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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published my Mark Twain
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"My Bondage and My Freedom" by Fredrick Douglass
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the US president
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The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant and the Civil War is over
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Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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Thomas Edison and the phonograph
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Brooklyn Bridge
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Mark Twain releases the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Last battle of Wounded Knee fought between US and Native American's
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"The Red Badge of Courage" is published to the public
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Radium and Polonium are invented by Marie Currie
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Wright Brothers had a brief flight with their first powered aircraft
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Henry Ford and the Model-T
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Jack Johnson beats Tommy Burns and becomes the first black boxer to win the Heavyweight Championship