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| 1867 |
| | | The US Congress passes Reconstruction Acts, dividing the defeated South into military districts and insisting on elections by universal male suffrage | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Buenos Aires is finally accepted as the permanent capital city of Argentina | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The War of the Pacific brings Chile new mineral wealth at the expense of Bolivia and Peru | |
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| 1888 |
| | | The emperor Pedro II frees all the remaining slaves in Brazil without compensating their owners | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union) | |
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| 1889 |
| | | A coup removes emperor Pedro II from his throne in Brazil, putting in his place a military dictatorship | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Brazil's first civilian president, Prudente de Morais, is peacefully elected, setting the pattern for the next four decades | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The War of a Thousand Days begins in Colombia, causing eventually 100,000 deaths | |
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