Notable Events and People, 1851 to 1875

Notable Events and People, 1851 to 1875

First World's Fair--London/ New York Times/ First compulsory school attendance law, Massachusetts/ Roget's Thesaurus/ Elevator invented/ Potato chip invented/ Crimean War/ Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava/ Kansas-Nebraska Act appropriates Indian lands/ Boolean logic/ The Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility/ YWCA/ Victoria Falls discovered/ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations/ Garibaldi/ Dred Scott Decision/ Emancipation of Russia's serfs/ Gray's Anatomy/ Big Ben/ Central Park in New York/ John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry/ Petroleum production, Titusville, PA/ Suez Canal/ Origin of Species/ Cocaine/ Abraham Lincoln, President/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Suffrage/ John D Rockefeller and oil/ Pony Express/ First world heavyweight boxing championship/ Pasteurization of milk/ United Italy/ American Civil War/ Battle of Bull Run/ Cochise/ First U.S. income tax/ Gatling gun/ Germ theory of disease/ Western Union telegraph line between New York and San Francisco/ Confederate Merrimac vs. Union Monitor/ Battle of Shiloh/ Battle of Antietam/ Emancipation Proclamation/ Homestead Act/ "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe/ "Taps" / Union defeat at Chancellorsville, VA/ Battle of Gettysburg/ Draft riots in New York City/ Grant commands Union armies/ Sherman and Atlanta/ Sherman's March to the sea/ Geneva Conventions/ Matthew Brady photographs the Civil War/ Lee surrenders to Grant/ Lincoln assassinated/ Ku Klux Klan/ Thirteenth Amendment and slavery/ Salvation Army/ Mendel and genetics/ First U.S. train robbery/ Atlantic cable between U.S. and Britain/ Dominion of Canada/ Alaska/ First U.S. elevated railway in New York City/ Howard University/ Typewriter/ Paperback books/ The curve ball in baseball/ President Johnson impeached but exonerated by one vote/ Memorial Day observed/ Cross country railroad established/ Stanley finds Livingstone at Lake Tanganyika/ Barnum's Circus/ National Rifle Association founded/ Chicago Fire/ Susan B. Anthony tries to vote/ Sarah Bernhardt/ First motion picture: Edward Muybridge/ Jesse James/ Yellowstone National Park/ Depression of 1873/ San Francisco's cable cars/ Father Damien and the lepers/ DDT/ Chautauqua Movement/ French "Impressionists"/ Madison Square Garden/ Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)/ Osteopathy/ Electric dental drill/ Telephone/ Christmas cards/ Kentucky Derby.