Rochester, New York

county seat of Monroe County, New York, United States

6 dated entries naming Rochester, New York, drawn from 6 separate years between 1850 CE and 1993 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

1850January 31 – The University of Rochester is founded in Rochester, New York.source
1852July 5 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", in Rochester, New York.source
1891January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off.source

20th century

1906April 18 – Xerox, the global digital office machine brand, is founded in Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.source
1932March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide in Rochester, New York.source
1993January 5 – US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.source