| Year Summary | The British Monarch was Queen Victoria. The Prime Minister is Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative). US President is Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana). The Forth Bridge in Scotland opens, the longest in Britain. Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. State and Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. State. Oscar Wilde publishes <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>. In the USA, The <em>Sherman Antitrust Act</em> becomes United States law. The Sequoia National Park and the Yosemite National Park created. Brooklyn printer Robert Gair invents the corrugated cardboard box. |
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