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Napoleon's death
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military officer and statesman, a republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory -
Founding of Royal Academy of Music in London
The Royal Academy of Music is the UK's longest-standing conservatoire and the second oldest in the world. For 200 years, the Academy has been at the forefront of musical performance and education. -
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Queen victoria's reign
Queen Victoria is famous for ruling the United Kingdom for 63 years, greatly expanding the British Empire. -
Adolphe Sax created the saxophone
Antoine Joseph Sax, better known as Adolphe Sax, was a Belgian musical instrument maker that invented the saxophone. -
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American civil war
A war in the United States between the north and the south of America the dispute was over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into the Northern territories, leading to more slave states or should be prohibited from doing so. -
Russia sells Alaska to the United States
Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian minister to the United States, negotiated for the Russians. On March 30, 1867 , the two parties agreed that the United States would pay Russia $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson spoke to each other by telephone over a wire strung between Cambridge and Boston. -
Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph
Edison invented a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. -
inauguration date of the statue of liberty
a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States. This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France. -
First Nobel prizes are awarded
