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1850 |
Jeans are invented by Levi Strauss, a German immigrant who came to America to join in the California Gold Rush
Chinese peasants demand their own land in the Taiping Rebellion
Robert S. Duncanson began painting "Sunset Mural" for Nicolas Longworth in what is now the Taft Museum
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1851 |
Publication of Clotel, the first novel by an African American, William Wells Brown |
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1852 |
Findlay Market, an open air food market, is opened for the first time in Cincinnati
Original Ohio Statehouse burns to the ground |
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1859 |
Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on the federal armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia |
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1860 |
Suez canal is finished being built by a French company in Egypt allowing sea travelers to travel between Europe and Asia without going around Africa |
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1861 |
Louisa May Alcott, an American writer, writes a book based on her own life, Little Women. In 1865, Lewis Carroll, a mathematician, writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a work of great imagination.
Beginning of the United States Civil War
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1863 |
The Battle of Buffington Island fought in Meigs County. A Union army defeated a force of Confederate cavalry led by General John Hunt Morgan in the only significant Civil War battle fought in Ohio. |
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1865 |
Shigechiyo Izumi is born; achieved oldest authenticated age; 120 years old
Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio marched his troops through Georgia from Atlanta to the sea. |
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1866 |
Isaac Wise Temple, a Jewish synagogue, was built in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is considered the birthplace of Reform Judaism.
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1869 |
The Cincinnati Red Stockings fielded as the first professional baseball team in the country.
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) dictates her autobiography to Sarah Bradford and it is published in 1886.
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