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2nd November 1868: New Zealand becomes the first country to use standardised time

2nd November 2019
Tagged as: Britain, Date, Law, New Zealand, Railways, Telegraph, Time, Train

Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.

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16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

16th August 2019
Tagged as: Atlantic, Buchanan, Queen Victoria, Science, Technology, Telegraph

Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James Buchanan.

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