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| 1 | 1868 | - 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
- 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
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| 2 | 1869 | - 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
- 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
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| 3 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1870's | - 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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| 5 | 1871 | - 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
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| 6 | 1874 | - 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1877-1881 | - 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 9 | 1878 | - 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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| 10 | 1879 | - 1879: First vaccine for cholera
- 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1881-1885 | - 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 13 | 1882 | - 1882: First vaccine for rabies
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| 14 | 1883 | - 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
- 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
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| 15 | 1884 | - 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
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| 16 | 1885 | - 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
- 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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| 17 | 1885-1889 | - 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
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