1865
YES! He joined us! COUNT MORE @Syndro
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The 19th century is BORING?!
1866, Alfred Nobel invents dynamite!
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1867
This is the same nobel that the nobel peace prize is named for.
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1868
Guess he didn’t wanna be known as “the merchant of death” for all of eternity.
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The first transcontinental railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by the driving of the golden spike.
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With the American Civil War over, the reconstruction era begins, in no particular order:
- The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing African American men the right to vote, is passed.
- Virginia rejoins the Union. This year it adopts a new Constitution, drawn up by John Curtiss Underwood, expanding suffrage to all male citizens over 21, including freedmen.
- Texas is readmitted to the Union.
- Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state of America to be readmitted to the Union.
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John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. Rockefeller would go on to become one of the wealthiest men in the USA
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American President Ulysses S. Grant signs an act making the United States Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day federal holidays in the United States
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During the Franco-Prussian war, Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. Empress Eugénie flees to England with her son.
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- No clue what happened in 1871.
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- @Johannes2262 in 1871 the German empire gets formed, Grant signs civil rights act, the Great Chicago Fire occurs.
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A great solar flare, and associated geomagnetic storm, makes northern lights visible as far south as Cuba
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The Mary Celeste sets sail from New York; bound for Genoa, Italy. A month later it will be found abandoned by the Dei Gratia in the Atlantic
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In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the 2-day disaster destroys about 65 acres (0.26 km2) of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage).
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Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
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kinda boring year. here’s Oscar-Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise.
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1873
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1874
Wrong year, wait till 1937 to brag about the Ithaca.
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1875
This thread is not the same without our man @DukeofCagliostro
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- Yeah, and he needs to respond to the accusations in this thread: how do i ban a guy from being able to react to my posts.
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1877
Someone is coping they not as good as the Duke.
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- I am not dead. The original and best. Still partially under the weather. But more importantly, having to assist the family with personal things. As much as I like you all, Family and faith take precedence. I will fully return soon.
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1879
Glad to see ya buddy! Yes family comes first! you take your time and take care of what needs to be done, just dont forget to poke yer head in here once in awhile ok? Well keep yer spot however long it take duke!
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- Agreed, but you forgot to count, fix that quickly.
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1881
Ataturk’s just born!
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The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates
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Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the United States, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that begins the electrical age.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first important law which restricts immigration into the United States.
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The U.S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States is born.
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- @copper-wilson, what kind of plane is the one on your profile picture?
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1884
Its a F-22 Raptor.
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