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China Taiping Rebellion begins.

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Harrier Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

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In the Dred Scott decision the U.S. Supreme Court rules that people of African descent cannot become U.S. citizens

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John Brown, an abolitionist, leads a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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Abraham Lincoln is elected as president

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The Civil War begins with Confederate Forces firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina

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France Louis Pasteur proposes the modern germ theory of disease

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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Thirteenth Amendment, outlawing slavery, is added to the U.S. Constitution

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President Lincoln is assasinated by John Wilkes Booth

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The United States buy Alaska from Russia

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Russia Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is published

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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in a presidential election

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France Claude Monet gathers impressionist painters for their first exhibit

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Baseball's National League is founded

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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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The Reconstruction Era ends in the South

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Thomas Edison invents a practical electric light

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Europe The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) is formed

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The Standard Oil trust becomes the first industrial monopoly

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The Brooklyn Bridge is opened

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Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published

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The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor

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The U.S. Census Bureau declares the frontier closed