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Events relating to america
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his new invention, the telephone, at the US Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
Susan B. Anthony presents a Woman's Declaration of Rights at the US centennial Fourth of July celebrations
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Tom and his friends find excitement in a small town on the Mississippi
After a failed bank hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, the whole of the James gang is killed except Jesse and his brother Frank
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes defeats Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in a US presidential election of which the result is strongly disputed
The Compromise of 1877 settles the disputed US presidential election but ends active Republican commitment to the cause of Reconstruction in the southern states
Puck is launched in the USA as a an illustrated weekly magazine of political satire
Cattle-rustler William H. Bonney becomes known as Billy the Kid in his brief and murderous career of crime in New Mexico
The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army
A strike against wage cuts by Baltimore railway workers spreads until it becomes almost a national strike
The human voice is recorded for the first time when Thomas Edison recites 'Mary had a little lamb' into his newly patented phonograph
A disagreement between families on the West Virginia and Kentucky border flares up and eventually claims a dozen lives
The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery
A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama
US author Joel Chandler Harris introduces Uncle Remus in a story in the Constitution
Mary Baker Eddy and others found the first Church of Christ, Scientist, in Lynn, Massachusetts
Thomas Edison develops a long-lasting carbon filament light bulb (traditionally 40 hours) and is able to light his Menlo Park laboratory with 30 bulbs
Henry James's story Daisy Miller, about an American girl abroad, brings him a new readership
Buenos Aires is finally accepted as the permanent capital city of Argentina
US author Lew Wallace publishes a historical novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Republican candidate James Abram Garfield defeats Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock in the US presidential election
Boston lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr publishes a legal study that becomes a classic text, The Common Law
In Washington Square Henry James tells the sad story of heiress Catherine Sloper
Joel Chandler Harris publishes Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, the first of many Uncle Remus volumes
P.T. Barnum and his main rival James Bailey merge their enterprises to form America's leading circus
