A TIMELINE OF
WORLD EVENTS

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1876

Alexander Graham Bell
invents the telephone

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1877

Thomas Edison invents
the phonograph

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1881

The Red Cross is established by Clara Barton

1882

Famous American outlaw Jesse James dies

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1883

Buffalo Bill Cody’s first Wild West show

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1884

The Ringling Brothers Circus premiers

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1886

Coca-Cola is made and sold for 5 cents a bottle

1887

The first game of softball is
played in Chicago

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1888

The Kodak camera
is invented

1889

John Muir campaigns to save Yosemite Valley in California

1890

The painter Vincent
Van Gogh dies

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1891

The game of Basketball
is invented

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1896

The Yukon Gold Rush begins

1901

Connecticut passes the first speed limit law

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1903

The Wright brothers take
their first flight

1905

Norway separates
from Sweden

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1903

International Morse Code adopts SOS as the official emergency signal