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| 1 | 1855 | - 1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- Jun 1855: The Daily Telegraph begins publication.
- Sep 1855: Queen Victoria signs an Order-in-Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
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| 2 | 1856 | - 1856: Pre-human remains are found in the Neanderthal valley in Germany.
- Jan 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- Apr 1856: At a public meeting in Melbourne, Dr Thomas Embling repeated the slogan "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest".
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| 3 | 1857 | - 1857: In Victoria, Australia one adult male in 7 is Chinese.
- Mar 1857: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War (the ruling is not overturned until the 14th Amendment in 1868).
- Dec 1857: Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada.
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| 4 | 1858 | - 11 Feb 1858: The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to St Bernadette of Lourdes.
- Aug 1858: The first claimed Australian rules football match is held between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College.
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| 5 | 1859 | - Apr 1859: Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
- Jun 1859: The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.
- Sep 1859: The clock Big Ben becomes operational in London.
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| 6 | 1860 | - 1860: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany is annexed to the newly Kingdom of Italy.
- 6 Nov 1860: U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
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| 7 | 1861 | - Feb 1861: The Confederate States of America are formed.
- Nov 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America
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| 8 | 1862 | - 1862: Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, on a rowing boat trip on The Isis, from Oxford to Godstow.
- 1862: Anna Leonowens accepts an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam.
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| 9 | 1863 | - 1863: The first section of the London Underground Railway (Paddington to Farringdon Street) opens
- 1863: Adam Opel founds Opel AG.
- 1863: Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
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| 10 | 1864 | - 1864: The first fish and chips shop opens in London
- 1864: First Geneva Convention: The International Red Cross is founded
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| 11 | 1865 | - 1865: The Christian Mission, later renamed the Salvation Army, is founded in Whitechapel, London by William and Catherine Booth.
- 4 Mar 1865: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President
- 14 Apr 1865: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth.
- 4 Jun 1865: Harm Hendrik Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 12 | 1866 | - 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Germany
- 1866: The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
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| 13 | 1867 | - 1867: The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
- 1867: The Dominion of Canada is created by the British North America Act
- 1867: Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle
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| 14 | 1868 | - 1868: Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
- 1868: U.S. presidential election, 1868: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horatio Seymour in the election
- 1868: Irish scientist Mary Ward is killed in a car accident, possibly the first person ever to suffer this fate
- 1868: In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony
- 1868: In Dumbarton, Scotland the last surviving clipper ship, Cutty Sark, is launched
- 11 Jan 1868: Hendrikus Nijhuis passes away in Zenderen, Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 15 | 1869 | - 1869: The British Parliament ends transportation to Australia as punishment for criminals.
- 4 Mar 1869: Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as the 18th President of the United States of America.
- 13 Apr 1869: Hermannus Nijhuis passes away in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
- May 1869: The British Parliament passes the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, thus ending public hanging.
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| 16 | 1870 | - 5 Mar 1870: First ever international Association Football match between England and Scotland at the Oval, London. Organised by the Football Association.
- May 1870: The Port Adelaide Football Club plays their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia.
- Oct 1870: Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy.
- 28 Nov 1870: Anna Gezina Dik is born in Rundeveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland.
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| 17 | 1871 | - 1871: The Constitution of the German Empire abolishes all restrictions on Jewish marriage, choice of occupation, place of residence and property ownership. Exclusion from government employment and discrimination in social relations remain.
- 18 Jan 1871: The member-states of the North German Federation and the south German states unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany.
- Mar 1871: The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- Nov 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him by saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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| 18 | 1872 | - 1872: Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph
- 27 Jan 1872: Hermina Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
- Aug 1872: The Overland Telegraph is completed in Australia, providing a telegraphic link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time.
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| 19 | 1873 | - 15 Feb 1873: Maria Dik is born in Vlagtwedde, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland.
- Mar 1873: E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
- May 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received United States patent #139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Dec 1873: The Heineken Brewery is founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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| 20 | 1874 | - Feb 1874: Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis
- Jul 1874: Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb
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| 21 | 1875 | - 1875: Henry Cavendish Jones convinces the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court: Wimbledon.
- Feb 1875: The SS Gothenburg sinks off the Australian east coast with the loss of approximately 102 lives, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
- 1 Apr 1875: Maria Schoenmaker is born in Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
- 6 Apr 1875: Berend Vrielink is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
- Aug 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.
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| 22 | 1880 | - 11 Sep 1880: Hermina Stegehuis passes away in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 23 | 1882 | - 28 Apr 1882: Gerhard Heinrich Diek passes away in Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland.
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1855 - 1884 (29 years)
