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| 1 | 1869 | - 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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1876 - 1879 (2 years)
