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| 1 | 1874 | - Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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| 2 | 1876 | - Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
- Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
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| 3 | 1877-1881 | - Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1878 | - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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| 5 | 1879 | - First vaccine for cholera
- Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
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| 6 | 1881 | - First vaccine for anthrax
- Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor.
- Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
- James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
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| 7 | 1881-1885 | - Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 8 | 1882 | |
| 9 | 1883 | - Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
- The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
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| 10 | 1884 | - Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
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| 11 | 1885 | - Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
- William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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| 12 | 1885-1889 | - Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 13 | 1888 | - Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
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| 14 | 1889 | - Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
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| 15 | 1889-1893 | - Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 16 | 1890 | - Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
- Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
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| 17 | 1891 | - Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
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| 18 | 1893 | -
Dvorak composes From the New World.
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| 19 | 1893-1897 | - Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 20 | 1895 | - Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
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| 21 | 1896 | |
| 22 | 1897 | - First vaccine for plague.
- First vaccine for plague.
- Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
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| 23 | 1897-1901 | - William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 24 | 1898 | |
| 25 | 1899 | - Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
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| 26 | 1900 | - Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
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| 27 | 1901-1909 | - Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
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| 28 | 1903 | - Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
- Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
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