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Date |
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| 1 | 1859 | - 24 Nov 1859—24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
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| 2 | 1862 | - 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 3 | 1863 | - 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863: First section of the London Underground Railway opens
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| 4 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865: End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
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| 5 | 1868 | - 1868—1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
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| 6 | 1869 | - 1869—1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
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| 7 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: Water closets come into wide use
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| 8 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)
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| 9 | 1874 | - 5 Apr 1874—5 Apr 1874: Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
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| 10 | 1876 | - 14 Feb 1876—14 Feb 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights
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| 11 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 12 | 1880 | - 1880—1880: Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
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| 13 | 1883 | - 27 Aug 1883—27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
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| 14 | 1884 | - 13 Oct 1884—13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
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| 15 | 1885 | - Mar 1885—Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
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Abt 1856 - Abt 1885 (~ 29 years)
