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| 1 | 1775 | - 1775: American Invasion of Canada fails. Canda remains British.
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| 2 | 1776 | - 1776: U.S. Declaration of Independence
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| 3 | 1779 | - 1779: Velocipede, early bicycle, appears in Paris.
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| 4 | 1783 | - 1783: Treaty of Paris recognises U.S. independence.
- 1783: John Macadam devises new road surfacing.
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| 5 | 1789 | - 1789: Parisians storm the Bastille. The fall of a hated symbol of royal authority. Revolution proclaimed a new age in France.
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| 6 | 1789-1797 | - 1789-1797: George Washington, President; John Adams V.P.
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| 7 | 1792 | - 1792: Dollar becomes the currency of the U.S.
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| 8 | 1797-1801 | - 1797-1801: John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, V.P.
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| 9 | 1800 | - 1800: French under Napoleon conquer Italy.
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| 10 | 1801 | - 1801: Nelson destroys Danish fleet at Copenhagen.
- 1801: Beethoven writes piano sonata #14
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| 11 | 1801-1809 | - 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson, President; Aaron Burr & George Clinton, V.P.
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| 12 | 1803 | - 1803: Louisiana purchase nearly doubles size of U.S.
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| 13 | 1805 | - 1805: America's West explored
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| 14 | 1807 | - 1807: Abolition of Slave Trade by Britain.
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| 15 | 1808 | - 1808: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 (Pastoral)
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| 16 | 1809-1817 | - 1809-1817: James Madison, President; Elbridge Gerry, V.P.
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| 17 | 1812 | - 1812: The retreat from Moscow.
- 1812: War of 1812 is declared. Interupts travel between the US and Britain including Scotland.
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| 18 | 1817-1825 | - 1817-1825: James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, V.P.
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| 19 | 1825 -1829 | - 1825 -1829: John Quincy Adams, President; John C. Calhoun, V.P.
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| 20 | 1827 | - 1827: The birth of photography.
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| 21 | 1829-1837 | - 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson, President; Martin Van Buren, V.P.
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| 22 | 1829 | - 1829: Welland Canal Opened. Links Lake Erie and Ontario for the first time.
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| 23 | 1831 | - 1831: Michael Faraday converts magnetism into electricity.
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| 24 | 1832 | - 1832: Cholera Epidemic in Europe and America interupts transatlantic travel and emigration to the US and Canada. 10% of Canadian population dies.
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| 25 | 1837-1841 | - 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren, President; Richard Mentor Johnson, V.P.
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| 26 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler, President.
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| 27 | 1844 | - 1844: Samuel Morse sends first "morse code" message.
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| 28 | 1845-1849 | |
| 29 | 1845 - 184 | - 1845 - 184: Irish potato famine - thousands die of starvation.
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| 30 | 1848 | - 1848: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
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| 31 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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| 32 | 1860 | - 1860: The Unification of Italy.
- 1860: Scotland hosts the first Open Golf Championship.
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| 33 | 1861 | - 1861: Joseph Lister changes surgery with antiseptics.
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| 34 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War.
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln, President; Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, V.P.
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| 35 | 1865 | - 1865: Slavery is abolished in Kentucky and other border states by ratification of the 13th Ammendment of the US Constitution.
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| 36 | 1867 | - 1867: July 1st - Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick join in one federal union.
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| 37 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant, President; Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, V.P.
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| 38 | 1874 | - 1874: The impressionists. Paris.
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| 39 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1876: The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
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| 40 | 1878 | - 1878: First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
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| 41 | 1879 | - 1879: Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
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| 42 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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| 43 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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| 44 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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| 45 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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| 46 | 1901 | - 1901: First transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi.
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| 47 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., President; Charles W. Fairbanks, V.P.
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| 48 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright Brothers - first powered flight.
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| 49 | 1908 | |
| 50 | 1913 | - 1913: The Suffragettes. Women struggle for the vote.
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| 51 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins.
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| 52 | 1916 | - 1916: WW I - The Battle of the Somme. In a bid to help the French, the British launched an assault on the Germans that cost 19,000 dead in the first day.
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| 53 | 1917 | - 1917: Bolsheviks sieze Russia. Communism reigns for next 70 years.
- 1917: Dec 16th - Halifax Explosion - largest before the atomic bomb, kills 1600 and injures 9000 in Canada's worst disaster.
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| 54 | 1918 - 191 | - 1918 - 191: The Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 21 million people worldwide.
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| 55 | 1918 | |
| 56 | 1919 | |
| 57 | 1928 | - 1928: Penicillin discovered.
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| 58 | 1929 | |
| 59 | 1932 | - 1932: Radio's golden years.
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| 60 | 1933 | - 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor.
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| 61 | 1933-1945 | |
| 62 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins - Canada declares war on Germany - 7 days after Britain and France.
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| 63 | 1940 | - 1940: Battle of Britain.
- 1940: Prime Minister Winston Churchill - "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
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| 64 | 1941 | - 1941: Pearl Harbor attack.
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Abt 1775 - 1837 (~ 62 years)