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CHRONOLOGY
1850 This TREE was PLANTED
1851 The GREAT EXHIBITION
1852 First public toilet for women
1853 First potato crisps
1854 First gas lighting
1855 "Daily Telegraph" starts
1856 Victoria Cross started
1857 Sheffield first soccer club
1858 "Wedding March" first played
1859 Big Ben first rings
1860 Abraham Lincoln US president
1861 American Civil War starts
1862 Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"
1863 Football Association formed
1864 First Fish and Chip shop
1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
1866 Great Tea Race won by "Taiping"
1867 Suez Canal opens
1868 Last public hanging in UK
1869 First person killed by a car
1870 Wagner's "Valkeries" first played
1871 "Dr Livingstone, I presume" first spoken
1872 "Mary Celeste" found without crew
1873 First typewriter made
1874 First electric light bulb made
1875 Captain Webb swims the channel
1876 Telephone patented
1877 Gramophone invented
1878 First floodlit football match
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