• The First Barbary War between the United States and Tripoli ends • The Michigan Territory is created from the Indiana Territory • Beethoven's Third Symphony is performed for the first time • Napoleon is crowned King of Italy • Admiral Nelson wins (and is fatally shot) in the Battle of Trafalgar
• Andrew Jackson and his troops win the Battle of New Orleans • The Spanish begin a reconquest of Latin America • Napoleon escapes Elba and begins the 'Hundred Days' • William I is crowned King of the Netherlands • Mount Tambora explodes in modern-day Indonesia, killing 92,000
• The first modern railway opens in the United Kingdom • Charles X of France recognizes the independence of Haiti • Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil • The Erie Canal is completed, linking Buffalo and Albany • The Imperial Russian Army stages the Decembrist Revolt against Nicholas I
• Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reach the Galápagos Islands • The United States debt hits zero for the first (and only) time • The city of Melbourne is founded in Australia • The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales • The Second Seminole War begins in Florida
• The Great Famine begins in Ireland • The United States agrees to the annexation of Texas • Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, the Great Britain, crosses the Atlantic • The United States Naval Academy opens in Annapolis • Scientific American publishes its first issue
• The Australian colonies are granted self-governance • Bytown, Ontario is incorporated as a city and is renamed Ottawa • Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom • Sevastopol falls to French and British forces in the Crimean War • Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is published for the first time
• The U.S. Civil War ends with defeat for the Confederates • The Dominican Republic is granted independence from Spain • Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Washington, DC • Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay form an alliance against Paraguay • The summit of the Matterhorn is reached for the first time
• The Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, is named the first cardinal in the United States • The opera 'Carmen' is performed for the first time • The first Kentucky Derby is held • Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel • The Treaty of St. Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia over the Sakhalin Islands
• Serbia declares war on Bulgaria but concedes defeat two weeks later • Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as his personal possession • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is published for the first time • The Washington Monument is dedicated • Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux find that their rabies vaccine is effective
• The Cuban War of Independence begins • William Röntgen discovers x-rays • Rudolf Diesel patents his engine in Germany • The First Sino-Japanese War ends in victory for Japan • The Kiel Canal, connecting the North and Baltic Seas, opens
• The Russo-Japanese War ends with victory for Japan • The Trans-Siberian Railway opens • Nicholas II of Russia creates the legislative Duma • Albert Einstein publishes his papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, and relativity • Norway declares its union with Sweden dissolved and becomes independent
• The Armenian Genocide begins with the deportation of Armenian nobles from Istanbul • The first coast-to-coast telephone call is completed in the United States • The United States Coast Guard is officially made a branch of the military • D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' is premiered • Italy leaves the Triple Alliance and joins the Triple Entente
• Mount Rushmore is dedicated in South Dakota • Mussolini’s speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies begins era of his dictatorship • Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States • 'The Great Gatsby' is published for the first time • The Scopes Trial begins over the teaching of evolution
• The Social Security Act is signed into law in the United States • The Italian territories of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are officially joined as Libya • Adolf Hitler reinstates the Luftwaffe and begins rearmament in Germany • Persia is officially renamed Iran • Babe Ruth plays his last game
• World War II ends following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan • Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet in the famous Yalta Conference • The Battle of Iwo Jima occurs with its famous flag raising • The Arab League is formed in Cairo, Egypt • The United Nations is formed
• The Warsaw Pact is officially signed • The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, is launched • The Soviet Union announces the end of war with Germany • Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom • Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is approved by the FDA
• The death penalty is abolished in the United Kingdom • The current flag of Canada is officially put into use • The first American combat troops arrive in Vietnam • Martin Luther King leads the march from Selma to Montgomery • Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes an independent country
• The Khmer Rouge wins the Cambodian Civil War and begins committing genocide • King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew • Microsoft is founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico • The Vietnam War ends with the Fall of Saigon • Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union • Schengen Agreement is signed: Belgium, France, W. Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands • U.S. Route 66 is decommissioned • The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the United States • The first WrestleMania is held in New York
• The World Trade Organization is established • The UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia ends • A religious cult releases sarin gas on a Tokyo subway, killing 13 and injuring over 5,000 • 168 are killed following a bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City • 'Toy Story,' the first fully computer animated film, is released
• North Korea announces that it has nuclear weapons • The Tulip Revolution occurs in Kyrgyzstan • Benedict XVI becomes Pope, following the death of John Paul II • Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishes drawings of Muhammad • YouTube is founded and launched
• Same-sex marriage is legalized across the United States • Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan enter into the Eurasian Economic Union • Terror attacks occur in Paris in January and November • Cuba and the United States re-establish diplomatic relations • Greece misses its payment to the IMF and rejects a bailout
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