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1 | 1383 | - 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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2 | 1763 | - 1763—1884: POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
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3 | 1817 | |
4 | 1832 | - 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
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5 | 1837 | - 6 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria
House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort
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6 | 1850 | - 6 Sep 1850—3 Jan 1896: Utah Territory Organized
- 9 Sep 1850—5 Jan 1912: New Mexico Territory Organized
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7 | 1853 | - 3 Feb 1853—10 Nov 1889: Washington Territory Organized
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8 | 1861 | - 2 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: North Dakota Territory Organized
- 3 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: South Dakota Territory Organized
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9 | 1863 | - 3 Mar 1863—2 Jul 1890: Idaho Territory Organized
- 2 1863—13 Feb 1912: Arizona Territory Organized
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10 | 1864 | - 5 1864—7 Nov 1889: Montana Territory Organized
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11 | 1868 | - 7 1868—9 Jul 1890: Wyoming Territory Organized
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12 | 1880 | - 1880—7 Nov 1885: Chinese build railroad
The construction of the western section of the Canadian Pacific Railway employs thousands of Chinese workers
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13 | 1881 | - 19 Sep 1881—4 Mar 1885: Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur U.S. Presidency
- 9 1881—4 Mar 1885: Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield
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14 | 1884 | - 1884—1884: Second Acadian Convention at Miscouche
Second Acadian Convention at Miscouche on Prince Edward Island. The tri-color with gold star is approved as the Acadian flag and the hymn Ave Maris Stella becomes the national anthem of the Acadians.
- 1884—1884: Voting rights extended
Spinsters and widows permitted to vote in municipal elections
- 1884—1884: James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register
- 1884—1884: Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
- 1884—1884: Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen
- 1884—1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
- 1884—1884: Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon
- 31 May 1884—31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
- 13 Oct 1884—13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
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15 | 1885 | - 1885—1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed
- 1885—1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1885—1885: Eastman makes first coated photographic paper
- 1885—1885: Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car
- 1885—1885: Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine
- 1885—1885: Harim Maxim invents the machine gun
- 1885—1885: Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
- Mar 1885—Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
- 4 Mar 1885—4 Mar 1889: Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1885—4 Mar 1889: Grover Cleveland
- 11 Jul 1885—7 Nov 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway Completed
'Here on November 7, 1885, a plain iron spike welded East to West', says a plaque in Craigellachie, Eagle Pass, BC
- 5 Sep 1885—5 Sep 1885: The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
- 29 Sep 1885—29 Sep 1885: First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
- 11 1885—16 Nov 1885: Louis Riel hanged
Accused of treason for leading the Métis resistance, Louis Riel's hanging in Regina further degrades English-French relations
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16 | 1886 | - 1886—1886: Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle
- 1886—1886: John Pemberton invents Coca Cola
- 1886—1886: Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher
- 20 Jan 1886—20 Jan 1886: Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales
- May 1886—May 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named 'Coca-Cola'
- 29 May 1886—29 May 1886: Putney Bridge opens in London
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17 | 1887 | - 1887—1887: Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
- 1887—1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar
- 1887—1887: Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
- 1887—1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
- 1887—1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses
- 5 Mar 1887—3 May 1887: Coal mine explosion in Nanaimo, BC
148 killed in mine explosion
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18 | 1888 | - 1888—1888: First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent
for his camera which uses roll film
- 1888—1888: Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
- 1888—1888: County Councils set up in Britain
- 1888—1888: Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year
- 1888—1888: Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace
- 1888—1888: Voting rights extended
All adult male British subjects except unenfranchised Indians living on reserves are permitted to vote
- 1888—1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire
- 1888—1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer
- 1888—1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws
- 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
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19 | 1889 | - 1889—1889: Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies
- 1889—1889: Celluloid film produced
- 1889—1889: Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act
Ontario's western boundary extended to west of Lake Superior
- 1889—1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder
- 1889—1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook
- 11 Feb 1889—2 Nov 1889: South Dakota
40th State
- 11 Feb 1889—2 Nov 1889: North Dakota
39th State
- 4 Mar 1889—4 Mar 1893: Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison U.S. Presidency
- 31 Mar 1889—31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
- 3 Apr 1889—4 Mar 1893: Benjamin Harrison
- 14 May 1889—14 May 1889: Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
- 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
- 11 Aug 1889—8 Nov 1889: Montana
41st State
- 28 Sep 1889—28 Sep 1889: Length of a metre defined
- 11 Nov 1889—11 Nov 1889: Washington
42nd State
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20 | 1890 | - 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Indian Territory Organized
The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
- 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Oklahoma Territory Organized
The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
- 4 Mar 1890—4 Mar 1890: Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build
- 7 Mar 1890—3 Jul 1890: Idaho
43rd State
- 7 Oct 1890—10 Jul 1890: Wyoming
44th State
- 4 Nov 1890—4 Nov 1890: City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway
and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
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21 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
- 1891—1891: First Children's Aid Society is established in Toronto
- 1891—1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
- 18 Mar 1891—18 Mar 1891: First telephone link between London & Paris
- 4 May 1891—4 May 1891: Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
- 4 Jun 1891—6 Apr 1891: Census of Canada
counts 4,833,239 individuals
- 24 Aug 1891—24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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22 | 1892 | - 1892—1892: Electric oven invented
- 1892—1892: Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
- 1892—1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask
- 1892—1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine
- 6 Oct 1892—6 Oct 1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
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23 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
- 1893—1893: Henry Ford's first car
- 1893—1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper
- 1893—1893: Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum
- 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1893—4 Mar 1897: Grover Cleveland
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24 | 1894 | - 1894—1894: Picture postcard introduced in Britain
- 1 Jan 1894—1 Jan 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opens
- 1 Mar 1894—1 Mar 1894: Blackpool Tower opens
- 30 Jun 1894—30 Jun 1894: Tower Bridge first opens
- 2 Aug 1894—2 Aug 1894: Death duties first introduced in Britain
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25 | 1895 | - 1895—1895: Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London
- 1895—1895: Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one
- 1895—1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe
- 12 Jan 1895—12 Jan 1895: The National Trust founded in England
- 24 May 1895—24 May 1895: Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted
- 28 May 1895—28 May 1895: Oscar Wilde sent to prison
- 12 Jul 1895—12 Jul 1895: First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain
- 17 Oct 1895—17 Oct 1895: First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey
- Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
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26 | 1896 | - 1896—1896: Gold discovered in Yukon
Gold found in Bonanza Creek, Klondike River, Yukon
- 1896—1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel
- 1 Apr 1896—4 Jan 1896: Utah
45th State
- 5 Apr 1896—5 Apr 1896: First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
- 2 Jun 1896—2 Jun 1896: Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
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27 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
- 4 Mar 1897—14 Sep 1901: William McKinley
William McKinley U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1897—14 Sep 1901: William McKinley
William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY.
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28 | 1898 | - 1898—1898: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded
- 1898—1898: Zeppelin builds airship
- 1898—1898: First photograph using artificial light
- 1898—1898: Klondike gold rush
Gold rush along the upper Yukon River
- 1898—1898: Yukon gold rush
- 1898—1898: Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine
- 1898—1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
- 17 Mar 1898—17 Mar 1898: USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine
- 25 Apr 1898—12 Aug 1898: Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War
- 27 Jun 1898—27 Jun 1898: The first solo circumnavigation of the globe completed at Rhode island by
Joshua Slocum in Spray (started from Boston, Mass on Apr 24, 1895)
- 7 Jul 1898—20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
- 6 1898—13 Jun 1898: The Yukon joins Canada
Yukon becomes an entity separate from the North-West Territories
- 4 1898—10 Dec 1898: Spanish-American War
United States vs Spain
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29 | 1899 | - 1899—1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
- 1899—1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
- 6 Mar 1899—6 Mar 1899: Aspirin first marketed by Bayer
- 2 Jun 1899—4 Jul 1902: Philippine-American War
Philippine-American War
- 11 Oct 1899—11 Oct 1899: Start of Second Boer War
- 2 Nov 1899—7 Sep 1901: Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
- 10 1899—30 Oct 1899: Boer War
Canadian troops sent overseas for the first time to fight in the Boer War, but this is opposed by Quebec
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30 | 1900 | - 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
- 1900—1900: Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified
- 1900—1900: Escalator shown at Paris exhibition
- 1900—1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- 1900—1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
- 9 Feb 1900—9 Feb 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established
- 27 Feb 1900—27 Feb 1900: Labour Party formed
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31 | 1901 | - 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
- 1901—1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded
- 1901—1901: King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor
- 1901—1901: The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
- 1901—1901: Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner
- 22 Jan 1901—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king
- 2 Feb 1901—2 Feb 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore
Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park
- Jun 1901—Jun 1901: Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War
- 14 Sep 1901—4 Mar 1909: Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Presidenc
- 2 Oct 1901—2 Oct 1901: Britain's first submarine launched
- 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse
code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
- 9 1901—4 Mar 1909: Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley
- 1 1901—6 May 1910: Edward VII
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark
- 3 1901—31 Mar 1901: Census of Canada
counts 5,371,315 individuals
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