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| 1 | 1750 | - 1750: Bach dies, ending the Baroque period in music.
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| 2 | 1751 | - 1751: Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity.
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| 3 | 1756-1763 | - 1756-1763: French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
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| 4 | 1758 | - 1758: Benjamin Franklin writes "The Way to Wealth."
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| 5 | 1759-1761 | |
| 6 | 1768 | - 1768: John Dickinson writes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
- 1768: Milcah Martha Moore writes "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768."
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| 7 | 1775-1783 | - 1775-1783: American Revolution
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| 8 | 1776 | - 1776: Thomas Paine writes Common Sense.
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| 9 | 1786 | - 1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
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| 10 | 1787-1788 | - 1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
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| 11 | 1789-1797 | - 1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
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| 12 | 1790 | - 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
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| 13 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
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| 14 | 1797-1801 | - 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
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| 15 | 1798-1800 | - 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
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| 16 | 1801-1809 | - 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
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| 17 | 1807 | - 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
- 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
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| 18 | 1809 | - 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
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| 19 | 1809-1817 | - 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 20 | 1812-1815 | |
| 21 | 1813-1814 | |
| 22 | 1814 | - 1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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| 23 | 1816 | - 1816:
Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
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| 24 | 1817 | - 1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
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| 25 | 1817-1825 | - 1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 26 | 1819 | - 1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
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| 27 | 1820 | - 1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
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| 28 | 1825-1829 | - 1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
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| 29 | 1826 | - 1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
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| 30 | 1829-1837 | - 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
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| 31 | 1836 | - 1836: War of Texas Independence
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| 32 | 1837-1841 | - 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
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| 33 | 1839 | - 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
- 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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| 34 | 1841 | - 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
- 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
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| 35 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
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| 36 | 1845 | - 1845: Edgar Allen Poe writes The Raven and Other Poems.
- 1845: Frederick Douglass writes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
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| 37 | 1845-1849 | - 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
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| 38 | 1846-1848 | |
| 39 | 1849-1850 | - 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
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| 40 | 1850 | - 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
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| 41 | 1850-1853 | - 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 42 | 1851 | - 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
- 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
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| 43 | 1852 | - 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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| 44 | 1853-1857 | - 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 45 | 1854 | - 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
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| 46 | 1855 | - 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
- 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
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| 47 | 1857-1861 | - 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 48 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 49 | 1861 | - 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
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| 50 | 1863 | - 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
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| 51 | 1865 | - 1865: Mark Twain writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
- 1865: Julia C. Collins writes The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride.
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| 52 | 1865-1869 | - 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
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| 53 | 1867 | - 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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| 54 | 1868 | - 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
- 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
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| 55 | 1869 | - 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
- 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
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| 56 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 57 | 1870's | - 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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| 58 | 1871 | - 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
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| 59 | 1874 | - 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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| 60 | 1876 | - 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
- 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
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| 61 | 1877-1881 | - 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 62 | 1878 | - 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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| 63 | 1879 | - 1879: First vaccine for cholera
- 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
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| 64 | 1881 | - 1881: First vaccine for anthrax
- 1881: Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
- 1881: Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor.
- 1881: James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
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| 65 | 1881-1885 | - 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 66 | 1882 | - 1882: First vaccine for rabies
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| 67 | 1883 | - 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
- 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
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| 68 | 1884 | - 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
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| 69 | 1885 | - 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
- 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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| 70 | 1885-1889 | - 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 71 | 1888 | - 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
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| 72 | 1889 | - 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
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| 73 | 1889-1893 | - 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 74 | 1890 | - 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
- 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
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| 75 | 1891 | - 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
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| 76 | 1893 | - 1893:
Dvorak composes From the New World.
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| 77 | 1893-1897 | - 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 78 | 1895 | - 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
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| 79 | 1896 | - 1896: Ragtime music is born.
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| 80 | 1897 | - 1897: First vaccine for plague.
- 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
- 1897: First vaccine for plague.
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| 81 | 1897-1901 | - 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 82 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War
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| 83 | 1899 | - 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
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| 84 | 1900 | - 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
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