Jeans were patented in 1873, or rather the copper rivets on work trousers.

1873

Tailor Jacob Davis came up with riveting the pockets and shared the patent with his cloth supplier, Levi Strauss.

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• California Gold Rush1848 · Sutter's Mill, California, USA. On 24 January 1848 carpenter James Marshall spotted flakes of gold in the channel of Sutter's sawmill. The news spread worldwide, and within a few years some 300,000 fortune-seekers, the 'forty-niners', arrived from every continent. San Francisco grew from a village into a city of tens of thousands, and by 1850 California had become a state.

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• 1874 · 1900 Max Planck was told not to study physics because almost everything had already been discovered.
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