Ottawa

City · 1855 CE · in North America

Capital of Canada (1932–today).

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Around the same time and place

• Abraham Lincoln (1809 CE – 1865 CE): 16th President of the United States, who led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and was assassinated in 1865.
• American Civil War (1861–1865 CE): War between the Union and the Confederacy of southern slave states; the Union victory preserved the United States and ended slavery.
• Wilbur and Orville Wright (1867 CE – 1948 CE): American aviation pioneers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first successful powered, controlled airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903. Wilbur died in 1912 and Orville in 1948.
• Telephone (1876 CE): Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for the telephone and made the first successful call in Boston in March 1876.
• Wright Flyer (1903 CE): On 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, sustained flights of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft.
• Thomas Jefferson (1743 CE – 1826 CE): Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third US President, who made the Louisiana Purchase.
• Monroe Doctrine (1823 CE): In his annual message to Congress in December 1823, President James Monroe declared that the Americas were closed to further European colonisation and that the US would oppose European interference there.
• Trail of Tears (Cherokee removal) (1838–1839 CE): The United States forcibly removed the Cherokee Nation from its homeland in the Southeast to Indian Territory (Oklahoma); thousands died on the march, part of the wider removal of the Five Civilized Tribes.

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