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| 1 | 1839 | - 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
- 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1845-1849 | - 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
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| 6 | 1846-1848 | |
| 7 | 1849-1850 | - 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
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| 8 | 1850 | - 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
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| 9 | 1850-1853 | - 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 10 | 1851 | - 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
- 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
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| 11 | 1852 | - 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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| 12 | 1853-1857 | - 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 13 | 1854 | - 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
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| 14 | 1855 | - 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
- 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
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| 15 | 1857-1861 | - 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 1861 | - 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
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| 18 | 1863 | - 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 1865-1869 | - 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
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| 21 | 1867 | - 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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| 22 | 1868 | - 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
- 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
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| 23 | 1869 | - 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
- 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
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| 24 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 25 | 1870's | - 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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| 26 | 1871 | - 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
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| 27 | 1874 | - 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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| 28 | 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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| 29 | 1877-1881 | - 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 30 | 1878 | - 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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| 31 | 1879 | - 1879: First vaccine for cholera
- 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
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| 32 | 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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| 33 | 1881-1885 | - 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 34 | 1882 | - 1882: First vaccine for rabies
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| 35 | 1883 | - 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
- 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
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