorado organized as a territory
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
1861 North Dakota organized as a territory
1861-1865 Civil War
1861 South Dakota organized as a territory
1861 Nevada organized as a territory
1861 Kansas enters the union - 34th
1861 Transcontinental Telegraph completed
1861 The Apache Declare War on the US
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
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