Name Info

KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND 1816-1909
Fathers:JOHN,ABRAHAM,JOHANN,HANS,HANS,JACOB

Search.........Person
PAF-ID.........09000017
Gender.........female
Age............92y 3m 20d
Fam-Group......WILSON
Fam-ID.........HILDEBRAND
Citizenship....US born
Status.........deceased
Last-Marital...widowed

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......7
#Events........1
#Images:.......20
#Comments......1
#Siblings......4
#Children......10

Person-Type....A
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........mother
Spouse?........wife
Sibling?.......sister
Child?.........daughter
Twin...........no
Adopted?.......

Title(s).......
Ancestor.......ancestor
RelatedToMe....2XGreat
Gen-#..........05
Ahn-#..........00000000017
Religion.......Methodist
PoliticParty...
Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair.
Burial.........Woodland Cemetery section G with family

Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: JOHN HILDEBRAND, male, born:1779 Cumberland county Pennsylvania, died:1877-04-18 (98y 3m 17d) ?Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania, Anc:1, Dad:ABRAHAM HILDEBRAND, Mom:ANN\ANNA SHANTZ, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:7
  2. Parent: BARBARA SHULTZ, female, born:1788-01-14 ?Codorus (York) Pennsylvania, died:1864-11-25 (76y 10m 11d) Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania, Anc:1, Dad:LAWRENCE\LORENTZ SHULTZ, Mom:MARIE CATHERINE HOLLANDER, #M:1, #SrcDocs:6
  3. Sibling: Elizabeth HILDEBRAND, female, born:1810 Huntingdon county Pennsylvania, died:1835-1900 (25y 0m 0d) ?Huntingdon county Pennsylvania, Dad:JOHN HILDEBRAND, Mom:BARBARA SHULTZ, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
  4. Sibling: William S. HILDEBRAND, male, born:1811-01-24 Huntingdon county Pennsylvania, died:1862-11-10 (51y 9m 17d) Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania, Dad:JOHN HILDEBRAND, Mom:BARBARA SHULTZ, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
  5. Sibling: Rebecca HILDEBRAND, female, born:1827 Huntingdon county Pennsylvania, died:1863-12-26 (36y 11m 25d) Pennsylvania, Dad:JOHN HILDEBRAND, Mom:BARBARA SHULTZ, #M:1, #SrcDocs:2
  6. Sibling: Mary HILDEBRAND, female, born:1835-08-21 Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania, died:1835-1925 (0y 4m 11d) , Dad:JOHN HILDEBRAND, Mom:BARBARA SHULTZ, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:2

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1837-01-18 Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania
  2. Spouse: MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, male, born:1810-05-12 Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania, died:1886-01-10 (75y 7m 29d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Anc:1, Dad:MATHEW WILSON, Mom:HANNAH MEREDITH, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:9
  3. ..Child: Hannah Mary WILSON, female, born:1837-11-16 Huntingdon county Pennsylvania, died:1904-04-17 (66y 5m 1d) Falls (Muskingum) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:4
  4. ..Child: William Magee WILSON, male, born:1839-03-12 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1915-11-20 (76y 8m 8d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:10
  5. ..Child: John Hildebrand WILSON, male, born:1841-01-19 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1887-12-24 (46y 11m 5d) Delavan (Tazewell) Illinois, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #SrcDocs:6
  6. ..Child: Matthew Durbin WILSON, male, born:1843-03-12 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1921-12-03 (78y 8m 21d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:6
  7. ..Child: Evaline Shultz WILSON, female, born:1845-03-06 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1932-12-05 (87y 8m 29d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:4
  8. ..Child: Edwin Lawrence WILSON, male, born:1846-06-06 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1874-07-03 (28y 0m 27d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:2
  9. ..Child: Charles Herbert WILSON, male, born:1848-06-08 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1882-04-14 (33y 10m 6d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #SrcDocs:5
  10. ..Child: Albert Eberman WILSON, male, born:1850-06-05 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1870-10-11 (20y 4m 6d) Xenia (Greene) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:4
  11. ..Child: Rebecca Ann WILSON, female, born:1855-07-21 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1855-1870 (0y 5m 11d) Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #SrcDocs:2
  12. ..Child: ROBERT STITT WILSON, male, born:1856-09-16 Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio, died:1916-01-28 (59y 4m 12d) Kansas City (Jackson) Missouri, Anc:1, Dad:MATTHEW MEREDITH WILSON, Mom:KEZIAH H. HILDEBRAND, #Cmnts:3, #SrcDocs:7

Events
Birth
: 1816-10-25, Huntington Harbour, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, ImageID: W__0046
Church
: 1829 , Age:12y 2m 7d, Huntington Harbour, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, Methodist Episcopal Sabbath Church, Methodist, listed on the Sunday school enrollment
Married
: 1837-01-18, Age:20y 2m 24d, Huntington Harbour, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, Role:bride, Huntingdon Gazette newspaper of Jan.25, 1837 announces the wedding the prior week of Matthew Wilson of Mill Creek and Keziah Hildebrand of Huntingdon borough. The wedding, per what Keziah wrote in the Wilson Family Bible, was on Jan.18, 1837. Huntingdon Gazette newspaper of Jan.25, 1837 announces the wedding the prior week of Matthew Wilson of Mill Creek and Keziah Hildebrand of Huntingdon borough. The wedding, per what Keziah wrote in the Wilson Family Bible, was on Jan.18, 1837., ImageID: W__0051
Marry-intent
: 1837-01-25, Age:20y 3m 0d, Huntington Harbour, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, Role:fiancee, Huntingdon Gazette newspaper of Jan.25, 1837 announces the wedding the prior week of Matthew Wilson of Mill Creek and Keziah Hildebrand of Huntingdon borough. The wedding, per what Keziah wrote in the Wilson Family Bible, was on Jan.18, 1837., ImageID: W__0473
Census
: 1850 , Age:33y 2m 7d, Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Keziah age 33 b.PA with husband, ImageID: W__0417
Govt-court
: 1856-04-25, Age:39y 6m 0d, Muskingum county Ohio, Role:defendant, Per Muskingum county civil cases docket Y page 373, Matthew Wilson and wife Kezia H Wilson were defendants against John McBride. Co-defendants were John and Amanda Tanner and the Ohio Railroad Company. John and Matthew had judgment against them costing $1,160 plus court costs. This case involved a mortgage. The defendants appealed the case but still lost., ImageID: W__0413
Census
: 1860 , Age:43y 2m 7d, Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Keziah age 44 b.PA with husband
Census
: 1870 , Age:53y 2m 7d, Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Keziah age 54 b.PA with husband
Census
: 1880 , Age:63y 2m 7d, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Keziah age 63 b.PA with husband
Will-proven
: 1886-01-22, Age:69y 2m 28d, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Role:writer, Jan.22, 1886 probated will in Xenia, Greene county, Ohio for Matthew Meredith Wilson, his wife Keziah and son John are the administrators., ImageID: W__0451
Census
: 1900 , Age:83y 2m 7d, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Keziah b.10-__-1816 PA with son William, both her parents b.PA
Obit
: 1909-02, Age:92y 3m 7d, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Keziah was survived by her children William M., M. Durbin, Mrs. R. M. Smart of Xenia and Robert S. of Kansas City. Keziah was the last surviving member of her immediate family but her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Stutson, was age 93 living in Washington Court House Ohio. Keziah and Mary were childhood friends and classmates. Also surviving Keziah were fourteen grandchildren [two of whom are not mentioned in the section on the Wilson family] and seven great grandchildren. Although her obituary said she had fourteen grandchildren she actually had fifteen. Either one had died before 1909 or Reamy was not counted given that his own father did not acknowledge his existence in his 1915 will. Although her obituary said she had seven great grandchildren, eight were born by the time Keziah died in 1909. These eight include the first two of Reamy's three children. It is unknown if three of Keziah's grandchildren had children of their own., ImageID: W__0388
Death
: 1909-02-14, Age:92y 3m 20d, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, bronchitis, auteuia by senile decay, Keziah was striken with bronchitis on New Year's Day of 1909 and never recovered. She died peacefully at her home., ImageID: W__0389
Church
: ?, Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, Methodist
Church
: ?, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist, an early member She brought her letter with her from Zanesville.
Education
: ?, Huntington Harbour, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, Role:student, grade, Her sister Rebecca was also enrolled.
Livedin
: between and 1909 , Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, corner of Market & Monroe Sts., living here at the time of her death
Burial
: ?, Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, Woodland Cemetery, section G with family, ImageID: W__0054,W__0058

Places In
Xenia (Greene) Ohio
Zanesville (Muskingum) Ohio
Huntington Harbour (Huntingdon) Pennsylvania

General

· Ancestry.com family for Hannah (Meredith) Wilson and her husband Matthew Wilson Sr. No sources are given for this information but it aligns with expectations. · · Births of Matthew Meredith Wilson (05-12-1810), his wife Keziah (Hildebrand) Wilson (10-25-1816), and their children: Hannah Mary (11-16-1837), William Mayer (03-12-1839), John Hildebrand (01-19-1841, Mathew Durbin (03-12-1843), Evaline Shultz (03-06-1845), Edwin Lawrence (06-06-1846), Charles Herbert (06-08-1848), Albert Eberman (06-05-1850), Rebecca Ann (07-21-1855) and Robert Stitt (09-16-1856). All are written in the same handwriting, probably Keziah's since her name is


Research ,
listed first. This handwriting matches the one listing her marriage on another page. This page was one of four such pages in the Wilson family bible. 
From page 634 of the book "Biographical Annals of Lancaster County vol II", 1985, this could be a cousin of Keziah:
Jacob Hildebrand, born 1822-11-16, was of German and French ancestry. His parents were Jacob and Mary (Heiney) Hildebrand. Jacob Sr. spent most of his adult life in Soundersburg, a part of East Lampeter, and in Paradise, both being just northeast of Strasburg. Jacob Jr. was well-known and respected in the borough of Strasburg. After working for a few years for farmer Benjamin Herr who aided Jacob by letting him attend school. In 1832 he worked on building the Pennsylvania Railroad between Ronk's Station and Leaman Place. Between 1842 and 1844 Jacob Jr. began working in the cabinetmaking shop of Joel Rice in Strasburg. Then Jacob started his own cabinetmaking shop as well as was a carpenter for the next eight years. In 1852 Jacob purchased fropm W. S. Warren a stock of merchandise and in three years sold it. Jacob married 1847-11-16 to
Eliza Spiehlman, she died in 1865 leaving ten children. In 1866 Jacob married Elizabeth Kendig, widow of John Pennell. In 1854 Jacob was elected chief burgess of Strasburg. He held a number of offices over the next 30 years including being elected justice of the peace in 1860. In that position Jacob was quite effective at handling the duties and making judgements as needed. From 1863 to 1871 Jacob owned and operated a printing office in Strasburg. He bought the business mainly to keep such a place open in Strasburg. In 1871 Jacob was elected county surveyor and held the office for four years. He was often called "Squire Hildebrand". In 1898, Jacob retired from the civic positions. He sone, J. Ross, was elected in his place as justice of the peace.


Image(s) - hover Image IDs to popup full text
W__0001 - Four young men [tin type]
W__0002 - Two Young Women [tin type]
W__0046 - Family Births of Matthew M. Wilson family per the Wilson Family Bible
W__0047 - Young child [Sedgewick's] in Wilson Family Bible
W__0048 - Young girl [Biddle] in Wilson Family Bible
W__0049 - Young woman [Biddle] in Wilson Family Bible
W__0051 - Marriage Notations in the Wilson Family Bible
W__0053 - Wilson Obelisk in Woodland Cemetery, Linda Wilson
W__0054 - Woodland Cemetery Wilson Plot Marker
W__0058 - Wilson Family Plot Marker Woodland Cemetery
W__0218 - House at corner of Market and Monroe, probably Mattnew and Keziah Wilson's
W__0389 - Death Record of Keziah (Hildebrand) Wilson
W__0394 - 1860 Census for Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio with Matthew M. Wilson family
W__0413 - Civil Case of John McBride against Matthew Jr. and Keziah Wilson and others
W__0473 - Marriage Announcement of Matthew Wilson and Keziah Hildebrand
Z__0020 - Map of Pennsylvania county townships for Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata
Z__0025 - Map of Counties of Ohio
Z__0027 - Map of Ohio Xenia Woodland Cemetery Map
Z__0033 - Map of Counties of Pennsylvania


Sources
Woodland Cemetery, Xenia (Greene) Ohio

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1817: Serbia, Turkey - Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire, officially Independent in 1867
1819: France - Theodore Gericault paints his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, and exhibits It in the French Salon of 1819 at the Louvre
1819: Singapore, England - The modern city of Singapore is established by the British East India Company
1820: Liberia - Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves
1820: United States - Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
1821-1830: Greece, Turkey - Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War of Independence
1821: Mexico, Spain - Mexico gains Independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba
1821: Peru, Spain - Peru declares Its Independence from Spain
1822-1823: Mexico - First Mexican Empire, as the first post-independent Mexican government, ruled by Emperor Agustin I of Mexico
1822: Brazil, Portugal - Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian Independence on September 7, on December 1, he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil
1823-1887: England, Burma - The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars
1825-1828: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay - The Argentina-Brazil War results in the Independence of Uruguay
1825: United States - Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
1826-1828: Russia, Iran - After the final Russo-Persian War, the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war
1827: England - Death of William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker who Influenced literature
1828-1829: Russia, Turkey - Russo-Turkish War (ninth of ten), Russian victory
1830: Belgium, Netherlands - The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium
1830: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador - Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama), Ecuador, and Venezuela took Its place
1830: France - July Revolution in France
1830: Poland, Russia - November Uprising in Poland against Russia
1830: United States - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6, 1830
1831-33: Egypt - Egyptian-Ottoman War
1831: France, Algeria - France Invades and occupies Algeria
1833-1876: Spain - Carlist Wars in Spain
1833: England - Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire
1834-1859: Russia - Rebellion led by Imam Shamil in Russian-occupied Caucasus
1834: Germany - The German Customs Union is formed
1834: Spain - Spanish Inquisition officially ends
1835-1836: United States, Mexico - The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas
1836: United States, Mexico - The Battle of the Alamo
1837-1838: Canada - Rebellions of 1837 in Canada
1837-1901: England - Reign of Queen Victoria is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era
1838-1840: Central America - Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica
1839-1851: Uruguay - Uruguayan Civil War
1839-1860: France, England, United States, Russia, China - After two Opium Wars, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty
1840: New Zealand, England - New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Ma-ori and British
1844: Haiti - Dominican War of Independence from Haiti
1844: Iran - Persian Prophet the Bab announces his revelation on May 23, founding Babism, he announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest", he is considered the forerunner of Baha u llah, the founder of the Baha I Faith
1844: United States - First publicly funded telegraph line in the world, It is between Baltimore and Washington and sends demonstration message on May 24, ushering in the age of the telegraph, this message read "What hath God wrought?" (Bible, Numbers 23:23)
1844: United States - Millerite (followers of the teachings of William Miller) movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22, the non-appearance of Christ becomes known as the Great Disappointment
1845-1846: Pakistan - First Anglo-Sikh War in Punjab (Pakistan) between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company
1845-1849: Ireland - The Irish Potato Famine led to the Irish diaspora
1845-1872: New Zealand - The New Zealand Land Wars
1845: Tonga - Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga under Ta-ufa?a-hau (King George Tupou I)
1846-1847: United States - Mormon migration to Utah
1846-1848: United States, Mexico - The Mexican-American War leads to cession by Mexico of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States
1847-1901: Mexico - The Caste War of Yucatan
1848-1849: Pakistan - Second Anglo-Sikh War in Punjab (Pakistan) between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company, this war basically ends the Sikh Empire
1848-1858: United States - California Gold Rush
1848: Europe - Revolutions of 1848 in Europe as some type of revolution occurred in most all European countries (except England and the Netherlands), the revolutions were quickly put down as they were mostly unorganized peasants
1848: Russia - The Communist Manifesto published
1848: United States - Seneca Falls Convention is the first rights for women convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and legal rights for women
1850: Europe - The Little Ice Age ends around this time
1851-1852: South America - The Platine War (also known as the War against Oribe and Rosas) fought between the Argentine Confederation and an alliance consisting of the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, the war was part of a long-running contest between Argentina and Brazil for Influence over Uruguay and Paraguay, and hegemony over the regions bordering the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), the conflict took place in Uruguay, on the Rio de la Plata and in the northeast of Argen
1851-1864: China - The Taiping Rebellion in China is the bloodiest conflict of the century
1851-60s: Australia - Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851: England - The Great Exhibition in London was the first International Expo or Worlds Fair
1853-1856: Ukraine, France, England, Turkey, Russia - Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and Russia
1854: Japan - The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends policy of Isolation by Japan
1855: England - Henry Bessemer Invents a process that enables steel to be mass produced from molten pig Iron
1856: Romania - First oil refinery in Romania
1857-1858: India - Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as First War of Independence for India, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny), It began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company's army
1859: England - Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species", It is a work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, Its full title is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", It presents a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution and Includes evidence Darwin gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings
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1861-1867: France, Mexico - French Intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire, ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico
1861: Russia - Russia abolishes serfdom
1862-1877: China - Muslim Rebellion in northwest China
1863-1865: Poland, Russia - Polish uprising against the Russian Empire
1863: Iraq - Baha u llah declares His station as "He whom God shall make manifest", this date is celebrated in the Baha I Faith as The Festival of Ridvan
1863: Switzerland - Formation of the International Red Cross is followed by the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864
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1865-1877: United States - Reconstruction in the United States, slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
1865: United States - April 14, 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance at Fords Theater, Washington, D.C., he dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15, 1865
1865: United States - April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War
1866-1868: Finland - Famine in Finland
1866-1869: Japan - After the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization
1866: England, United States - Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858 by Cyrus West Field, the first cable used for telegraph communications laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean crosees from the Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Hearts Content in eastern Newfoundland, messages that took at least ten days to deliver by ship now took only minutes
1866: Germany, Austria - Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy
1867: Canada - Canadian Confederation formed
1867: Serbia, Turkey - The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines Its Independence from the Ottoman Empire, International recognition followed in 1878
1867: United States, Russia - The United States purchased Alaska from Russia
1868: United States - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved
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1869: Egypt - The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
1869: United States - First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10
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1871-1914: Europe, United States - Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution in the period from the last half of the 19th century until about the time of World War I
1872: United States - Yellowstone National Park is created
1873: England - James Clerk Maxwell publishes "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism", a set of four partial differential equations describing how the electric and magnetic fields relate to their sources, charge density and current density, and how they develop with time
1874-1875: Spain - First Republic in Spain
1874: France - The Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, and Graveurs, better known today as the Impressionists organize and present their first public group exhibition at the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar
1874: India, England - The British East India Company is dissolved
1875-1900: India - 26 million in India perish due to famine
1876-1879: China - 13 million die of famine in northern China
1876-1914: United States - The massive expansion in population, territory, Industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age
1876: Bulgaria - The Bulgarian revolt against Ottoman rule
1877-1878: Europe - Following the tenth Russo-Turkish War, the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal Independence of the Principality of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania, Bulgaria becomes autonomous
1877: United States - Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the first nationwide labor strike
1878: United States - First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut
1879-1883: Chile, Peru, Bolivia - Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific
1879: South Africa - Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa
1880-1881: England, South Africa - the First Boer War between England and the Dutch-speaking Inhabitants of South Africa
1881-1899: Sudan - The Mahdist War in Sudan
1881: England - First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming, Britain
1882: England, Egypt - The British Invasion and the subsequent occupation of Egypt
1883: Indonesia - Krakatau (often mispelled Krakatoa) volcano explosion in Indonesia (Java and Sumatra)
1884-1885: Africa - The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European "scramble for Africa", attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves
1884-1885: Japan, Korea - The Sino-French War led to the formation of French Indochina
1885: United States - Singer begins production of the "Vibrating Shuttle" which would become the Model T of sewing machines
1886: Russia - Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians, Imam Shamil defeated
1888: Brazil - Slavery banned in Brazil
1888: England - Jack the Ripper is believed to have begun murdering in August and murdered his last victim in November
1889: Brazil - End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1889: France - Eiffel tower was Inaugurated in Paris
1889: India - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community
1890: United States - The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars, this event represents the end of the American Old West
1891: United States - James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, Invents basketball
1894-1895: Japan, Korea - After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea
1895-1896: Ethiopia, Italy - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War
1896: Canada - Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
1896: Greece - Olympic Games revived in Athens
1896: Philippines, Spain - Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule
1897: Korea - Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire lasts until 1910
1898-1900: China - The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance
1898-1902: Colombia - The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales" and "Conservadores", culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903
1898: United States, Cuba, Philippines - The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
1899: England, South Africa - Second Boer War begins, lasting until 1902