| Year Summary | <strong>In UK</strong>: Monarch is Queen Victoria. Prime Minister – Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative). Captain Matthew Webb becomes is the first to swim the English Channel.<br /><strong>In USA</strong>: President is President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois). Vice President: Henry Wilson (R-Massachusetts) but dies from a stroke on November 22; the position is left vacant. President Grant authorizes issue of a twenty-cent piece, which is abolished 3 years later. Conoco formed as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. |
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