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Porfirio Diaz seizes power in Mexico.
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president.
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Bicycling touring club founded in Europe.
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James A. Garfield is elected president.
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Chester A. Arthur succeeds Garfield after Garfield's assassination.
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Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge is completed.
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Grover Cleveland is elected president.
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Berlin Conference meets to divide Africa among European nations.
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Fifteen-nation conference on the division of Africa convences in Berlin.
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Indian National Congress forms.
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Benjamin Harrison is elected president.
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Electric trolleys are first introduced.
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Barnum & Bailey Circus in London.
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Eiffel Tower opens for visitors.
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Grover Clevenland is elected to a second term.
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Ida B. Wells crusades against lynching
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France establishes Indochina.
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Business groups, aided by U.S. marines, overthroe Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani.
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Guglielmo Marconi develops the technology that led to modern radio.
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William McKinley is elected president.
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Supreme Court establishes "seperatebut-equal" Doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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William McKinley is elected president.
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Hawaii is annexed by the United States.
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Marie Curie discovers radium.
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U.S.S. Maine explodes and sinks. The Spanish American War begins.
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Austria psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
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Boer War in South Africa begins.
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McKinley is reelected.
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William McKinley is reelected.
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William McKinley is reelected.
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In China the Boxers rebel.
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The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
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McKinley is assassinated.
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
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McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
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Commonwealth of Australia is created.
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley is assassinated.
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The Wright Brothers achieve the first successful airplane flight.
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Panama declares its independencce from Columbia.
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Theodore Roosevelt is elected president.
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Workers revolt in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Oil is discovered in Persia.
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Henry Ford introduces the Model T.
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William H. Taft is elected president.
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William H. Taft is elected president.
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William Howard Taft is elected president.
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W.E.B. Du Bois helps found the National Assossiation for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP).
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The appearence of Halley's comet causes widespread panic.
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Mexican Revolution begins.
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The Mexican Revolution begins.
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Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
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Qing dynasty in China is overthrown.
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Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
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China's Qin dynasty topples.
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Woodrow is elected president.
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Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
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Panama Canal opens.
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World War 1 begins in Europe.
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World War 1 begins in Europe.
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The Panama Canal opens.
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Hollywood, California, becomes the center of movie production in the U.S.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated.
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Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary.
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German U-boats sink the Lusitania, and 1,198 people die.
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Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call.
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Albert Einstein proposes general theory of relativity.
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Woodrow Wilson is reelected.
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Woodrow Wilson is reelected president.
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The battles of Verdun and Somme Claim millions of lives.
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Puerto Rico becomes U.S. citizens.
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The United States enters World War 1.
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Mexico revises and adopts its constitution.
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The Selective Service Act sets up the draft.
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The United States declared war on Germany.
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Russia withdraws from the war.
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Congress passes the Sedition Act.
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President Wilson proposes the League of Nations.
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The Bolsheviks establish a Communist regime in Russia.
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The First World War ends.
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Eighteenth Amendment outlaws alcoholic beverages.
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Mohandas Gandhi becomes leader of the independence movement in India.
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A worldwide influenza epidemic kills over 30million.
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Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote.
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Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote.
