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	Date	Event(s)
1	1786	1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
2	1787-1788	1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
3	1789-1797	1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
4	1790	1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
5	1796	1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
6	1797-1801	1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
7	1798-1800	1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
8	1801-1809	1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
9	1807	1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5. 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
10	1809	1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
11	1809-1817	1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
12	1812-1815	1812-1815: War of 1812
13	1813-1814	1813-1814: Creek War
14	1814	1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
15	1816	1816: Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
16	1817	1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
17	1817-1825	1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
18	1819	1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
19	1820	1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
20	1825-1829	1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
21	1826	1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
22	1829-1837	1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
23	1836	1836: War of Texas Independence
24	1837-1841	1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
25	1839	1839: The New York Philharmonic is established. 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
26	1841	1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series. 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
27	1841-1845	1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
28	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.
29	1845-1849	1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
30	1846-1848	1846-1848: Mexican War
31	1849-1850	1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
32	1850	1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
33	1850-1853	1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
34	1851	1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick. 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
35	1852	1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
36	1853-1857	1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
37	1854	1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
38	1855	1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass. 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
39	1857-1861	1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
40	1861-1865	1861-1865: American Civil War 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
41	1861	1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
42	1863	1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
43	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.
44	1865-1869	1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
45	1867	1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
46	1868	1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women. 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
47	1869	1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad. 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
48	1869-1877	1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
49	1870's	1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
50	1871	1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
51	1874	1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
52	1876	1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake. 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
53	1877-1881	1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
54	1878	1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
55	1879	1879: First vaccine for cholera 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
56	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.
57	1881-1885	1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
58	1882	1882: First vaccine for rabies
59	1883	1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York. 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
60	1884	1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
61	1885	1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado. 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
62	1885-1889	1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
63	1888	1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
64	1889	1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
65	1889-1893	1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
66	1890	1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
67	1891	1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
68	1893	1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
69	1893-1897	1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
70	1895	1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
71	1896	1896: Ragtime music is born.
72	1897	1897: First vaccine for plague. 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes. 1897: First vaccine for plague.
73	1897-1901	1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
74	1898	1898: Spanish-American War
75	1899	1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
76	1900	1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
77	1901-1909	1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
78	1903	1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors. 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
79	1904	1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
80	1905	1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
81	1906	1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
82	1909	1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
83	1909-1913	1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
84	1911	1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
85	1912	1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
86	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."
87	1913-1921	1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
88	1914-1918	1914-1918: World War I
89	1914	1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
90	1915	1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
91	1918	1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
92	1919	1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
93	1920	1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
94	1921	1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
95	1921-1923	1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
96	1923	1923: First vaccine for diphtheria 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
97	1923-1929	1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
98	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.
99	1926	1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
100	1927	1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
101	1928	1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
102	1929-1933	1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
103	1932	1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
104	1933-1945	1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
105	1935	1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
106	1936	1936: Electric guitars debut.
107	1937	1937: First vaccine for typhus
108	1939-1945	1939-1945: World War II
109	1941	7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
110	1943	1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
111	1945	1945: First vaccine for influenza
112	1945-1953	1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
113	1948	1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
114	1949	1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
115	1950-1953	1950-1953: Korean War
116	1953-1961	1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
117	1955	1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
118	1956	1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
119	1960	1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.

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