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| 1 | 1884 | - 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
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| 2 | 1885 | - 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
- 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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| 3 | 1885-1889 | - 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1888 | - 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
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| 5 | 1889 | - 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
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| 6 | 1889-1893 | - 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 7 | 1890 | - 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
- 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
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| 8 | 1891 | - 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
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| 9 | 1893 | - 1893:
Dvorak composes From the New World.
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| 10 | 1893-1897 | - 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 11 | 1895 | - 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
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| 12 | 1896 | - 1896: Ragtime music is born.
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1897-1901 | - 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 15 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War
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| 16 | 1899 | - 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
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| 17 | 1900 | - 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
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| 18 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
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| 19 | 1903 | - 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
- 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
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| 20 | 1904 | - 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
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| 21 | 1905 | - 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
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| 22 | 1906 | - 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
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| 23 | 1909 | - 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
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| 24 | 1909-1913 | - 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
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| 25 | 1911 | - 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
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| 26 | 1912 | - 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
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| 27 | 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."
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| 28 | 1913-1921 | - 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
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| 29 | 1914-1918 | |
| 30 | 1914 | - 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
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| 31 | 1915 | - 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
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