| 1837-1901: |   |   |   | Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)  from before birth until after line end | 
 
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  | 1863-1879: |   |   |   | 4th Cholera pandemic  from before birth until age 8 | 
 
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  | 1868-1878: |   |   |   | War between Cuba and Spain  from before birth until age 7 | 
 
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  | 1869-1876: |   |   |   | Ulysses S Grant president of US  from before birth until age 5 | 
 
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  | 1870-1871: |   |   |   | Franco-Prussian war  from before birth until age 0 | 
 
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  | 1871: |   |   |   | Great Fire destroys Chicago  at age 0 | 
 
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  | 1873: |   |   |   | Color Photographs  at age 2 | 
 
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  | 1873-1878: |   |   |   | Depression, banks fail  from age 2 to age  7 | 
 
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  | 1876: |   |   |   | Little Big Horn - Battle  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1876: |   |   |   | Telephone (Bell, Latimer)  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1876: |   |   |   | American Centennial  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1876: |   |   |   | Colorado enters the union - 38th  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1877-1880: |   |   |   | Ruthorford B Hayes president of US  from age 6 to age  9 | 
 
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  | 1877: |   |   |   | Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings  at age 6 | 
 
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  | 1878: |   |   |   | 1st commercial telephone exchange in US  at age 7 | 
 
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  | 1879: |   |   |   | Electric Light Bulb (Edison)  at age 8 | 
 
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  | 1881-1896: |   |   |   | 5th Cholera pandemic  from age 10 to age  25 | 
 
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  | 1881: |   |   |   | President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)  at age 10 | 
 
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  | 1881: |   |   |   | James A Garfield president of US  at age 10 | 
 
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  | 1881-1885: |   |   |   | Chester Arthur president of US  from age 10 to age  14 | 
 
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  | 1885-1888: |   |   |   | Grover Cleveland president of US  from age 14 to age  17 | 
 
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  | 1886: |   |   |   | Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)  at age 15 | 
 
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  | 1887: |   |   |   | X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)  at age 16 | 
 
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  | 1888: |   |   |   | 70...77 rpm musical records  at age 17 | 
 
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  | 1888: |   |   |   | Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths  at age 17 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Montana enters the union - 41st  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Washington enters the union - 42nd  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Holerith invents the punch card  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | North Dakota enters the union - 39th  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1889-1892: |   |   |   | Benjamin Harrison president of US  from age 18 to age  21 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | South Dakota enters the union - 40th  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Wyoming enters the union - 44th  at age 19 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Idaho enters the union - 43rd  at age 19 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Battle of Wounded Knee  at age 19 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Oklahoma organized as a territory  at age 19 | 
 
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  | 1891: |   |   |   | Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled  at age 20 | 
 
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  | 1893-1896: |   |   |   | Grover Cleveland president of US  from age 22 to age  25 | 
 
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  | 1893: |   |   |   | Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)  at age 22 | 
 
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  | 1893-1897: |   |   |   | US Financial panic, depression  from age 22 to age  26 | 
 
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  | 1893: |   |   |   | New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote  at age 22 | 
 
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  | 1894-1895: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (1)  from age 23 to age  24 | 
 
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  | 1894: |   |   |   | Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die  at age 23 | 
 
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  | 1896: |   |   |   | Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation  at age 25 | 
 
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  | 1896: |   |   |   | Utah enters the union - 45th  at age 25 | 
 
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  | 1897-1901: |   |   |   | William McKinley president of US  from age 26 until after line end | 
 
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  | 1898: |   |   |   | Spanish American 1-year war  at age 27 | 
 
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