| 1837-1901: | |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)  from before birth until after line end | 
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  | 1881-1896: | |  |  |  | 5th Cholera pandemic  from before birth until age 11 | 
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  | 1881-1885: | |  |  |  | Chester Arthur president of US  from before birth until age 0 | 
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  | 1885-1888: | |  |  |  | Grover Cleveland president of US  from age 0 to age  3 | 
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  | 1886: | |  |  |  | Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)  at age 1 | 
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  | 1887: | |  |  |  | X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)  at age 2 | 
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  | 1888: | |  |  |  | 70...77 rpm musical records  at age 3 | 
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  | 1888: | |  |  |  | Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths  at age 3 | 
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  | 1889: | |  |  |  | Washington enters the union - 42nd  at age 4 | 
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  | 1889: | |  |  |  | Montana enters the union - 41st  at age 4 | 
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  | 1889: | |  |  |  | South Dakota enters the union - 40th  at age 4 | 
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  | 1889: | |  |  |  | North Dakota enters the union - 39th  at age 4 | 
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  | 1889: | |  |  |  | Holerith invents the punch card  at age 4 | 
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  | 1889-1892: | |  |  |  | Benjamin Harrison president of US  from age 4 to age  7 | 
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  | 1890: | |  |  |  | Wyoming enters the union - 44th  at age 5 | 
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  | 1890: | |  |  |  | Idaho enters the union - 43rd  at age 5 | 
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  | 1890: | |  |  |  | Oklahoma organized as a territory  at age 5 | 
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  | 1890: | |  |  |  | Battle of Wounded Knee  at age 5 | 
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  | 1891: | |  |  |  | Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled  at age 6 | 
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  | 1893: | |  |  |  | Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)  at age 8 | 
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  | 1893: | |  |  |  | New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote  at age 8 | 
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  | 1893-1897: | |  |  |  | US Financial panic, depression  from age 8 to age  12 | 
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  | 1893-1896: | |  |  |  | Grover Cleveland president of US  from age 8 to age  11 | 
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  | 1894: | |  |  |  | Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die  at age 9 | 
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  | 1894-1895: | |  |  |  | Chinese-Japanese war (1)  from age 9 to age  10 | 
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  | 1896: | |  |  |  | Utah enters the union - 45th  at age 11 | 
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  | 1896: | |  |  |  | Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation  at age 11 | 
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  | 1897-1901: | |  |  |  | William McKinley president of US  from age 12 until after line end | 
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  | 1898: | |  |  |  | Spanish American 1-year war  at age 13 | 
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  | 1899-1923: | |  |  |  | 6th Cholera pandemic  from age 14 until after line end | 
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  | 1899-1902: | |  |  |  | Boer war  from age 14 until after line end | 
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