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Years
1880
Emperor Norton in full regalia
Joshua Abraham Norton
(pictured)
, self-declared "
Emperor
of these United States" and subsequently "Protector of
Mexico
", collapses and dies in front of
Old St. Mary's Church
while on his way to a lecture at the
California Academy of Sciences
Famed Scottish writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
honeymoons for 2 months at a played out mine
on
Mount Saint Helena
in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, and
writes a memoir about his travels
in
Napa Valley
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