Claude Monet's Lifetime

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  • Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha

  • The Crimean War began

  • Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States

  • Yellowstone National Park was established as the first National Park in the US

  • An enormous volcano erupted at Krakatoa

  • The United States declared war against Spain

  • The Wright brothers invented the first gas-motored airplane

  • The United States entered WWI

  • World War I ended

  • Grand Mosque of Paris inaugurated