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In 1827, the year that Ann Maria was born, John Quincy was president.
Throughout Ann Maria's life many important events occurred, Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I, the Great Depression.
And many changes in technology, the inventions of the telephone, electric power, sound recordings and motion pictures, automobiles and planes. In the year 1929 the year Ann Maria died, Calvin Coolidge was president. It must have been amazing to witness the world changes.
1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected president.
1830 - Oregon Trail used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest.
1832 - Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
1836 - Battle of the Alamo
1846 - The Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung for George Washington's birthday.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln makes his "House Divided" Speech at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th United States president.
1861 - American Civil War begins (1861-1865)
1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
1868 - Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time.
1876 - Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas, serving under Marshal Larry Deger.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was dedicated by U.S. President Grover Cleveland
1891 - The Music Hall in New York, known as Carnegie Hall has its grand opening and first public performance with Tchaikovsky.
1898 - The U.S. enters its first global conflict, the Spanish-American War.
1900 - The Wright brothers began their first manned glider experimental flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 - The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents.
1906 - An earthquake in San Francisco ,California kills 3,000.
1910 - First Model-T by the Ford Motor Company.
1912 - RMS Titanic sank.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1915 - The first U.S. Coast to Coast long distance telephone call.
1918 - End of World War I.
1919 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
1925 - Walter Chrysler founds a new automobile company.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in his "The Spirit of St. Louis".
1929 - Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st president of the United States.