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| 1 | 1836 | - War of Texas Independence
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| 2 | 1837-1841 | - Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
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| 3 | 1839 | - The New York Philharmonic is established.
- Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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| 4 | 1841 | - Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
- William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
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| 5 | 1841-1845 | - John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
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| 6 | 1845 | - Edgar Allen Poe writes The Raven and Other Poems.
- Frederick Douglass writes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
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| 7 | 1845-1849 | - James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
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| 8 | 1846-1848 | |
| 9 | 1849-1850 | - Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
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| 10 | 1850 | - Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
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| 11 | 1850-1853 | - Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 12 | 1851 | - Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
- Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
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| 13 | 1852 | - Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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| 14 | 1853-1857 | - Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 15 | 1854 | - Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
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| 16 | 1855 | - Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
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| 17 | 1857-1861 | - James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 18 | 1861 | - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
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| 19 | 1861-1865 | - American Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 20 | 1863 | - Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
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| 21 | 1865 | - Mark Twain writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
- Julia C. Collins writes The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride.
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| 22 | 1865-1869 | - Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
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| 23 | 1867 | - Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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| 24 | 1868 | - Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
- Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
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| 25 | 1869 | - Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
- Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
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| 26 | 1869-1877 | - Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 27 | 1870's | - Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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| 28 | 1871 | - Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
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| 29 | 1874 | - Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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| 30 | 1876 | - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
- Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
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| 31 | 1877-1881 | - Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 32 | 1878 | - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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| 33 | 1879 | - First vaccine for cholera
- Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
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| 34 | 1881 | - First vaccine for anthrax
- Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
- Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor.
- James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
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| 35 | 1881-1885 | - Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 36 | 1882 | |
| 37 | 1883 | - The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
- Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
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| 38 | 1884 | - Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
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| 39 | 1885 | - Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
- William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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| 40 | 1885-1889 | - Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 41 | 1888 | - Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
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| 42 | 1889 | - Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
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| 43 | 1889-1893 | - Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 44 | 1890 | - Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
- Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
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| 45 | 1891 | - Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
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| 46 | 1893 | -
Dvorak composes From the New World.
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| 47 | 1893-1897 | - Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 48 | 1895 | - Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
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| 50 | 1897 | - First vaccine for plague.
- Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
- First vaccine for plague.
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| 51 | 1897-1901 | - William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 52 | 1898 | |
| 53 | 1899 | - Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
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| 54 | 1900 | - Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
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| 55 | 1901-1909 | - Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
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| 56 | 1903 | - Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
- Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
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| 57 | 1904 | - Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
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| 58 | 1905 | - Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
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| 59 | 1906 | - Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
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| 60 | 1909 | - Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
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| 61 | 1909-1913 | - William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
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| 62 | 1911 | - Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
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| 63 | 1912 | - Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
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| 64 | 1913 | - Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs.
- Willa Cather writes O Pioneers!
- T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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