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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 3 | 1880 | - 1880—1880: Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
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| 4 | 1883 | - 27 Aug 1883—27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
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| 5 | 1884 | - 13 Oct 1884—13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
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| 6 | 1885 | - Mar 1885—Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
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| 7 | 1887 | - 1887—1887: Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
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| 8 | 1888 | - 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
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| 9 | 1889 | - 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
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| 10 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
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| 11 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
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| 12 | 1895 | - Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
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| 13 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
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| 14 | 1900 | - 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
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| 15 | 1901 | - 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
- 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse
code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
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| 16 | 1902 | - 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
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1876 - 1905 (28 years)
