Event | (1)st or (2)nd |
Liberia founded for freed American slaves | |
First transcontinental railroad completed in US | |
Construction of Big Ben completed | |
Spanish Inquisition officially ended | |
Cro-Magnon man first identified | |
Shaka's Zulu Kingdom at the peak of its power | |
Queen Victoria became 'Empress of India' | |
The Word 'Dinosaur' coined by Richard Owen | |
Austrian Empire founded by Francis I | |
Arthur C. Doyle published first 'Sherlock Holmes' | |
Royal Albert Hall opened in London | |
Safety pin invented | |
Edgar Allan Poe published 'The Raven' | |
Fingerprinting officially adopted | |
World's first oil refinery opened in Romania | |
Olympic Games revived in Athens | |
California Gold Rush began | |
Marx and Engels published 'Communist Manifesto' | |
United States purchased Alaska from Russia | |
Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna | |
World population reached 1 billion | |
Eiffel Tower inaugurated in Paris | |
Twain published 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' | |
Telegraphy patented | |
Coca-Cola developed | |
Aleksandr Pushkin published 'Eugene Onegin' | |
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite | |
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on St. Helena | |
British Empire banned slavery | |
Lakota leader Crazy Horse killed | |
Liberia founded for freed American slaves | |
First transcontinental railroad completed in US | |
Construction of Big Ben completed | |
Spanish Inquisition officially ended | |
Cro-Magnon man first identified | |
Shaka's Zulu Kingdom at the peak of its power | |
Queen Victoria became 'Empress of India' | |
The Word 'Dinosaur' coined by Richard Owen | |
Austrian Empire founded by Francis I | |
Arthur C. Doyle published first 'Sherlock Holmes' | |
Royal Albert Hall opened in London | |
Safety pin invented | |
Edgar Allan Poe published 'The Raven' | |
Fingerprinting officially adopted | |
World's first oil refinery opened in Romania | |
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