This year, the topic was, “Did it Happen before or after the Blue Horizon was built?” The Horizon was built in 1865. So Before or After 1865.
- Tom Thumb gets married
- West Virginia admitted to the Union
- Brooklyn Bridge was opened
- Dmitri Mendeleev creates periodic table
- Tolstoi releases Anna Karenina
- Darwin publishes Origin of Species
- Crimean War Ends
- Marx and Engels write Communist Manifesto
- Woodrow Wilson born
- Dickens writes a Tale of Two Cities
- Jesse James pulls off the first train robbery
- Philadelphia sports team wins pro championship
- Before 1863
- Before 1863
- After 1883
- After 1869
- After 1878
- Before 1859
- Before 1856
- Before 1848
- Before 1856
- Before 1859
- After 1873
- After 1867