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| 1 | 1854 | - 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
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| 2 | 1855 | - 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
- 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
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| 3 | 1857-1861 | - 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1861-1865 | - 1861-1865: American Civil War
- 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 5 | 1861 | - 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
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| 6 | 1863 | - 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
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| 7 | 1865 | - 1865: Mark Twain writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
- 1865: Julia C. Collins writes The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride.
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| 8 | 1865-1869 | - 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
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| 9 | 1867 | - 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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| 10 | 1868 | - 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
- 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
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| 11 | 1869 | - 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
- 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
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| 12 | 1869-1877 | - 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
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| 13 | 1870's | - 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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| 14 | 1871 | - 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
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| 15 | 1874 | - 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
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