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Date |
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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 | 1764 | - 8 1764—1862: Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
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| 4 | 1773 | - 1773—1858: East India Company governs Hindustan
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| 5 | 1817 | |
| 6 | 1832 | - 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1845 | - 5 1845—28 Jan 1861: Kansas Territory Organized
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| 9 | 1848 | - 8 1848—13 Feb 1859: Oregon Territory Organized
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| 10 | 1849 | - 3 Mar 1849—10 Nov 1858: Minnesota Territory Organized
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| 11 | 1850 | - 6 Sep 1850—3 Jan 1896: Utah Territory Organized
- 9 Sep 1850—5 Jan 1912: New Mexico Territory Organized
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| 12 | 1853 | - 3 Feb 1853—10 Nov 1889: Washington Territory Organized
- 4 Mar 1853—4 Mar 1857: Franklin Pierce
 Franklin Pierce U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1853—4 Mar 1857: Franklin Pierce
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| 13 | 1854 | - 5 1854—28 Feb 1867: Nebraska Territory Organized
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| 14 | 1857 | - 1857—1857: Work starts on the laying of the Transatlantic cable
- 1857—1857: Ottawa is declared the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria
- 1857—1857: George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel
- 4 Mar 1857—4 Mar 1861: James Buchanan
 James Buchanan U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1857—4 Mar 1861: James Buchanan
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| 15 | 1858 | - 1858—1858: Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London
- 1858—1858: 'The great stink' - smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work
- 1858—1858: Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
- 1858—1858: Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine
- 5 Nov 1858—11 May 1858: Minnesota
32nd State
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| 16 | 1859 | - 1859—1859: Peaceful picketing legalised in Britain
- 25 Apr 1859—25 Apr 1859: Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)
- 4 May 1859—4 May 1859: Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon
and Cornwall
- 24 Nov 1859—24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
- 2 1859—14 Feb 1859: Oregon
33rd State
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| 17 | 1860 | - 1860—1860: The Maple Leaf
first used as official emblem of Canada during visit from the Prince of Wales
- 29 Aug 1860—29 Aug 1860: First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead
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| 18 | 1861 | - 1861—1861: Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator
- 1861—1861: Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle
- 1861—1861: Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock
- 2 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: North Dakota Territory Organized
- 3 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: South Dakota Territory Organized
- 3 Feb 1861—30 Oct 1864: Nevada Territory Organized
- 4 Mar 1861—15 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln
 Abraham Lincoln U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1861—15 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day
- 12 Apr 1861—9 Apr 1865: American Civil War
 American Civil War
- 25 May 1861—25 May 1861: American Civil War begins
- 1 1861—14 Jan 1861: Canadian census
1861 census includes Canada West, Canada East, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
- 4 1861—9 Apr 1865: Civil War
Union vs Confederacy
- 2 1861—31 Jul 1876: Colorado Territory Organized
- 1 1861—29 Jan 1861: Kansas
34th State
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| 19 | 1862 | - 1862—1862: Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)
- 1862—1862: Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic
- 1862—1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun
- 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 20 | 1863 | - 1863—1863: Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
- 1863—1863: Football Association founded (UK)
- 1863—1863: Denmark goes to war against Prussia and Austria. In the Treaty of Prague (1866), Denmark cedes Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia (Ge
- 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863: First section of the London Underground Railway opens
- 3 Mar 1863—2 Jul 1890: Idaho Territory Organized
- 6 1863—20 Jun 1863: West Virginia
35th State
- 2 1863—13 Feb 1912: Arizona Territory Organized
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1857 - 1863 (5 years)