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James Buchanan Administration (1857-1861)

04/01/1857 - 04/01/1861

Abraham Lincoln Administration (1861-1865)

04/01/1861 - 04/01/1865

Confederates fire on Ft. Sumter (1861)

04/12/1861

Gatling Gun (Richard Gatling) (1862)

05/04/1862

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

04/01/1863

Vicksburg and Gettysburg (1863)

04/01/1863

Andrew Johnson Administration (1865-1869)

04/01/1865 - 04/01/1869

Lee surrenders at Appomattox (1865)

04/01/1865

Lincoln Assassinated (1865)

04/01/1865

Dynamite (Alfred Nobel) (1867)

04/01/1867

14th Amendment (1868)

04/01/1868

Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868)

04/01/1868

First Transcontinental Railroad (1869)

04/01/1869

Ulysses S. Grant Administration (1869-1877)

04/01/1869 - 04/01/1877

Modern Steel Mill (Carnegie) (1873)

04/01/1873

Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)

04/01/1876

Telephone (Alexander G. Bell) (1876)

04/01/1876

Reconstruction Ends (1877)

04/01/1877

Rutherford B. Hayes Administration (1877-1881)

04/01/1877 - 04/01/1881

Antiseptic (Lister) (1878)

04/01/1878

Lightbulb (Edison) (1878)

04/01/1878

Phonograph (Edison) (1879)

04/01/1879

Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)

04/01/1881 - 04/01/1885

James A. Garfield Administration (1881)

04/01/1881 - 04/02/1881

John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil Trust (1882)

04/01/1882

Automobile (Damler and Benz) (1885)

04/01/1885

Benjamin Harrison Administration (1885-1893)

04/01/1885 - 04/01/1893

Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)

04/01/1885 - 04/01/1889

American Federation of Labor founded (1886)

04/01/1886

Box Camera (Eastman) (1886)

04/01/1886

Coca Cola (Pemberton) (1886)

04/01/1886

Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

04/01/1887

Radium (Marie Curie) (1890)

04/01/1890

Homestead Strike (1892)

04/01/1892

Grover Cleveland Administration (1893-1897)

04/01/1893 - 04/01/1897

Wireless communication (Marconi) (1895)

04/01/1895

X-Ray (Roentgen) (1895)

04/01/1895

William McKinley Administration (1897-1901)

04/01/1897 - 04/01/1901

The Spanish American War (1898)

04/01/1898