On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted his US patent for the telephone. In Japan, samurai still had the right to wear their two swords in public: it took the Haitōrei edict of March 28, 1876 to ban the practice. And the last great samurai uprising, the Satsuma Rebellion, only broke out the following year, in 1877.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.