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| 1 | 1825 | - 1825—1825: Rocket steam locomotive built
Rocket steam locomotive built, marking the start of the railway age of cheap, fast land transport.
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| 2 | 1836 | - 1836—1836: Telegraph Invented
Telegraph Invented
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| 3 | 1855 | - 1855—1855: First petrol-driven car
Benz develops first petrol-driven car, starting the most profound technical and social revolution of the modern age.
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| 4 | 1861 | - 12 Apr 1861—1861: US Civil War
US Civil War Started
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| 5 | 1865 | - 31 Jan 1865—31 Jan 1965: Slavery abolished
Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
- 14 Apr 1865—1865: Abraham Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln Assassination
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| 6 | 1866 | - 13 Feb 1866—13 Feb 1866: Jesse James hold up his first bank in Liberty, MO
Jesse James hold up his first bank in Liberty, MO
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| 7 | 1872 | - 1 Nov 1872—1 Nov 1872: Susan B. Anthony casts a vote
By 1872, the Fourteenth Amendment had been ratified. Reconstruction was under way, and many Americans found it obscene that only one gender could participate in the most basic democratic exercise. Championing the rights of women was eloquent suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who, before the war, had been an abolitionist and prohibitionist. The temperance movement radicalized Anthony, though not in the way its leadership intended. Barred by men from speaking at anti-drinking rallies, she turned her intellect and ire away from the distillers and toward a bigger target: America’s male-dominated political system. And so, on the first day of November, she and three other women talked their way into registering to vote in a barbershop in the Eighth Ward in Rochester, NY. The male registrars didn’t want to do it, but Anthony threatened to sue them personally. The ballots they cast four days later were secret, but their sympathies were not: President Grant and his Republican Party were more receptive to women’s rights than the Democrats.
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| 8 | 1902 | - 1902—1902: 1st Electric Theatre
Thomas L. Tally opened his Electric Theater in Los Angeles, a radical new venture devoted to movies and other high-tech devices of the era, like audio recordings.
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1816 - 1902 (85 years)
