Meanwhile…

The Berlin Conference divides Africa

1884-1885

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

1919-06-28

Civil Rights Act in the United States

1964-1965

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920

Cuban Revolution

1959

Suppression of Māori Culture Under Colonial Assimilation Policies

1840–1900

The Hague Convention as a forerunner

1954-05-14

Rise of the American shoe factory system

1860s-1880s

KLM: the first permanent airline

1919-10-07

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Fibonacci numbers in natural science

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Confirmation during the solar eclipse

1919-05-29

Initial Archaeological Survey Misses the Site's Significance

1963

Benz Patent-Motorwagen: the birth of the automobile

1886-01-29

Construction of the Panama Canal

1904-1914

The Bullseye Patent Filed

1952-10-07

Salsa, tango and jive emerge from the Americas

from the late 19th century (tango) to the 1970s (salsa)

1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

1952-07-19

First long car journey by Bertha Benz

1888-08-05

Emigration to the United States

1933

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon in Rome barefoot

1960-09-10

the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa

augustus 1883

The Anthropocene and climate change

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