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China Taiping Rebellion begins.

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Harriet 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 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 propose 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 assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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The United States buys 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 president election.

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France Claude Monet gathers Impressionist painters for their first exhibit.

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Baseball's Nationl 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 the New York Harbor.

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The U.S. Census Bureau declares the frontier closed.