| Date |
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Politics and Empire |
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Art and Literature |
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| 1896 |
U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy vs Ferguson establishes racial segregation under the doctrine of 'separate but equal', overturned in 1954 |
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| 1898 |
Spanish - American War |
Release of Cripple Creek Barroom, the first 'Western' film |
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| 1900 |
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Death of Jasper F Cropsey. Death of Frederic Edwin Church. Death of John Ruskin |
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| 1901 |
President William McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President. Death of Queen Victoria |
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| 1902 |
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Death of Albert Bierstadt |
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| 1903 |
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Release of The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S Porter, the most famous of the early westerns |
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| 1904 |
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Death of Martin Johnson Heade |
