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1 | 1869 | - 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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2 | 1875 | - 1875—1875: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - North American & Europe.
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Miles attacks a group of Cheyenne near McClellan Creek..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Mackenzie attacks and burns 5 Comanche villages in Palo Duro Canyon and massacres women and children and destroys over 1400 Comanche horses..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: Winter time brings starvation to the Indians and they start to return to the reservation after relentless pursuit by Federal Troops..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: In April 200 Kwahada, who had never submitted, surrendered at Fort Sill.. In June the last 400 Kwahada with Quanah Parker surrendered.
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3 | 1876 | - 1876—1876: HISTORY: .Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876—1876: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worlwide.(one of the worst recorded)
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4 | 1877 | - 1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
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5 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
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6 | 1879 | - 1879—1879: NATIVE AMERICAN: The Buffalo of the Great Plains were gone, over 15 million destroyed by white hunters..Estimation taken this year was less than 1500 buffalo left in the Great Plains.
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7 | 1880 | - 1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
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8 | 1881 | - 1881—1881: HISTORY: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras..
- 1881—1885: POLITICAL: Chester A. Arthur, President.Vice President under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
- 4 Mar 1881—19 Sep 1881: POLITICAL: James Garfield, President.
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