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1864- Taiping Rebellion ends in China, over 20 million dead.
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1900- In China over 230 people are killed during the Boxer Rebellion. The hamburger goes on sale for the first time.
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1906- Caffeine replaces the cocaine in Coca-Cola. The United States takes over the government of Cuba.
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1912- The Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg. Film censorship begins.
The Titanic, 1912.
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1914- The beginning of the First World War in Europe. The first bra is patented.
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1918- World War I, "The War to End All Wars", ends, and Germany is in ruins.
A flu epidemic kills over 20 million people in Europe and Asia.
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1924- Adolf Hilter writes Mein Kampf while in prison. The first Winter Olympic Games is held in France.
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1928- Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin. The first television set goes on sale in the USA.
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Vancouver
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1791- The first European Explorer, Jose Navarez, anchors off Point Grey.
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1862- The Three Greenhorns buy "the Brickmaker's Claim"
(Much of the Vancouver's West End).
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1863- Moodyville grows up around Sewell Moody's Mill
on the north shore of Burrard Inlet.
Moody's Mill and Docks, 186?
Courtesy of BCARS:A-00397
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1867- John "Gassy Jack" Deighton opens the Deighton House saloon
and Gastown grows up around it.
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1870- Gastown is incorporated as Granville Townsite.
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1886- Clearing fires rage out of control and most of the new city of Vancouver is reduced to ash.
People left homeless by fire, 1886
Courtesy of BCARS:A-032347
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1887- First train rolls into Vancouver; the west coast is finally linked by rail to the rest of Canada.
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1907- Asiatic Exclusion League demonstration leads to riot in Chinatown, Chinese stores vandalized.
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1914- Komogatu Maru refused docking because the East Indian immigrants on board had not come directly from their country of origin.
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