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1876: The Centennial Exposition begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.

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1878: Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 256th pope.

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1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.

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1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

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1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupy Cairo, and Egypt becomes a British protectorate.

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1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey (it was built by Thomas Edison).

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1884: The Washington Monument is completed.

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1885 The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.

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1886: Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen

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1887 The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

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1888: Wilhelm II is crowned German Emperor.

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1889 The Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.

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1890: Wilhelm II of Germany dismisses Otto von Bismarck.