Drake drills first commercial oil well
1859 · Event
Edwin Drake strikes oil at 21 m near Titusville, Pennsylvania — the moment the modern petroleum industry is conventionally dated from.
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Around 1859
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
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- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)