Timeline: If the Legends Are True...

1840 - 1917

	Year	Event(s)
1	1849	The California Gold rush draws fortune seekers from around the world to San Francisco.
2	1861	12 Apr: American Civil War begins
3	1865	9 Apr: The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Lee at Appomattax.
4	1869	10 May: Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah. This reduced from 6 months to 6 days the travel time from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California; a distance of 2,000 miles.
5	1878	Jan: First North American telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
6	1879	California's 2nd Constitutional Convention, presided over by Joseph P. Hoge, concludes. The constitution they drew up is the one in effect today.
7	1881	The first public electricity supply was generated in Godalming, Surrey using a waterwheel at a nearby mill.
8	1886	Flush toilets are invented.
9	1901	10 Jan: Texas Oil Rush begins when Spidletop comes in a gusher in East Texas near Beaumont.
10	1906	18 Apr: The Great San Francisco Earthquake. 8:12 AM
11	1914	1 Jan: The first commerical airline flight in the United States. 1 Aug: World War I begins when Germany declares war on Russia following the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.
12	1917	6 Apr: American formally declared war against Germany, entering World War I.