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Events of the 1800s: when did it happen? (page 2 of 2)

Page 2 of 2, answers 50 to 97. The years of 97 famous events of the 1800s, from 1800 to 1898, sorted oldest to newest, each with a short fact.

• When did the American Civil War begin?1861
• When did the Homestead Act offer free land in the West?1862
• When did the London Underground open?1863
• When did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?1863
• When did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?1863
• When did Lincoln proclaim a national Thanksgiving Day?1863
• When was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published?1865
• When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?1865
• When did the Civil War end at Appomattox?1865
• When did the US buy Alaska from Russia?1867
• When did Canada become a country?1867
• When did the Suez Canal open?1869
• When was the first US transcontinental railroad completed?1869
• When did Mendeleev publish the periodic table?1869
• When was the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, formed?1869
• When did Christmas become a US federal holiday?1870
• When did Yellowstone become the world's first national park?1872
• When did Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent riveted blue jeans?1873
• When was the telephone patented?1876
• When was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?1876
• When did Edison invent the phonograph?1877
• When did Edison demonstrate his practical light bulb?1879
• When did Clara Barton found the American Red Cross?1881
• When did Edison open the first public power station?1882
• When did Krakatoa erupt?1883
• When did the Brooklyn Bridge open?1883
• When was the Washington Monument completed?1884
• When was the first skyscraper, Chicago's Home Insurance Building, finished?1885
• When was Coca-Cola invented?1886
• When was the Statue of Liberty dedicated?1886
• When did Karl Benz patent the first true automobile?1886
• When did Sherlock Holmes first appear?1887
• When did Kodak's first camera go on sale?1888
• When was Nintendo founded?1889
• When was the Eiffel Tower completed?1889
• When did Van Gogh paint The Starry Night?1889
• When was the Wounded Knee Massacre?1890
• When was basketball invented?1891
• When did Carnegie Hall open in New York?1891
• When did Ellis Island open to immigrants?1892
• When did the first Ferris wheel open?1893
• When were X-rays discovered?1895
• When were the first modern Olympic Games held?1896
• When did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?1896
• When was the first Boston Marathon run?1897
• When did Pepsi-Cola get its name?1898
• When was the Spanish–American War?1898
• When did the US annex Hawaii?1898