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Mary E. Rummel

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	Date	Event(s)
1	1807	1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5. 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
2	1809	1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
3	1809-1817	1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
4	1812-1815	1812-1815: War of 1812
5	1813-1814	1813-1814: Creek War
6	1814	1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
7	1816	1816: Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
8	1817	1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
9	1817-1825	1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
10	1819	1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
11	1820	1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
12	1825-1829	1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
13	1826	1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
14	1829-1837	1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
15	1836	1836: War of Texas Independence
16	1837-1841	1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
17	1839	1839: The New York Philharmonic is established. 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
18	1841	1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series. 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
19	1841-1845	1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
20	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.
21	1845-1849	1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
22	1846-1848	1846-1848: Mexican War
23	1849-1850	1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
24	1850	1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
25	1850-1853	1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
26	1851	1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick. 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
27	1852	1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
28	1853-1857	1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
29	1854	1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
30	1855	1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass. 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
31	1857-1861	1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
32	1861-1865	1861-1865: American Civil War 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
33	1861	1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
34	1863	1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
35	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.
36	1865-1869	1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
37	1867	1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
38	1868	1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women. 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
39	1869	1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad. 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
40	1869-1877	1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
41	1870's	1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
42	1871	1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
43	1874	1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
44	1876	1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake. 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
45	1877-1881	1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
46	1878	1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
47	1879	1879: First vaccine for cholera 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
48	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.
49	1881-1885	1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
50	1882	1882: First vaccine for rabies
51	1883	1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York. 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
52	1884	1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
53	1885	1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado. 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
54	1885-1889	1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
55	1888	1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
56	1889	1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
57	1889-1893	1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
58	1890	1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
59	1891	1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
60	1893	1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
61	1893-1897	1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
62	1895	1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
63	1896	1896: Ragtime music is born.
64	1897	1897: First vaccine for plague. 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes. 1897: First vaccine for plague.
65	1897-1901	1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
66	1898	1898: Spanish-American War
67	1899	1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
68	1900	1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
69	1901-1909	1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
70	1903	1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors. 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
71	1904	1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
72	1905	1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
73	1906	1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
74	1909	1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
75	1909-1913	1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
76	1911	1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
77	1912	1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
78	1913	1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs. 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers! 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
79	1913-1921	1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
80	1914-1918	1914-1918: World War I
81	1914	1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
82	1915	1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
83	1918	1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
84	1919	1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
85	1920	1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
86	1921	1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
87	1921-1923	1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
88	1923	1923: First vaccine for diphtheria 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
89	1923-1929	1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
90	1924	1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York. Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
91	1926	1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
92	1927	1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
93	1928	1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
94	1929-1933	1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
95	1932	1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
96	1933-1945	1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
97	1935	1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
98	1936	1936: Electric guitars debut.
99	1937	1937: First vaccine for typhus
100	1939-1945	1939-1945: World War II
101	1941	7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
102	1943	1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
103	1945	1945: First vaccine for influenza
104	1945-1953	1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
105	1948	1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
106	1949	1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
107	1950-1953	1950-1953: Korean War
108	1953-1961	1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
109	1955	1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
110	1956	1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
111	1960	1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.

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