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Date |
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| 1 | 1842 | - 1842: Long uses ether as first anesthetic
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| 2 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's On the Origin of Species;Lenoir buids the first practical internal combustion engine
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| 3 | 1862 | - 1862: Pasteur's experiments lead to germ theory; Salon des Refuses introduces impressionism
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| 4 | 1867 | - 1867: Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
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| 5 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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| 6 | 1879 | - 1879: Thomas Edison invents the electric light
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| 7 | 1880 | - 1880: Europe begins colonizing the African continent
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| 8 | 1885 | - 1885: World's first skyscraper built in Chicago
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| 9 | 1893 | - 1893: New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the vote
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| 10 | 1895 | - 1895: Lumiere brothers introduce motion pictures; Marconi sends first radio signals
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| 11 | 1897 | - 1897: Herzl launches Zionist movement
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| 12 | 1900 | - 1900: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
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1842 - 1901 (58 years)