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1800                        Madame Recamier (Jacques-Louis David)

                                The Triumph of Bonaparte (Pierre-Paul Prud'hon)

                                The White House, Chelsea (Thomas Girtin)

                                Vajravahari (Nepal)

                                Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Schiller)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Convention of El Arish - Napoleon agrees to evacuate French forces (1/24)

                                Austrians advance to Nice, having defeated Massena at Voltri (4)

                                Moreau crosses the Rhine

                                Obstinate defense of Genoa by Massena and Soult

                                Napoleon crosses St. Bernard Pass with 40,000 troops to attack Autrian flank (5)

                                Kleber is assassinated - Menou succeeds him (6)

                                French take Milan and restore the Cisalpine Republic (6/2)

                                Genoa capitulates after a horrible famine (6/4)

                                Battle of Marengo - Napoleon wins by a narrow margin - truce between Napoleon and Melas (6/14)

                                US government moves from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. (6/15)

                                Moreau takes Munich

                                End of US naval war (9/30)

                                Congress meets in D.C. for first time (11/17)

                                Denmark joins Russia, Sweden and Prussia in declaring armed neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars (12)

                                Battle of Hohenlinden - France defeats Austria - Moreau defeats Archduke John (12/3)

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                                Second series of Combination Laws in Britain

                                Robert Owens social reforms in England

                                Northern Convention

                                Russia annexes Georgia

                                Bank of France established

                                Revolution of 1800 in US - Republicans triumph

                                Treaty of San Ildefonso

                                Italian physicist Alessandro Volta produces first electric battery - voltain pile

                                Ultraviolet rays discovered

                                William Herschel discovers infrared rays

                                Pius VII +

                                The Seasons                                                          Haydn

                                Les Deux Jounees                                                Cherubini

                                Alcott, Abigail May                                                            1800-1877

                                Beerhalter, Alois                                                                  1800-1852               Composer

                                Fillmore, Millard                                                                   1800-1874

                                Gale, Leonard Dunnell                                                         1800-1883

                                Macaulay, Thomas Babington                                          1800-1859

                                Talbot, William Henry Fox                                                  1800-1877

                                White, B. F.                                                                           1800-1879               Composer

                                Zani de Ferranti, Marco Aurelio                                        1800-1878               Composer

                                Billings, William                                                                   1746-1800               Composer

                                Fischer, Johann Christian                                                   1733-1800               Composer

                                Forbonnais, Francois Veron Duverger de                        1722-1800              

                                Jadin, Hyacinthe                                                                  1769-1800               Composer

                                Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter                                          1747-1800               Composer

                                Wanski, Jan                                                                          1762-1800               Composer

1801                        Systeme des animaux sans vertebres

                                Manual of Parliamentary Practice (Thomas Jefferson)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Army of Italy under Brune crosses th Adige and begins the invasion of Austria from the south (1)

                                Treaty of Luneville - betweeen France and Austria - leads to breakup of Holy Roman Empire (2/9)

                                Treaty of Luneville - France gains left bank of the Rhine and keeps most of Italy (2/9)

                                Treaty of Luneville - recognition of Batavian, Helvetian, Cisalpine, and Ligurian Republics (2/9)

                                Treaty of Florence - between France and Naples - harbors closed to British and Turks (3/18)

                                Treaty of Florence - cession of Neapolitan possessions in central Italy and Elba (3/18)

                                Thomas Jefferson inaugurated (3/4)

                                Battle of Alexandria - British defeat Menou (3/21)

                                Battle of Copenhagen - Sir Hyde Parker and Horatio Nelson defeat Danish Fleet in the Baltic (4/2)

                                Tripoli declares war against U.S. (6/10)

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                                Act of Union - formally united Great Britain and Ireland as United Kingdom - Catholics excluded from voting

                                France annexes Aachen

                                Concordat between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII

                                Russia annexes Georgia

                                Islamic kingdom of Sokoto founded in West Africa

                                Anglo-Persian Peace Treaty

                                Paul I -                   (Russia)                                                 (1796-1801)         Emperor (murdered)

                                Alexander I Pavlovich +      (Russia)                                                 (1801-)   Emperor (Tsar)

                                John Adams -                       (United States)                                     (1797-1801)         President

                                Thomas Jefferson +            (United States)                                     (1801-1809)         President

                                The Seasons                                                          Haydn

                                Collection complette des quatuors d’Haydn, dédiée au Premier Consul Bonaparte (Pleyel)

                                Bellini, Vincenzo                                                                   1801-1835               Composer (Italy)

                                Fechner, Gustav Theodor                                                   1801-1887

                                Fratin, Christophe                                                                1801-1864

                                Giroux, Andre                                                                       1801-1879

                                Garnier, Adolphe                                                                  1801-1864

                                Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel                                 1801-1866               Composer

                                Lanner, Joseph Franz Karl                                                  1801-1843               Composer

                                Littre, Maximilien Paul Emile                                               1801-1881              

                                Altenburg, Johann Ernst                                                    1734-1801               Composer

                                Cimarosa, Domenico                                                            1749-1801               Composer

                                Naumann, Johann Gottlieb                                                 1741-1801               Composer

                                Stamitz, Carl Philipp                                                             1745-1801               Composer

1802                        Fath ali Shah (Mirza Baba) (from the Khaqan: Diwan)

                                Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (John Playfair)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Treaty of Amiens - between France and Great Britain - complete pacification of Europe (3/27)

                                Order of the Legion of Honor created (5/19)

                                Napoleon elected First Consul  for life (8/2)

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                                Organic Articles - restate the traditional liberties of the Gallican Church

                                Portuguese explorers begin crossing Africa from Angola to Mozambique

                                Matthew Flinders circumnavigates Australia (-1803)

                                Eleuthère Irénée starts gunpowder factory near Wilmington, DE - start of Du Pont factory

                                Talleyrands excommunication is lifted by the pope

                                Constantine Ypsilanti +     (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Nizam Ali -                           (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Akbar Ali Khan +                (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Tantalum 73 is discovered by Anders Ekeberg in Sweden

                                Symphony No. 2                                                   Beethoven

                                Abel, Niels Henrik                                                                1802-1829

                                Beriot, Charles                                                                      1802-1870               Composer

                                Dix, Dorothea Lynde                                                           1802-1887

                                Dumas, Alexandre                                                                1802-1870

                                Hugo, Victor                                                                         1802-1885

                                Lacordaire, Henri                                                                  1802-1861

                                Molque, Wilhelm Bernard                                                  1802-1869               Composer

                                Praed, Winthrop Mackworth                                             1802-1839

                                Ripley, George                                                                      1802-1880

                                Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf                                         1802-1872

                                Wheatstone, Charles                                                           1802-1875

                                Girtin, Thomas                                                                      1775-1802

                                Romney, George                                                                   1734-1802               Painter (England)

1803                        An Avalanche in the Alps (Philip de Loutherbourg)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Enactment of the delegates of the Empire (2)

                                Marbury v. Madison (2/24)

                                Ohio becomes the seventeenth state of the Union (3/1)

                                Louisiana Purchase  (4/30)

                                War breaks out between Great Britain and France (5/16)

                                Battle of Vertières - last major battle of the Second War of Haitian independence - Haitians defeat French (11/18)

                                Louisiana Purchase - France sells Louisiana to the United States for $15 million (12/20)

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                                Bank of France founded

                                Wahhabis capture Mecca

                                Settlers begin to arrive in Tasmania

                                String Quartets, Op. 103                                    Haydn

                                Symphony No. 3                                                   Beethoven  (-1804)

                                Kreutzer Sonata                                                  Beethoven

                                Abbott, Jacob                                                                       1803-1879

                                Berlioz, Louis Hector                                                           1803-1869               Composer

                                Brownson, Orestes                                                              1803-1876               Author/Clergyman (Stockbridge, VT)

                                Bulwer-Lytton, Edward                                                       1803-1873               Novelist (

                                Doppler, Christian                                                                1803-1853

                                Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm                                                      1803-1879

                                Emerson, Ralph Waldo                                                       1803-1882

                                Fleming, Marjorie                                                 1803-1811               Diarist/Poet

                                Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard                             1803-1847

                                Herz, Henri                                                                            1803-1888               Composer

                                Jerrold, Douglas William                                                     1803-1857

                                Lachner, Franz                                                                      1803-1890               Composer

                                Merimee, Prosper                                                                 1803-1870

                                Sturm, J. C. F.                                                                        1803-1855

                                Adams, Samuel                                                                     1722-1803

                                Beattie, James                                                                       1735-1803

                                Devienne, Francois                                                              1759-1803               Composer

                                Herder, Johann Gottfried von                                            1744-1803

                                Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb                                             1724-1803               Poet (Germany)

                                Sussmayr, Franz Xaver                                                       1766-1803               Composer

1804                        Mme. Riviere (Ingres)

                                Pauline Bonaparte Borghese as Venus Victrix (Canova)

                                William Tell (Schiller)

                                Die Flegeljahre (Richter)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR +   (1804-1810)                                               Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                Haiti achieves (proclaims) independence from France - first black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule (1/1)

                                Seca knezova - beheading of the knezes in Serbia by the Janissaries - incites rebellion (2/4)

                                First Serbian Uprising begins - nationalists under Karadorde Petrovic revolt against Ottoman Turks (2/14)

                                Karadorde Petrovic is elected as the leader of the Serbian uprising (2/14)

                                New Jersey ends slavery - last northern state to do so (2/15)

                                Napoleonic Code promulgated (entered into force) -"Code civil des Francais" (3/21)

                                Lewis and Clark Expedition starts out west from  St. Louis (5/14)

                                Napoleon proclaimed emperor by the Senate and the Tribunate (5/18)

                                Alexander Hamilton shot and killed by Aaron Burr (7/11)

                                Vincennes Treaty - WH Harrison/Delawares cede territory (8/18)

                                Napoleon takes crown from Pope Pius VII and places own it on his own head (12/2)

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                                First Empire in France (-1814)

                                Third Coalition formed by Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Sweden against France

                                Fulani conquest of northern Nigeria's walled Hausa city states into Sokoto and Gwandu caliphates (-1810)

                                Persia and Russia at war over annexation of Georgia (-1812)

                                Alta and Baja California form from division of Franciscan (north)  and Dominican (south)  missions

                                English inventor Rishard Trevithick builds first successful steam locomotive

                                Karadjordje +                       (Serbia)                                                 National Leader

                                Beethoven sketches out his triple concerto in C major, op. 56

                                Piano Sonata, Op. 53 (Waldstein)                   Beethoven

                                Bridger, James “Jim”                                                            1804-1881               Mountain Man, Trapper Richmond, VA

                                Fauerbach, Ludwig                                                              1804-1872

                                Glinka, Michael                                                                     1804-1857

                                Hawthorne, Nathaniel                                                         1804-1864

                                Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob                                                  1804-1851

                                Luneberg, Johan Ludvig                                                     1804-1877

                                Mechura, Leopold Eugen                                                   1804-1870               Composer

                                Panizza, Giacomo                                                  1804-1860               Composer

                                Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer                                  1804-1894

                                Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin                                       1804-1869

                                Sand, George                                                                        1804-1876

                                Strauss, Johann I                                                                 1804-1849               Composer

                                Weber, Wilhelm Eduard                                                      1804-1891

                                Hamilton, Alexander                                                            1757-1804

                                Kant, Immanuel                                                                    1724-1804                               Philosopher

                                Priestly, Joseph                                                                    1733-1804

                                Rollig, Karl Leopold                                                             1735-1804               Composer

                                Tiepolo, Giovanni, Domenico                                            1727-1804

1805                        Greta Bridge (Cotman)

                                Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Arnim / Brentano)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR ...   (1804-1810)                                                Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                Jefferson’s second inauguration (3/4)

                                Tripoli War Peace Treaty - US ships no longer had to pay tribute (6/4)

                                Lewis & Clark Expedition sets off through the Bitterroot Mountains from Montana to Idaho (9/11)

                                William Clark and six hunters set out in advance of the main party in the Bitterroots looking for food (9/18)

                                Clark advance party reaches Nez Perce territory - spend night at native village (9/20)

                                Zebulon Pikes Minnesota River Treaty (9/23)

                                Lewis & Clark Expedition reaches the Columbia River (10/16)

                                Battle of Ulm - 30, 000 French defeat Austrians under Ulm (10/17)

                                Battle of Trafalgar - British navy under Horatio Nelson defeats Franco-Spanish fleet (10/21)

                                Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the Pacific (11/15)

                                Battle of Austerlitz - France defeats Austro-Russian forces (12/2)

                                Treaty between Prussia and France - Prussians cede Cleve, Ansbach, and Neuchatel for Hanover  (12/15)

                                Treaty of Pressburg - between France and Austria (12/26)

                                Proclamation of Schonbrunn - La dynastie de Naples a cesse de regner - Bourbons are dethroned (12)

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                                Napoleon I makes Milan the capital of the Kingdom of Italy with himself as King(-1814)

                                Third Coalition against France

                                Selim III, sultan of Turkey, appoints Mohammed Ali governor (pasha) of Egypt who founds a dynasty

                                Egyptian independence

                                Mungo Park explores Niger River

                                Christian literature foridden in China

                                Alois Joseph I -                    (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                John Joseph I +                    (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                Muhammed Ali + (Egypt)                                                   (-1849)   Turkish Pasha

                                Lord Wellesley -                  (India)                                                    (1798-)   Governor General

                                Fidelio                                                                   Beethoven

                                Piano Sonata, Op. 54                                         Beethoven

                                Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56                 Beethoven

                                Anderson, Hans Christian                                                  1805-1875

                                Blanqui, Louis-Auguste                                                     1805-1881

                                Dirichlet, Gustav Lejeune                                                   1805-1859

                                Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius                                        1805-1900               Composer

                                Hensel, Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn                                1805-1847               Composer

                                Martineau, James                                                                 1805-1900

                                Mendelssohn-Bartoldy, Felix                                             1805-1847               Composer

                                Palmer, Samuel                                                                      1805-1881

                                Tocqueville, Alexis de                                                         1805-1859

                                Weld, Angelina Grimke                                                       1805-1879

                                Winterhalter, Franz                                                              1805-1873               Painter (Germany) 

                                Boccherini, Luigi                                                                  1743-1805               Composer

                                Paley, William                                                                       1743-1805

                                Pichl, Vaclav                                                                         1741-1805               Composer

                                Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von                         1759-1805               Dramatist (Marbach, Wurttemberg)

1806                        Goethe marries Christine Vilpins after 18 years of living together and five children (in Jena?)  (10/19)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR ...   (1804-1810)                                                Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                Arkansas River Expedition begins -  Pike leaves St Louis (7/6)

                                Confederation of the Rhine organizes; all except Austria, Prussia, Brunswick, and Elector of Hesse (7/12)

                                Deposition of the Russophil governors (hospodars) of Moldavia and Wallachia (8)            

                                Holy Roman Empire dissolves - Francis II lays down his crown  (8/6)

                                Lewis & Clark expedition ends (9/23)

                                Battle of Jena - main Prussian armies routed (10/14)

                                Battle of Auerstadt - France defeats Prussia (10/14)

                                Battle of Halle - France defeats Prussian reserve force under Prince of Wurtemberg (10/17)

                                Napoleon occupies Berlin (10/27)

                                Battle of Prenzlau - Prussian force of 12,000 under Prince of Hohenlohe surrender to French (10/28)

                                Battle of Ratkau - Blucher, after defense of Lubeck surrenders to French (11/7)

                                Berlin Decree - issued by Napoleon to attempt economic blockade of Britain (the Continental System) (11/21)

                                Separate Peace between France and Saxony - Elector becomes King and joins Rhine Confederation (12/11)

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                                France at war with Prussia and Russia (-1807)

                                Russia occupies Walachia and Moldavia (-1812)

                                Death of William Pitt

                                War between Russia and Turkey

                                Ottoman Empire at war with Russia and Great Britain (-1812)

                                Nonimportation Act (US)

                                Francis II -                            (Holy Roman Empire)                         abdicated  (becomes Francis I of Austria)

                                Francis I +                            (Austria)                                               Emperor (aka HRE Francis I)I

                                Louis Bonaparte +               (Netherlands)                                       King of Holland (Brother of Napoleon)

                                Alexander Moruzi -             (Moldavia)                                             Prince 

                                Constantine Ypsilanti -      (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Faniska                                                                 Cherubini

                                Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60         Beethoven

                                Violin Concerto, Op. 57                                     Beethoven

                                Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo                                                   1806-1826               Composer

                                Browning, Elizabeth Barrett                                                1806-1861

                                Coste, Napoleon                                                                  1806-1883               Composer

                                Lever, Charles                                                                       1806-1872

                                Mertz, Johann Kaspar                                                         1806-1856               Composer

                                Mill, John Stuart                                                                   1806-1873

                                Backus, Isaac                                                                        1723-1806

                                Coulomb, Charles Augustin de                                         1736-1806

                                Fragonard, Jean-Honore                                                     1732-1806               Painter (France)

                                Haydn, Johann Michael                                                      1737-1806               Composer

                                Pinto, George Frederick                                                       1786-1806               Composer

                                Utamaro, Kitagama                                                              1754-1806               Painter (Japan)

1807                        Phenomenology of the Spirit (Mind) (Hegel)

                                Intimations of Immortality (William Wordsworth)

                                Addresses to the German Nation (J. G. Fichte) (-1808)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR ...   (1804-1810)                                                Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                Battle of Eylau - combined Russian and Prussian force fight French with indecisive outcome (2/7-8)

                                British squadron under Duckworth reaches Constantinople after forced passage of the Dardanelles (2/17)

                                Admiral Duckworth loses two ships and is forced to retire (3/3)

                                British occupy Alexandria  (3/18)

                                Slave Trade Act 1807 - signed- slave trade abolished throughout British Empire - slavery persists (3/25)

                                French capture Danzig (5/26)

                                Battle of Friedland - Russia defeated (6/14)

                                Chesapeake-Leopard Affair - British fourth rate warship Lepard attacks and boards US frigate Chesapeake off VA (6/21)

                                Treaties of Tilsit - between France and Russia / France and Prussia (7/7-9)

                                Treaty of Konigsberg - between France and Prussia - Prussia first to pay all arrears if war indemnities (7/12)

                                Kingdom of Westphalia founded (capital, Cassel) by decree of Napoleon - he takes half (8)

                                Robert Fulton makes first steamboat trip NY-Albany in the Clermont (8/17)

                                High-handed proceedings of the British against Denmark who was called to join the Continental System (9)

                                British evacuate Alexandria after opposition from Turkish forces (9/25)

                                France invades Portugal and captures Lisbon - Portugal had refused to join the Continental System (11)

                                Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief,  dies (11/24)

                                Milan Decree - reitierates on paper the blockade against British trade (12/17)

                                Embargo Act - US (12/18)(12/22)

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                                Grand Duchy of Warsaw created by Napoleon (-1814)

                                French capture most of the Hanseatic towns

                                French take Breslau

                                French take most fortresses in Silesia

                                Napoleon forces Ferdinand VII of Spain to abdicate and installs his brother Joseph as king of Spain

                                Revolt of the Janissaries - murder of Selim III

                                Slave trade abolished in British Empire

                                U.S. stops trade with Europe

                                Stonington, CT incorporated

                                Talleyrand resigns

                                Revolutions in Constantinople

                                Fulton builds the first commercial steamboat

                                Gas street lights in London

                                Frederick Augustus I +     (Grand Duchy of Warsaw)                 of Saxony

                                Selim III -                              (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan  (murdered)

                                Mustafa IV +                         (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan

                                Beethoven’s 4th  Symphony gets first permormance in Vienna (winter)

                                Coriolanus Overture                                          Beethoven

                                Abdelkader                                                                           1807-1883

                                Dufferin, Lady                                                                      1807-1867

                                Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth                                         1807-1882

                                Servais, Adrien Francois                                                    1807-1866               Composer

                                Brant, Joseph                                                                        1742-1807               Mohawk Chief

1808                        The Entombment of Atala (Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson)

                                Le Baigneuse de Valpincon (Jean Auguste Ingres)

                                Allegory of Friendship (Frans Pforr)

                                William Pitt (Joseph Nollekens)

                                Comedy (William Rush)

                                Faust, Pt. I (Goethe)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR ...   (1804-1810)                                              Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                France invades and occupies Spain with 100,000 troops under pretext of the Continental System (3)

                                Charles IV and his son Ferdinand, with Godoy renounce the Spanish throne at Bayonne (5)

                                Popular insurrection in Spain (5)

                                French recover Madrid (7/20)

                                French force advancing on Cadiz is defeated by insurgents and forced to capitulate at Baylen (7/20)

                                Battle of Vimeiro - British under Wellesley defeat French under Junot (8/21)

                                Convention of Cintra - French under Junot agree to evacuate Portugal (8/30)

                                Congress of Erfurt - between Napoleon and Alexander I - Talleyrand's secret deal with Russia (9)

                                Napoleon proceeds to Spain with 150,000 and advances upon Madrid (which the French had abandoned)

                                Battle of Burgos - French marshals defeat Spanish (11/10)

                                Battle of Espinosa - French marshals defeat Spanish  (11/11)

                                Capitulation of Madrid (12/13)

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                                Peninsular War begins - France opposed by British forces and Spanish and Portuguese guerillas (-1814)

                                Russia and Sweden at war (-1809)

                                Muhammed Ali tries to create Independent kingdom in Egypt but fails

                                African slave trade ends

                                Portuguese Court flees to Brazil

                                Cherokee legal code documented by Chief Charles Hicks

                                Christian VII -                     (Denmark)

                                Frederik VI +                       (Denmark)

                                Christian VII -                     (Norway)

                                Frederik VI +                       (Norway)

                                Charles IV -                          (Spain)                                                   (1788-)   House of Bourbon

                                Ferdinand VII +-  (Spain)                                                   *****    House of Bourbon

                                Joseph Bonaparte +            (Spain)                                                  

                                Mustafa IV -                          (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan

                                Mahmud I +                           (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan

                                Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67                Beethoven

                                Fur Elise                                                               Beethoven

                                Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar                                                 1808-1881

                                Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon III                                          1808-1873               President (France)

                                Considerant, Victor Prosper                                               1808-1893

                                Daumier, Honore Victorin                                                   1808-1879               Painter

                                Gallagher, William Davis                                                     1808-1894

                                Nerval, Gerard de                                                                 1808-1855

                                Parish-Alvers, Elias                                                             1808-1849               Composer

                                Russell, John Scott                                                              1808-1882

                                Strauss, Freidrich David                                                     1808-1874               Theologian/Philosopher (Germany)

                                Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges                                             1757-1808

                                Cirri, Giovanni, Battista                                                       1724-1808               Composer

                                Dickinson, John                                                                   1732-1808

                                Vranicky, Pavel                                                                     1756-1808               Composer

1809                        SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR ...   (1804-1810)                                                Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                French War against Austria

                                Revolution in Sweden

                                Treaty of the  Dandanelles - between England and Ottoman Empire - England withdraws from the war (1/5)

                                Battle of Corunna - British defeated by Marshal Soult -John Moore, British Commander-in-Chief killed (1/16)

                                Battle of Saragossa - Spanish guerillas obliged to capitulate (2/21)

                                James Madison inaugurated (3/4)

                                King Gustavus IV is arrested by Gens. Klingspor and Adlerkreuz (3/13)

                                Gustavus IV of Sweden abdicates under force (3/29)

                                Major Schill's war of liberation in Prussia (4)

                                Archduke Charles begins the invasion of Bavaria with an army of 170,000 (4)

                                Battle of Abensberg - French versus Austria (4/19-23)

                                Battle of Landshut - French versus Austria (4/19-23)

                                Battle of Eckmuhl - French versus Austria (4/19-23)

                                Battle of Regensberg - French versus Austria - Napoleon drives the Archduke across the Danube(4/19-23)

                                French take Vienna (5/13)

                                Battle of Aspern - Archduke Charles victory (5/21)

                                Battle of Essling - Napoleon defeated and forced to recross the Danube unites with Italian viceroy Eugene (5/22)

                                Battle of Stralsund - Major Schill falls (5/31)

                                Battle of Wagram - combined forces of Napoleon and Eugene defeat Austrians under Archduke Charles (7/5-6)

                                Battle of Talavera - indecisive yet protected Portugal from further invasion (7/28)

                                Duke of Brunswick with Bohemian and Silesian volunteers makes his way across Germany to Brunswick (7/31)

                                Daivd Thompson builds the Kullyspell House on Lake Pend'Oreille (9)

                                Treaty of Friedrichsham - between Sweden and Russia (9/17)

                                Treaty of Fort Wayne - Little Turtle sells 10,000 sq.km to the US (9/30)

                                Treaty of Schonbrunn - Austria loses 32,000 square miles and 3,500,000 inhabitants (10/14)

                                Treaty of Schonbrunn - Grand Duchy of Warsaw gains West Galicia (10/14)

                                Treaty of Schonbrunn  - Illyrian provinces are formed (10/14)

                                Hofer is captured and shot by the French at Mantua (11)

                                Battle of Ocana - French defeat Spaniards and then overrun all Andalusia (except Cadiz) (11/12)

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                                French take Oporto

                                France controls Croatia (-1813)

                                Afghansitan's first agreement with Great Britain

                                Nonintercourse Act -US

                                Battle of Silistria - Russians win

                                Gustavus IV Adolphus -      (Sweden)                                                (1792-1809)         House of Holstein-Gottorp

                                Charles XIII +                      (Sweden)                                                (1809-1818)         House of Holstein-Gottorp 

                                Thomas Jefferson -             (United States)                                     (1801-1809)         President

                                James Madison + (United States)                                     (1809-1817)         President

                                Mass in F                                                              Cherubini

                                Bauer, Bruno                                                                         1809-1882

                                Cortes, Donoso                                                                    1809-1853

                                Darwin, Charles                                                                    1809-1882

                                Gogol, Nikolai                                                                       1809-1852

                                Haussmann, Georges Eugene                                            1809-1891

                                Holmes, Oliver Wendell                                                      1809-1894

                                Mendelssohn-Bartoldy, Felix                                             1809-1847               Composer

                                Pierce, Benjamin                                                                   1809-1880

                                Poe, Edgar Allen                                                                  1809-1849

                                Tennyson, Alfred Lord                                                       1809-1892               Poet

                                Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg                                        1736-1809               Composer

                                Auenbrugger, Leopold                                                       1722-1809

                                Eberhard, J.A.                                                                       1739-1809

                                Haydn, Joseph                                                                     1732-1809                               Composer

                                Paine, Thomas                                                                      1737-1809

1810                        Interior of a Ruined Church (orig. John Sell Cotman) (study Louis Francia)

                                Meeting of the Eyes (Guler School - Panjab)

                                Lady on a Swing (Kangra School)

                                The Lady of the Lake (Sir Walter Scott)

                                De la defense des places fortes (Lazar Nicolas Marguerite Carnot)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                FULANI HOLY WAR -   (1804-1810)                                                                Fulani invade Hausa to the north

                                David Thompson of the NW Company writes, "Traded a very trifle of provisions from the Nez Perce." (3/11)

                                Napoleon marries Marie Louise of Austria (4)

                                Louis Bonaparte king of Holland, abdicates and flees (7/1)

                                The Netherlands (Holland) annexed to France (7/9)                      (-1813)

                                Tonquin leaves New York City on voyage to establish Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River (9/6)  Thursday

                                Hidalgo, parish priest of Dolores, Mexico, rings the church bell - Mexican War of Independence begins (9/15)

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                                Sweden delares war on France

                                British troops in Portugal hold lines of Torres Vedras against the French (-1811)

                                Autonomous governments set up in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela

                                Argentina gains independence

                                U.S. stops trade with British

                                Hamilton, OH incorporated

                                Russia occupies Bessarabia, Moldavia, and Wallachia

                                University of Berlin founded

                                Louis Bonaparte -                (Netherlands)                                       King (Brother of Napoleon)

                                Repository of Sacred Music                              Wyeth

                                Balmes                                                                                   1810-1848

                                Chopin, Frederick                                                 1810-1849               Composer

                                Clarke, James Freeman                                                        1810-1888

                                Colet, Louise                                                                         1810-1876

                                Erkel, Ferenc                                                                         1810-1893               Composer

                                Fuller, Sarah Margaret Ossoli                                            1810-1850

                                Kummer, Ernst Eduard                                                        1810-1893

                                Liberatore                                                                              1810-1892

                                Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de                                      1810-1857

                                Nicolai, Carl Otto Ehrenfried                                              1810-1849               Composer (Austria)

                                Parker, Theodore                                                                  1810-1860

                                Schumann, Robert Alexander                                            1810-1856               Composer

                                Schuncke, Ludwig                                                               1810-1834               Composer

                                Schwann, Theodore                                                            1810-1882

                                Wesley, Samuel Sebastian                                                 1810-1876               Composer

                                Cavendish, Henry                                                                1731-1810

                                Garth, John                                                                            1722-1810               Composer

                                Hoppner, John                                                                      1758-1810

                                Ritter, Johann Wilhelm                                                        1776-1810

1811                        The Cross and the Cathedral in the Mountains (Caspar Freidrich)

                                Gordale Scar, Yorkshire (James Ward) (-1815)

                                Dichtung und Wahrheit (Goethe)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                George III of England declared insane - Prince of Wales rules as regent (2/5)

                                Citadel Massacre - Mamelukes massacred in Cairo by Mohammed Ali who consolidates his rule (3/1)

                                Pacific Fur Company's Overland Party starts up the Missouri River on route to Fort Astoria (3/12)

                                Napoleon's son is born to Archduchess Marie Louise - The King of Rome (3/20)

                                Tonquin crosses the bar of the Columbia River (3/25)

                                Paraguay declares independence from Spain(5/14)

                                Battle of Albuera - Badajoz, Spain Preninsular War- Allied (British, Spanish, Portuguese) victory (5/16)

                                Overland Party confronted by around 600 Sioux warriors concernes they will trade arms with Aricaras, Mandans and Minnetarees to the north (5/31)

                                Tonquin crew massacred after Captain Jonathan Thorn insulted a Tla-o-qui-aht  chief at Woody Point, Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island - ship destroyed (6/15)

                                Venezuela declares independence from Spain (7/5)

                                David Thompson arrives at Fort Astoria from upriver on the Columbia - claims Astor gave NWC 1/3 share of trade (7/15)

                                Luddite riots against mechanization in textile industry  in Great Britain (11) (-1813)

                                William Henry Harrison arrives in Prophetstown (11/6)

                                Tippecanoe Battle (11/7)

                                Cumberland Road (Md) begins construction in Cumberland, MD (11/20)

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                                French driven out of Portugal

                                Wahhabis rule all Arabia except Yemen, with capital at Ryad

                                Portuguese explorers finally reach Tete, on the Zambezi in Mozambique

                                Stamford Raffles administers Batavia and Java (-1816)

                                Pittburgh's first rolling mill opens

                                First Bank of the United States charter revoked (expires)

                                Russians cross the Danube and advance through Bulgaria

                                Selkirk Concession - forms Red River Colony in Manitoba

                                THE GREAT COMET OF 1811 discovered (3/25)

                                Lieder (first)                                                          Schubert

                                Belinski, Vissarion Grigoryevich                                       1811-1848               Writer/Critic (Russia)         

                                Bingham, George                                                                  1811-1879               Genre Painter/Critic (VA ---> Missouri)

                                Blanc, Louis                                                                          1811-1882               Socialist Politician (Spain)

                                Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm                                                     1811-1899               Scientist (Gottingen)

                                Galois, Evariste                                                                     1811-1832               Mathemetician

                                Gautier, Theophile                                                               1811-1872               Poet/Novelist/Critic (France)

                                Grove, William                                                                      1811-1896              

                                Hiller, Ferdinand                                                                   1811-1885               Composer

                                Kelly, William                                                                       1811-1888

                                Lachner, Vincenz                                                                  1811-1893               Composer

                                Lizt, Franz                                                                              1811-1886               Composer

                                McCosh, James                                                                    1811-1894               Philosopher/Educator (Ayrshire, Scot.)

                                Porter, Noah                                                                          1811-1892               Educator/Philosopher (Farmington, CT)

                                Sanseverino                                                                          1811-1865

                                Stowe, Harriet Beecher                                                        1811-1896               Novelist/Humanitarian (Litchfield, CT)

                                Thackeray, William Makepeace                                         1811-1863               Novelist/Satirist (Calcutta

                                Thomas, Ambroise                                                              1811-1896               Composer

                                Fleming, Marjorie                                                                  1803-1811               Diarist/Poet (Kirkaldy, Scotland)

                                Percy, Thomas                                                                      1729-1811               Antiquary/Churchman (Shropshire, Eng.

1812                        Mounted officer of the imperial guard (Gericault)

                                Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Lord Byron)

                                Kinderund Hausmarchen (Grimm Brothers)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Pacific Fur Company's Overland party (first group) arrives at Fort Astoria - led by Donald Mackenzie (1/18)

                                France reoccupies Swedish Pomerania and Rugen (1)e

                                PFC Overland Party (second group) with Wilson Price Hunt and thirty plus men arrives at Fort Astoria (2/15)

                                Treaty of St. Petersburg - between Sweden and Russia - Sweden is promised Norway (4)

                                Treaty of Bucharest - Russia cedes Bessarabia to the Turks - ends Russo-Turkish War  (5/28)

                                Treaty of Orebro - between Great Britain, Sweden, and Russia (6)

                                Napoleon invades Russia with Grande Armee (6)

                                France passes the Niemen River and occupies Vilna (6)

                                Prussia besieges Riga (6)

                                Austria penetrates into Volhynia (6)

                                War of 1812 starts - Great Britain and United States at war over shipping and territory disputes (-1814) (6/18)

                                USS Essex captures Alert (8/13)

                                British capture Detroit (8/16)

                                Battle of Smolensk - France destroys Smolensk (8/17-18)

                                USS Constitution destroys Guerriere (8/19)

                                Battle of Borodino - on the Moskova River - Russians retreat further and abandon Moscow - (9/7)

                                Napoleon enters Moscow - establishes himself in the Kremlin (9/14)

                                Burning of Moscow by the Russians (Rostopchin) (9/15-19)

                                USS Wasp takes  Frolic (10/18)

                                Napoleon begins retreat - 100,000 survive out of 600,000 (10/19)

                                Battle of Jaroslavetz - separate corps of the Grand Army fight (10/24)

                                Battle of Viazma - (11/3)

                                Crossing of the Beresina - Ney & Oudinot force passage of  8500 troops against 25,000 Russians (11/26-28)

                                USS Constitution defeats Java (12/29)

                                Convention of Tuaroggen - Prussia concludes an agreement of neutrality with Russia (12/30)

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                                Repressive legislation introduced against Luddites

                                Battle of Salamanca - British victory in Spain

                                Moorcroft and Hearsey explore western Tibet

                                Stuart party (John Astor Company) pioneers the Oregon Trail (Astoria to St. Louis)

                                Frederick Augustus I -      (Grand Duchy of Warsaw)                 of Saxony

                                Scarlat Camilah +               (Moldavia)                                             Prince 

                                John Caragea +                   (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Beethoven meets Goethe

                                Symphony No. 7                                                  Beethoven

                                Symphony No. 8                                                  Beethoven

                                Violin Sonata, Op. 96                                           Beethoven

                                Browning, Robert                                                 1812-1889

                                Cochise                                                                                  1812-1874

                                Conscience, Hendrick                                                         1812-1883

                                Dickens, Charles                                                                  1812-1870

                                Flotow, Friedrich von                                                          1812-1883               Composer

                                Goncharov, Ivan Aleksanrovich                                       1812-1891               Novelist (Simbirsk, Russia)

                                Lear, Edward                                                                         1812-1888

                                Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore                                 1812-1852               Architect/Writer (England)

                                Rietz, Julius                                                                           1812-1877               Composer

                                Rousseau, Theodore                                                           1812-1867

                                Thalberg, Sigismond                                                           1812-1871               Composer

                                Dussek, Jan Ladislaw                                                          1760-1812               Pianist/Composer

                                Gragnani, Filippo                                                                  1767-1812               Composer

                                Hoffmeister, Franz Anton                                                   1754-1812               Composer

                                Little Turtle                                                                           1752-1812

                                Sperger, Johann Matthias                                                  1750-1812               Composer

1813                        Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

                                A New View of Society (Robert Owens)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR ...   (1754-1814)                                               Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                Prussia and Russia declare war on France (2)

                                Soult and a large part of the French army is recalled to Germany from Spain

                                Appeal of Frederick William III - issues from Breslau a call upon his people to form volunteer corps (2/3)

                                Treaty of Kalisch - between Russia & Prussia against France - coalition joined by Britain, Austria, Sweden (2/28)

                                Treaty between England and Sweden - Sw. supplies 30,000 troops and Eng. agrees to union of Nor. & Sw. (3/3)

                                James Madison’s second inauguration (3/4)

                                Appeal of Frederick William III - "to my people" & "to my army" - Landwher/Landsturm established (3/17)

                                Oubreak in Hamburg - Tettenborn and a force of Russians occupy the city (3/18)

                                Dukes of Mecklenburg withdraw from the Confederation of the Rhine (3)

                                Russians and Prussians occupy Dreseden - King of Saxony flees (3/27)

                                Napoleon is at the head of 180,000 men in Germany (4)

                                Battle of Gross-Gorschen (Lutzen) - France wins (5/2)

                                Battle of Bautzen - Napoleon attacks allies - forces a retreat across the Spree (5/20)

                                Battle of Wurschen  - Napoleon wins Pyrrhic victory - Duroc is killed - Allies retreat to Silesia (5/21)

                                Armistice of Poischwitz (6/4-7/26)

                                Battle of Vittoria - Duke of Wellington completely drives French (Joseph Bonaparte) out of Spain (6/21)

                                Laura Secord sets out to warn British of an impending American attack on Queenston, Ontario (6/21)

                                Treaty of Reichenbach - between Prussia and Russia over subsidies (6/15)

                                Congress at Prague - Austria plays the part of mediator - negotiations prove futile (7/5-8/11)

                                Austria declares war on France - (8/12)

                                Allies field three armies: the Bohemian (Schwarzenberg), Silesian (Blucher), and Northern (Bernadotte) (8)

                                Battle of Medina - Spanish royalistsin Mexico defeat "Republican Army of the North" uprising

                                British storm San Sebastian in Spain (8/21)

                                Battle of Grossbeeren - Bulow, crown prince of Saxony defeats Oudinot and Reynier, saving Berlin (8/23)

                                Battle of Katzbach - Blucher defeats Macdonald's army - Blucher made prince of Wahlstatt (8/26)

                                Battle of Dresden - Napoleon defeats allied army from Bohemia - last major Fr. victory in Germany (8/26-27)

                                Battle of Kulm and Nollendorf - Ostermann and Kleist defeat Vandamme's French force (8/30)

                                Battle of Dennewitz - Bulow and Tauenzien defeat Marshal Ney who attempted to take Berlin (9/6)

                                Treaty of Teplitz - between Russia, Prussia and Austria - no separate treaty to be concluded with France (9/9)

                                Battle of Lake Erie - Oliver Hazard Perry defeats British fleet (9/10)

                                Battle of Wartenburg - Silesian and Northern armies force passage across the Elbe (10/3)

                                Battle of the Thames (Ont.) - US victory over British (10/5)

                                Treaty of Ried - between Austria and Bavaria - Bavaria withdraws from Conf. of Rhine & joins Alliance (10/8)

                                Battle of the Nations at Leipzig - combined Austrian, Russian, and Prussian forces defeat France (10/16-19)

                                Americans of the Astoria Company sell all their interests in Columbia country to the Northwest Company (10/16)

                                Pampeluna falls to the British and Spaniards (10/31)

                                Allies offer Napoleon peace - France to retain boundaries at Alps and the Rhine - Napoleon refuses (11/8)

                                Wellington crosses the French Frontier from Spain and defeats Soult (11/10)

                                Dresden falls to the Allies (11/11)

                                Revolt of the Dutch begins - French officials are expelled (11/15)

                                Stettin falls to the Allies (11/21)

                                Napoleon crosses the Rhine at Mainz (11)

                                Wurttemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Baden, and the rest of the Confederation of the Rhine join the Alliance (11)

                                Allies adopt resolution to prosecute the war vigorously, pass the Rhine and invade France (12/1)

                                Lubeck falls to the Allies (12/5)

                                Allied armies cross the Rhine into France (12/21-25)

                                Zamosc, Modlin, Torgau fall to the Allies (12/26)

                                Danzig falls to the Allies (12/30)

                                Wellington invests Bayonne (12)

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                                War of Liberation from France begins in Prussia led by King Frederick William III

                                Allied forces invade France

                                Austria-Hungary controls Croatia (-1918)

                                Serbian revolt suppressed

                                Treaty of Gulistan - ends Russo-Persian war

                                Wahhabis lose control of Mecca

                                The Great Game begins - British versus Russian hegemony in Central Asia(-1907)

                                William I +                           (Netherlands)

                                Karadjordje -                        (Serbia)                                                 National Leader

                                Poisson’s Potential Theory Equation

                                London Philharmonic Society founded

                                Royal Philharmonic Orchestra forms

                                Wellington's Victory                                           Beethoven

                                Alkan, Charles Henri Valentin                                            1813-1888               Composer

                                Bernard, Claude                                                                    1813-1878

                                Bessemer, Henry                                                                  1813-1898

                                Dargomyzhsky, Alexander                                                 1813-1869               Composer

                                Douglas, Stephen Arnold                                                   1813-1861

                                Garnier, Jean Louis Charles                                                1813-1881

                                Heller, Stephen                                                                     1813-1888               Composer

                                Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye                                                 1813-1855               Philosopher

                                Verdi, Guiseppi Fortunino Frencesco                               1813-1901               Composer

                                Very, Jones                                                                           1813-1880

                                Wagner, Richard                                                                  1813-1883               Composer

                                Bodoni, Giambattista                                                           1740-1813

                                Gretry, Andre Ernest Modeste                                          1741-1813               Composer

                                Lagrange, Joseph Louis                                                      1736-1813

                                Russell, William                                                                    1777-1813               Composer

                                Livingston, Robert R.                                                          1746-1813

                                Vanhal, Jan Krtitel                                                                1739-1813               Composer

1814                        Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos (John Vanderlyn)

                                Odalisque (Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres)

                                The Third of May (Francisco Goya)

                                King Ferdinand VII (Francisco Goya)

                                John Myers (Thomas Sully)

                                Waverly (Sir Walter Scott)

                                SIXTY YEARS WAR -   (1754-1814)                                 Struggle for the Great Lakes Region

                                ANGLO-NEPALESE WAR +   (1814-1816)

                                Allied forces under Blucher cross the Rhine at Mannheim and Coblenz (1/1)

                                Wittenberg falls to the Allies (1/12)

                                Treaty of Kiel - Sweden gains (unites with) Norway from Denmark (1/14)

                                Treaty of Kiel - Denmark gains Western Pomerania from Sweden (1/14)

                                Napoleon attempts to drive back Blucher at Brienne but Blucher manages to unite with main part of army (1/29)

                                Battle of La Rothiere - United Allied army defeats Napoleon who is forced to retreat behind the Aube River (2/1)

                                Congress of Chatillon (sur-Seine) begins - Allies meet with Napoleons envoy Caulaincourt (2/5-3/19)

                                Battles of Champaubert, Montmirail, Chateau-Thierry and Vauchamps - Napoleon defeats Blucher (2/10-15)

                                Battles of Nangis and Montereau - Napoleon defeats main Allied army advancing toward Paris (2/17-18)

                                Battle of Bar-sur-Aube - Schwarzenberg defeats Oudinot and MacDonald (2/27)

                                Kustrin falls to the Allies (3/7)

                                Treaties of Chaumont - arranged by Casterleagh - Alliance to last for 20 years - no seperate peace - (3/9)

                                Battle of Laon - combined Allied armies defeat Napoleon (3/9-10)

                                British under Wellington capture Bordeaux (3/12)

                                Congress of Chatillon ends - negotiations fail on account of Napoleons confidence in his recent victories (3/19)

                                Battle of Arcis-sur-aube - Allies defeat Napoleon - advance on Paris (3/20-21)

                                Battle of La Fere-Champenoise - Allies defeat Marshals Marmont and Mortier - generals retreat to Paris (3/25)

                                Battle of Horseshoe Bend - (3/27)

                                Storming of the Montmarte - French generals obliged to capitulate (3/27)

                                Paris falls to Allies (3/31)

                                Napoleon abdicatesconditionally in favor of his son - Allies reject this solution (4/6)

                                Battle of Toulouse - Allies defeat Soult - campaign in the south  comes to an end (4/10)

                                Napoleon unconditionally abdicates (4/11)

                                Louis XVIII lands at Calais from exile in London (4/24)

                                Napoleon arrives at Elba off the coast of Italy  (5/4)

                                First Treaty of Paris - ends Napoleonic Wars (5/30)

                                First Treaty of Paris - France retains boundaries of 1792 (5/30)

                                Battle of Stonington, CT (8/14)

                                British Burn Capitol and White House (8/24)

                                Congress of Vienna (9)

                                US wins Battle of Lake Champlain (9/11)

                                Ft. McHenry bombarded - Star Spangled Banner (9/13-14)

                                Congress of Vienna officially opens - heads of state discuss settlement of post-war Europe (-1815) (11/1)

                                Treaty of Ghent - ends War of 1812 (12/24)

                                Peninsular War ends

                                Treaties of Chaumont - establishes the Quadruple Alliance

                                Flanders united with Netherlands (-1830)

                                India and Nepal fight over borders (-1816)

                                Gurkha War (Anglo-Nepalese War) - Nepal vs. British East India Company (-1816)

                                Kurozumui sect founded in Japan - first modern Shinto sect

                                Hartford Convention - US

                                Frederik VI -                        (Norway)                                               

                                Charles XIII +                      (Norway)                                                Carl

                                Napoleon Bonaparte -         (France)                                                 Emperor

                                Louis XVIII +                       (France)                                                 (-1824)   (b. of Louis XVI)

                                Joseph Bonaparte -             (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon ?

                                Ferdinand VII +                    (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon  (rethroned)

                                George Stephenson's first locomotive

                                Die Erlking                                                             Schubert (1815)

                                Gretchen am Spinnrad                                         Schubert

                                Bakunin, Michael                                                                 1814-1876

                                Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm                                                      1814-1865               Composer

                                Hanselt, Adolph von                                                           1814-1889               Composer

                                Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich                                          1814-1841

                                Millet, Jean Francois                                                           1814-1875               Painter

                                Mosonyi, Mihaly                                                                 1814-1870               Composer

                                Sylvester, James Joseph                                                     1814-1897

                                Burney, Charles                                                                    1726-1814               Composer

                                De Sade, Marquis Donatian Alphonse F.                        1740-1814

                                Fichte, Johann Gottlieb                                                       1762-1814

                                Reichardt, Johann Friedrich                                               1752-1814               Composer

                                Vogler, Abbe                                                                        1749-1814               Composer (Wurzburg)

1815                        Witch's Sabbath (Francisco Goya)

                                Crossing the Brook (Joseph Mallord William Turner)

                                Berthold Thorwaldsen (Christoffer-Wilhelm Eckersberg)

                                ANGLO-NEPALESE WAR ...   (1814-1816)

                                Battle of New Orleans (1/8)

                                Treaty of Ghent proclaimed - peace between United States and Great Britain (2/18)

                                Napoleon escapes from Elba (2/25)

                                Napoleon lands at Cannes with 1500 men (3/1)

                                Allied monarchs issue a ban against Napoleon from ongress of Vienna - Louis XVIII flees to Ghent (3/13)

                                Napoleon enters Paris - beginning of the Hundred Days (3/20)  (-6/29)

                                Austria, England, Prussia, Russia conclude new alliance against France - Wellington in command of 1mil+ (3/25)

                                Battle of Tolentino - Austrian force defeats Murat, who had declared for Napoleon again (5/3)

                                Allies capture Naples (5/22)  

                                Treaty of Vienna - Conclusion of the Congress of Vienna (6/9)

                                Austrian and Prussian monarchies are restored (Final Act of Congress of Vienna) (6/9)

                                German Confederation replaces Confederation of the Rhine (Final Act of Congress of Vienna) (6/9)

                                Kingdom of the Netherlands formally unites Belgium and Holland (Final Act of Congress of Vienna) (6/9)

                                Battle of Charleroi - Napoleon crosses into Belgium - forces back Prussian advanced guard under Ziethen (6/14)

                                Battle of Ligny - Napoleon forces Blucher to fall back (6/16)

                                Prussians march to Wavre (6/16)

                                Battle of Quatre Bras - Marshal Ney defeats the Prince of Orange (6/16)

                                Battle of Waterloo - Napoleon defeated with late arrival of Blucher (6/18)

                                Second Abdication of Napoleon (6/22)

                                Second Capture of Paris - Louis XVIII returns "in the baggage of the Allies" w/ allied monarchs (7/7)

                                Napoleon surrenders to the British under admiral Hotham at Rochefort, France (7/17)

                                Order for Liberal followers of Napoleon to expatriate themselves - many go to Champ d'Asile, Texas(7/24)

                                US flotilla ends Algerian piracy (8/6)

                                Napoleon exiled to island of St. Helena - sets sail to South Atlantic (8/8)

                                The Holy Alliance - signed by all European powers except England , pope, and Turkey (9/26)

                                Napoleon arrives at St. Helena (10)

                                Murat is captured in Calabria - untimatley court-marshaled and shot (10/13)

                                Second Treaty of Paris - France's boundaries restored to those of 1790 (11/20)

                                Renewal of the Quadruple Alliance (11/20)

                                Sugauli Treaty signed - ends Anglo-Nepalese War (12/2)

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                                English Corn Laws - restrict corn imports

                                Milan comes under Austrian control

                                Metternichian system (-1848)

                                Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia

                                Prussia gains Aachen from France

                                Quadruple Alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia to maintain Congress System

                                Italian Risorgimento (-1848)

                                Serbs revolt against Ottoman Empire in Balkans

                                France prohibits slave trade

                                Brazil declared a kingdom

                                US Treaty with the Sioux

                                Metronome invented

                                Heidenroslein                                                       Schubert

                                Third Symphony                                                  Schubert

                                Bachofen, Johann Jakob                                                     1815-1887

                                Bohtlingk, Otto von                                                             1815-1904

                                Boole, George                                                                       1815-1864

                                Emmett, Dan                                                                          1815-1904               Composer

                                Jenner, William                                                                     1815-1898

                                Lovenskiold, Herman Severin                                            1815-1870               Composer

                                Stanton, Elizabeth Cady                                                      1815-1902

                                Volkmann, Friedrich Robert                                                1815-1883               Composer

                                Weierstrass, Theodore                                                       1815-1897

                                Copley, John Singleton                                                       1738-1815

                                Mesmer, Franz Anton                                                         1734-1815

                                Saloman, Johann Peter                                                        1745-1815               Composer

1816                        A Windmill near Norwich (John "Old" Crome)

                                A Man Galloping over the Sands at Scarborough (Joseph M. W. Turner) (-1818)

                                Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude

                                ANGLO-NEPALESE WAR -   (1814-1816)

                                Sugauli Treaty ratified- ends Anglo-Nepalese War (3/4)

                                Battle of Seven Oaks - Northwest Company/Métis defeat Hudson's Bay Company near Winnepeg (6/19)

                                United Provinces of the Plate River forms - Argentina declares independence from Spain (7/9)

                                Regular transatlantic service in sailing ships between Liverpool and New York

                                Bolivar issues a decree against slavery

                                Second Bank of US chartered

                                Dallas Tariff - US Tariff of 1816 passed - engineered by Henry Clay

                                Fort Crawford built at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin - US

                                Joseph Nicephore Niepce produces first photographic negative by placing a piece of sensitized paper in a camera

                                Maria I -                                (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                John -                                     (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza (Regent)

                                John VI +                              (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Jose Rodriguez de Francia + (Paraguay)                                       (-1840)   Perpetual Dictator "El Supremo"

                                Fourth Symphony                                                                Schubert

                                Fifth Symphony                                                   Schubert

                                Third Piano Sonata                                              Schubert

                                Mass in C                                                              Schubert

                                Barber of Seville                                                   Rossini

                                Otello                                                                     Rossini

                                Bennett, William Sterndale                                                 1816-1875               Composer

                                Bronte, Charlotte                                                                  1816-1855

                                Gobineau, Joseph Arthur                                                   1816-1882               France

                                Kensett, John Frederick                                                      1816-1872

                                Fiala, Joseph                                                                         1748-1816               Composer

                                Sheridan, Richard Brinsley                                 1751-1816               Dramatist/Politician (Dublin, Ireland)

                                Paisiello, Giovanni                                                               1740-1816               Composer

1817                        The First Sight of Clara (Thomas Rowlandson)

                                Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France (Rowlandson)

                                Endymion (Keats)

                                Manfred (Byron)

                                Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Ricardo)            definitive statement of classical political economy

                                FIRST SEMINOLE WAR +   (1817-1818)

                                Battle of Chacabuco - Jose de San Martin crosses the Andes to defeat Spanish  (2/12)

                                James Monroe inaugurated (3/4)

                                Rush-Bagot Treaty - demilitarization of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - betw. GB and US (4/28-29)

                                Ottoman Empire recognizes Milosh Obrenovich as Prince of Serbia

                                Final war against the Marathas in India (-1819)

                                Cherokee Old Settlers move to lands given them in Arkansas

                                American Colonization Society established

                                First Seminole War started- 3000 troops attack the  Mikasuki tribe

                                Gradus ad Parnassum                                          Clementi

                                Requiem in C minor                                              Cherubini

                                Milos Obrenovic +               (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                James Madison -  (United States)                                     (1809-)   President

                                James Monroe +                  (United States)                                     (-1825)   President

                                Bahaullah                                                                              1817-1892

                                Gade, Niels Wilhelm                                                            1817-1890               Composer

                                Daubigny, Charles Francois                                               1817-1878

                                Douglass, Frederick                                                             1817-1895

                                Haupt, Herman                                                                     1817-1905

                                Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor                          1817-1903               Historian (Germany)

                                Lotze, Rudolf Hermann                                                       1817-1881

                                Saumell, Manuel                                                                   1817-1870               Composer

                                Storm, Theodor                                                                    1817-1888

                                Thoreau, Henry David                                                        1817-1862

                                Vogt, Karl                                                                              1817-1895

                                Austen, Jane                                                                         1775-1817

                                Knechtl, Justin Heinrich                                                     1751-1817               Composer

                                Mehul, Etienne Nicolas                                                       1763-1817               Composer

                                Messier, Charles                                                                  1730-1817               Astronomer (Badonviller, France) (4/12)

                                Necker, Anne Louise Germaine (de Stael)                        1766-1817

                                Nemours, Pierre Samuel DuPont de                                  1739-1817

                                Solere, Etienne                                                                      1753-1817               Composer

                                Tausch, Franz Wilhelm                                                       1762-1817               Composer

1818                        The Archduke Charles (Thomas Lawrence)

                                The Raft of the “Medusa” (Gericault)  (-1819)

                                Mercury (Berthold Thorwaldsen)

                                Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (Schopenhauer)

                                FIRST SEMINOLE WAR -  (1817-1818)

                                British sign treaty at Jodhpur  - tribute now to be paid to UK not the Maharajas (1/6)

                                French exiles set up Champ d'Asile colony on the Trinity River in Spanish Texas, under Lallemond (3)

                                Treaty with the Wyandot, etc. -  cede land in Ohio to the US (9/17)

                                Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle - France joins the four Great Powers (Br., Ru, Au, Pr.)  in the Quintuple Alliance (10/18)

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                                Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) - Alexander I unsuccessul in trying to tighten Holy Alliance

                                Zulu Empire founded in southern Africa by military chieftan Chaka

                                Border between Canada and United States fixed along 49th parallel - both occupy Oregon

                                Chile becomes independent from Spain

                                Charles XIII -                       (Sweden)                                                (1809-)   House of Holstein-Gottorp 

                                Charles XIV +                      (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte (John)

                                Charles XIII -                       (Norway)                                                Carl

                                Charles XIV +                      (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte (John)

                                John Caragea -                    (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Alexander Sutu +                (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Chaka +                 (Zulu Empire)                                       Emperor

                                Piano Sonata, Op. 106                                       Beethoven

                                Sixth Symphony                                                   Schubert

                                String Quartet in E                                             Schubert

                                Bain, Alexander                                                                    1818-1903

                                Bronte, Emily                                                                        1818-1848

                                Froude, J. A.                                                                         1818-1894               Historian (England)

                                Godefroid, Felix                                                                    1818-1897               Composer

                                Gounod, Charles Francois                                                  1818-1893               Composer

                                Joule, James Prescott                                                          1818-1889

                                Litolff, Henry Charles                                                          1818-1891               Composer

                                Marx, Karl                                                                              1818-1883               Political Philosopher (Trier, Rhineland)

                                Stone, Lucy Blackwell                                                         1818-1893

                                Topelius, Zacharias                                                             1818-1898

                                Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich                                              1818-1883

                                Adams, Abigail                                                                    1744-1818

                                Kozeluh, Leopold Jan Antonin                                          1747-1818               Composer

                                Monge, Gaspard                                                                  1746-1818

1819                        Duel (Francisco Goya)

                                Ivanhoe (Scott)

                                Singapore founded by British administrator Sir Stamford Raffles (2/6)

                                Adams-Onis Treaty - Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 - between US and Spain - boundary excludes Texas (2/22)

                                Adams-Onis Treaty - Spain cedes Florida to the United States (2/22)

                                McCulloch v. Maryland - Congress has right to establish national bank (3/6)

                                Carlsbad Decrees in Germany suppress political activity of liberal youth and intellectuals (7)

                                Peterloo Massacre - soldiers fire on political meeting in Manchester, England - several people killed (8/16)

                                Congress of Angostura - declares creation of Republic of Gran Colombia with Bolivar as President (12/17)

                                Zollverein (customs union) begins in Germany under influence of Prussia (-1844)

                                Sikh leader Ranjit Singh conquers Kashmir

                                Steamship Savannah makes first trans Atlantic voyage mostly on steam (Savannah-Liverpool)

                                Henry Atkinson leads his first expedition to the Yellowstone River - only reaches Nebraska

                                Panic of 1819

                                Scarlat Camilah -                                (Moldavia)                                             Prince 

                                Piano Quintet in A Major “Trout”                    Schubert

                                Forellen Quintet                                                   Schubert

                                Piano Sonata No. 13                                            Schubert

                                Abt, Franz                                                                             1819-

                                Bab, Ali Mohammed of Shiraz                                           1819-1850

                                Clough, Arthur Hugh                                                          1819-1861

                                Courbet, Gustave                                                                 1819-1877

                                Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot)                                       1819-1880

                                Field, Cyrus West                                                                1819-1892

                                Fizeau, Armand Hyppolyte Louis                                     1819-1896

                                Foucalt, Jean Bernard Leon                                                1819-1868

                                Halle, Charles                                                                        1819-1895

                                Heade, Martin Johnson                                                      1819-1904

                                Kinglsley, Charles                                                                1819-1875

                                Melville, Herman                                                                  1819-1882

                                Moniuszko, Stanislaw                                                         1819-1872               Composer (Poland)

                                Offenbach, Jacques                                                             1819-1880               Composer

                                Ruskin, John                                                                         1819-1900

                                Schumann, Clara Weick                                                      1819-1896               Composer

                                Stokes, George Gabriel                                                        1819-1903

                                Suppe, Franz Suppe                                                             1819-1895               Composer

                                Whitman, Walt                                                                     1819-1892

                                Bohdanowicz, Bazvli                                                           1754-1819               Composer

                                Fuss, Johann Evangelist                                                     1777-1819               Composer

                                Garnier, Michel                                                                     1753-1819

                                Harlow, George                                                                     1787-1819

                                Jabobi                                                                                    1743-1819

                                Morellet, Andre                                                                    1727-1819

                                Petrini, Francesco                                                                1744-1819               Composer

                                Watt, James                                                                          1736-1819

1820                        Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)

                                Jerusalem (Blake)

                                Meditations Poetiques (Lamartine)

                                SPANISH CIVIL WAR +   (1820-1823)

                                Cato Street conspiracy in England to assassinate cabinet minister fails

                                Liberal revolutions in Spain, Portugal, and Italy (Naples, Piedmont)

                                The Carbonari revolutionists in France and Italy (-1830)

                                Congress of Troppau - considers Naples revolt

                                Egyptian (Muhammed Ali) conquest of Eastern Sudan (-1822)

                                Missouri Compromise - Missouri enters Union as slave state - 36 degrees 30’ (3/3)

                                Maine separated from Massachusetts; admitted as state

                                5,000,000 acres in central Mississippi ceded to U.S.

                                American missionaries reach Hawaii

                                Faraday's electric motor and generator

                                George III -                           (England)                                               King

                                George IV +                          (England)                                               (-1830)   King

                                Renzong Jui -                       (China)                                                  (1796-)   5th Qing Dynasty (Jiaqing Era)

                                Dawning of Music in Kentucky                        Heinrich

                                Anthony, Susan Brownell                                                  1820-1906

                                Bronte, Anne                                                                        1820-1849

                                Caird, John                                                                            1820-1898

                                Chancourtois, Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de                    1820-1886

                                Engels, Friedrich                                                                  1820-1895

                                Grove, Sir George                                                 1820-1900               Composer

                                Heinze, Gustaf Adolf                                                           1820-1904               Composer

                                Libert, George Emil                                                               1820-1908

                                Sadlier, Mary Anne Madden                                             1820-1903

                                Spencer, Herbert                                                                  1820-1903               Philosopher

                                Tubman, Harriet                                                                   1820-1913              

                                Vieuxtemps, Henri                                                                1820-1881               Composer

                                Banks, Joseph                                                                      1743-1820

                                Brown, Thomas                                                                    1778-1820

                                Murray, Judith Sargent                                                       1751-1820               Feminist Theorist

                                West, Benjamin                                                                    1738-1820

1821                        The Hay Wain (Constable)

                                SPANISH CIVIL WAR ...   (1820-1823)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE +   (1821-1831)

                                Congress of Laibach convenes- authorizes Austria to put down Neapolitan revolt (1/26)

                                Napoleon dies after six years of house arrest on St. Helena island in Atlantic (5/5)

                                Congress of Laibach ends (5/12)

                                Battle of Carabobo - Bolivar defeats Spanish - last major engagement of the war in Venezuela (6/24)

                                Peru proclaims independence from Spain - San Martin decrees from Lima (7/28)

                                Mexico proclaims independence from Spain (9/27)

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                                Great Britain adopts the gold standard

                                Revolutionary period in Transylvania (-1848)

                                Greek War of Independence against Ottoman Empire (-1829) (-1830)

                                Persia and Ottoman Empire at war (-1823)

                                Troy Female Seminary founded (1st U.S. womens college)

                                Thomas Seebeck discovers the thermoelectric effect

                                Alexander Sutu - (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Xuanzong Cheng +             (China)                                                  (-1850)   6th Qing Dynasty (Daoguang Era)

                                Der Freischutz                                                     von Weber

                                Piano Sonata, Op. 110                                       Beethoven

                                Piano Sonata, Op. 111                                       Beethoven

                                Baudelaire, Charles Pierre                                                   1821-1867               Writer

                                Bottesini, Giovanni                                                              1821-1889               Composer

                                Broglie, Jaques Victor Albert                                             1821-1901               Historian/Politian (France)

                                Brown, Ford Madox                                                             1821-1893               Painter (Calais, France)

                                Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich                                            1821-1894               Mathemetician (Russia)

                                Doppler, Albert Franz                                                          1821-1883               Composer

                                Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich         o.s.    10/30       1821-1881               Writer  (11/11 n.s.)

                                Flaubert, Gustav                                                                   1821-1880               Writer

                                Barton, Clara                                                         12/25       1821-1912               Nurse/Teacher/Humanitarian (Oxford, MA)

                                Helmholtz, Ludwig Ferdinand von                                    1821-1894               Physicist

                                Kiel, Friedrich                                                                       1821-1885               Composer

                                Locker-Lampson, Frederick                                                1821-1895               Writer (England)

                                Loschmidt, Johann Joseph                                 3/15         1821-1895               Chemist, Physicist (Bohemia)

                                Red Cloud                                                                             1821-1909               Oglala Chief

                                Bonaparte, Napoleon                                          5/5           1769-1821               Emperor (Corsica)

                                Jordan, Camille                                                                     1771-1821

                                Keats, John                                                                           1795-1821

                                Romberg, Andreas Jacob                                                   1767-1821               Composer

                                Vranicky, Antonin                                                               1761-1820               Composer

1822                        Hamptstead - Evening (Sir John Constable)

                                Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo (D. Wilkie)

                                Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre)

                                The Primitive City (Calvert)

                                Landscape on the oise (Daubigny)

                                Racine et Shakespeare (Stendhal)

                                SPANISH CIVIL WAR ...   (1820-1823)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                Lord Castlereagh commits suicide (8/12)

                                Rutherford B. Hayes is Born (10/4)

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                                Congress of Verona - breaks down over Great Britain's refusal to intervene in Spain - ends Congress System

                                Spanish revolution put down by France

                                Egypt completes conquest of Sudan

                                Liberia founded as a colony for freed American slaves

                                Brazil completes independence from Portugal under Pedro I

                                Colombia and Equador liberated

                                Denmark Vesey Conspiracy

                                First textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts

                                Delaware New Purchase: Marion County, IN created

                                Augustin Iturbide +            (Mexico)                                                Emperor (-1823)

                                Pedro I +                                (Brazil)

                                Charles babbage proposes the difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical society (6/14)

                                Missa Solemnis                                                    Beethoven

                                Unfinished Symphony                                        Schubert

                                Cherubini appointed director of Paris Conservatory    

                                Adams, William Taylor                                                       1822-1897

                                Arnold, Matthew                                                                 1822-1888

                                Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois                                       1822-1900

                                Cornoldi, Giovanni Mari                                                     1822-1892

                                Franck, Cesar Auguste Jean Guillaume Hub.                  1822-1890               Composer

                                Frothingham, Octavius Brooks                                          1822-1895

                                Hayes, Rutheford B.                                                            1822-1893

                                Hermite, Charles                                                                   1822-1901

                                Moleschott, Jakob                                                               1822-1893

                                Olmsted, Frederick Law                                                       1822-1903

                                Passy, Frederic                                                                     1822-1912

                                Pasteur, Louis                                                                       1822-1895

                                Raff, Joseph Joachim                                                           1822-1882               Composer

                                Schliemann, Heinrich                                                           1822-1890

                                Canova, Antonio                                                                 1757-1822               Painter, Sculptor (Possagno, Venice)

                                Herschel, Sir William                                                           1738-1822               Astronomer/Musician (Hanover, Ger.)

                                Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Amadeus                                   1776-1822               Composer

                                Shelley, Percy Blythe                                                          1792-1822

1823                        SPANISH CIVIL WAR -   (1820-1823)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                Plan de Casa Mata - Santa Anna and Guadelupe Victoria sign to overthrow Mexican monarchy (2/1)

                                Louis XVIII, Monsieur, and the Duc de Angouleme watch armies triumphant return from Spain (12/2)

                                Monroe Doctrine - warns European powers not to interfere in American politics  (12/2)

                                Allen County, IN established (12/17)

                                Mexican Empire collapses

                                US Land Office opens

                                Spanish revolution crushed by French forces

                                Treaty of Erzerum

                                Arikawa War

                                Augustin Iturbide -             (Mexico)                                                Emperor (1822-)

                                Pius VII -

                                Leo XII +

                                Euryanthe                                                              von Weber

                                Symphony No. 9                                                  Beethoven

                                Diabelli Variations                                                Beethoven

                                Die schone Mullerin                                            Schubert

                                Baird, Spencer Fullerton                                                     1823-1887

                                Chipp, Edmund Thomas                                                     1823-1886               Composer

                                Janet, Paul                                                                             1823-1899

                                Lalo, Edouard-Victoire-Antoine                                        1823-1892               Composer

                                Lemmens, Jacques Nicolas                                                 1823-1881               Composer

                                Parkman, Francis                                                                  1823-1893               Historian (Boston)

                                Patmore, Coventry                                                               1823-1896

                                Petofi, Sandor                                                                       1823-1849

                                Renan, Ernst                                                                         1823-1892

                                Wallace, Alfred Russel                                                       1823-1913

                                Breval, Jean Baptiste Sebastian                                         1753-1823               Composer

                                Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite                                    1753-1823               Military Engineer (France)

                                Dumouriez, Charles Francois                                             1739-1823               Military General (France)

                                Fiorillo, Federigo                                                                  1755-1823               Composer

                                Jenner, Edward                                                                     1749-1823

                                Lithander, Fredrik Emanuel                                 1777-1823               Composer

                                Nollekens, Joseph                                                                1737-1823

                                Radcliffe, Ann Ward                                                           1764-1823               Novelist (London, England)

                                Raebern, Henry                                                                    1756-1823

                                Reinhold                                                                                1755-1823

                                Ricardo, David                                                                      1772-1823

1824                        The Champion (Charles Lock Eastlake)

                                Coast of Picardy (Parkes Bonington)

                                Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschrieber (Critique of Modern Historical Writing) (Leopold von Ranke)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                Delacroix's first "modern painting"

                                Gibbons v. Ogden - defines Congress’ right to regulate interstate commerce (3/2)

                                Augustin de Iturbide is shot trying to return to Mexixo (7/19)

                                Mexican Constitution is promugated (10/4)

                                Battle of Ayacucho - last major engagement in South America (12/9)

                                Combination Acts repealed in England - stimulates trade union movement (-1825)

                                Death of Lord Byron at Missolonghi

                                War between British and Ashanti in Gold Coast (Ghana) (-1827)

                                First Anglo-Burmese War - Great Britain begins annexation of Burma (-1826)

                                Pawtucket weavers strike (first for women)

                                Second Party System in the United States  (-1854)

                                Corrupt Bargain

                                Louis XVIII -                        (France)                                                 (1814-)   King      

                                Charles X +                          (France)                                                 (-1830)   King (br. of Louis XVI and XVIII)

                                Guadelupe Victoria +          (Mexico)                                                (-1829)   1st President

                                Boudin, Louis Eugene                                                         1824-1898

                                Bruckner, Anton  Joseph                                                   1824-1896               Composer

                                Buchner, Ludwig                                                                  1824-1899

                                Dumas, Alexander                                                                1824-1895

                                Fischer, Kuno                                                                       1824-1907

                                Gerome, Jean-Leon                                                              1824-1904               Painter (Vesoul, France)

                                Kelvin, William Thompson                                 1824-1907

                                Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert                                                   1824-1887

                                Reinecke, Carl Heinrich Carsten                                        1824-1910               Composer

                                Smetana, Bedrich Friedrich                                                1824-1884               Composer

                                Biran, Maine de                                                                    1766-1824

                                Byron, George Gordon                                                        1788-1824

                                Chladni, Ernst E. F.                                                              1756-1824

                                Gericault, Jean Louis Andre Theodore                             1791-1824              

                                Girodet, Anne-Louis                                                            1767-1824

                                Viotti, Giovanni Battista                                                      1755-1824               Composer

1825                        Eve at the Fountain (John Martin)

                                I Promessi Sposi (Manzoni)

                                Boris Gogunov (Pushkin)

                                Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital (Thomas Hodgskin)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                John Quincy Adams inaugurated (3/4)

                                Erie Canal opens (10/26)

                                Accession of Nicholas I of Russia (12)

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                                Steam Era begins with George Stephenson's locomotive on the Stockton and Darlington RR in n. England

                                Egyptian forced invade Greece

                                Russo-Persian war begins (-1828)

                                Bolivia gains independence

                                Morris Canal begins construction

                                Indian Land Exchange program (land in East for public land in west)

                                US Treaty with the Sioux

                                Henry Atkinson leads his second expedition to the Yellowstone River

                                Leopold von Ranke becomes a professor at the University of Berlin (-1871)

                                Ludwig I +                             (Bavaria)

                                Alexander I Pavlovich -       (Russia)                                                 (1801-)   Emperor (faked death?)

                                Nicholas I +                          (Russia)                                                 (-1855)   Emperor (Tsar)

                                James Monroe -                   (United States)                                     (1817-)   President

                                John Quincy Adams +        (United States)                                     (-1829)   President

                                First experimental steam locomotive built and operated (John Stevens)

                                String Quartet, Op. 127                                        Beethoven

                                String Quartet, Op. 132                                        Beethoven

                                String Octet Eb maj., op. 20                                Mendelssohn

                                Blackwell, Antoinette Brown                                             1825-1921

                                Dalton, John Call                                                                  1825-1889

                                Huxley, Thomas                                                                   1825-1895

                                Innes, George                                                                       1825-1894

                                Strauss II, Johann                                                                1825-1899               Composer

                                Cambini, Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino                               1746-1825               Composer

                                David, Jaques-Louis                                                            1748-1825               Painter

                                Fussli, Johann Heinrich (Henry Fuseli)                            1741-1825

                                Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich                                           1763-1825               Novelist (Germany)

                                Saint Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy                            1760-1825

                                Salieri, Antonio                                                                    1750-1825               Composer

                                Vorisek, Jan Vaclav Hugo                                                   1791-1825               Composer

1826                        Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi (Delacroix)

                                The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                FOURTH RUSSO-PERSIAN WAR +   (1826-1828)

                                Treaty of Yandabo- 1st Burmese War ends  - British East India.takes control of Arakan & Tenasserim  (2/24)

                                William Morgan, ex-Mason disappears at Fort Niagra (9)

                                Decembrist rising in Russia against Tsar

                                Egyptian forces under Ibrahim, son of Mohammed Ali, invade Greece

                                Russia and Persia at war (-1828)

                                Turks capture Missolonghi from Greeks

                                Mahmud II enlists loyal Spahis to massacre Janissaries (who are outlawed) - reorganizes Ottoman army

                                Ottoman fleet sunk at Navarino

                                Congress of Panama - convoked by Bolivar

                                New Republic of Bolivia gains independence

                                Jedidiah Smith overland expedition to California (-1827)

                                Belvidere Court House founded (Belvidere, NJ)

                                John VI -                               (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Maria II +                              (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131   Beethoven (1827)

                                String Quartet, Op. 130                                     Beethoven

                                String Quartet, Op. 135                                     Beethoven

                                Die Winterreise                                                    Schubert

                                Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream      Mendelssohn

                                Bagehot, Walter                                                                   1826-1877

                                Church, Frederic                                                                   1826-1900

                                Foster, Steven Collins                                                         1826-1864               Composer

                                Loomis, Mahlon                                                                   1826-1886

                                Minkus, Leon (Ludwig)                                                      1826-1917               Composer

                                Moreau, Gustave                                                                 1826-1898

                                Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernard                                    1826-1866

                                Thomas, John                                                                       1826-1913               Composer

                                Adams, John                                                                         1735-1826

                                Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo                                                   1806-1826               Composer

                                Baggesen, Jens Immanuel                                                  1764-1826

                                Bode, Johann Elert                                                               1747-1826

                                Danzi, Franz                                                                          1763-1826               Composer

                                Flaxman, John                                                                       1755-1826

                                Gifford, William                                                                    1756-1826

                                Jefferson, Thomas                                                               1743-1826

                                Laennec, Rene Theophile Hyacinthe                                1781-1826

                                Piazzi, Giuseppi                                                                     1746-1826

                                Weber, Carl Maria von                                                        1786-1826               Composer

1827                        Windings of the Forth (Alexander Nasmyth)

                                An Odalisque (Richard Parkes Bonington)

                                Buch der Lieder (Heine)

                                Preface to the play Cromwell (Victor Hugo)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                FOURTH RUSSO-PERSIAN WAR ...   (1826-1828)

                                Fort Leavenworth founded by Col. Henry Leavenworth to protect Sante Fe Trail travellers (5/8)

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                                Treaty of London - Great Britain, Russia, and France to guarantee Greek independence

                                Greece wins independence from Turkey

                                Battle of Navarino - French, Russian, and British navies destroy Egyptian fleet

                                John McLoughlin of HBC builds first lumber mill at Fort Vancouver

                                Slavery abolished in New York state

                                Mormon Chuch founded

                                Die Winterreise                                                    Schubert

                                Abel, Frederick Augustus                                                  1827-1902

                                Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcelin                                     1827-1907               Chemist (France)

                                Bocklin, Arnold                                                                    1827-1901

                                Bodley, George Frederick                                                   1827-1907

                                Collins, Mortimer                                                 1827-1876

                                Hunt, Holman                                                                       1827-1910

                                Lister, Joseph                                                                       1827-1912               Physician

                                Mivart, George                                                                     1827-1900

                                Strauss, Joseph                                                                    1827-1870               Composer

                                Beethoven, Lugwig von                                                     1770-1827

                                Blake, William                                                                       1757-1827

                                Canning, George                                                                  1770-1827

                                Laplace, Pierre Simon                                                          1749-1827

                                Peale, Charles Willson                                                        1741-1827

                                Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich                                                1746-1827

                                Possinger, Franz Alexander                                                1767-1827               Composer

                                Schulze, Johann Philipp Christian                                     1733-1827               Composer

                                Volta, Allesandro                                                                 1745-1827

1828                      First performance of Goethe's Faust

                                Noah Webster publishes American Dictionary of the English Language

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                FOURTH RUSSO-PERSIAN WAR -   (1826-1828)

                                RUSSO-TURKISH WAR +   (1828-1829)

                                Treaty of Turkmanchai - Ends Russo-Persian war (2/21)  (5 Shaban 1243 AH)

                                Baltimore and Ohio 1st U.S. passenger RR construction begun (7/4)

                                Shaka King of the Zulus is murdered by his half brothers Dingane and Mhlangana (9/24)

                                Miguelite Wars in Portugal - regent Dom Miguel overthrows government (-1834)

                                War between Russia and Ottoman Empire (-1829)

                                “Tariff of Abominations” - South Carolina opposes declaring right of states to nullify federal laws

                                Sabine River set as Mexico - United States border

                                Jacksonian democracy in power in the US

                                Anti-Masonite Party forms in New York State - 1st third party

                                Maria II -                               (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Miguel +                                (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Lord William Bentinck +  (India)                                                    Governor General (-1835)

                                Paganini concerts

                                Le Comte Ory                                                       Rossini

                                Symphony in C                                                     Schubert

                                Piano Sonata                                                       Schubert

                                Piano Sonata                                                       Schubert

                                Piano Sonata                                                       Schubert

                                Sting Quintet                                                        Schubert

                                Ardigo, Roberto                                                                   1828-1920               Philosopher

                                Gairdner, James                                                                    1828-1912

                                Isben, Henrik                                                                        1828-1906

                                Meredith, George                                                                 1828-1909

                                Rossetti, Dante Gabriel                                                       1828-1882

                                Taine, Hyppolyte                                                                 1828-1893

                                Tolstoy, Leo                                                                         1828-1910

                                Verne, Jules                                                                           1828-1905

                                Gall, Franz Joseph                                                                1758-1828

                                Goya, Francisco                                                                   1746-1828

                                Houdon, Jean                                                                       1741-1828

                                Marsh, John                                                                          1752-1828               Composer

                                Schubert, Franz Peter                                                          1797-1828               Composer

                                Stewart, Dugald                                                                    1753-1828

                                Stuart, Gilbert                                                                        1755-1828

1829                        The Rose Miracle of Mary (Johann Overbeck)

                                Les Chouans (Balzac)         

                                Les Orientales (Hugo)

                                Analysis of the Mind (John Stuart Mill)

                                Appeal (David Walker)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                RUSSO-TURKISH WAR -   (1828-1829)

                                Andrew Jackson inaugurated (3/4)

                                Treaty of Adrianople - ends Russo-Turkish War (9/14)

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                                Catholic Emancipation Act in Great Britain - Roman Catholics allowed to hold public office

                                The Greek revolution succeeds and is ratified by the powers

                                Greater Colombia divides into Colombia, Venezuala, Equador, and New Granada

                                Safety Fund Act passed in NY

                                William and Charles Bent lead expedition to Santa Fe

                                Akbar Ali Khan - (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Nasir ud Daulah +               (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                John Quincy Adams -         (United States)                                     (1825-)   President

                                Andrew Jackson +              (United States)                                     (-1837)   President

                                Guadelupe Victoria -           (Mexico)                                                (1824-)   1st President

                                Leo XII -

                                Pius VIII +

                                George Stephenson perfects the steam locomotive

                                Mendelssohn revives Bach by performing St. Matthew’s Passion

                                Mendelssohn begins Songs without Words (-1845)

                                Guillaumme Tell                                                  Rossini

                                Dietrich, Albert                                                                     1829-1908               Composer

                                Fick, Adolph                                                                         1829-1901

                                Gardiner, Samuel Rawson                                                   1829-1902

                                Geronimo                                                                               1829-1909

                                Gottschalk, Louis Moreau                                                  1829-1869               Composer

                                Millais, John                                                                         1829-1896

                                Rubinstein, Anton                                                               1829-1894               Composer

                                Abel, Niels Henrik                                                                1802-1829

                                Davy, Humphry                                                                    1778-1829

                                Giuliani, Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo                      1781-1829               Composer

                                Gossec, Francois-Joseph                                                    1734-1829               Composer

                                Jay, John                                                                               1745-1829

                                Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste                                                       1744-1829

                                Schlegel, Friedrich                                                               1772-1829

1830                        Liberty leading the people (Delacroix)

                                iL'Institute de France (Shotter Boys)

                                Harmonies poetiques et religieuses (Lamartine)

                                Hernani (Hugo)

                                Le Rouge et le noir (Stendhal)

                                Principles of Geology (Charles Lyell) (-1833)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ...   (1821-1831)

                                Mormon Church organized by Joseph Smith at  Fayette, NY (4/6)

                                Indian Removal Act (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek)-Indian Territory established by a  vote 28-20 (5/26)

                                Breakup of the Le Temps presses (7/27)

                                Franz Joseph I is born (8/8)

                                Bivouac of the French National Guard in the courtyard of the Louvre (12/22)

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                                First passenger steam railways open - Liverpool to Manchester -  The Rocket

                                Revolutions in France, Belgium, the Rhineland, Italy, and Brazil

                                July Revolution in Paris - Charles X overthrown

                                Rising in Brussels

                                Flanders gains independence as a monarchy - Kingdom of Belgium recognized by the Powers (-1831)

                                Revolution in Poland crushed by Russia (-1831)

                                Greece formally declares independence - recognized by the Powers

                                French occupation of Algiers

                                Railroad is put to its first serious uses in the United States

                                Bent, St. Vrain and Company forms

                                Comte's positivist philosophy (-1842)

                                Charles X -                           (France)                                                 (1824-)   King

                                Louis Philippe +                  (France)                                                 (-1848)   "Citizen" King (desc. of Louis XIII)

                                George IV -                           (England)                                               (1820-)   King

                                William IV +                        (England)                                               (-1837)   King

                                Leopold I +                            (Belgium)                                              House of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield (Duke)

                                Peter I -                                 (Montenegro)                                       Prince-Bishop

                                Peter II +                               (Montenegro)                                       Prince-Bishop

                                Otto of Bavaria + (Greece)                                                                King

                                Pius VIII -

                                Fra Diavolo                                                          Auber                                    

                                Symphony Fantastique                                      Berlioz (1829)

                                Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)                 Mendelssohn

                                Songs without Words (first)                              Mendelssohn

                                Abegg Variations                , Op. 1                                    Schumann            

                                Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2          Chopin

                                Bierstadt, Albert                                                                   1830-1902

                                Bronsart von Schellendorf, Hans                                      1830-1913               Composer

                                Coulanges, N. D. Fustel de                                 1830-1889               Historian (France)

                                Dickinson, Emily                                                                  1830-1886

                                Faure, Jean Baptiste                                                            1830-1914

                                Goldmark, Karl                                                                      1830-1915               Composer

                                Heise, Peter Arnold                                                             1830-1913               Composer

                                Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig                                               1830-1914

                                Meyer, Lothar                                                                       1830-1895

                                Mistral, Frederic                                                                   1830-1914

                                Pissarro, Camille                                                                   1830-1903              

                                Bolivar, Simon                                                                              -1830

                                Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph                                            1768-1830

                                Hazlitt, William                                                                     1778-1830

                                Schliermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel                               1768-1830

1831                        The Princes in the Tower (Paul Hyppolyte Delaroche)

                                Dancing on the Barn Floor (William Sidney Mount)

                                La Peau de Chagrin (Balzac)

                                Faust Pt. II (Goethe)

                                Notre Dame de Paris (Hugo)

                                GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE -   (1821-1831)

                                William Lloyd Garrison founds the Liberator - beginning of the anti - slavery movement (1/1)

                                Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (Leopold I) is elected first  King of the Belgians (6/21)                      

                                Nat Turner sees blue-green sun (atmospheric disturbance) as sign to begin slave  rebellion  (8/13)

                                Nat Turner’s Rebellion officially begins (8/21)

                                Nat Turner’s Rebellion supressed

                                John Capodistria is assassinated (first leader of independent Greece)  (10/9)

                                20,000 Choctaw removed to Indian Territory (11)

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                                Revolutions in Poland, Spain and Italy (-1834)

                                Revolution in Warsaw

                                Uprisings in Modena, Parma, and Papal States put down by Austria

                                Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini forms Young Italy movement

                                Great Britain and France guarantee Belgian independence

                                Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia case (Georgia wins)

                                Morris Canal begins operation from Dover to Newark

                                Leopold I +                            (Belgium)                                              (-1865)  King (Saxe-Coburg)

                                Gregory XVI +

                                Faraday makes first electric transformer (8/29)

                                Chopin arrives in Paris

                                La sonnambula                                                    Bellini

                                Norma                                                                    Bellini

                                Papillons                                                              Schumann

                                Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 “Revol.”   Chopin

                                Blavatsky, Helena                                                                1831-1891

                                Calverley, Charles S.                                                            1831-1884

                                Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard                                    1831-1916

                                Garfield, James Abram                                                         1831-1881

                                Hughes, David Edward                                                       1831-1900

                                Joachim, Joseph                                                                   1831-1907               Composer

                                Maxwell, James Clerk                                                           1831-1871

                                Moore, Henry                                                                       1831-1895

                                Norman, Ludwig                                                                   1831-1885               Composer

                                Adams, Hannah                                                                   1755-1831

                                Albeniz, Mateo Antonio Perez                                          1760-1831               Composer

                                Arnim, Ludwig Achim                                                         1781-1831

                                Germaine, Sophie                                                 1776-1831

                                Hansel, Peter                                                                         1770-1831               Composer

                                Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich                                       1770-1831               Philosopher

                                Karl, Freiherr vom Stein                                                      1757-1831               Reformer (Prussia)

                                Kreutzer, Rodolphe                                                              1766-1831               Composer

                                Krommer, Franz Vincenz                                                     1759-1831               Composer

                                Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph                                                            1757-1831               Composer

                                Rudolph, Archduke of Austria                                          1788-1831               Composer

                                Seebeck,                                                                                1770-1831

1832                        The Money Diggers (John Ouidor)

                                George Catlin visits Mandan

                                John Trumbel founds the Yale University Art Gallery - sixth museum in the US

                                Tales of the Alhambra (Irving)

                                Black Hawk War begins Sauk and Fox pushed west across Mississippi (4/6)

                                Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise-Marie Orleans in Conpiegne, France (8/9)

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                                Reform Act - extends vote to middle class in Great Britain - passed after a near revolution

                                Greece establishes monarchy

                                War between Egypt and Ottoman Empire (-1833)

                                Battle of Koniah - Ottomans defeated

                                Anahuac Disturbance #1 - helped precipitate Texas Revolution

                                Payne’s Landing Treaty - Seminole lands taken

                                Worcester vs. Georgia case (Cherokee win)

                                Otto I +                                  (Greece)                                                                Son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria

                                Concerts historiques founded in Paris

                                Stabat Mater                                                        Rossini

                                L'Elisir d'Amore                                                   Donizetti

                                Hebrides Overture                                               Mendelssohn

                                Etudes, Op. 10                                                      Chopin

                                Mazurkas, Op. 6                                                  Chopin

                                Alcott, Louisa May                                                             1832-1888

                                Alger, Horatio                                                                       1832-1899

                                Bjornsun, Bjornstjerne Martinus                                       1832-1910

                                Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carrol)                     1832-1898

                                Dore, Gustave                                                                       1832-1883

                                Eizaguirre, Jose Echogram y                                               1832-1916

                                Koenig, K.R.                                                                         1832-1901

                                LeCocq, Charles                                                                   1832-1918               Composer

                                Manet, Eduard                                                                      1832-1883               Painter

                                Olcott, Henry Steel                                                              1832-1907

                                Otto, Nikolaus                                                                      1832-1891

                                Teichmuller, Gustav                                                             1832-1888

                                Wundt, Wilhelm                                                                   1832-1920

                                Bentham, Jeremy                                                                  1748-1832

                                Clementi, Muzio                                                                   1752-1832               Composer

                                Cuvier, Georges Leopole Chretien Frederic                     1769-1832

                                Galois, Evariste                                                                     1811-1832

                                Goethe, Wolfgang von                                                       1749-1832

                                Krause, Karl Christian Freidrich                                        1781-1832

                                Kuhlau, Daniel Friedrich Rudolph                                     1786-1832               Composer

                                MacKintosh, James                                                             1765-1832

                                Remusat, Jean Pierre Abel                                                  1788-1832

                                Scott, Sir Walter                                                                   1771-1832

1833                        Sartor Resartus (Carlyle)

                                Eugenie Grandet (Balzac)

                                Pauline (Robert Browning)

                                350 settlers establish city of Chicago (8/12)

                                Factory Act - forbids employment of children under nine in British factories (8/29)

                                Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain under the regency of her mother (9/29)

                                Convention of Kutahia - Mohammed Ali gains Syria

                                Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi - between Russia and Ottoman Empire

                                Munchengratz Argreement between Russia and Austria

                                Act abolishing slavery in British colonies

                                Hardy Ivy builds cabin near Atlanta

                                Andrew Jackson’s second inauguration

                                Bent Brothers build Fort William (Fort Bent)  on the north bank of the Arkansas River

                                First steam powered crossing of the Atlantic

                                First Carlist War begins - challenge to Isabella II's accession

                                Oberlin College opens

                                Ferdinand VII -                     (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon  (rethroned)

                                Isabella II +                           (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon 

                                Invention of photography (-1839)

                                “Italian” Symphony                                           Mendelssohn

                                Die Feen                                                                Wagner

                                Borodin, Alexander Porfirievich                                        1833-1887               Composer

                                Bradlaugh, Charles                                                              1833-1891

                                Brahms, Johannes                                                                1833-1897               Composer

                                Burne-Jones, Edward                                                          1833-1898               Painter

                                Clebsch,                                                                                 1833-1872

                                Dilthey, Wilhelm                                                                  1833-1911

                                Duhring, Eugen Karl                                                            1833-1901

                                Harrison, Benjamin                                                              1833-1901

                                Legendre, Adrien Marie                                                      1752-1833

                                More, Hannah                                                                      1745-1833

1834                        Comanche Feats of Horsemanship - Sham Battle (Catlin)

                                Le Pere Goriot (Balzac)

                                The Last Days of Pompeii (Bulwer-Lytton)

                                Robert Browning visits Italy

                                "Tolpuddle Martyrs" - six Dorset labourers transported for attempt to form a trade union

                                Carlist Wars in Spain - pretender Don Carlos attempts to gain Spanish throne (-1839)

                                Quadruple Alliance - between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal to safeguard Spanish/Portuguese govts

                                Dom Miguel defeated in Portugal

                                Russian occupation ends in Walachia and Moldavia

                                Beginning of foundation of South Australia (1836) and Victoria (1837)

                                British Empire abolishes slavery

                                Indian Trade and Intercourse Act  of 1834 created Indian Territory w of Mississippi R.

                                Payne’s Landing Treaty  ratified - Seminole given three years to move to Indian Territory (32-35)

                                Washington Irving’s “A Tour of the Prairies” sketch

                                Bronson Alcott opens the Temple School in Boston

                                McCormick patents mechanical reaper

                                Miguel -                                 (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Maria II +                              (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Mihai Sturdza +                   (Moldavia)                                             Prince 

                                Alexander Ghica +              (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Vicente Rocafuerte +          (Equador)                                               (-1839)   President

                                Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik founded by Schumann

                                Harold in Italy                                                     Berlioz

                                Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg                              1834-1902               English Historian  (Naples)

                                Daimler, Gottlieb                                                                   1834-1900               Engineer (Germany)

                                Degas, Edgar                                                                        1834-1917               Painter

                                Haekel, Ernst                                                                         1834-1919

                                Howison, G. H.                                                                     1834-1916

                                Mendelejeff, Dmitri Ivanovich                                           1834-1907

                                Morris, William                                                                     1834-1896

                                Plante, Gaston                                                                      1834-1889

                                Ponchielli, Amilcare                                                             1834-1886               Composer             

                                Sitting Bull                                                                            1834-1890               Sioux Chief

                                Stockton, Frank                                                                    1834-1902

                                Waterson, James                                                                  1834-1893               Composer

                                Webb, Charles Henry                                                          1834-1905

                                Whistler, James Abbott McNeill                                       1834-1903               Painter

                                Zabel, Albert Heinrich                                                         1834-1910               Composer

                                Boieldieu, Francois Adrien                                 1775-1834               Composer

                                Coleridge, Samuel Taylor                                                    1772-1834

                                Lamb, Charles                                                                       1775-1834

                                Schuncke, Ludwig                                                               1810-1834               Composer

1835                        Music Party, Petworth (Joseph Mallord William Turner)

                                Noli me Tangere (Alexander Andreyevitch Ivanov)

                                Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (Arnim)

                                Life of Jesus (David Strauss)

                                Democracy in America (Tocqueville)

                                Paracelsus (Robert Browning)

                                Mademoiselle de Maupin (Theophile Gautier)

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR +   (1835-1842)

                                Leopold II of Belgium born (4/9)

                                Second (Great) Seminole War (11/1)

                                Gold discovered on Cherokee lands in Georgia.  Forced to cede lands (12/20)

                                Treaty of New Echota - Treaty "Ridge" Party - Cherokee exchanges GA and AL land in east for IT land (12/29)

                                Great Trek - Boer (Dutch) settlers in southern Africa found Transvaal (1836) (-1837)

                                Resolution on use of English for higher education in India

                                Railroad through Rahway, NJ

                                Anahuac Disturbance #2 - helped precipitate Texas Revolution

                                William Lamb +                   (Great Britain)                                     (1835-1841)         Prime Minister (2nd Time)

                                Francis I -                             (Austria)                                               Emperor House of Leopold

                                Ferdinand I +                        (Austria)                                               Emperor House of Leopold

                                Lord William Bentinck -   (India)                                                    Governor General (1828-)

                                Mendelssohn becomes conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

                                Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue             Cherubini

                                Lucia di Lammermoor                                        Donizetti

                                I Puritani                                                              Bellini

                                Symphonis Etudes, Op. 13                                 Schumann

                                Abbot, Lyman                                                                      1835-1922

                                Adams Jr., Charles Francis                                 1835-1918               Economist/Historian (Boston, MA)

                                Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von 1835-1917

                                Caird, Edward                                                                       1835-1908

                                Carducci, Giosue                                                                  1835-1907

                                Carnegie, Andrew                                                                1835-1919

                                Cui, Cesar                                                                              1835-1918               Composer

                                Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain)                                         1835-1910

                                Gaboriau, Emile                                                                     1835-1873

                                Jevons, William Stanley                                                      1835-1882

                                Saint-Saens, Charles-Camille                                              1835-1921               Composer

                                Strauss, Eduard                                                                    1835-1916               Composer

                                Wieniawski, Henryk                                                            1835-1880               Composer

                                Bellini, Vincenzo                                                                   1801-1835

                                Gros, Antoine Jean                                                              1771-1835

                                Marshall, John                                                                      1755-1835

                                Nash, John                                                                            1752-1835

1836                        The Lion Hunt (Emile Vernet)

                                Departure of Volunteers (Francois Rude)

                                Nature (Emerson)

                                The Pickwick Papers (Dickens)

                                History of Bohemia (Palacky)

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                Battle of Alamo begins (2/23)            -(3/6)

                                Texas declares independence from Mexico (3/1)

                                Battle of Coleto Creek - 380+ soldiers of Fannin's army surrender to Santa Anna (3/20)

                                Goliad Massacre - Santa Anna executes 380 Texan soldiers (3/27)  Palm Sunday

                                Battle of San Jacinto - Sam Houston and Texans win "Remember Goliad, remember the Alamo!" (4/21)

                                Santa Anna is captured (4/22)

                                Treaties of Velasco - signed by Santa Anna and David Burnet - end hostilities between Mexico & Texas (5/14)

                                Morocco Treaty of Peace (9/16)

                                Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas (10)

                                Bent Brothers and Ceran St. Vrain obtain a license to trade on the south Platte (11)

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                                Chartist movement begins in Great Britain - demands votes for all adult males - initial violent support

                                Louis Napoleon starts insurrection against Louise Philippe

                                South Australia founded 

                                Gag Rule - US

                                Marcus Whitman., HH Spalding families reach Fort Walla Walla.  1st white women to cross plains

                                Sir Charles Barry designs Houses of Parliament, London

                                John Joseph I -                     (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                Alois Joseph II +  (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                Sam Houston +                     (Republic of Texas)                             President

                                Requiem in D minor                                            Cherubini

                                Les Huguenots                                                     Meyerbeer

                                A Life for the Tsar                                                Glinka

                                Ballades, Op. 23                                                  Chopin

                                Abbot, Francis Ellingwood                                                1836-1903

                                Delibes, Clement Philibert Leo                                           1836-1891               Composer

                                Gilbert, William Schwenck                                  1836-1911               Composer

                                Green, Thomas Hill                                                              1836-1882

                                Homer, Winslow                                                                  1836-1910               Painter

                                LaTour, Henri Fantin                                                           1836-1904

                                Lombroso                                                                              1836-1909

                                Lockyer, Joseph Norman                                                    1836-1920

                                Schuppe, Wilhelm                                                                1836-1913

                                Tissot, James                                                                        1836-1902               Painter

                                Toepler,                                                                                 1836-1912

                                Ampere, Andre Marie                                                         1775-1836

                                Belcher, Supply                                                                    1751-1836               Composer

                                Charles X, Count of Artois                                 1757-1836               King (France)

                                Colman the Younger, George                                             1762-1836

                                Galles, Jose                                                                           1761-1836               Composer

                                Godwin, William                                                                   1756-1836

                                Madison, James                                                                   1751-1836

                                Mill, James                                                                            1773-1836

                                Read, Daniel                                                                          1757-1836               Composer

                                Reicha, Anton                                                                      1770-1836               Composer (Prague)

                                Witt, Friedrich                                                                      1770-1836               Composer (Niederstetten)

1837                        The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner (Edwin Landseer)

                                The French Revolution (Carlyle)

                                Contrasts (Pugin)

                                Strafford (Robert Browning) verse play

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                Martin Van Buren inaugurated (3/4)

                                Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne (6/20)

                                Persian-Afghan War (-1838)

                                Rebelion in Upper and Lower Canada

                                Victoria founded in Australia

                                Fort St. Vrain is built by Ceran st. Vrain and the Bent brothers along the South Fork of the Platte

                                Panic of 1837

                                Caroline Affair (-1842)

                                Morse telegraph

                                Mount Holyoke College founded

                                William IV -                         (England)                                               (1830-)   King

                                Victoria +                              (Great Britain)                                     (1837-1900)         Queen

                                Andrew Jackson -               (United States)                                     (1829-)   President

                                Martin Van Buren +           (United States)                                     (-1841)   President

                                Requiem                                                                 Berlioz

                                Fantasiestucke, Op. 12                                        Schumann

                                Annees de Pelerinage                                         Liszt

                                Bajer, Fredrik                                                                         1837-1922

                                Balakirev, Mili Alexayevich                                                1837-1910               Composer

                                Bastian, Henry Charlton                                                     1837-1915

                                Cleveland, Grover                                                                1837-1908

                                Green, J. R.                                                                            1837-1883               Historian (England)                            

                                Guilmant, Felix Alexandre                                                   1837-1911               Composer

                                Howells, William Dean                                                        1837-1920

                                Moran, Thomas                                                                    1837-1926

                                Newlands, John Alexander                                 1837-1889

                                Spir, African                                                                          1837-1890

                                Swinburne, Algernon Charles                                            1837-1909

                                Van der Waals, J. D.                                                            1837-1923

                                Waldteufel, Charles Emile                                                   1837-1915               Composer

                                Constable, John                                                                   1776-1837

                                Field, John                                                                             1782-1837               Composer

                                Fourier, F. M. (Charles)                                                       1772-1837

                                Gerard, Francois Pascal Simon, Baron                              1770-1837               Painter (French, b. Rome)

                                Hummel, Johann Nepomuk                                 1778-1837               Composer

                                Laromiguiere, Pierre                                                             1756-1837

                                Leopardi, Giacomo                                                               1798-1837

                                Lichnowsky, Reichsgrof Moritz von                                1771-1837               Composer

                                Pushkin, Aleksander Sergeyevich                                    1799-1837

                                Welsey, Samuel                                                                    1766-1837               Composer

1838                        Oliver claimed by his affectionate friends (from Oliver Twist) (Cruikshank)

                                Frederic Chopin (Delacroix)

                                The Capture of Constantinople (Delecroix)

                                Crossing the Bridge (Jules Dupre)

                                Daguerre takes first photographs

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                Osceola, captured Senimole chief dies (1/20)

                                People's Charter in Great Britain published (5)

                                Battle of Blood River - Boers defeat Zulus in Natal, South Africa (12/16)

                                Honduras leaves Confederation

                                Aroostock War - border dispute along Maine/New Brunswick border (-1839)

                                Trail of Tears (summer, October-)

                                Pastry War - Mexico vs. France over debts - France invades Mexico

                                Victoria ...                              (Great Britain)                                       (1837-1900)            Queen

                                First public school instruction in music (Boston)

                                Benevuto Cellini                                                   Berlioz

                                Kinderszenen                                                        Schumann

                                Kreisleriana                                                           Schumann

                                Abbe, Cleveland                                                                  1838-1916

                                Abbott, Edwin Abbott                                                        1838-1926

                                Adams, Henry Brooks                                                         1838-1918               Historian

                                Bizet, Georges Alexandre Cesar Leopold                         1838-1875               Composer

                                Brentano, Franz                                                                    1838-1917               Philosopher/Psychologist (Germany)

                                Bruch, Max                                                                            1838-1920               Composer (Germany)

                                Castillon, Alexis Vicomte de                                               1838-1873               Composer

                                Daly, Augustin                                                                     1838-1899               Dramatist (Plymouth, NC)

                                Mach, Ernst                                                                          1838-1916               Physicist/Philosopher (Moravia)

                                Morley, Edward William                                                     1838-1923               Scientist (Newark, NJ)

                                Morley, John                                                                        1838-1923               Statesman/Letters (England)

                                Muir, John                                                                             1838-1914               Naturalist

                                Perkin, William Henry                                                          1838-1907

                                Richardson, Henry Hobson                                               1838-1886

                                Busby, Thomas                                                                    1775-1838               Composer

                                Chamisso, Adelbert von                                                     1781-1838

                                Crusell, Bernhard Henrik                                                     1775-1838               Composer

                                Lessel, Francizek                                                                  1780-1838               Composer

                                Reis, Ferdinand                                                                    1784-1838               Composer

                                Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de                        1754-1838

1839                        The slave ship (Joseph Mallord William Turner)

                                The Fighting Temeraire (Joseph Mallord William Turner)

                                The Punishment of the Hooks (Alexandre Gabriel Decamps)

                                The Poor Poet (Carl Spitzweg)

                                Daguerreotype publicised

                                The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)

                                Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Poe)

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                Pastry War ends -  French forces leave Mexico after British arbitration (3/9)

                                Treaty (Convocation)of London is signed - European powers recognize the neutrality of Belgium (4/19)

                                Bedchamber Crisis - Melbourne tries to resign as PM (5)

                                Major Ridge, Cherokee leader is assassinated (6/22)

                                La Amistad insurrection (7/1)

                                Christian VIII crowned King of Denmark (12/13)

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                                Anti- Corn Law League formed in Britain

                                Ottoman-Egyptian war (-1840)

                                Ottomans invade Syria

                                Battle of Nesib - Ottomans defeated

                                Hatt-i Serif of Gulhane - beginning of the Tanzimat period - reforms guaranteeing liberties of Ottoman subjects

                                Great Britain and Afghanistan at war (First Anglo-Afghan War) (-1842)

                                Death of Ranjit Singh

                                British occupy Aden

                                Commisioner Lin destroys foreign opium

                                First Opium War - between Great Britain and China (-1842)

                                Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada

                                Durham Report on the Organization of Canada

                                Helderberg War (anti-rent war) (-1846)

                                Stephen Kearney leads 10 companies of Dragoons from Fort Leavenworth against the Cherokees

                                Victoria ...                              (Great Britain)                                       (1837-1900)            Queen

                                Frederik VI -                        (Denmark)

                                Christian VIII +                   (Denmark)

                                Milos Obrenovic +               (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Milan +-                                 (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Michael +                              (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Mahmud I -                            (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan

                                Abdulmecid I +                     (Ottoman Empire)                                (-1861)   Sultan

                                Vicente Rocafuerte +          (Equador)                                               (1834-)   President

                                Wagner and Minna cross to Paris

                                Vienna Philharmonic founded

                                New York Philharmonic Society founded

                                Romeo and Juliet                                                                Berlioz

                                Trio in D Minor for violin, cello, piano          Mendelssohn

                                Nachtstucke                                                         Schumann

                                Preludes, Op. 28                                                  Chopin

                                Oberto                                                                   Verdi

                                Buck, Dudley                                                                        1839-1909               Composer

                                Cezanne, Paul                                                                       1839-1906               Painter

                                Chardonett, Louis                                                                1839-1924

                                George, Henry                                                                      1839-1897               Economist (United States) 

                                Gibbs, Josiah Willard                                                          1839-1903

                                Howells, William Dean                                                        1839-1920

                                Leclanche, Georges                                                             1839-1882

                                Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich                                       1839-1881               Composer

                                Paine, John Knowles                                                           1839-1906               Composer

                                Pierce, Charles Sanders                                                       1839-1914

                                Prudhomme, (Sully) Rene Francois Armond                   1839-1907

                                Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel                                                  1839-1901               Composer              3/17

                                Rockefeller, John D.                                                             1839-1937

                                Sisley, Alfred                                                                        1839-1899               Painter

                                Austin, John                                                                         1790-1839

                                Backofen, Johann Georg Heinrich                                     1768-1839               Composer

                                Bystrom, Thomas                                                                 1772-1839               Composer

                                Galt, John                                                                              1779-1839

                                Praed, Winthrop Mackworth                                             1802-1839

                                Sor, Fernando                                                                       1778-1839               Composer

1840                        What is Property? (Proudhon)

                                Sordello  (Robert Browning)

                                Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes during the 16th &17th Centuries (3 vol.) (Leopold von Ranke)

                                Two Years before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                British expeditionary force lands in China in response to the destruction of over a million pounds of opium (6)

                                World Anti-Slavery Convention begins at Freemasons Hall, London - Elizabeth Cady Stanton from U.S. (6/12)

                                Napoleon's body brought to Paris from St. Helena on the St. Poule - Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Paris (11/30)

                                Sirius  (Cunard Line) docks in New York City, 1st regular Atlantic steam ship (w/Cady Stanton) (12/24)

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                                Socialism of Louis Blanc

                                Chartism and Parliamentary rule

                                Penny post introduced in Britain

                                Louis Napoleon's second insurrection against Louis Philippe - Napoleon III escapes to England

                                Treaty of London - Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria agree to limit Egyptian expansion

                                Treaty of London  - concedes Egypt to Muhammad Ali

                                British navy bombards Beirut

                                Union Act - unites Upper and Lower Canada

                                Treaty of Waitangi - New Zealand becomes a British Crown Colony with the help of the Colonization Society

                                Liberty Party formed in US

                                Victoria ...                              (Great Britain)                                       (1837-1900)            Queen

                                William I -                            (Netherlands)

                                William II +                          (Netherlands)

                                Frederick William III -      (Prussia)                                               (-1797)   King

                                Jose Rodriguez de Francia - (Paraguay)                                        (1816-)   Perpetual Dictator "El Supremo"

                                First incandescent electric light bulb developed by ...

                                Paganini dies at 58 (5/27)

                                The Daughter of the Regiment                          Donizetti

                                Dichterliebe                                                         Schumann

                                Lieder                                                                    Schumann

                                Sonata in B-flat minor                                        Chopin

                                Don Juan Fantasie                                             Liszt

                                Abbe, Ernst                                                                           1840-1905               Physicist (Germany)

                                Brassin, Louis                                                                       1840-1884               Composer

                                Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen                                                         1840-1922               Poet/Political writer (England)

                                Cope, Edward Drinker                                                         1840-1897               Paleontologist (Philadelphia)

                                Davidson, Thomas                                                              1840-1900

                                Goetz, Hermann                                                                    1840-1876               Composer

                                Monet, Claude                                                                      1840-1926               Painter

                                Redon, Odilon                                                                      1840-1916               Painter

                                Rodin, Auguste                                                                    1840-1917               Sculptor

                                Svendsen, Johann                                                                               1840-1911               Composer

                                Tchaikovsky, Peter                                                              1840-1893               Composer

                                Zola, Emile                                                                             1840-1902               Novelist

                                Beck, Jakob Sigismund                                                       1761-1840

                                Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich                                          1752-1840

                                Bonald, Louis de                                                                  1754-1840

                                Dizi, Francois-Joseph                                                          1780-1840               Composer

                                Friedrich, Caspar David                                                      1774-1840

                                Maistre, Joseph de                                                              1754-1840

                                Paganini, Nicolo                                                                   1782-1840               Composer

                                Poisson, Simeon Denis                                                       1781-1840

1841                        Punch founded

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1835-1842)

                                Convention of Chuenpeh - signed between Great Britain and China for British control of Hong Kong (1/25)

                                Great Britain occupies Hong Kong under leadership of Edward Belcher (1/26)

                                First ongoing filibuster in US Senate begins (2/18)        -(3/11)

                                William Henry Harrison inaugurated (3/4)

                                Quincy Adams argues Amistad case in Supreme Court - Court declares in favor of the slaves (3/9)

                                US Senate filibuster ends (3/11)

                                William Henry Harrison dies (4/4)

                                John Tyler (Vice President) is inaugerated as the 10th US president (4/6)

                                First emigrant wagon train leaves for California from Independence, MO (5/1)        -(11/4)

                                Straits Convention - between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and France (7/13)

                                Straits Convention - Dardenelles to be closed to foreign ships in peacetime (7/13)

                                Straits Convention -  Convention of Alexandria - Mohammed Ali to be hereditary ruler of Egypt (7/13)

                                Whigs riot outside of the White House in protest of a plan to re-establish the 2nd Bank of the US (8/16)

                                Robert Peel becomes British Prime Minister (Conservative) (8/30)

                                Edward VII is born to Victoria and Albert (11/9)

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                                Brook Farm Commune set up by Trancendentalists (-1846)

                                Pre-emption Act of 1841 - legalizes rights of squatters to occupy unsurveyed land and buy later at $1.25/acre

                                Creole case (-1842)

                                John Sutter buys Fort Ross north of San Francisco and moves it to Fort Sutter

                                Western Emigration Society formed by John Bidwell

                                James Joule states relation between current and energy produced

                                Victoria ...                              (Great Britain)                                       (1837-1900)            Queen

                                William Lamb -                    (Great Britain)                                     (1835-1841)         Prime Minister (2nd Time)

                                Robert Peel +                       (Great Britian)                                     (1841-1846)         Prime Minister

                                Martin Van Buren -            (United States)                                     (1837-1841)         President

                                William Henry Harrison +-(United States)                                    *****    President  dies

                                John Tyler +                         (United States)                                     (1841-1845)         President

                                Saxophone invented

                                First Symphony                                                    Schumann

                                Fourth Symphony                                                Schumann

                                Bazille, Frederic                                                                    1841-1870

                                Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel                                 1841-1894               Composer

                                Dvorak, Antonin                                                                  1841-1904               Composer

                                Lovreglio, Donato                                                                1841-1907               Composer

                                Morisot, Berthe                                                                    1841-1895

                                Renoir, Pierre August                                                          1841-1919               Painter

                                Tausig, Karl                                                                          1841-1871               Composer/Pianist

                                Baader, Franz Xavier von                                                   1765-1841

                                Carulli, Ferdinando                                                              1770-1841               Composer

                                Herbart, Johann Friedrich                                                   1776-1841

                                Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich                                          1814-1841

                                Savart, F.                                                                               1791-1841

                                Schinkel, Karl Friedrich                                                       1781-1841

1842                        Crossing the Ford (William Mulready)

                                Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman (Charles Robert Leslie)

                                SECOND SEMINOLE WAR -   (1835-1842)

                                John Fremont stops at Fort St. Vrain to obtain horses and coffee (6/10)

                                Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed - settles boundary dispute between Canada and the United States (8/9)

                                Seminole War ends - Indians sent to Oklahoma (8/14)

                                Treaty of Nanking - between Great Britain and China - Hong Kong ceded to Great Britain (8/29)

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                                Boer War - between British and Dutch Boers - British victorious

                                British withdraw from Kabul, Afghanistan

                                Dorr’s Rebellion

                                John C. Fremont’s Rocky Mountain expedition

                                Alexander Ghica -               (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Georghe Bibescu +             (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Michael -                               (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Alexander +                          (Serbia)                                                 Prince (Karadjordjevic)

                                John Tyler ….                       (United States)                                     (1841-1845)

                                Vienna Philharmonische Konzerte founded (Weiner Philharmoniker)

                                First VPO concert under Otto Nicolai in Redoutensaal (3/28)

                                Third New York Philharmonic Society founded (4/2)

                                Leipzig Conservatory founded by Mendelssohn

                                Russlan and Ludmilla                                        Glinka

                                “Scotch” Symphony”                                         Mendelssohn

                                Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53                    Chopin

                                Nabucco                                                                                Verdi

                                Rienzi                                                                     Wagner

                                Bierce, Ambrose                                                                   1842-1914

                                Fiske, John                                                                            1842-1901

                                Hartmann, Edward von                                                       1842-1906

                                James, William                                                                      1842-1910

                                Mallarme, Stephane                                                             1842-1898               Poet

                                Marshall, Alfred                                                                   1842-1924              

                                Massenet, Jules Emile Frederic                                          1842-1912               Composer

                                Pasculli, Antonino                                                               1842-1924               Composer

                                Rayleigh, J. William Strut                                                    1842-1919

                                Reynolds, Osborne                                                              1842-1912

                                Sullivan, Arthur Seymour                                                   1842-1900               Composer

                                Tilden, William Augustus                                                  1842-1926

                                Brentano, Clemens                                                               1778-1842

                                Channing, William Ellery                                                    1780-1842

                                Cherubini, Luigi                                                                    1760-1842               Composer

                                Cotman, John                                                                        1782-1842

                                Jouffroy, Theodore Simon                                                  1796-1842

                                Stendhal, Henri Beyle                                                          1783-1842

                                Weber, Bedrich Dionys                                                      1766-1842               Composer

1843                        A Christmas Carol (Dickens)

                                Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)

                                Karl Marx is expelled from Germany

                                Natal becomes a British colony

                                British annexation of Sind

                                First Maori War (-1848)

                                Gag Rule repealed - US

                                Fort Bridger on the Green River (Oregon Trail) built

                                Great Migration on the Oregon Trail

                                Daniel Webster resigns as US Secretary of State

                                John Tyler ….                       (United States)                                     (1841-1845)

                                Don Pasquale                                                      Donizetti

                                Der fliegende Hollander                                    Wagner

                                Avenarius, Richard                                                              1843-1896

                                Grieg, Edvard Hagerup                                                        1843-1907               Composer

                                Hamerik, Asger                                                                     1843-1923               Composer

                                Herzogenberg, Heinrich von                                              1843-1900               Composer

                                James, Henry                                                                        1843-1916

                                McKinley, William                                                               1843-1901               President

                                Pepper, William                                                                    1843-1898

                                Perez Galdos, Benito                                                            1843-1920

                                Popper, David                                                                       1843-1913               Composer

                                Ziehrer, Ludwig August                                                     1843-1922               Composer

                                Fries, Jakob Friedrich                                                          1773-1843

                                Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolf                                                  1770-1843

                                Holderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich                               1770-1843               Poet (Germany)

                                Lanner, Joseph Franz Karl                                                  1801-1843               Composer

                                Lithander, Carl Ludwig                                                        1773-1843               Composer

                                Webster, Noah                                                                     1758-1843

1844                        Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (Joseph M. William Turner)

                                The Painter's Mother and Sister (Friedrich Wasmann)

                                The Three Musketeers (Alexander Dumas)

                                The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (Engels)

                                First telegraph message transmitted - Washington-Baltimore: “What Hath God Wrought!” (5/24)

                                Joseph Smith Jr. is murdered by a rioutous mob in a prison in Carthage Illinois (6/27)

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                                Marx meets Friedrich Engels

                                Catholic riots in Philadelphia

                                “Vulcanization” patented

                                Charles XIV -                       (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte (John)

                                Oscar I +                               (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Charles XIV -                       (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte (John)

                                Oscar I +                               (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                John Tyler ….                       (United States)                                     (1841-1845)

                                Carlos Lopez +                     (Paraguay)                                            (-1862)   President

                                The Sacred Harp                                                 White

                                Concerto for Violin in E Minor, Op. 64          Mendelssohn

                                Ernani                                                                   Verdi

                                Bernhardt, Sarah                                                                  1844-1923               Actress (10/23) (France)

                                Boltzmann, Ludwig                                                              1844-1906

                                Cassatt, Mary                                                                       1844-1926

                                Eakins, Thomas                                                                    1844-1916               Painter (Philadelphia) (7/25)

                                Nietzsche, Friedrich                                                             1844-1900               Philosopher (10/15)

                                Ratzel, Friedrich                                                                    1844-1904

                                Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich                        1844-1908               Composer (3/6) (3/18 N.S.)

                                Rousseau, Henri                                                                   1844-1910               Painter (5/21)

                                Sarasate, Pablo Martin Meliton de                                    1844-1908               Composer (3/10)

                                Taffanel, Claude Paul                                                          1844-1908               Composer                                             

                                Thibault, Jacques Anatole (France)                                  1844-1924

                                Verlaine, Paul                                                                        1844-1896               Poet (3/30) (Metz, France)

                                Widor, Charles Marie Jean Albert                                     1844-1934               Composer

                                Bulfinch, Charles                                                                  1763-1844

                                Dalton, John                                                                         1766-1844

                                Mozart, Franz Xaver                                                            1791-1844               Composer

                                Smith Jr., Joseph                                                                  1805-1844               Latter Day Prophet/ Founder of Mormonism

1845                        The Fairy of the Fountain (William Etty)

                                The Spirit of Chivalry (Daniel Maclise)

                                The Greeks and the Trojans contending for Patroclus' Body (Antoine Wiertz)

                                Fur traders on the Missouri (George Caleb Bingham)

                                The Caliph of Constantine with his Bodyguards (Chasseriau)

                                The Count of Monte Christo (Alexander Dumas)

                                Cosmos (Humboldt)

                                Texas annexed by US (3/1)

                                James Knox Polk inaugurated (3/4)  

                                “Manifest Destiny” appears as a concept in article by John L. O’Sullivan (7/8)

                                Texas joins the United States (12/29)

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                                Anglo-Sikh Wars - Britain annexes Punjab, northwest India

                                Methodist Church splits along sectional lines

                                John Tyler -                          (United States)                                     (1841-)   President

                                James Knox Polk +             (United States)                                     (-1849)   President

                                Sonata in B minor                                               Chopin

                                Les Preludes                                                         Liszt

                                Tannhauser                                                          Wagner

                                La Bamboula                                                        Gottschalk

                                Bode, Wilhelm von                                                              1845-1929

                                Boutroux, Emile                                                                    1845-1921

                                Cantor, George                                                                     1845-1918

                                De la Blache, Paul Vidal                                                      1845-1918

                                Faure, Gabriel Urbain                                                           1845-1924               Composer

                                Hasselmans, Alphonse                                                       1845-1912               Composer

                                Gunton, George                                                                    1845-1919

                                Ivanovici, Iosif                                                                     1845-1902               Composer

                                Lippman, Gabriel                                                                  1845-1921

                                Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad                                                1845-1923

                                Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman                               1845-1933

                                Sousa, John Philip                                                               1845-1932               Composer

                                Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg                                            1845-1924

                                Buxton, Thomas Fowell                                                      1786-1845

                                Daniel, John Frederic                                                           1790-1845

                                Hood, Thomas                                                                      1799-1845

                                Royer-Collard, Pierre Paul                                                   1763-1845

1846                        The Oxbow (Thomas Cole)

                                Promenade by the Sea (Eugene Isabey)          

                                Brigham Young leads Mormons westward departing from Nauvoo, IL (2/4)

                                Komei becomes 121st emperor of Japan (3/10)

                                Zachary Taylor's army reaches Rio Grande opposite Matamoros (3/28)

                                Donner Party sets off from Springfield, IL (4/16)

                                Mexican War starts (4/25)

                                Donner Party arrives in Independence, Missouri (5/11)

                                Donner Party sets out west from Independence (5/12)

                                US declares war on Mexico (5/13)

                                Francis Parkman's party sets off west from Fort Leavenworth (5/23)

                                Advance party of Mormons led by Brigham Young reach the Missouri River near present-day  Omaha, NE (6/14)

                                Oregon Treaty -  boundary dispute settled at 49th parallel (6/15)

                                US forces under John Sloat occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena - begin the annexation of California (7/6)

                                Stephen W. Kearny becomes military governor of New Mexico (8/18)

                                Parman expedition sets off from Bent's Fort east for final leg of journey (8/27)

                                Parkman expedition meets large army caravan bound for Santa Fe on the Arkansas (9/14)

                                Battle of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon - US Victory (9/21-23)

                                Kearny Code - Laws for the government of the territory of New Mexico (9/22)

                                Kearny sets out from New Mexico to California with 300 men (9/25)

                                Californios defeat US force in Los Angeles (9/30)

                                Battle of San Pasqual (12/6-7)

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                                Potato famine reaches height in Ireland - 1 million die by 1851

                                Growth of anti-British movement in Ireland

                                Corn Laws repealed in Great Britain

                                Zulu reserves set up in Natal

                                War between Kaffirs (Bantu) and Great Britain in South Africa (-1847)

                                First act of segregation in South Africa - Zulu reserves set up in Natal

                                United States and Mexico at war (-1848)

                                Applegate Trail Opens

                                Mormon Migration (-1848)

                                Wilmot Proviso

                                Smithsonian Institution founded

                                First use of ether as an anesthetic

                                Howe's sewing machine patented

                                Komei +                                 (Japan)                                                   (-1867)   121st Emperor

                                Gregory XVI -

                                Pius IX +

                                The Damnation of Faust                                    Berlioz

                                Elijah                                                                     Mendelssohn

                                Bradley, Francis Herbert                                                     1846-1924

                                Euken, Rudolf  Christolf                                                      1846-1926

                                Noskowski, Zygmunt                                                          1846-1908               Composer (Poland)

                                Sienkiewicz, Henryk                                                             1846-1919

                                Westinghouse, George                                                       1846-1914

                                Bessel, Wilhelm                                                                    1784-1846

                                Dragonetti, Domenico                                                         1763-1846               Composer

                                List, Friedrich                                                                        1789-1846

1847                        The Greek Slave (Hiram Powers)

                                Evangeline (Longfellow)

                                Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

                                Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

                                Battle of Rio San Gabriel - US wins (1/8)

                                Battle of La Mesa - US wins (1/9)

                                US Marines take Los Angeles from Mexico (1/10)

                                Treaty of Cahuenga - ended California segment of Mexican-American War (1/13)

                                Pueblo Revolt at Taos - Governor Bent is murdered (1/17)

                                Donner party "Forelorn Hope" reaches saftey on the western side of Sierra Nevadas (1/18)

                                First Relief of the Donner Party sets out (2/22)

                                Battle of Buena Vista, Coahila (2/22-23)

                                Vanguard Company leaves Winter Quarters (Iowa Territory) along Missouri with 143 people towards Great Basin, UT (4/5)

                                Vangard Company reaches Fort Laramie merges with two other Mormon groups  (6/1)

                                Brigham Young with Vanguard Company meets mountain man Jim Bridger (6/28)

                                Vanguard Company arrives at Fort Bridger (7/7)

                                Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt arrive at Salt Lake Valley as part of Vanguard Company (7/21)

                                Brigham young and others of the “sick party” reach Salt Lake Valley (7/24)

                                Mexico City falls to Winfield Scott’s forces (9/14)

                                Siege of Puebla begins (9/14)                             -(10/12)

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                                Irish famine - "Young Ireland" party

                                Kaffirs (Bantu) defeated by Great Britain

                                Atlanta incorporated

                                Martha                                                                  von Flotow

                                Macbeth                                                                                Verdi

                                Bell, Alexander Graham                                                       1847-1922               Scientist

                                Besant, Annie                                                                       1847-1928

                                Browne, Borden Parker                                                       1847-1910

                                Cervantes, Ignatio                                                               1847-1905               Composer

                                Edison, Thomas Alva                                                          1847-1931               Scientist

                                Fuchs, Robert                                                                       1847-1927               Composer

                                Gide, Charles                                                                         1847-1932               Economist (France)

                                Grondahl, Agathe Backer                                                   1847-1907               Composer

                                Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo                                           1847-1937               Scientist

                                Pulitzer, Joseph                                                                    1847-1911

                                Ryder, Albert Pinkham                                                        1847-1917

                                Sorel, Georges                                                                      1847-1922

                                Terry, Ellen Alicia                                                                1847-1928

                                Baguer, Carlos                                                                      1768-1847               Composer

                                Crotch, William                                                                     1775-1847               Composer

                                Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard                             1803-1847

                                Hensel, Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn                                1805-1847               Composer

                                Mendelssohn-Bartoldy, Felix                                             1805-1847               Composer

                                Molino, Francesco                                                               1768-1847               Composer

1848                        Barricades, rue de la Mortellerie (Jean-Louis Meissonier)

                                Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood forms by Hunt, Millais, Rossetti, Woolner, Collinson, Stephens, and W. M. Rossetti

                                La Dame aux Camelias (Alexandre Dumas fils)

                                History of England (Macaulay)

                                Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

                                Book of Snobs (Thackeray)

                                Communist Manifesto (Marx/Engles)

                                AGE OF REVOLUTION ENDS?

                                Bishop Augustin M. Blanchet performs the first Catholic ordination in future WA state at Fort Walla Walla (1/2)

                                Christian VIII King of Denmark dies of blood poisoning (1/20)

                                Gold discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill (1/24)

                                Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - United States gains California and New Mexico (2/2)

                                Universal male suffrage enacted in France (3/2)

                                Frankfurt National Assembly (Parliament) meets to discuss unification of Germany (5/18)    (-1849)

                                Peschiera is taken by Piedmontese forces from the Austrians after six week defense by General Rath (5/30)

                                Seneca Falls Women’s rights convention (7/19-20)

                                Oregon Territory organized by Act of Congress (8/14)

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                                Potato famine in Ireland

                                Chartism threatening in England

                                Year of Revolutions in Europe

                                Insurrection in Tipperary, Ireland is put down

                                Paris Revolution; overthrow of King Louis Philippe

                                Second Republic with Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon, as president in France

                                Counterrevolution in France and in central Europe

                                Revolutions in Milan, Naples, Venice, Rome - most are supressed within a year

                                Milanese expel Austrians after five days of fighting - Austrians return a few months later

                                Revolutions in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest - initially successful

                                Dresden insurrection

                                Prince Metternich resigns - Emperor Ferdinand abdicates

                                Franz Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria (-1916)

                                Austro-Sardinian Wars (-1849)

                                Piedmontese Statuto

                                Walachia and Moldavia unite (-1859)

                                Uprising in Wallachia (Romania) is supressed by Russia

                                Switzerland introduces federal constitution

                                Free Soil Party organized

                                Charles Francis Adams becomes first Free-Soil candidate for vice-president in US

                                Theodor Mommsen appointed professor of civil law at University of Leipzig - loses his chair for supporting Rev.

                                Christian VIII -                    (Denmark)

                                Frederik VII +                      (Denmark)

                                Louis Philippe -                   (France)                                                 (1830-)   Citizen King

                                Louis Bonaparte +               (France)                                                 President (nephew of Napoleon)

                                Ferdinand I -                         (Austria)                                               Emperor House of Leopold

                                Francis Joseph I +               (Austria)                                               Emperor House of Leopold

                                Georghe Bibescu -              (Walachia)                                            Prince

                                Charles Darwin's theories are fully developed in unpublished papers

                                “Oh Susanna”                                                      Stephen Collins Foster 

                                Wagner participates in the Dresden insurrection, flees to Switzerland

                                Wagner begins the text to the Ring of the Nibelung

                                Adams, Brooker                                                                   1848-1927

                                Balfour, Arthur James                                                         1848-1930

                                Bosanquet, Bernard                                                             1848-1923

                                Caillebotte, Gustave                                                            1848-1894

                                Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob                                        1848-1925

                                Gauguin, Paul                                                                       1848-1903               Painter

                                Harnett, William Michael                                                    1848-1892

                                Lehman, Lilli                                                                          1848-1929

                                Pareto, Vilfredo                                                                     1848-1923

                                Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings                                         1848-1918               Composer

                                Romanes, George                                                                 1848-1894

                                Saint-Gaudens, Augustus                                                  1848-1907               Sculptor (Dublin, Ireland --->US)

                                Tiffany, Louis Comfort                                                        1848-1933

                                Windelbrand, Wilhelm                                                        1848-1915

                                Adams, John Quincy                                                           1767-1848

                                Balmes                                                                                   1810-1848

                                Belinski, Vissarion Grigoryevich                                       1811-1848               Writer/Critic (Russia)

                                Berzelius, Jons Jacob                                                          1779-1848

                                Bolzano, Bernard                                                                  1781-1848               Philosopher (Czechoslovakia)

                                Bronte, Emily                                                                        1818-1848

                                Chateaubriand, Francois Rene, vicomte de                     1768-1848               Writer (Saint-Malo, France)

                                D’Israeli, Isaac                                                                      1766-1848

                                Donizetti, Gaetano                                                               1797-1848               Composer

                                Forberg, Friedrich                                                                1770-1848

                                Ibrahim Pasha                                                                       1789-1848               Egyptian Pasha

                                Stephenson, George                                                            1781-1848

1849                        Algerian Women in their Quarters (Delacroix)

                                Scene from "Another Dance of Death" (Alfred Rethel)

                                The Stonebreaker (Courbet)

                                David Copperfield (Dickens)

                                The Oregon Trail (Francis Parkman)

                                Art and Revolution (Wagner)

                                EUROPE THE OVERLORD BEGINS

                                Zachary Taylor inaugurated (3/5)

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                                Great Britain repeals the Navigation Acts

                                Karl Marx settles in England

                                Elections results for Chamber of Deputies in France yields only 25% Republicans - monarchists in the majority

                                Revolutions in Italy and Hungary crushed

                                Russian intervention in Hungary

                                Frankfurt Parliament collapses

                                Frankfurt constitution

                                Roman Republic

                                Pope Pius IX exiled from Rome by Mazzini

                                Napoleon IIi sends French troops to Rome to quash th Mazzini's republic

                                Austro-Sardinian War

                                British annexation of Punjab

                                California Gold Rush

                                Bureau of Indian Affairs created as part of Dept. of Interior

                                Fort Worth Founded

                                Fort Laramie becomes an army post, formerly a trading post

                                William II -                           (Netherlands)

                                William III +                         (Netherlands)

                                Mihai Sturdza -                    (Moldavia)                                             Prince 

                                James Knox Polk -              (United States)                                     (1845-)   President

                                Zachary Taylor + (United States)                                     (-1850)   President

                                Le Prophete                                                          Meyerbeer

                                Fantasy Pieces for Cello & Piano Op 73 (2)                Schumann            

                                Requiem                                                                                Bruckner

                                Crazy Horse                                                                          1849-1877

                                Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul                                             1849-1895               Composer

                                Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich                                                        1849-1936

                                Strindberg, August                                                              1849-1912

                                Aguado, Dionisio                                                                                1784-1849               Composer

                                Bronte, Anne                                                                        1820-1849

                                Chopin, Frederick                                                 1810-1849               Composer

                                Dobereiner, Johann Wolfgang                                          1780-1849

                                Fossa, Francois de Paul Jacques Raymond de               1775-1849               Composer

                                Hokusai, Katsushika                                                           1760-1849               Painter (Japan)

                                Kalkbrenner, Friedrich Wilhelm Michael                          1785-1849               Composer

                                Kreutzer, Conradin                                                               1780-1849               Composer

                                Mohammed Ali                                                                     1769-1849               Pasha of Egypt

                                Nicolai, Carl Otto Ehrenfried                                              1810-1849               Composer

                                Parish-Alvers, Elias                                                             1808-1849               Composer

                                Petofi, Sandor                                                                       1823-1849

                                Poe, Edgar Allen                                                                  1809-1849               Writer

                                Strauss, Johann I                                                                 1804-1849               Composer

                                Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de                               1780-1849

1850                        Going to Work (Jean-Francois Millet)

                                The Sower (Jean-Francois Millet)

                                Burial at Ornans (Gustav Courbet)

                                The Renunciation of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (James Collinson)

                                The Annunciation (Dante Rosetti)

                                The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

                                Evangeline (Longfellow)

                                Immensee (Storm)

                                Art Work of the Future (Wagner)

                                Zachary Taylor dies - of cholera morbus - Millard Fillmore succeeds him (7/9)

                                Herman Melville meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic arranged by a mutual friend (8/5)

                                Compromise of 1850 - California admitted as 31st state; Utah and New Mexico territories (9/9)

                                Fugitive Slave Act (9/18)

                                Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 - promotes hometead settlement in Oregon and Pacific NW            (9/27)

                                Treaty of Olmutz - German Confederation restored under Austrian leadership (11/29)

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                                Don Pacifico Affair - British foriegn secretary, Lord Palmerston, defends rights of British citizens abroad

                                T'ai P'ing rebellion - revolt against Manchu rule in China (-1864) other rebellions (-1873)

                                Henry Rawlinson deciphers cuneiform with help of trilingual inscription of Darius the Great at Bisutun

                                Zachary Taylor -  (United States)                                     (1849-)   President

                                Millard Fillmore +              (United States)                                     (-1853)   President

                                Xuanzong Cheng -              (China)                                                  (1821-)   6th Qing Dynasty (Daoguang Era)

                                Bachgesellschaft founded

                                Lohengrin                                                             Wagner

                                Adams, Herbert Baxter                                                        1850-1901

                                Braun, Carl Ferdinand                                                         1850-1918

                                Fibich, Zdenek                                                                      1850-1900               Composer

                                Gompers, Samuel                                                                  1850-1924

                                Heaviside, Oliver                                                                  1850-1925

                                Komzak, Karel                                                                       1850-1905               Composer

                                Loti, Pierre                                                                             1850-1923               Novelist (France)

                                Maupassant, Guy de                                                           1850-1893

                                Richet, Charles Robert                                                        1850-1935

                                Scharwenka, Franz Xaver                                                   1850-1924               Composer

                                Stevenson, Robert Louis                                                    1850-1894

                                Taneyev, Alexander Sergeievich                                       1850-1918               Composer (Russia)

                                Weston, Edward                                                                  1850-1936

                                Bab, Ali Mohammed of Shiraz                                           1819-1850

                                Balzac, Honore                                                                     1799-1850               Novelist (Tours, France)

                                Fuller, Sarah Margaret Ossoli                                            1810-1850

                                Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis                                                 1778-1850

                                Gyrowetz, Adalbert                                                              1763-1850               Composer

                                Oehlenschlager, Adam                                                        1779-1850

                                Orleans, Louis Philippe, duc de                                         1773-1850               King (France)

                                Taylor, Zachary                                                                    1784-1850

                                Tomasek, Vaclav Jan Krtitel                                               1774-1850               Composer

                                Wordsworth, William                                                          1770-1850               Poet

1851                        The Gleaners (Jean-Francois Millet)

                                Borgia (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

                                The Woodman's Daughter (Sir John Everett Millais)

                                Moby Dick (Melville)

                                House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne)

                                Opera and Drama (Wagner)

                                Fort Laramie Peace Meeting -  Treaty signed (9/17)

                                Clark Massacre - wagon train attacked by Shoshoni group near Raft River Idaho (9/30)

                                Louis Napoleon III's coup d'etat (12/2)

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                                France votes 7,439,216 to 640,737 sanctioning the acts of Napoleon III and allows him to revise the constitution

                                Gold strike in Victoria, Australia

                                US Treaty with the Sioux

                                Lehigh Valley Railroad begins construction

                                Great Exhibition held in London

                                First submarine telegraph cable

                                Peter II -                                                (Montenegro)                                       Prince-Bishop

                                Danilo II +                             (Montenegro)                                       Lord

                                Wenzong Xian +                  (China)                                                  (-1861)   7th Qing Dynasty (Xianfeng Era)

                                Third Symphony                                                  Schumann

                                Rigoletto                                                               Verdi

                                “Old Folks at Home”                                           Stephen Collins Foster

                                Abbe, Robert                                                                        1851-1928

                                Berliner, Emile                                                                       1851-1929               Engineer

                                Blockx, Jan                                                                            1851-1912               Composer

                                Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen                                                          1851-1914

                                Chopin, Kate O’Flaherty                                                     1851-1904

                                d’Indy, Paul Marie Theodore Vincent                              1851-1931               Composer

                                Falero, Luis Ricardo                                                             1851-1896

                                Lodge, Oliver Joseph                                                          1851-1940

                                Ysaye, Eugene                                                                      1851-1931               Composer

                                Audubon, John James                                                        1785-1851

                                Baillie, Joanna                                                                       1762-1851

                                Comte, Auguste                                                                   1798-1851

                                Cooper, James Fenimore                                                     1789-1851

                                Daguerre                                                                                1789-1851

                                Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob                                                  1804-1851

                                Oersted, Hans Christian                                                      1777-1851

                                Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft                                            1797-1851

                                Turner, Joseph Mallord William                                        1775-1851

1852                        The Agony (Jose Maria Estrada)

                                An English Autumn Afternoon (Ford Madox Brown) (-1854)

                                Eaux-Fortes Sur Paris (Charles Meryon)

                                Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (Stowe)

                                Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and History of Prussia during 16th and 17th Cent. (Leopold von Ranke)

                                Henry Clay dies in Washington D.C. (6/29)

                                France vote 7,824,189 to 253,145 allowing Napoleon III the title of Emperor (11/21)

                                Louis Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Napoleon III emperor (12/2)

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                                London Protocol

                                The Danish Duchies

                                Louis Napoleon sets up Second Empire - democracy, the welfare state, and dictatorship (-1870)

                                Period I - "The Autocratic Empire" in France (-1860)

                                Sand River Convention - Great Britain recognizes independence of the Transvaal

                                Second Burmese War - British victory (-1853)

                                Collins and Denny parties reach Duwamish and Alki

                                Whig party disintegrates in US

                                Cavour +                                (Sardinia)                                              Prime Minister

                                Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, op. 1             Brahms

                                Abbey, Edwin Austin                                                         1852-1911

                                Becquerel, Antoine Henri                                                   1852-1908

                                Bourget, Paul                                                                        1852-1935

                                Cowen, Sir Frederic Hymen                                                1852-1935               Composer

                                Huber, Hans                                                                          1852-1921               Composer

                                Hugel, Friedrich von                                                            1852-1925

                                Keynes, John Neville                                                          1852-1949               Economist

                                Michelson, Albert Abraham                                              1852-1931

                                Moisson, Henri                                                                    1852-1907

                                Moore, George Augustus                                                  1852-1933

                                Morgan, C. L.                                                                        1852-1936

                                Petri, Richard                                                                        1852-1921

                                Posse, Wilhelm                                                                     1852-1925               Composer

                                Stanford, Charles Villiers                                                    1852-1924               Composer

                                Tarrega, Francesco                                                              1852-1909               Composer

                                Beerhalter, Alois                                                                  1800-1852               Composer

                                Calhoun, John Caldwell                                                      1782-1852

                                Clay, Henry                                                                           1777-1852

                                Furstenau, Anton Bernhard                                               1792-1852               Composer

                                Gogol, Nikolai                                                                       1809-1852

                                Jahn, Freidrich Ludwig                                                        1778-1852

                                Moore, Thomas                                                                    1779-1852

                                Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore                                 1812-1852               Architect/Writer (England)

                                Webster, Daniel                                                                   1782-1852

1853                        The Convent Garden (Charles Allston Collins)

                                Essay on the Inequality of Human Races (Joseph Arther Gobineau) (-1855)

                                CRIMEAN WAR ...   (1853-1856)

                                Washington Territory forms (2/8)

                                Battle of Sinope - Russian naval victory using exploding shells(11/30)

                                Gadsen Purchase (12/30)

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                                Crimean War (-1856)

                                Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia after Franco-Russian disputes over Holy Places in Palestine

                                Scottish explorer David Livingstone begins crossing of Africa (-1855/6)

                                Representative Assembly introduced in South Africa

                                Perry expedition forces end of Japanese exclusion policy

                                First railway line opened in India

                                First US rail connection from New York to Chicago

                                Maria II -                               (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Pedro V +                              (Portugal)                                             (-1861)   House of Braganza

                                Millard Fillmore -               (United States)                                     (1850-)   President

                                Franklin Pierce +               (United States)                                     President

                                Il Trovatore                                                          Verdi

                                La Traviata                                                           Verdi

                                Das Reingold (-1854)                                          Wagner

                                Carreno, Maria Teresa                                                         1853-1917               Composer

                                Foote, Arthur William                                                         1853-1937               Composer

                                Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon                                                    1853-1928

                                Marti, Jose                                                                            1853-1895

                                Meinong, Alexius                                                                1853-1921

                                Messager, Andre Charles Prosper                                    1853-1929               Composer

                                Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh                                                   1853-1926

                                Ostwald, Wilhelm                                                 1853-1932

                                Petrie, William Matthew Flinders                                      1853-1942

                                Pyle, Howard                                                                        1853-1911

                                Salmon, Lucy Maynard                                                       1853-1927

                                Van Gogh, Vincent                                                               1853-1890               Painter

                                Arago, Dominique Francois Jean                                      1786-1853

                                Cortes, Donoso                                                                    1809-1853

                                Doppler, Christian                                                                1803-1853

                                Gibson, John Bannister                                                       1780-1853               Jurist (US/PA)

                                Onslow, Andre Georges Louis                                          1784-1853               Composer

1854                        Saints Augustine and Monica (Ary Scheffer)

                                A Supper  with the Regent (Eugene Louis Lami)

                                Bonjour Monsieur Courbet (Gustav Courbet)

                                Walden, or a Life in the Woods (Thoreau)

                                History of Rome (Mommsen) (3 vol. -1856)

                                CRIMEAN WAR ...   (1853-1856)     

                                Republican party formed (2/28)

                                Great Britain and France officially declare war on Russia(3/27-28)

                                Kansas-Nebraska Act ratified - Kansas becomes a territory (5/30)

                                British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America (6/22)

                                Medicine Hat Treaty - 62 tribal leaders sign over most of their lands for $32,500 (12/26)

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                                Crimean War begins - Great Britain, France and Ottoman Empire against Russia (-1856)

                                Battle of Balaclava - Russians defeated

                                Battle of Inkerman - Russians defeated

                                Seige of Sevastopol - Russians beseiged for nearly a year

                                Liberal revolution in Spain overthrows government

                                Orange Free State set up in South Africa

                                US naval officer Matthew Perry forces Japan to make commercial treaty with United States

                                Isaac I. Stevens visits Seattle for first time.

                                Fort Craig is built in New Mexico

                                Missouri Compromise repealed

                                Third Party System in the United States (-1896)

                                Schumann attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Rhine                

                                Les Preludes                                                         Liszt

                                “Faust” Symphony                                              Liszt (1855)

                                Piano Sonata in B Minor                                     Liszt

                                The Valkyrie (-1856)                                             Wagner

                                Bland, James                                                                         1854-1911               Composer

                                Chadwick, George Whitefield                                            1854-1931               Composer

                                Foy, Edwin Fitzgerald                                                          1854-1928               Actor/Comedian (US)

                                Frazer, James George                                                           1854-1941               Classicist/Anthropologist (Glasgow)

                                Humperdinck, Engelbert                                                     1854-1921               Composer

                                Janacek, Leos                                                                       1854-1928               Composer

                                Kopylov, Alexander                                                            1854-1911               Composer

                                Moszkowski, Moritz                                                            1854-1925               Composer

                                Natorp, Paul                                                                          1854-1924

                                Pabst, Paul                                                                            1854-1897               Composer

                                Pennell, Elizabeth Robins                                                   1854-1936

                                Peto, John Frederick                                                            1854-1907

                                Poincare, Jules Henri                                                           1854-1912               Mathematician/Physicist  (France)

                                Rimbaud, Arthur                                                                  1854-1891               Writer

                                Sabatier, Paul                                                                        1854-1941               Chemist (France)

                                Turro y Darder, Ramon                                                       1854-1926              

                                Wilde, Oscar                                                                         1854-1900               Writer

                                Zarebski, Juliusz                                                                   1854-1885               Composer

                                Ancelot, Jacques Arsene Francois Polycarp                  1794-1854

                                Beneke, Friedrich Eduard                                                    1798-1854

                                Lamennais, Felicite                                                              1782-1854

                                Ohm, Georg Simon                                                               1787-1854

                                Schelling, Friedrich von                                                      1775-1854

                                Wilson, John                                                                        1785-1854

1855                        The Flood at St. Cloud (Paul Huet)

                                The Mrquesa de Montelo (Federico Madrazo y Kuntz)

                                The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (Richard Dadd)

                                Seni and the Corpse of Wallenstein (Karl Theodore von Piloty)

                                Leaves of Grass, 1st ed. (Whitman)

                                CRIMEAN WAR ...   (1853-1856)

                                THIRD SEMINOLE WAR +   (1855-1858)

                                PUGET SOUND WAR +   (1855-1856)

                                Franklin Pierce inaugurated (3/4)

                                Battle of Malakoff - allied French victory under MacMahon - all Russian admirals killed (9/7)

                                Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 expires (12/1)

                                English nurse Florence Nightingale reforms nursing during Crimean War

                                David Livingstone discovers Victoria falls in Africa

                                Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War)

                                Sardinia joins Crimean War

                                Point Elliot (Mukilteo) Treaty (1/21/23)

                                Louisville’s Bloody Monday election riots (8/6)

                                Treaty Wars Washington Territory (-1856)

                                Wakarusa War (-1856)

                                Third Seminole War starts (-1858)

                                Nicholas I -                           (Russia)                                                 (1825-)   Emperor

                                Alexander II +                      (Russia)                                                 Emperor (Tsar)

                                Vespri Siciliani                                                      Verdi

                                Chausson, Ernest Amedee                                                 1855-1899               Composer

                                Debs, Eugene V.                                                                   1855-1926               Socialist Leader (Terre Haute, IN)

                                Liadov, Anatoli                                                                    1855-1914               Composer

                                Royce, Josiah                                                                       1855-1916               Philosopher (California, US)

                                Bronte, Charlotte                                                                  1816-1855

                                Crosse, Andrew                                                                   1784-1855

                                Gauss, Karl Friedrich                                                           1777-1855

                                Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye                                                 1813-1855

                                Nerval, Gerard de                                                                 1808-1855

                                Sturm, J. C. F.                                                                        1803-1855

1856                        April Love (Arthur Hughes)

                                CRIMEAN WAR -   (1853-1856)

                                THIRD SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1855-1858)

                                PUGET SOUND WAR -   (1855-1856)

                                Battle of Seattle - Leschi, Nisqually chief leads attack on Seattle settlements (1/26)

                                Treaty of Paris signed - Crimean War ends with Ottoman victory (Congress of Paris) (3/30)

                                Lawrence, KS sacked by proslavery forces (5/21)

                                Guano Islands Act (8/18)

                                George Pickett, US Army Captain begins construction of Fort Bellingham, WA (8/26)

                                Arrow Incident - Qing officials arrest 12 aboard the Arrow - incites the Second Opium War (10/8)

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                                Hatt-i Humayun - extending of rights granted by Hatt-i Sherif

                                Persia captures Herat, Afghanistan - leads to war with Great Britain (Anglo-Persian War)

                                Second Opium War - Anglo-French-Chinese War breaks out (-1860)

                                Treaty of 1856 (Seminole)

                                Dallas incorporated as a town

                                Fort Buchanan established near Sonoita, Arizona

                                Smetana emigrated to Sweden

                                Bruckner becomes organist of Linz Cathedral

                                “Dante” Symphony                                             Liszt

                                Hungarian Rhapsodies                                       Liszt

                                Siegfried (1st two acts -1857)                             Wagner

                                Baum, Lyman Frank                                                             1856-1919               Writer (Chittenango, NY)

                                Cross, Henri Edmund                                                          1856-1910

                                Frederic, Leon                                                                       1856-1940

                                Freud, Sigmund                                                                    1856-1939               Psychologist

                                Haggard, Henry Rider                                                         1856-1925               Writer (England)

                                Haldane, Richard Burdon                                                   1856-1928               Statesman/Philosopher (England)

                                Hardie, Keir                                                                           1856-1915

                                Martucci, Giuseppe                                                             1856-1909               Composer

                                Sargent, John Singer                                                           1856-1925               Painter

                                Shaw, George Bernard                                                         1856-1950

                                Sinding, Johann Christian                                                  1856-1941               Composer

                                Stieltjes, Thomas Jan                                                           1856-1894

                                Sullivan, Louis                                                                      1856-1924

                                Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich                                                                1856-1915               Composer

                                Tesla, Nikola                                                                         1856-1943               Physicist

                                Thompson, Joseph John                                                    1856-1940

                                Washington, Booker T.                                                      1856-1915

                                Wilson, Woodrow                                                               1856-1924

                                Avogadro, Amadeo                                                             1776-1856

                                Cabet, Etienne                                                                      1788-1856

                                Hamilton, William                                                 1788-1856

                                Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich                                      1797-1856

                                Lindpaintner, Peter Joseph von                                         1791-1856               Composer

                                Lobachevski, Nikolai Ivanovich                                        1793-1856

                                Mertz, Johann Kaspar                                                         1806-1856               Composer

                                Schumann, Robert Alexander                                            1810-1856               Composer

1857                        The gleaners (Jean-Francois millet)

                                Beatrice Knighting Esmond (Augustus Leopold Egg)

                                The Wedding of St. George and Princess Sabra (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

                                Les Fleurs du mal (Baudelaire)

                                Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

                                Currier and Ives publish prints

                                THIRD SEMINOLE WAR ...   (1855-1858)

                                Franz Joseph announces Archduke brother Maximilian as the new Governor General of Venetia-Lombardy (3/1)

                                James Buchanan inaugurated (3/4)

                                Dred Scott v. Sanford decision - slaves are property that can be transported throughout any U.S. territiory (3/6)

                                Archduke Maximilian arrives in Venice from Trieste (3/22)

                                Indian Mutiny - rebellion of sepoys (native soldiers) in Bengal army (5) (- 7/1858)

                                Maximilian I sets sail from Venice to England (5/30)

                                Maximilian I is sighted off Spithead in England (6/14)

                                Maximilian I on the S.S. Elisabeth arrives at Portsmouth (6/15)

                                Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and Charlotte are married (7/27)

                                Whatcom Trail construction begins to connect Bellingham with Canadian border - Nooksack road (9)

                                Mountain Meadows massacre – Mormons murder people from Arkansas wagon party  (9/7-11)         Monday

                                War of Reform begins in Mexico (12)               (-1861)

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                                Sepoys take Cawnpore and beseige Lucknow

                                Uprising brings about the final extinction of the British East India Company

                                Treaty of Paris - between Great Britain and Persia

                                Panic of 1857

                                Nasir ud Daulah -                (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Afzal ud Daulah +                (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Franklin Pierce -                (United States)                                     President

                                James Buchanan +              (United States)                                     President

                                Tristan and Isolde (-1859)                                   Wagner

                                Barnard, Edward Emerson                                                  1857-1923

                                Conrad, Joseph                                                                    1857-1924

                                Elgar, Edward William                                                         1857-1934               Composer

                                Gjellerup, Karl Adolph                                                        1857-1919

                                Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf                                                         1857-1894

                                Leoncavallo, Ruggero                                                         1857-1919               Composer

                                Pennell, Joseph                                                                    1857-1926

                                Pontoppidan, Henrik                                                           1857-1943

                                Saussure, Ferdinand de                                                      1857-1913

                                Taft, William Howard                                                          1857-1930

                                Cauchy, Augustin Louis                                                    1789-1857

                                Czerny, Carl                                                                           1791-1857               Composer

                                Eichendorff, Joseph von                                                     1789-1857

                                Glinka, Michael                                                                     1804-1857

                                Kurpinski, Karol                                                                   1785-1857               Composer

                                Jerrold, Douglas William                                                     1803-1857

                                Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de                                      1810-1857

1858                        The Letter of Recommendation (Francois Bonvin)

                                The Stone Breaker (Henry Wallis)

                                THIRD SEMINOLE WAR -   (1855-1858)

                                FRASER CANYON WAR +-   (1858)                                                Nlaka'pamux vs. BC Colonists

                                Italian nationalist, Felice Orsini, attempts to assassinate Napoleon III with bomb in Paris (1/15)

                                Billy Bowlegs surrenders, Seminole chief agrees to relocate to Indian Territory (5/7)

                                Treaty of Aigun - Russia gains Amur region from China (5/28)

                                Plombieres Agreement - secret alliance between Napoleon III and Count Cavour, Premier of Piedmont (7/20)

                                India Act (Bill) - government of India passes from East India Company to British Crown (8)

                                Lincoln - Douglas debates begin (8/21)

                                Freeport Debate - 2nd Lincoln Douglas debate at Freeport, IL- Douglas' Freeport Doctrine (8/27)

                                LincolnDouglas Debates end (10/15)

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                                Sir Henry Bessemer builds Steel Works at Sheffield using new process making large scale production possible

                                Franco-Sardinian alliance

                                British explorers Sir Richard Burton and John Speke discover Lake Tanganyika

                                Sepoy Rebellion put down by British in India

                                Lucknow relieved - Indian mutiny ends

                                Treaties of Tientsin - open eleven Chinese ports

                                Fenian Society founded in United States by Irish immigrants

                                Gold Discovered in the Colorado Rockies

                                Rahway, NJ incorporated

                                British East India Company dissolves

                                Fraser River Gold Rush

                                Theodor Mommsen starts teaching at Univ. of Berlin

                                Alois Joseph II -                   (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                John II +                                (Liechtenstein)                                    Prince

                                Alexander -                           (Serbia)                                                 Prince (Karadjordjevic)

                                Milos Obrenovic +               (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Covent Garden opera house opens

                                Les Troyens                                                          Berlioz

                                Un Ballo in Maschera                                          Verdi

                                Orphee aux enfers                                                Offenbach

                                Artzibushev, Nikolai                                                            1858-1937               Composer

                                Boaz, Franz                                                                            1858-1942

                                Corinth, Lovis                                                                       1858-1915

                                Durkheim, Emile                                                                    1858-1917

                                Elling, Catharinus                                                 1858-1942               Composer

                                Hubay, Jeno                                                                          1858-1937               Composer

                                Hue, Georges Adolphe                                                       1858-1948               Composer

                                Lagerlof, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa                                        1858-1940

                                Mosca, Gaetano                                                                   1858-1941

                                Nesbit, Edith                                                                         1858-1924

                                Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig                                          1858-1947               Physicist

                                Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico                               1858-1924               Composer

                                Roosevelt, Theodore                                                           1858-1919               President               (Manhattan, NYC)

                                Rott, Hans                                                                             1858-1884               Composer

                                Simmel, Georg                                                                       1858-1918

                                Wallas, Graham                                                                    1858-1932

                                Ando, Hiroshige                                                                  1797-1858

                                Cramer, John Baptist                                                           1771-1858               Composer

                                Diabelli, Anton                                                                     1781-1858               Composer

                                Montferrand, Auguste de                                                  1786-1858

                                Neukomm, Sigismund Ritter von                                       1778-1858               Composer

                                Wyeth, John                                                                         1770-1858               Composer

1859                        White Mountain Scenery (Asher Brown Durand)

                                The Return to the Farm (Constant Troyon)

                                The Angelus (Jean-Francois Millet)

                                White Mountain Scenery (John Frederick Kensett)

                                Winter Landscape (George Henry Durrie)

                                The heart of the Andes (Frederick Edwin Church)

                                Tyzac Whiteley & Co - ist State (Whistler)

                                White Captive (Erastus dow Palmer)

                                The Slave auction (John Rogers)

                                A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

                                Origin of Species (Darwin)

                                Idylls of the King (Tennyson)

                                Austria (Napoleon III) invades Piedmont (4)

                                Ferdinand II dies- his son Francis II ascends the throne of Two Sicilies (5/22)

                                Battle of Magenta - Austria defeated (6/4)

                                Pig War begins - Lyman Cutler, American settler on San Juan Island shoots an kills a HBC pig (6/15)

                                Battle of Solferino - Austria defeated by Franco-Sardinian alliance - (6/24)

                                Midway Islands discovered by Cptn. N.C. Middlbrooks (7/5)

                                Spanish-Moroccan War (-1860)

                                War between Austria and France and Sardinia

                                France and Piedmont at war with Austria

                                Armistice of Villafranca

                                Treaty of Zurich - between France and Austria - Piedmont gains Lombardy

                                Milan unites with Kingdom of Sardinia

                                Moldavia and Walachia united as Romania

                                Lake Tanganyika discovered

                                Value added by manufacturing exceeds value of agricultural products sold

                                E.L. Drake drills first oil well at Oil Creek (Titusville, PA)

                                Louisville - Nashville Railroad (L&N) opened

                                Lehigh Valley Railroad comes to Perth Amboy

                                Oren Fogle Browning marries Mary Gertrude Clarkson (10/17)

                                Oscar I -                                (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Charles XV +                       (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Oscar I -                                (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Charles XV +                       (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Alexander John I Cuza +   (Romania)                                             Prince (of Moldavia)

                                “Dixie” (Dan Emmett) performed at Mechanic’s Hall in New York

                                Tristan und Isolde

                                Faust                                                                      Gounod

                                Alaichem, Sholom                                                                1859-1916

                                Alexander, Samuel                                                               1859-1938

                                Arrhenius, Svante August                                                 1859-1927

                                Belasco, David                                                                     1859-1931

                                Bergson, Henri                                                                     1859-1941

                                Bohlau, Helene                                                                     1859-1940

                                Curie, Pierre                                                                           1859-1906

                                Dachenko, Vladimir Ivanovich                                           1859-1943

                                Dewey, John                                                                         1859-1952

                                Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan                                                     1859-1930

                                Dresser, Paul                                                                         1859-1906               Composer (Indiana, US)

                                Duse, Eleanor                                                                       1859-1924

                                Ehrenfels, Maria                                                                   1859-1932

                                Foerster, Josef Bohuslav                                                    1859-1951               Composer

                                Hallwachs, Wilhelm                                                             1859-1922

                                Hamsun, Knut Pedersen                                                     1859-1952              

                                Hassam, Childe                                                                     1859-1935

                                Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner von                 1859-1940

                                Herbert, Victor                                                                      1859-1924               Composer

                                Hettner, Alfred                                                                     1859-1942

                                Housman, A. E.                                                                    1859-1936

                                Husserl, Edmund                                                                  1859-1941

                                Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mihaylovich                           1859-1935               Composer

                                Jerome, Jerome Klapka                                                        1859-1934

                                Liapunov, Sergei Mikhailovich                                          1859-1924               Composer

                                Seurat, Georges                                                                    1859-1891

                                Sokolov, Nikolai                                                                   1859-1922               Composer

                                Tanner, Henry Ossawa                                                       1859-1937

                                Thompson, Francis                                                              1859-1907

                                Arnim, Bettina von                                                              1785-1859               Writer (Germany)

                                Cox, David                                                                             1783-1859

                                Dirichlet, Gustav Lejeune                                                   1805-1859

                                Grimm, Wilhelm                                                                    1786-1859

                                Humboldt, Alexander von                                                  1769-1859               Naturalist/Traveler (Germany)

                                Hunt, Leigh                                                                           1784-1859

                                Irving, Washington                                                             1783-1859

                                Macaulay, Thomas Babington                                          1800-1859

                                Mann, Horace                                                                       1796-1859

                                Poinsot, Luis                                                                         1777-1859

                                Quincey, Thomas de                                                           1785-1859

                                Reissiger, Carl Gottlieb                                                        1798-1859               Composer

                                Ritter, Karl                                                                             1779-1859

                                Spohr, Ludwig                                                                      1784-1859               Composer

                                Tocqueville, Alexis de                                                         1805-1859

1860                        Design in perspctive for the Decoration of a Vaulted Interior (Alfred Stevens)

                                Archduke Maximilian lands at All Saints Bay in Brazil aboard S.S. Elisabeth to visit Pedro II (1/11)

                                Treaty of Turin (3/24)

                                Maximilian and Charlotte are back at Trieste after his forst visit to the "New World" (4)

                                Abraham Lincoln elected 16th US President (11/4)

                                South Carolina secedes from the Union - 1st state (12/20)

                                Period II - "The Liberal Empire" - Napoleon III concedes some power to Chamber of Deputies (-1870)

                                Collapse of Italian structure

                                Italian states Parma, Modena, Tuscany, and Romagna unite with Piedmont

                                Italian patriot Guiseppe Garibaldi & his Thousand Redshirts conquer Naples and Sicily - Garibaldi's Expedition

                                Insurrection in Syria - French expedition - Statute of the Lebanon (-1861)

                                Communal conflicts in Lebanon and Syria (-1861)

                                British and French occupy Peking - end of Anglo-Chinese War

                                Pony Express completes inaugural delivery St Louis to Sacramento in 11 days

                                Milos Obrenovic -                (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Michael +                              (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Danilo II -                              (Montenegro)                                       Lord

                                Nicholas I +                          (Montenegro)                                       Prince

                                Addams, Jane                                                                       1860-1935

                                Albeniz, Isaac Manuel Francisco                                      1860-1909               Composer

                                Barrie, James M.                                                                   1860-1937               Novelist/PW (Kirriemuir, Scotland)

                                Bryan, William Jennings                                                     1860-1925

                                Charpentier, Gustave                                                           1860-1956               Composer

                                Chekhov, Anton                                                                  1860-1904

                                Ensor, James                                                                         1860-1949

                                Hastings, Thomas                                                                                1860-1929

                                Haverfield, Francis John                                                     1860-1919

                                Herzl, Theodor                                                                      1860-1904               Zionist

                                Korn, Alejandro                                                                   1860-1936

                                Leo, Alan                                                                               1860-1917

                                Macdowell, Edward Alexander                                          1860-1908               Composer

                                Mahler, Gustav                                                                     1860-1911               Composer

                                Moses, Anna Mary Robertson                                         1860-1961

                                Mucha, Alphonse                                                                                1860-1939

                                Paderewski, Ignace Jan                                                       1860-1941               Composer

                                Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von                                              1860-1945               Composer

                                Wolf, Hugo                                                                           1860-1903               Composer

                                Baur, Ferdinand Christian                                                   1792-1860

                                Panizza, Giacomo                                                  1804-1860               Composer

                                Parker, Theodore                                                                  1810-1860

                                Schopenhauer, Arthur                                                        1788-1860               Philosopher

                                Silcher, Friedrich                                                                  1789-1860               Composer

1861                        Reverend James Bulwer (Frederick Sandys)

                                If Caffe Michelangiolo (Adriano Cecioni)

                                Great Expectations (Dickens)

                                Silas Marner (Eliot)

                                AMERICAN CIVIL WAR +   (1861-1865)

                                Benito Jauarez captures Mexico City - War of Reform ends (1/1) T

                                Friedrich Wilhelm IV dies - Wilhelm I succeeds (1/2) W

                                Delaware votes to stay in the Union (1/3) Th

                                Mississippi secedes from the Union - 2nd state (1/9) W

                                Florida secedes from the Union - 3rd state (1/10) Th

                                Alabama secedes from the Union - 4th state (1/11) F

                                Georgia secedes from the Union - 5th State (1/18) F

                                Jefferson Davis resigns from the US Senate (1/21) M

                                Louisiana secedes from the Union - 6th state (1/26) Sa

                                Bascom Affair begins- Start of Apache War (1/27)

                                Kansas enters Union as a free state - 34th state (1/29) T

                                Texas secedes from the Union - 7th state (2/1) F

                                Confederate States of America forms in Montgomery, Alabama (2/4) M

                                Jefferson Davis elected provisional  president of Confederacy (2/9)

                                US House resolution passes that guarantees non-interference with slavery in any state (2/11)

                                Siege of Gaeta ends - Francis II King of the Two Sicilies goes into exile (2/13)

                                Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provision president of the Confederacy in Montgomery (2/18)

                                Victor Emmanual II assumes title of King of Italy (2/18)

                                Serfdom abolished in Russia (2/19)

                                Abraham Lincoln arrives in Washington D.C. after assassination attempt in Baltimore (2/23)

                                Russian troops kill five protesters in Warsaw Poland (2/27)

                                Colorado Territory is organized  (2/29)

                                Nevada  Territoy  is organized (3/2)

                                Formal emancipation of serfs in Russia (3/3)

                                Lincoln inaugurated (3/4)

                                "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America (3/4)

                                El Hadj Umar Tall conquers Bambara Empire in Mali by siezing the capital Segou (3/10)

                                Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted (3/11)

                                Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Salfeld dies at 74 (3/16)

                                Southern New Mexico Territory secedes and becomes part of Confederate Territory of Arizona (3/16)

                                Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (3/17)

                                Ceasefire in effect in the First Taranaki War (3/18)

                                First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand (3/19)

                                Earthquake in destroys Mendoza, Argentina (3/20)

                                Surrender of Civitella del Tronto - end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (3/20)

                                Sir William Cookes announces the discovery of chemical element Thallium (3/30)

                                Fort Sumter - Civil War officially begins (4/12)

                                President Lincoln suspends writ of habeus corpus (4/27)

                                West Virginia secedes from Virginia (4/27)

                                Arkansas secedes from the Union - 8th state (5/6)

                                Tennessee secedes from the Union - 9th state (5/7)

                                Richmond, VA is named capital of the Conferdercay (5/8)

                                Queen Victoria declare Great Britains neutrality - recognizing Confederacy's rights of belligerancy (5/13)

                                Great Comet of 1861 (C/1861 J1) sighted in Australia (5/13)

                                Canelas Meteorite (538 g) chondrite type strikes earth near Barcelona (5/14)

                                North Carolina secedes from the Union - 10th state (5/20)

                                Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War (5/20)

                                Franz Joseph, Empress Elisabeth at Miramar Castle in Trieste visiting Maximilian and Charlotte (5)

                                Lebanon is separated  from Syrian administration and reunited under Ottoman governor (6/9)

                                Benito Juarez formally elected  President of Mexico (6/15)

                                Abdul Mejid, Ottoman sultan dies and is succeeded by Abdul Aziz (6/25)

                                L'Osservatore Romano begins publication by the Vatican (7/1)

                                Ioan Kasatkin (St. Nikolai) lands on Hakodate and introduces Eastern Orthodox Christianity to Japan (7/2)

                                General McDowell with the Army of Northeastern Virginia departs from Washington D.C. (7/16)

                                Benito Juarez suspends payment of foreign debts (7/17)

                                First Battle of Bull Run - Confederates defeat Union army (7/21)

                                Crittenden-Johnson Resolution - passed by the US Congress - Civil War not a war to end slavery (7/25)

                                George McClellan appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac after defeat at Bull Run (7/26)

                                Revenue Act of 1861 - 1st income tax in the US - 3% of all income over $800 (8/5)

                                US Army abolishes flogging (8/5)

                                32nd Indiana Volunteer “First German” Infantry Regiment musters at Camp Morton (8/24)

                                Last execution in Britain for murder Martin Doyle in Chester (8/27)

                                General Leonidas Polk's (the "fighting bishop") forces invade neutral Kentucky (9/3)

                                General Grant's forces capture Paducah, KY - Union in control of the mouth of the Tennessee River (9/6)

                                Adolph Metzner elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 32nd IN Regiment (First Company) (9/19)

                                Battle of Santa Rosa Island, FL - Union Victory (10/9)

                                Battle of Ball's Bluff - Union forces under Edward Baker defeated in 2nd major battle of the Civil War (10/21)

                                HMS Warrior - first ocean going all-iron hulled armored battleship is completed and commissioned (10/24)

                                Convention between Great Britan and Morocco for a loan of £426,000 signed at Tangier (10/24)

                                General Winfield Scott resigns as commander of the Union Army - citing a decline in health (10/31)

                                Convention of London signed- France, England, Spain demand fulfilment of Mexico's $ obligations (10/31)

                                Lincoln appoints General McClellan as commander of the Union Army (11/1)

                                David Hunter replaces John C. Fremont as commander of the Western Department (11/2)

                                Jefferson Davis is elected official president of the Confederacy (11/6)

                                Battle of Belmont - Grant's forces overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when help arrives (11/7) 

                                Trent Affair - USS San Jacinto stops the UK mail ship Trent  - arrests two Confederate envoys (11/8)

                                Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin as Secretary of War (11/21)

                                Tenement collapses in Old Town of Edinburgh - burying 50 - 15 survive (11/25)

                                Spanish troops land at Vera Cruz from Cuba(12/8)

                                Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, dies (12/14)

                                Battle of Rowlett’s station - Hart County KY, 32nd Indiana regiment (12/17)

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                                Italy, except for Rome and Venice, united as one kingdom under Victor Emmanuel, King of Piedmont

                                Milan becomes part of Italy

                                British annexation of Lagos

                                Lincoln authorizes printing of $60,000,000 paper money

                                Cochise falsely imprisoned

                                Arapaho and Cheyenne forced onto Sand Creek Reserve

                                Transcontinental telegraph line completed Sacramento to Washington

                                Friedrich Wilhelm IV -      (Prussia)                                                               (1840-) King

                                William I +                           (Prussia)                                                               (-1888) King

                                Vittorio Emanuele II +        (Italy)                                                     (-1878)   King (King of Piedmont)

                                Pedro V -                               (Portugal)                                             (1853-)   House of Braganza             

                                Louis I +                                (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Abdulmecid I -                      (Ottoman Empire)                                (1839-)   Sultan

                                Abdulaziz +                           (Ottoman Empire)                                (-1876)   Sultan

                                James Buchanan -               (United States)                                     President

                                Abraham Lincoln +             (United States)                                     President

                                Benito Juarez +                   (Mexico)                                                (-1864)   President

                                Wenzong Xian -                   (China)                                                  (1851-)   7th Qing Dynasty (Xianfeng Era)

                                Tannhauser performed in Paris

                                Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25              Brahms

                                Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 26             Brahms

                                Arensky, Anton Stepanovich                                            1861-1906               Composer

                                Blondel, Maurice                                                                  1861-1939

                                Bury, John Bagnell                                                              1861-1927               Historian

                                Guillaume, Charles Edouard                                               1861-1938

                                Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornow                                       1861-1935               Composer

                                Maillol, Aristide                                                                   1861-1944               Visual Artist (France)

                                Remington, Frederic                                                            1861-1909

                                Svevo, Italo                                                                           1861-1928

                                Tagore, Rabindranath                                                         1861-1941

                                Turner, Frederick Jackson                                                  1861-1932

                                Villoldo, Angel                                                                     1861-1919               Composer

                                Whitehead, Alfred North                                                    1861-1947

                                Browning, Elizabeth Barrett                                                1806-1861

                                Clough, Arthur Hugh                                                          1819-1861

                                Douglas, Stephen Arnold                                                   1813-1861

                                Heinrich, Anthony Philip                                                    1781-1861               Composer

                                Lacordaire, Henri                                                                  1802-1861

                                Marschner, Heinrich August                                             1795-1861               Composer

1862                        Third class Carriage (Daumier)

                                The Railway Station (William Powell Frith)

                                Design for Daisy Wallpaper (William Morris)

                                The Cloister (Giuseppe Abbati)

                                Flowers (Fantin-Latour)

                                Les Miserables (Hugo)

                                Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)

                                First Principles (Herbert Spencer)

                                AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ...   (1861-1865)

                                British and French fleets arrive at Veracruz (1/6-8)

                                French fleet captures city of Campeche, Mexico (2/27)

                                Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas - Union victory (3/6-8)

                                Battle of Hampton Roads - naval battle (3/8-9)

                                Battle of Shiloh, TN (4/6-7)

                                British and Spanish withdraw their troops from Mexico (4/9)

                                British and Spanish forces sail from Mexico (4/24)

                                Battle of Puebla - Cinco de Mayo - Mexicans defeat French forces (5/5)

                                Gatling Gun is patented by Richard J. Gatling - first successful rapid repeating firearm (5/9)

                                Homestead Act signed into law by Lincoln(5/20)

                                Maximilian and Charlotte in Brussels (5)

                                Pacific Railway Act signed by Lincoln (7/1)

                                Battle of Apache Pass (7/15-+16)

                                Minnesota Massacres -  Sioux murder five whites near New Ulm (8/17) (8/18) (8/23)

                                Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) (9/17)

                                Battle of Cixi - Qing forces led by American Frederick Townshend Ward defeat Taiping forces (9/20)

                                Minnesota Sioux “hanging-bee” 38 executed Mankato, MN (12/26)

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                                Union of Moldavia and Wallachia under Alexander Cusa

                                French establish protectorate over Cochin-China (Cambodia)

                                Idaho Territory organized

                                Morrill Anti-Bigotry Act passed against Mormon polygamy

                                Sioux Uprising - Little Crow’s War

                                Treaty with Great Britain suppressing slave trade

                                Fustel de Coulanges delivers his Inaugural Lecture at the U. of Strasbourg, The Ethos of a Scientific Historian

                                Otto von Bismark +            (Prussia)                                                               Prime Minister

                                Otto I -                                   (Greece)                                                                Son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria

                                Muzong Yi +                         (China)                                                  (-1874)   8th Qing Dynasty (Tongzhi Era)

                                Carlos Lopez -                      (Paraguay)                                            (1844-)   President

                                Francisco Solano Lopez +  (Paraguay)                                            (-1870)                                                                  

                                Smetana returns to Prague

                                Kochel's Mozart catalogue begun

                                Berliner Philharmoniker forms

                                The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (-1867)        Wagner

                                La Forza del Destino

                                Symphony No. 1                                                   Bruckner

                                Benson, Frank Weston                                                       1862-1951

                                Boellmann, Leon                                                                  1862-1897               Composer

                                Bragg, William Henry                                                          1862-1942

                                Briand, Aristide                                                                    1862-1932               Statesman (France)

                                Debussy, Claude Achille                                                    1862-1917

                                Delius, Frederick Theodor Albert                                      1862-1934               Composer

                                Diepenbrock, Alphons                                                        1862-1936               Composer

                                Fuller, Loie                                                                            1862-1928

                                German, Sir Edward                                                              1862-1936               Composer

                                Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert                                 1862-1946

                                Hilbert, David                                                                       1862-1943

                                Klimt, Gustav                                                                        1862-1918

                                Lenard, Phillip                                                                       1862-1947

                                Maeterlinck, Maurice Polidore Marie B.                           1862-1949               Writer (Belgium)

                                Phillpotts, Eden                                                                    1862-1960

                                Stavenhagen, Bernhard                                                      1862-1914               Composer

                                Tufts, James Hayden                                                           1862-1942

                                Wharton, Edith                                                                     1862-1937               Novelist

                                Biot, Jean Baptiste                                                               1774-1862

                                Damiron, Jean Philibert                                                       1794-1862

                                Schadow, Wilhelm                                                               1789-1862

                                Thoreau, Henry David                                                        1817-1862

1863                        The Empress Eugenie on the Beach at Trouville (Boudin)

                                Le Dejueuner sur l’Herbe (Manet)

                                Olympia (Manet)

                                Ugalino and his Children (Carpeaux)

                                AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ...   (1861-1865)

                                Emancipation Proclamation - abolishes slavery in United States (1/1)

                                Battle of Vicksburg (5/18-7/4)

                                French troops under Bazaine enter and occupy  Mexico City  (6/7)

                                Almonte appointed provisional President of Mexico by the 35 member Superior Junta (6/16)

                                Battle of Gettysburg - Federals defeat Confederates (7/1-3)

                                Little Crow killed while picking berries near Hutchinson, MN; Minnesota Sioux holdings confiscated (7/3)

                                Catholic Empire of Mexico is proclaimed by the Superior Junta (7/10)

                                Maximilian von Hapsburg accepts the Crown of Mexico at Miramar Castle, Trieste(10/3)

                                Christian IX becomes king of Denmark (11/15)

                                Christian IX King of Denmark  reluctantly signs a draft constitution (11/18)

                                Gettysburg Address (11/19)

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                                Polish Insurrection (-1864)

                                Alvensleben Convention

                                Shimonoseki in China bombarded by French and American warships

                                France establishes protectorate in Cambodia

                                Arizona Territory organized

                                Chochise War- US use force to set up fort at Chiricahua (Geronimo)

                                Mangas Coloradas captured and Murdered (Apache)

                                John Bozeman and John Jacobs scout out a direct route from Virginia City, MT to central Wyoming

                                International Committee of the Red Cross forms (ICRC)

                                Frederik VII -                       (Denmark)                                            (1848-)   King

                                Christian IX +                      (Denmark)                                            (-1906)   King

                                George I +                             (Greece)                                                                King s.  Christian IX of Denmark

                                James Clerk Maxwell determines the ohm - unit of electrical impedance

                                John Newlands creates first periodic table to be arranged by relative atomic masses

                                Les Troyens (Berlioz) first permormed

                                Aanrud, Hans                                                                       1863-1953

                                Baekeland, Leo Hendrik                                                      1863-1944               Chemist (Belgium)

                                Blumenfeld, Felix                                                  1863-1931               Composer

                                Calkins, Mary Whiton                                                         1863-1930

                                Ford, Henry                                                                           1863-1947               Model T Industrialist

                                Hall, Charles Martin                                                             1863-1914

                                Hearst, William Randolph                                                   1863-1951

                                Heroult, Paul Louis Toussaint                                           1863-1914

                                Mascagni, Pietro                                                                  1863-1945               Composer

                                Munch, Edvard                                                                    1863-1944               Painter

                                Munsterberg, Hugo                                                             1863-1916

                                Parker, Horatio William                                                       1863-1919               Composer

                                Pierne, Henri Constant Gabriel                                           1863-1937               Composer

                                Rickert, Heinrich                                                                   1863-1936

                                Santayana, George                                                               1863-1952

                                Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin                                                  1863-1923

                                Weingartner, Felix                                                                1863-1942

                                Wihtol, Joseph                                                                     1863-1948               Composer

                                Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene                  1798-1863

                                Grimm, Jakob                                                                         1785-1863

                                Thackeray, William Makepeace                                         1811-1863

1864                        Contemplation (John Linnell) (-1865)

                                Christianity brought to Germany (Joseph von Fuhrich)

                                Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)

                                War and Peace (Tolstoy) (-1869)

                                Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky)

                                The Ancient City (Fustel de Coulanges) History

                                Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX)

                                AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ...   (1861-1865)

                                CHILCOTIN WAR +-   (1864)                                             Tsilhqot'in vs. European settlers

                                Bismark issues an ultimatum that Denmark should abolish the November Constitution in 48 hours (1/16)

                                Second War of Scheswig-Holstein begins - Prussian and Austrian  troops cross into Schleswig (2/1)

                                Maximilian II King of Bavaria dies (3/10)

                                Battle of Dybbøl - German Confederation defeats Denmark (4/18)

                                Maximilian I lands at Veracruz (5/28)

                                Tauranga Campaign of the Maori War ends (6/21)

                                Siege of Atlanta begins  (7/22)          -(8/25)

                                First Geneva Convention (8/22)

                                Sherman captures Atlanta (9/2)

                                Adolph Metzner mustered out of 32nd  Indiana Regiment as Captain of Co. K (9/7)

                                Sand Creek Massacre - J.M. Chivington company murders 450 +- Arapahoe and Cheyenne (11/29)

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                                Ferdinand Lassalle killed in a duel

                                Karl Marx founds First International Working Men's Association in London

                                Polish Insurrection fails

                                Expedition of British, French, Dutch, and Americans bombards Shimonoseki, Japan

                                Union Army occupies Georgia

                                Sand Creek Indians raid South Platte trails into Nebraska

                                Montana Territory organized

                                Second Pacific Railroad Act passed

                                Snake War begins - Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, California, (1864-1868)

                                Kit Carson’s campaign against Navajo in n New Mexico - Long Walk to Fort Sumner res.

                                War of the Triple Alliance - Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay against Paraguay (-1870)

                                Benito Juarez -                    (Mexico)                                                (1861-)   President

                                Maximilian I +                      (Mexico)                                                (-1867)   Emperor

                                First successful transatlantic cable

                                La Belle Helene                                                   Offenbach

                                First Symphony                                                    Bruckner

                                Piano Quintet in F minor                                  Brahms

                                Lieder, Op. 33                                                      Brahms

                                D’Albert, Eugene Francis Charles                                     1864-1932               Composer

                                Gretchaninov, Alexander Tikhonovich                            1864-1956               Composer

                                Halvorsen, Johan                                                                 1864-1935               Composer

                                Karlfeldt, Erik Axel                                                               1864-1931

                                More, Paul Elmer                                                                  1864-1937

                                Nernst, Walther Hermann                                                   1864-1941

                                Ropartz, Joseph Guy Marie                                                1864-1955               Composer

                                Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott                                     1864-1937

                                Sepharial (Walter Old)                                                         1864-1929

                                Stieglitz, Alfred                                                                     1864-1946

                                Strauss, Richard                                                                   1864-1949               Composer

                                Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de                                               1864-1901

                                Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de                                              1864-1936

                                Weber, Max                                                                          1864-1920

                                Wien, Wilhelm                                                                      1864-1928

                                Aiken, Lucy                                                                          1781-1864

                                Boole, George                                                                       1815-1864

                                Callan, Nicholas Joseph                                                      1799-1864

                                Foster, Steven Collins                                                         1826-1864

                                Fratin, Christophe                                                                1801-1864

                                Garnier, Adolphe                                                                  1801-1864

                                Hawthorne, Nathaniel                                                         1804-1864

                                Landor, Walter Savage                                                       1775-1864

                                Meyerbeer, Giacomo                                                           1791-1864               Composer

1865                        Don Quixote Reading (Honore Daumier)

                                Illustrations from alice in Wonderland (Sir John Tenniel)

                                Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

                                AMERICAN CIVIL WAR -   (1861-1865)

                                Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration (3/4)

                                Grant captures Richmond (4/3)

                                Surrender at Appomattox - General Lee surrenders to General Grant - American Civil War ends (4/9)

                                Abraham Lincoln assassinated at Ford Theatre - Andrew Johnson succeeds (4/14)

                                Staplehurst Rail Crash - Charles Dickens survives - 10 passengers die - 49 are seriously injured (6/9)

                                Last Confederate general stands down - Stand Watie's Confederate regiment surrenders at Fort Towson  (6/23)

                                First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper - four killed in descent (7/14)

                                Gastein Convention - between Austria and Prussia over the governing of Schleswig-Holstein (8/14)

                                Battle of the Tongue River - U.S. Army victory over the Arapaho (8/29)

                                Thirteenth Amendment ratified -  prohibiting slavery (12/6)

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                                Biarritz meeting of Napoleon III and Bismarck

                                Bozeman Trail opened (Cheyenne to mouth of Rosebud, MT)

                                Fort Dakota is established

                                Committee on the Condition of the Indian Tribes formed, visits West

                                Tashkent is annexed by Russia

                                Leopold I -                             (Belgium)                                              King (Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield)(Duke)

                                Leopold II +                           (Belgium)                                              (-1909)   King (Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield)(Duke)

                                Abraham Lincoln -              (United States)                                     (1861-1865)         President (assassinated)

                                Babbit, Irving                                                                        1865-1933

                                Boeck, August de                                                                                1865-1937               Composer

                                Dalcroze, Emile                                                                     1865-1950

                                Dukas, Paul                                                                           1865-1935               Composer

                                Fabry, Emile                                                                          1865-1966

                                Ganivet y Garcia, Angel                                                      1865-1898

                                Gilson, Paul                                                                           1865-1942               Composer

                                Glazunov, Alexander Kostantinovich                               1865-1936               Composer

                                Harding, Warren Gamaliel                                                   1865-1923               President

                                Kipling, Rudyard                                                                  1865-1936

                                Magnard, Lucien Denis Gabriel Alberic                           1865-1914               Composer

                                Nielsen, Carl August                                                           1865-1931               Composer

                                Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian                                            1865-1957               Composer

                                Stanislavsky, Konstantin                                                   1865-1938

                                Steinmetz, Charles Proteus                                                 1865-1923               Electrical Engineer A/C cur.(4/9) (US)

                                Troeltsch, Ernst                                                                    1865-1923

                                Yeats, William Butler                                                           1865-1939

                                Ysaye, Theophile                                                                 1865-1918               Composer

                                Zeeman, Pieter                                                                      1865-1943

                                Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm                                                      1814-1865               Composer

                                Sanseverino                                                                          1811-1865

1866                        The Church at Marissel (Corot)

                                The Eddystone Lighthouse (Victor Hugo)

                                La Rotonda dei Bagni Palmieri (Fattori)

                                Family Portrait (Anselm Feurbach)

                                The Fifer (Eduard Manet)

                                Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)

                                Napoleon III announces the start of the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico (5/31)

                                Battle of Custozza -  Italy defeated by Austrian forces under Archduke Albert near Verona (6/24)

                                Second Battle of Langensalza - Hanover's Army defeats Prussia - forced to surrender a fewe days later  (6/27)

                                Battle of Konnigratz (Sadowa) - 1st major engagement of the Austro-Prussian War  - Prussian victory (7/3)

                                Charlotte, Empress of Mexico embarks from Vera Cruz on diplomatic mission to Napoleon III (7/13) Friday

                                Battle of Lissa (Vis) - Italy defeated but gains Venice (7/20)

                                Battle of Bezzecca - Garibaldi's "Hunters of the Laps" defeat the Austrians (7/21)

                                Cyrus Field's Trans-Atlantic Cable complete - "Thank God, the cable is laid." (7/27)

                                Empress Charlotte of Mexico arrives at St. Nazaire, France to little fanfare (8/8)

                                Treaty (Peace) of Prague - ends Austro-Prussian war - Austria to withdraw from German affairs (8/23)

                                Treaty of Prague - dissolution of German Confederation (8/23)

                                US 10th Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers" Regiment forms (9/21)

                                Treaty of Vienna - Austria cedes Venetia to France - which in turn cedes it to Italy (10/12)

                                Sun Yat Sen is born (11/12)

                                Emperor Maximilian refuses to abdicate after Napoleon III withdraws his troops (12)

                                Fetterman Massacre near Fort Phil Kearny (12/21)

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                                Austria separated from Germany

                                Prussia forms alliance with Italy against Austrian Coalition

                                Austro-Prussian War (Seven Week's War) (Third Independence War) - over Shleswig-Holstein

                                Italy acquires Venetia

                                Cretan revolt (-1868)

                                Christian Science founded by Mary Baker Eddy

                                Klu Klux Klan formed

                                Fort Phil Kearny and Fort C.F. Smith built in Sioux territory east of Big Horn Mountains

                                Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of 1866

                                Alexander John I Cuza -    (Romania)                                             Prince (of Moldavia)

                                Charles Eitel Frederick + (Romania)                                             Prince (of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

                                Mignon                                                                  Thomas

                                The Bartered Bride                                               Smetana

                                Aakjaer, Jeppe                                                                      1866-1930               Poet/Novelist (Jutland, Denmark)

                                Ade, George                                                                          1866-1944

                                Benavente, Jacinto                                                              1866-1954

                                Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michel. Benvenuto                  1866-1924               Composer

                                Celea, Francesco                                                                  1866-1950               Composer

                                Croce, Benedetto                                                                 1866-1952

                                Dow, Herbert Henry                                                            1866-1930

                                Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch                                              1866-1949              Spiritualist of the 4th way

                                Kalinnikov, Vasily Sergeyevich                                         1866-1901               Composer

                                Kandinsky, Wassily                                                            1866-1944               Painter

                                McTaggart, J. M. E.                                                             1866-1925

                                Pryde, James                                                                         1866-1941

                                Rolland, Romain                                                                   1866-1944               Novelist (France)

                                Satie, Erik                                                                               1866-1925               Composer (France)

                                Sun Yat Sen                                                                          1866-1925               Chinese Revolutionary (Canton)

                                Twardowski, Kazimierz                                                        1866-1938

                                Wells, Herbert George                                                         1866-1946

                                Brashman, Nikolai Dmetrievich                                          1796-1866

                                Cass, Lewis                                                                           1782-1866

                                Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel                                                 1801-1866               Composer

                                Peacock, Thomas Love                                                       1785-1866

                                Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernard                                    1826-1866

                                Scott, Winfield                                                                     1786-1866               Army General (US)               (5/29)

                                Servais, Adrien Francois                                                    1807-1866               Composer

1867                        Family Reunion (Bazille)

                                Peer Gynt (Isben)

                                Das Kapital, vol. 1 (Marx)

                                US House passes a resolution to investigate Andrew Johnson (proposed by James M. Ashley  (1/7)

                                1st Reconstruction Act - creates five military districts in the ten unreconstructed states (3/2)

                                Tenure of Office Act - cabinet members are not to be removed without consent of the Senate (3/2)

                                Supplementary Reconstruction Act - state conventions now in control of military commanders (3/23)

                                Alaska Purchase - Russia sells Alaska to the United States for 7.2 million (3/30)

                                Mexicans capture and execute Emperor Maximilian (6/19)

                                British North America Act - Dominion of Canada established (7/3)

                                Third Reconstruction Act (7/19)

                                Johnson removes Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War (8/12)

                                Midway Islands annexed by Cpt. William Reynolds - first offshore island claimed by US (8/28)

                                Medicine Creek treaty w/ southern tribes (near s. KS border); confisc of FiveCT’s w. holdings (10/21)

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                                Parliament passes Second Reform Act in Britain

                                North German Confederation formed under Prussian leadership - north of river Main

                                Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich

                                Dual Monarchy of Austro-Hungary founded

                                Austro-Hungarian monarchy - Franz Josef king of Austria and Hungary

                                Western provinces in Cochin-China fall to French

                                Abdication of last Tokugawa shogun in Japan

                                France forced to withdraw from Mexico

                                Texas Trail begins (San Antonio-Abilene, KS)

                                Report on the Condition of Indian Tribes published

                                Indian Peace Commission formed (three generals, four civilians)

                                US Navy occupies the Midway Islands

                                Franz Joseph +                    (Austro-Hungary)                               King

                                Komei -                                  (Japan)                                                   (-1867)   121st Emperor

                                First collection of Negro spirituals

                                Don Carlo                                                                              Verdi

                                On the Beautiful Blue Danube                                           J. Strauss

                                Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney                                               1867-1944               Composer

                                Bluemner, Oscar                                                                   1867-1938

                                Bonnard, Pierre                                                                     1867-1947               Painter

                                Craigie, William Alexander                                                  1867-1957

                                Curie, Marie Slodowska                                                      1867-1934

                                Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard                                              1867-1940

                                Galsworthy, John                                                                 1867-1933

                                Granados, Enrique                                                               1867-1916               Composer

                                Mouquet, Jules                                                                    1867-1946               Composer

                                Nolde, Emil                                                                            1867-1956               Painter

                                Pirandello, Luigi                                                                   1867-1936

                                Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw (Rejment)                      1867-1925

                                Roussel, Ker Xavier                                                             1867-1944

                                Russell, George William (AE)                                             1867-1935

                                Soseki, Natsume                                                                   1867-                       Writer (Japan)

                                Titchener, Edward Bradford                                               1867-1927

                                Toscanini, Arturo                                                                 1867-1957               Conductor

                                Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene                             1867-1940

                                Baudelaire, Charles Pierre                                                   1821-1867               Writer

                                Bautain, Louis Eugene Marie                                             1796-1867

                                Cornelius, Peter                                                                    1783-1867

                                Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille                                               1796-1867

                                Cousin, Victor                                                                       1792-1867

                                Dufferin, Lady                                                                      1807-1867

                                Faraday, Michael                                                                 1791-1867

                                Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique                                      1780-1867

                                Johnson, Alexander Bryan                                                 1786-1867

                                Poncelet, Jean Victor                                                           1788-1867

                                Rousseau, Theodore                                                           1812-1867

1868                        Street Scene - Demolition (Johan Barthold Jongkind)

                                A Sketch (Eugenio Lucas y Padilla)

                                The Ring and the Book (Robert Browning)

                                The Idiot (Dostoevsky)

                                BOSHIN WAR +   (1868-1869)           Tokugawa vs. Meiji supporters

                                Meiji Restoration period in Japan (1/3)            (-1912)

                                Andrew Johnson impeached by House (2/24)

                                Fort Laramie Peace Meeting for Northern tribes held - foreshadowed reservation system (4/29)

                                Andrew Johnson acquitted by Senate (5/26)

                                Fourteenth Amendment ratified - defining citizenship (7/9)

                                Thaddeus Stevens dies (8/11)

                                Lares Uprising - Puerto Rican revolt against Spanish authorities (9/23)

                                Custer’s Wichita (near Texas) massacre, Black Kettle slain (11/27)

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                                Uprising in Spain - Queen Isabella II forced to abdicate - Spanish revolution

                                Hohenzollern candidacy to the Spanish throne (-1870)

                                Provisional government in Spain (-1871)

                                British expedition to Ethiopia - forces release of British diplomats

                                Ottoman Civil Code (-1876)

                                New imperial government established at Edo (Tokyo)

                                Boshin War - between Tokugawa Shogunate and pro-imperial forces (-1869)

                                Ten Years' War - Cuba unsuccessfully attempts to gain independence from Spain (-1878)

                                Treaty with Red Cloud: forts on Bozeman to be abandoned, N of N Platte and E of Big Horn I.T.

                                Russia annexes Samarkand - Russian control extends to the Amu Darya River

                                Isabella II -                            (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon

                                Marshal Serrano +             (Spain)                                                   provisional government

                                Krishnaraja Wodeyar III -(Mysore)                                 Mummudi  

                                Chamaraja Wodeyar IX +(Mysore)

                                Michael -                               (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Milan +                                  (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung founded in Berlin

                                Deutsche Requiem                                               Brahms

                                Magelone songs, Op. 33                                     Brahms

                                Bantock, Granville Ransome                                              1868-1946               Composer

                                Bogert, Marston Taylor                                                      1868-1954

                                Claudell, Paul                                                                        1868-1955

                                Du Bois, W.E.B.                                                                   1868-1963        Civil Rights Activist (Gr. Barrington, MA)

                                Feure, Georges de                                                                1868-1943

                                Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap                                         1868-1928               Composer

                                Gorky, Maxim                                                                        1868-1936               Novelist/PW (Nizhni, Novgorod)

                                Hale, George Ellery                                                              1868-1938

                                Jennings, Herbert Spencer                                                 1868-1947

                                Joplin, Scott                                                                          1868-1917               Composer

                                MacCunn, Hamish                                                               1868-1916               Composer

                                Millikan, Robert Andrews                                                  1868-1953

                                Mortelmans, Lodewijk                                                         1868-1952               Composer

                                Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne                                              1868-1945

                                Rostand, Edmond                                                                 1868-1918

                                Sabine, W. C.                                                                        1868-1919

                                Schillings, Max von                                                             1868-1933               Composer

                                Berwald, Franz Adolf                                                           1796-1868               Composer

                                Brewster, David                                                                    1781-1868

                                Dauprat, Louis Francois                                                     1781-1868               Composer

                                Foucalt, Jean Bernard Leon                                                1819-1868

                                Rossini, Gioacchino                                                             1792-1868               Composer

                                Stevens, Thaddeus                                                              1792-1868               US

1869                        Phidias Completing the Parthenon Frieze (Alma-Tadema)

                                War and Peace (Tolstoy)

                                L’Education sentimentale (Flaubert)

                                Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Jules Verne)

                                BOSHIN WAR -   (1868-1869)            Tokugawa vs. Meiji supporters

                                Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated (3/4)

                                First Transcontinental Railroad (Union and Central Pacific)  completed at Promonotory, Utah (5/10)

                                First college football game played  between Rutgers and Princeton, Rutgers wins 6-4 (11/6)

                                Suez Canal opens for traffic (11/17)

                                Professor Wood discovers Temple of Artemis in Asia Minor (12/31)

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                                Disestablishment Act - Irish Church ceases to exist (1871)

                                Board of Indian Commissioners (BIC) created (composed of civilians) to advise BIA

                                Afzal ud Daulah - (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Mubarak Ali Khan +           (Hyderabad)                                          Nizam

                                Ulysses S. Grant +              (United States)                                     (1869-1877) 18th President

                                Romeo and Juliet                                               Tchaikovsky

                                Gotterdammerung (-1874)                                 Wagner

                                Boodin, John Elof                                                                1869-1950

                                Brunschvicg, Leon                                                              1869-1944

                                Dalen, Nils G.                                                                        1869-1937

                                Foerster, Friedrich Wilhelm                                                1869-1966

                                Gandhi, Mohandas K.                                                         1869-1948               Peaceful Revolutionary (India)

                                Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume                                                1869-1951

                                Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor                                            1869-1924

                                Matisse, Henri                                                                      1869-1954               Painter

                                Peixotto, Ernest Clifford                                                      1869-1940

                                Pfitzner, Hans Erich                                                             1869-1949               Composer

                                Roussel, Albert Charles Paul Marie                                  1869-1937               Composer

                                Sohlberg, Harald                                                                  1869-1935

                                Stojowski, Sigismond                                                          1869-1946               Composer

                                Taylor, Alfred Edward                                                         1869-1945

                                Vigeland, Gustav                                                                  1869-1943

                                Wagner, Siegfried                                                                1869-1930               Composer

                                Wilson, C. T. R.                                                                    1869-1959

                                Wright, Frank Lloyd                                                            1869-1959               Architect

                                Berlioz, Hector                                                                      1803-1869               Composer

                                Dargomyzhsky, Alexander                                                 1813-1869               Composer

                                Gottschalk, Louis Moreau                                                  1829-1869               Composer

                                Gratz, Rebecca                                                                      1781-1869

                                Lamartine, Alphonse                                                           1790-1869

                                Molque, Wilhelm Bernard                                                  1802-1869               Composer

                                Overbeck, Frederic                                                               1789-1869

                                Poiseuille, Jean                                                                     1797-1869

                                Roget, Peter                                                                          1779-1869

                                Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin                                       1804-1869

1870                        Cliffs at Etretat (Courbet)

                                Not at Home (Jonathan Eastman Johnson) (1880)

                                Lower Norwood, Londres: Effet du Neige (Camille Pissarro)

                                Death at the Ball (Felicien Rops)

                                Nocturne - Black and Gold (James Abbott McNeill Whistler)

                                La Vicaria (Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny -Y - Carbo)

                                Dogmatic Decrees (Vatican Council) (7)

                                FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR +           (1870-1871)

                                Maias Massacre (1/23)

                                Fifteenth Amendment  ratified gives blacks right to vote in US (2/3)

                                Bismarck supports Hohenzollern candidacy for vacant Spanish throne (3/15)

                                Thomas Mundy becomes first black voter in US (3/31)

                                Bismarck's emissaries return from visit to Spain with glowing accounts (5)

                                Leopold accepts Hohenzollern candidacy fot the Spanish throne - William consents if the Cortes involved (6/19)

                                Spanish Cortes adjourns before a vote could be taken for Leopolds bid - news leaks - France is furious(7/2)

                                Duke of Gramont makes speech in French Chamber promising war unless Prussia its Spanish bid (7/6)

                                Ems dispatch - French Ambassador Count Benedetti urges William to withdraw Leopold refused (7/9-7/11)

                                Leopold's father withdraws Hohenzollern candidacy (7/12)

                                France declares war on Prussia (7/19)

                                Battle of Sedan - French defeated - Emperor Napoleon III is captured and abdicates (9/1)

                                Napoleon III capitulates (9/2)

                                Paris mob descends on the Palais Bourbon forces rump Legislative Assembly to declare the empire dead (9/4)

                                Third French Republic proclaimed at the Hotel de Ville (9/4)       (-1914)

                                Two Prussian armies descend and invest Paris - Gambetta escapes in a hot air balloon (9/19)

                                Chicago Fire kills 300 (10/8-9)

                                General Bazaine surrenders at Metz with 173,000 men (10/27)

                                Paris putsch of socialists and radicals in attempt to establish 1792-like commune - ultimately fails (10/31)

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                                Education Acts passed in most countries of western Europe - free compulsory education

                                Beginnings of industrial literacy

                                Irish Land Act - provides compensation for eviction - fails to ease Irish problem

                                Franco-Prussian War (-1871)

                                Kingdom of Italy annexes Papal States - Rome becomes capital of Italy

                                Vatican Council proclaims papal infallibility

                                Bulgarian Exarchate established - seperate branch of Eastern Orthodox Church - step toward nationalism

                                Russia repudiates Black Sea Clauses of the Treaty of Paris - England and Austria protest, Germany supports

                                Russia abolishes old patrician system - towns autonomous through councils elected by propertied classes

                                White v. Flood segregation in schools

                                Chisholm Trail (Texas Trail)  established

                                Cherokee Tobacco Case of 1870

                                Heinrich Schliemann excavates the site of Troy

                                Napoleon III -                        (France)                                                 (1848-)

                                Louis Jules Trochu +         (France)                                                 President (1st) Third Republic

                                Francisco Solano Lopez -   (Paraguay)                                            (1862-)   President

                                Wagner's Die Walkure performed

                                Adler, Alfred                                                                         1870-1937

                                Barlach, Ernst                                                                       1870-1938

                                Bachelier, Louis                                                                    1870-1946

                                Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich                                                  1870-1953

                                Carlslaw, Horatio Scott                                                       1870-1954

                                Glackens, William                                                                 1870-1938

                                Godowsky, Leopold                                                            1870-1938               Composer

                                Haskins, Charles Homer                                                      1870-1937

                                Lehar, Franz                                                                          1870-1948               Composer

                                Lekeu, Guillaume                                                                  1870-1894               Composer

                                Lenin, Vladimir                                                                      1870-1924               Revolutionary Leader

                                Munro, H. H. (Saki)                                                              1870-1916

                                Novak, Vitezslav                                                                  1870-1949               Composer

                                Parrish, Maxfield                                                                  1870-

                                Perrin, Jean Baptiste                                                            1870-1942

                                Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro                                                        1870-1966

                                Vierne, Louis                                                                         1870-1937               Composer

                                Bazille, Frederic                                                                    1841-1870

                                Beriot, Charles                                                                      1802-1870               Composer

                                Broglie, Jacques Victor Albert                                           1785-1870

                                Dickens, Charles                                                                  1812-1870               Novelist

                                Dumas, Alexandre                                                                1802-1870               Novelist

                                Lovenskiold, Herman Severin                                            1815-1870               Composer

                                Mechura, Leopold Eugen                                                   1804-1870               Composer

                                Mercadante. Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele                          1795-1870               Composer

                                Merimee, Prosper                                                                 1803-1870

                                Mosonyi, Mihaly                                                                 1814-1870               Composer

                                Moscheles, Isaak Ignaz                                                      1794-1870               Composer

                                Saumell, Manuel                                                                   1817-1870               Composer

                                Strauss, Joseph                                                                    1827-1870               Composer

1871                        Death of Lady Macbeth (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

                                Storm in the Forest of Fontainebleau (de la Pena)

                                The Dying Centaur (William Rimmer)

                                Essays (Emerson)

                                The Descent of Man (Darwin)

                                Beginning of armed diplomacy leading to 1914

                                Trade unions legalized in Great Britain

                                Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles

                                German Empire (Reich) declared with King William I of Prussia as Emperor - Bismarck as Chancellor

                                Paris surrenders after gruelling siege

                                Paris Commune set up in opposition to national government and peace terms - Third Republic

                                Gradual emergence of the Third Republic in France (-1875)

                                Treaty of Frankfurt - ends Franco-Prussian War

                                Treaty of Frankfurt - Alsace-Lorraine ceded (annexed) to Germany

                                Treaty of Frankfurt - France forced to pay heavy indemnity

                                Hohenzollerns rule Germany (-1918)

                                Government troops crush Paris Commune 

                                Russia denounces the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty of Paris of 1856

                                Basic policies of centralization and liquidation of caste privilege in Japan (-1876)

                                British Honduras becomes a crown colony

                                Cochise captured by U.S. army but escapes

                                Irish riot of 1871

                                US Congress stops negotiating with tribes as foreign nations

                                Louis Jules Trochu -          (France)

                                Louis Adolphe Thiers +     (France)

                                Amadeo I of Savoy +            (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon               

                                Aida                                                                       Verdi

                                Schicksalslied                                                      Brahms

                                Lyric pieces for piano (first)                             Grieg

                                Adams, Samuel Hopkins                                                     1871-1958

                                Balla, Giacomo                                                                      1871-1958

                                Borel, Felix Eduard Emile                                                     1871-1956

                                Crane, Stephen                                                                     1871-1900               Writer

                                Deledda, Grazia Madesani nee                                           1871-1936

                                Dreiser, Theodore                                                                1871-1945               Writer

                                Hadley, Henry Kimball                                                        1871-1937               Composer

                                Mikkola, Maria (Maila Talvio) Winter                              1871-1951

                                Proust, Marcel                                                                      1871-1922

                                Rouault, Georges                                                                 1871-1958

                                Roux-Champion, VJ                                                             1871-1953

                                Rutherford, Ernest                                                               1871-1937

                                Sabin, Florence Rena                                                           1871-1953

                                Sloan, John                                                                           1871-1951

                                Stenhammar, Wilhelm                                                          1871-1927               Composer

                                Synge, John Millington                                                      1871-1909               Poet/Dramatist (Dublin, Ireland)

                                Valery, Ambroise Paul Touissaint Jules                           1871-1945

                                Zemlinsky, Alexander von                                                  1871-1942               Composer

                                Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit                                           1782-1871               Composer

                                Fetis, Francois Joseph                                                        1784-1871               Composer

                                Herschel, John Frederick                                                    1792-1871

                                Leroux, Pierre                                                                        1797-1871

                                Maxwell, James Clerk                                                           1831-1871

                                May, Samuel Joseph                                                           1797-1871

                                Potter, Philip Cipriani Hambly                                            1792-1871               Composer

                                Tausig, Karl                                                                          1841-1871               Composer/Pianist

                                Thalberg, Sigismond                                                           1812-1871               Composer

1872                        Portrait of Miss Alexander (James Abbott McNeill Whistler)

                                Paul and Apollos (Edward Poynter)

                                Impression: Effet du Matin (Claude Monet)

                                Middlemarch (Eliot)            

                                The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche)

                                Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)  

                                Amnesty Act -  restores southerners civil rights (5/22)

                                Credit Mobilier scandal breaks (9)

                               San Carlos Apache Reservation established by President Grant (12/14)

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                                Bakunin is expelled from 1st Int. - torn by internal divisions the First International gradually disintegrates (-1876)

                                League of Three Emperors - William I, Franz Josef, and Tsar Alexander II

                                Internal self-government in South Africa

                                Cochise negotiates treaty whereby Chiricahua remain in their homeland

                                Modoc War starts (-1873)

                                Yellowstone National Park founded

                                Charles XV -                        (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Oscar II +                              (Sweden)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Charles XV -                        (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Oscar II +                              (Norway)                                                House of Bernadotte

                                Mass in F Minor                                                  Bruckner

                                L'Arlesienne                                                          Bizet

                                Abbot, Charles Greeley                                                       1872-1973               Astrophysicist (Wilton, N.H. - US)

                                Alfven, Hugo                                                                        1872-1960               Composer (Stockholm, Sweden)

                                Aurobindo, Ghose                                                               1872-1950                              

                                Beardsley, Aubrey                                                               1872-1898               Visual Artist

                                Blum, Leon                                                                            1872-1950               Statesman (France)

                                Coolidge, Calvin                                                                   1872-1933               Statesman (US)

                                Craig, Edward Gordon                                                         1872-1966               Theatre (England)

                                Huizinga, Johan                                                                    1872-1945               Historian (The Netherlands)

                                Johnson, Bill                                                                         1872-1972               Musician

                                Mondrian, Piet                                                                      1872-1944               Painter

                                Nicholson, William                                                              1872-1949               Visual Artist (England)

                                Russell, Bertrand Arthur William                                      1872-1970               Philosopher

                                Scriabin, Alexander Nikolaevich                                        1872-1915               Composer

                                Severac, Deodat de                                                              1872-1921               Composer

                                Vaughan Williams, Ralph                                                   1872-1958               Composer

                                Clebsch,                                                                                 1833-1872

                                Fauerbach, Ludwig                                                              1804-1872

                                Gautier, Theophile                                                               1811-1872

                                Hastings, Thomas                                                                1784-1872

                                Kensett, John Frederick                                                      1816-1872

                                Lever, Charles                                                                       1806-1872

                                Moniuszko, Stanislaw                                                         1819-1872               Composer

                                Morse, Samuel Finley Breese                                             1791-1872

                                Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf                                         1802-1872

1873                        Place de la Concorde (Edgar Degas)

                                In the Loggia (Hans for Marees)

                                Une Saison en enfer (Rimbaud)

                                Grant’s second inauguration (3/4)

                                Jay Cooke & Company - major US banking firm fails (9/18)

                                First Republic in Spain (-1874)

                                Onset of agricultural depression in western Europe

                                Second Ashanti War in west Africa (Anglo-Ashanti war) (-1874)

                                Universal military conscription in Japan

                                Japanese dispute over Korean invasion resolved in favor of peace faction

                                “Boss” William Tweed of NYC convicted of stealing public funds

                                US Banks fail - beginning panic and five year depression -

                                Bimetallism abandoned

                                Louis Adolphe Thiers -      (France)

                                Marie MacMahon +             (France)                                                 Edme Patrice de

                                Amadeo I of Savoy -             (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon 

                                Third Symphony                                                  Bruckner

                                Quartet, Op. 51                                                     Brahms

                                Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a      Brahms

                                Bode, Boyd Henry                                                               1873-1953

                                Caruso, Enrico                                                                      1873-1921               Singer

                                Cather, Willa                                                                         1873-1916

                                Collette, Sidonie-Gabrielle                                                  1873-1954

                                Handy, William Christopher                                               1873-1958               Composer

                                Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm                                                   1873-1950

                                Jongen, Marie Alphonse Nicolas Joseph                        1873-1953               Composer

                                Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken                                                     1873-1962

                                Mason, Daniel Gregory                                                       1873-1953               Composer

                                Moore, G. E.                                                                          1873-1958

                                Peguy, Charles                                                                     1873-1914

                                Rabaud, Henri                                                                       1873-1949               Composer

                                Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievitch                                     1873-1943               Composer

                                Reger, Max                                                                            1873-1916               Composer

                                Salvemini, Gaetano                                                              1873-1957

                                Tobias, Rudolf                                                                      1873-1918               Composer

                                Bulwer-Lytton, Edward                                                       1803-1873

                                Castillon, Alexis Vicomte de                                               1838-1873               Composer

                                Gaboriau, Emile                                                                     1835-1873

                                Grimke, Sarah                                                                        1792-1873

                                Manzoni, Alessandro                                                          1785-1873               Novelist/Poet (Italy)

                                Mill, John Stuart                                                                   1806-1873

                                Winterhalter, Franz                                                              1805-1873               Painter (Germany) 

1874                        Triton and Neried (Bocklin)

                                Nocturne in black and gold (Whistler)

                                Minute Man (Daniel Chester French)                              

                                Alfonso XII +                        (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon 

                                Muzong Yi -                          (China)                                                  (1862-)   8th Qing Dynasty (Tongzhi Era)

                                Custer Expedition sets out from Bismark to chart Black Hills Area (7/2)

                                Custer Expedition reaches Black Hills (7/22)

                                ------------------------------------------------

                                Ashanti defeated by British

                                Spanish monarchy restored

                                Red River War

                                General Postal Union (10/9)

                                First Impressionist exhibit held in Paris

                                Wagner finishes music to the Ring of the Nibelung

                                Requiem                                                                 Verdi

                                Boris Gudanov                                                     Mussorgsky

                                Pictures at an Exhibition                                     Mussorgsky

                                The Moldau (Vltava)                                           Smetana

                                Die Fledermaus                                                     Johann Strass II

                                Bagley, William Chandler                                                   1874-1946

                                Bazarov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich                                    1874-1939

                                Berdyaev, Nicholas                                                             1874-1948

                                Cassirir, Ernst                                                                       1874-

                                Chesterson, Gilbert Keith                                                   1874-1936

                                Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer                               1874-1965

                                Cornford, Francis M.                                                           1874-1943

                                Hahn, Reynaldo                                                                   1874-1947               Composer

                                Holst, Gustav Thoedore                                                     1874-1934               Composer

                                Hoover, Herbert                                                                   1874-1964

                                Ives, Charles Edward                                                           1874-1954               Composer

                                Scheler, Max                                                                         1874-1928

                                Schmidt, Franz                                                                      1874-1939               Composer

                                Schoenberg, Arnold                                                            1874-1951               Composer

                                Stark, Johannes                                                                    1874-1957

                                Stein, Gertrude                                                                      1874-1946               Writer

                                Suk, Josef                                                                              1874-1935               Composer

                                Cochise                                                                                  1812-1874

                                Fillmore, Millard                                                                   1800-1874

                                Guizot, Francois                                                                   1787-1874

                                Strauss, Freidrich David                                                     1808-1874               Theologian/Philosopher (Germany)

1875                        Rolling Mill (Adolph Menzel)

                                The Gross Clinic (Thomas Eakins)

                                Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)                                                  Fiction

                                Science and Health (Mary Baker Eddy)

                                History of England (6 vol.) (Leopold von Ranke)          History

                                US Civil Rights Act (3/1)

                                First Kentucky Derby race (5/17)

                                ---------------------------------------------------------

                                Social Democratic Party founded in Germany

                                Insurrection breaks out in Herzegovina and Bosnia against Ottoman Empire (Balkan War)

                                Russo-Turkish War (-1878)

                                British Prime Minister Benjamin Disreli buys shares in Suez Canal from Egypt

                                Third Anglo-Burmese War

                                US Disciplinary Barracks established at Fort Leavenworth

                                Dezong Jing +                      (China)                                  (1875-1908)         9th Qing Dynasty (Guangxu Era)

                                New Paris opera house opens

                                My Fatherland                                                     Smetana

                                Carmen                                                                  Bizet

                                Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor             Tchaikovsky

                                Broglie, Louis Cesar Maurice                                             1875-1960

                                Burroughs, Edgar Rice                                                        1875-1950

                                Ciurlionis, Mikolajus Konstantinas                                  1875-1911               Composer

                                Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel                                                   1875-1912               Composer

                                Gentile, Giovanni                                                                  1875-1944

                                Gliere, Reinhold                                                                    1875-1956               Composer

                                Grabmann, Martin                                                                1875-1949

                                Jung, Carl                                                                              1875-1961

                                Ketelbey, Albert                                                                   1875-1959               Composer

                                Lewis, Gilbert Newton                                                         1875-1946               Physicist                (MA)     UC Berkeley

                                Livingston, Burton Edward                                                1875-1948

                                Mann, Thomas                                                                     1875-1955

                                Milles, Carl                                                                            1875-1955               Sculptor (Uppsala, Sweden) (6/23)

                                Monteux, Pierre                                                                    1875-1964               Composer/Conductor

                                Ravel, Maurice                                                                     1875-1937

                                Rilke, Rainier Maria                                                              1875-1926

                                Sabatini, Rafael                                                                     1875-1950

                                Underhill, Evelyn                                                                 1875-1941

                                Anderson, Hans Christian                                                  1805-1875

                                Bennett, William Sterndale                                                 1816-1875               Composer

                                Bizet, Georges Alexandre Cesar Leopold                         1838-1875               Composer

                                Kinglsley, Charles                                                                1819-1875

                                Millet, Jean Francois                                                           1814-1875               Painter

                                Remusat, Charles Francois Marie                                      1797-1875

                                Wheatstone, Charles                                                           1802-1875

1876                        Flood at Port Marly (Alfred Sisley)

                                Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Pierre Auguste Renoir)

                                Tom Sawyer (Twain)

                                L'Apres-midi d'un Faune (Mallarme)

                                Battle of Rosebud ("The Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother" -  General George Crook's offensive halted by Crazy Horse until August (6/17)

                                Battle of Little Big Horn - Sioux kill George Custer - last major indigenous victory (6/25)

                                ------------------------------------------------------------------

                               Anti-Turkish insurrection in Bulgaria is supressed - thousands massacred

                                Serbia and Montenegro declare war on Ottoman Empire but are defeated

                                "Bulgarian atrocities" committed by Turks in suppressing a revolt

                                Great Britain and France assume control of Egypt's finances

                                Mihrdat Pasa proclaims the Ottoman Constitution

                                International African Association founded

                                European control assumed over Egyptian finances

                                Korea forcibly opened to Japanese trade

                                Porfirio Diaz becomes dictator of Mexico

                                Great Western Trail to Dodge City

                                Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

                                Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia

                                Abdulaziz -                            (Ottoman Empire)                                (1861-)   Sultan

                                Abdulhamid II +                    (Ottoman Empire)                                Sultan

                                Porfirio Diaz +                     (Mexico)                                                Dictator

                                Premiere of the Ring Cycle in Bayreuth - first Wagner festival

                                Swan Lake                                                             Tchaikovsky

                                Piano Concerto in G minor                  Dvorak

                                Wind Quintet, Bb major                                      Rimsky-Korsakov

                                Abbott, Edith                                                                        1876-1957

                                Anderson, Sherwood                                                          1876-1941

                                Borresen, Hakon                                                                  1876-1954               Composer

                                Brancusi, Constantin                                                           1876-1956

                                Brian, Havergal                                                                     1876-1972               Composer

                                Carpenter, John Alden                                                        1876-1951               Composer

                                Cather, Willa                                                                         1876-1947

                                De Falla, Manuel                                                                  1876-1946               Composer

                                Diels, Otto Paul Herman                                                      1876-1954

                                Frost, Robert                                                                         1876-1963

                                Hurlstone, William Yeats                                                    1876-1906               Composer

                                Jackson, Tony                                                                      1876-1920               Musician

                                Jinnah, Mahomed Ali                                                          1876-1948

                                Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw                                                        1876-1909               Composer

                                Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso                                               1876-1944

                                Michels, Robert                                                                    1876-1936

                                Perry, Ralph Barton                                                             1876-1957

                                Rolvaag, Ole Edvart                                                             1876-1931

                                Ruggles, Carl Sprague                                                         1876-                       Composer

                                Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno                                                         1876-1948               Composer

                                Baer, Karl Ernst von                                                            1792-1876

                                Bakunin, Michael                                                                 1814-1876

                                Bertini, Henri Jerome                                                           1798-1876               Composer

                                Brownson, Orestes                                                              1803-1876

                                Colet, Louise                                                                         1810-1876

                                Collins, Mortimer                                                                  1827-1876

                                Goetz, Hermann                                                                    1840-1876               Composer

                                Sand, George                                                                        1804-1876

                                Wesley, Samuel Sebastian                                                 1810-1876               Composer

1877                        Youth and Cupid (Adolphe William Bouguereau)

                                Music Lesson (Sir Frederic Leighton)

                                My Heart is Poised between the Two (James Jacques Joseph Tissot)

                                Gare Saint-Lazare (Claude Oscar Monet)

                                Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) (1875)

                                Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)

                                NEZ PERCE WAR +-   (1877)

                                SATSUMA REBELLION +-   (1877)

                                Desert Land Act (US) (3/3)

                                Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated (3/4)             Corrupt Bargain #2

                                First telephone installed in White House (5/10)

                                Chief Joseph surrenders to General Miles (10/5)

                                Battle of Shiroyama - Satsuma rebellion in Japan is crushed (9/24)

                                ------------------------------------------------------------

                                Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India ( until George VI - 1947)

                                Russo-Turkish War begins over the Balkans

                                Ottoman Constitution allowed to lapse

                                Transvaal annexed by Great Britain

                                Raids by the Sioux force Ponca tribe to migrate to Oklahoma

                                Chief Joseph’s War (Nez Perce/U.S.)

                                Hayes pulls US troops out of South

                                Violent Railroad strikes - anti-Chinese riots

                                Ulysses S. Grant -               (United States)                                     (1869-1877)         18th President (R)

                                Rutherford B. Hayes +       (United States)                                     (1877-1881)         19th President (R)             

                                Phobos and Deimo discovered, the two moons of Mars

                                Edison’s first recording device - phonograph

                                Emile Berliner invents the first practical microphone

                                Tchaikovsky acquires Nadezhda von Meck as benefactress

                                Bruckner conducts disastrous premiere of his 3rd Symphony with the Vienna Musikverein (12/16)

                                Parsifal                                                                  Wagner

                                Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (1st revised)       Bruckner

                                First Symphony                                                    Brahms

                                Second Symphony                                               Brahms

                                Samson et Delilah                                               Saint-Saens

                                Fourth Symphony                                                                Tchaikovsky

                                L’Etoile                                                                 Chabrier

                                Barkla, Charles Glover                                                         1877-1944

                                Bolden, Buddy                                                                     1877-1931               Musician

                                Bortkiewicz, Sergei                                                               1877-1952               Composer

                                Cayce, Edgar                                                                         1877-1945

                                Dohnanyi, Ernst von                                                           1877-1960               Composer

                                Dongen, Kees van                                                               1877-1968

                                Dufy, Raoul                                                                           1877-1953

                                Dunhill, Thomas Frederick                                                  1877-1946               Composer

                                Gardiner, Henry Balfour                                                      1877-1950               Composer

                                Hartley, Marsden                                                                 1877-1943

                                Hesse, Herman                                                                     1877-1962

                                Marsick, Armand                                                                 1877-1959               Composer

                                Quilter, Roger                                                                       1877-1953               Composer

                                Alcott, Abigail May                                                            1800-1877

                                Bagehot, Walter                                                                   1826-1877

                                Courbet, Gustave                                                                 1819-1877               Painter

                                Crazy Horse                                                                          1849-1877

                                Legnani, Luigi                                                                       1790-1877               Composer

                                Luneberg, Johan Ludvig                                                     1804-1877

                                Rietz, Julius                                                                           1812-1877               Composer

                                Talbot, William Henry Fox                                                  1800-1877

                                Vanderbilt, Cornelius                                                           1794-1877

                                Veit, Philip                                                                             1793-1877

1878                        First commercial telephone exchange opened New Haven CT. (1/28)

                                Treaty of San Stefano - Russia dictates terms to Ottomans (3/3)

                                Bannock War begins - US Army vs. Paiute Tribe of Southern Idaho (6)

                                ---------------------------

                                Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania to be indpendent (Treaty of San Stefano)

                                Berlin Congress - Great Powers discuss Balkan situation - Treaty of San Stefano revised

                                Second Anglo-Afghan War - Britain gains control of Afghan affairs (-1780)

                                Timber and Stone Act - US

                                Bland-Allison Act - allowed a limited coinage of silver dollars

                                Civil Rights Act of 1875 invalidated by Supreme Court

                                Vittorio Emanuele II -                                                                         (1861-)

                                Umberto I +

                                Pius IX -

                                Leo XIII +

                                Violin Concerto in D                                            Brahms

                                Violin Concerto                                                    Tchaikovsky

                                "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"                     Bland

                                Abbot, Grace                                                                        1878-1939

                                Adams, James Truslow                                                       1878-1949

                                Barrymore, Lionel                                                                1878-1954

                                Boughton, Rutland                                                              1878-1960               Composer

                                Buber, Martin                                                                       1878-1965

                                Cohan, George M.                                                                1878-1942               Composer

                                Doblin, Alfred                                                                       1878-1957

                                Duncan, Isadora                                                                   1878-1927

                                Haeberlin, Paul                                                                     1878-1960

                                Holbrooke, Josef                                                                  1878-1958               Composer

                                Malevich, Kasimir                                                                1878-1935

                                Molnar, Ferenc                                                                     1878-1952

                                Ouspensky, Petyr Demianovich                                        1878-1947                Esotericist

                                Saint Denis, Ruth                                                                 1878-1968

                                Schreker, Franz                                                                     1878-1934               Composer

                                Zinsser, Hans                                                                       1878-1940

                                Bernard, Claude                                                                    1813-1878

                                Daubigny, Charles Francois                                               1817-1878

                                Henry, Joseph                                                                      1797-1878

                                Zani de Ferranti, Marco Aurelio                                        1800-1878               Composer

1879                        The Bellman (Samuel palmer)

                                Portrait of Duranty (Edgar Degas)

                                The Doll's House (Ibsen)

                                Progress and Poverty (George)

                                ZULU WAR +-   (1879)

                                Irish Land League formed by Irish MP Charles Stewart Parnell

                                Alliance between Germany and Austria

                                Britain and France control Egypt

                                Zulu War - between Great Britain and Zulus

                                Battle of Ulundi - British defeat British

                                Resumption of Specie payments - US

                                Picatinny Arsenal established in New Jersey

                                Gernam Anti-Semitic League is founded - supported by Wagner, von Treischke, and Adolf Stocker

                                Marie MacMahon -              (France)                                                 Edme Patrice de

                                Francois Paul Grevy +        (France)                                                 Jules

                                Alexander Joseph +            (Bulgaria)                                             Prince (from Battenberg) neph. of Alexander II

                                Edison invents an improved incandescent light bulb

                                Brahms receives honorary doctoral degree from Breslau University

                                Un Education Manquee                                      Chabrier

                                Eugene Onegin                                                     Tchaikovsky

                                Dictionary of Music and Musicians                 Grove

                                Bridge, Frank                                                                        1879-1941               Composer

                                Einstein, Albert                                                                    1879-1955               Astrophysicist

                                Forster, Edward Morgan                                                     1879-1970

                                Friml, Rudolf                                                                         1879-1972

                                Gaubert, Philippe                                                                  1879-1941               Composer

                                Harty, Herbert Hamilton                                                      1879-1941               Composer

                                Ireland, John                                                                         1879-1962               Composer

                                Klee, Paul                                                                              1879-1940               Painter

                                Laue, Max Theodore Felix von                                          1879-1960

                                Lindsay, Vachel                                                                    1879-1940

                                Malevich, Kazimir                                                (2/23)      1879-1935               Painter/Art Theorist (Kiev, Ukraine)

                                Milankovic, Milutin                                             (5/28)      1879-1958               Geophysicist (Serbia)

                                Respighi, Ottorino                                                               1879-1936               Composer

                                Richardson, Owen W.                                                         1879-1959

                                Stalin, Josef                                                                           1879-1953

                                Stevens, Wallace                                                                 1879-1955               Poet (U.S.)

                                Trotsky, Leon                                                                       1879-1940

                                Abbott, Jacob                                                                       1803-1879

                                Bingham, George                                                                  1811-1879

                                Bonnety                                                                                 1798-1879

                                Daumier, Honore Victorin                                                   1808-1879

                                Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm                                                      1803-1879

                                Giroux, Andre                                                                       1801-1879

                                Weld, Angelina Grimke                                                       1805-1879

                                White, B. F.                                                                           1800-1879               Composer

1880                        The Coming Storm (George Inness)

                                The Golden Stairs (Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones)

                                Hetch-Hetchy Valley, California (Bierstadt)

                                Vetheuil (Claude Monet)

                                Affiliating an Aesthete (Du Maurier) (Punch Magazine - June)

                                The Thinker (Rodin) (-1900)

                                Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) (1779)

                                Nana (Zola)

                                Democracy (Henry Adams) novel

                                Disavowal of Anti-Semitism is signed by hundreds of prominent Germans including the Crown Prince (11/18)

                                Irish insurrection

                                Boer revolt against British in South Africa (-1881)

                                Chinese Exclusion Treaty signed by Rutheford B. Hayes

                                Kansas becomes first “dry” state

                                Lord Ripon +                        (India)                                                    Governor General (-1884)

                                Pavlov's experiments on conditioned reflexes

                                Academic Overture                                              Brahms

                                Tragic Overture                                                    Brahms

                                Capriccio Italien                                                   Tchaikovsky

                                Piano Trio in G Major                                          Debussy

                                Apollinaire                                                                            1880-1918

                                Bloch, Ernest                                                                        1880-1959               Composer

                                Bohm, Dominikus                                                                 1880-1955

                                Cohen, Morris R.                                                                  1880-1947

                                Derain, Andre                                                                       1880-1954               Painter

                                Dove, Arthur                                                                        1880-1946

                                Dusen Jr., Frankie                                                                1880-1940

                                Epstein, Sir Jacob                                                                 1880-1959

                                Foulds, John                                                                         1880-1939               Composer

                                Griffith, D. W.                                                                       1880-1948               Director

                                Hoffman, Hans                                                                     1880-1966

                                Keller, Helen                                                                         1880-1968

                                Kirchner, Ernst                                                                     1880-1938               Painter

                                Marc, Franz                                                                           1880-1916

                                Medtner, Nicolai Karlovich                                                1880-1951               Composer

                                Mencken, Henry Louis                                                       1880-1956               Editor/Author/Critic (Baltimore, MD)

                                Musil, Robert                                                                        1880-1942

                                Pratella                                                                                   1880-1955

                                Rosa, Joao Guimaraes                                                         1880-1967

                                Spengler, Oswald                                                                 1880-1936               Historian

                                Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot)                                       1819-1880               Novelist

                                Flaubert, Gustav                                                                   1821-1880               Novelist

                                Mott, Lucretia                                                                       1793-1880

                                Offenbach, Jacques                                                             1819-1880               Composer

                                Pierce, Benjamin                                                                   1809-1880

                                Ripley, George                                                                      1802-1880

                                Very, Jones                                                                           1813-1880

                                Wieniawski, Henryk                                                            1835-1880               Composer

1881                        The Poor Fisherman (Pierre Puvis de Chavannes)

                                Le bar aux Folies-Bergeres (Edouard Manet) (1882)

                                Luncheon of the Boating Party (Pierre Auguste Renoir)

                                Admiral David Farragut (augustus Saint Gaudens)

                                Portrait of a Lady (James)

                                A Century of Dishonor (Helen Hunt Jackson)

                                Weltgeschichte, vol 1 (Universal History)  (Leopold von Ranke) (9 vol. -1888)

                                James A. Garfield inaugurated (3/4)

                                Tsar Alexander II assassinated by radicals (3/13)

                                James Garfield assassinated by Charles Guiteau - Arthur succeeds (7/2, died 9/19)

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                                Battle of Majuba Hill - Boer victory

                                Treaty of Pretoria - South African Republic (Transvaal) gains virtual independence

                                Arab revolt in Egypt - followed by British occupation (-1882)

                                Date set on Japanese constitution and Parliament

                                Peace declared between New Zealand settlers and Maoris

                                Panama Canal construction

                                Kingdom of Romania officially established

                                France establishes protectorate in Tunis

                                Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington

                                Sitting Bull surrenders to General Alfred Taylor

                                OK Corral

                                Billy the Kid shot at Fort Sumner, New Mexico

                                Alexander II -                       (Russia)                                                 Emperor (Tsar) assassinated

                                Alexander III +                     (Russia)                                                 Emperor (Tsar)

                                Charles Eitel Frederick -  (Romania)                                             Prince (of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

                                Carol I +                                (Romania)                                             King (Charles Eitel Frederick)

                                Rutherford B. Hayes -        (United States)                                     (1877-)   President

                                Boston Symphony Orchestra forms (10/22)

                                Harms, Inc. music publishing started in 1881

                                Tales of Hoffman                                                 Offenbach

                                Piano Concerto in B-flat                                      Brahms

                                Oedipus Tyrannus                                               Knowles Paine

                                Dix Pieces picturesque                                        Chabrier

                                Adams, Franklin Pierce                                                       1881-1960

                                Aliotta, Antonio                                                                   1881-1964

                                Bartok, Bela                                                                           1881-1945               Composer

                                Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan                                          1881-1966

                                Bruce, Patrick Henry                                                            1881-1936

                                Davisson, C. J.                                                                      1881-1958

                                DeMille, Cecil B.                                                                   1881-1959

                                Du Gard, Roger Martin                                                        1881-1958

                                Enesco, Georges                                                                  1881-1955               Composer

                                Jimenez, Juan Ramon                                                           1881-1958

                                Karman, Thoedore von                                                       1881-1963

                                Leger, Ferdinand                                                                  1881-1955

                                Miaskovsky, Nicolai Yakovlevich                                     1881-1950               Composer

                                Picasso, Pablo                                                                      1881-1973               Painter

                                Richardson, Lewis Fry                                                        1881-1953

                                Spilliaert, Leon                                                                      1881-1946

                                Staudinger, Hermann                                                           1881-1965

                                Temple, William                                                                    1881-1944

                                Xun, Lu                                                                                  1881-1936

                                Blanqui, Louis-Auguste                                                     1805-1881

                                Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar                                                 1808-1881

                                Carlyle, Thomas                                                                   1795-1881

                                Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich                                   1821-1881               Writer

                                Garfield, James Abram                                                         1831-1881               President

                                Garnier, Jean Louis Charles                                                1813-1881

                                Green, Thomas Hill                                                              1836-1882

                                Lemmens, Jacques Nicolas                                                 1823-1881               Composer

                                Littre, Maximilien Paul Emile                                               1801-1881

                                Lotze, Rudolf Hermann                                                       1817-1881

                                Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich                                       1839-1881               Composer

                                Palmer, Samuel                                                                      1805-1881

                                Vieuxtemps, Henri                                                                1820-1881               Composer

1882                        Average French farm measures less than 25 acres

                                Phoenix Park Murders - Frederick Cavendish, Secretary for Ireland and Thomas Burke murdered in Dublin

                                Triple Alliance - between Germany, Austria, and Italy (-1914)

                                British bombard Alexandria and occupy Cairo to supress nationalists - leads to French withdrawal from Egypt

                                Muslim leader Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed leads Anti-Egyptian revolt in Sudan (-1885)

                                Makoko Treaty - Congo

                                US adopts Standard Time

                                Edmunds Law - polygamy a federal crime

                                Jesse James shot

                                Milan -                                   (Serbia)                                                 Prince

                                Milan I +                                (Serbia)                                                 King

                                Koch discovers tuberculosis germs

                                Berlin Philharmonia founded

                                Bellows, George                                                                   1882-1925               Painter

                                Boccioni, Umberto                                                               1882-1916

                                Bogardus, Emory Stephen                                                  1882-

                                Born, Max                                                                              1882-1970

                                Braque, Georges                                                                   1882-1963               Painter

                                Bridgeman, P. W.                                                                 1882-1961

                                Franck, James                                                                       1882-1964

                                Friedman, Ignaz                                                                    1882-1948               Composer

                                Giraudoux, Jean                                                                    1882-1944

                                Goldwyn, Samuel (Goldfish)                                               1882-                       Film Producer (Warsaw, Poland)

                                Grainger, Percy Aldridge                                                    1882-1961               Composer

                                Hartmann, Nicolai                                                                1882-1950

                                Hopper, Edward                                                                   1882-1967               Painter

                                Joyce, James                                                                         1882-1941

                                Kodaly, Zoltan                                                                     1882-1967               Composer

                                Malipiero, Gian Francesco                                                  1882-1973               Composer

                                Maritain, Jacques                                                                 1882-1973

                                Noether, Emmy                                                                     1882-1935               Physicist   (3/23)

                                Perkins, Frances                                                                   1882-1965

                                Ponce, Manuel Maria                                                          1882-1948               Composer

                                Roosevelt, Franklin Delano                                                1882-1945               President

                                Schlick, Moritz                                                                      1882-1936              

                                Schnabel, Artur                                                                    1882-1951               Composer

                                Spens, Wil                                                                             1882-

                                Stokowski, Leopold Antoni                                               1882-1977               Conductor

                                Stravinsky, Igor                                                                    1882-1971               Composer

                                Szymanowski, Karol                                                            1882-1937               Composer

                                Turina, Joaquin                                                                    1882-1949               Composer

                                Undset, Sigrid                                                                       1882-1949

                                Woolf, Virginia                                                                     1882-1941               Novelist

                                Bauer, Bruno                                                                         1809-1882

                                Blanc, Louis                                                                          1811-1882

                                Darwin, Charles                                                                    1809-1882

                                Emerson, Ralph Waldo                                                       1803-1882

                                Gobineau, Joseph Arthur                                                   1816-1882               France

                                Jevons, William Stanley                                                      1835-1882

                                Leclanche, Georges                                                             1839-1882

                                Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth                                         1807-1882

                                Melville, Herman                                                                  1819-1882               Novelist

                                Raff, Joseph Joachim                                                           1822-1882               Composer

                                Rossetti, Dante Gabriel                                                       1828-1882

                                Russell, John Scott                                                              1808-1882

                                Schwann, Theodore                                                            1810-1882

1883                        Marriage of Convenience (Sir William Quiller Orchardson)

                                Life on the Mississippi (Twain)

                                The Patricide (Alexander Kazbegi)

                                Also sprach Zarathustra (Nietszche)

                                Treasure Island (Stevenson)

                                US Pendleton Act passes into law - civil service reform (1/16)

                                Brooklyn Bridge opens (5/24)

                                Battle of El Obeid - Mahdi army destroys William Hicks' Anglo-Egyptian Army (11/5)

                                --------------------------------------------------------

                                Fabian Society founded in London

                                Sickness insurance introduced in Germany

                                Creation of Public Debt Control (Turkey)

                                Mahdist revolt in Sudan ending Egyptian rule (-1885)

                                Buffalo Bill’s first stage show in Omaha

                                “Friends of the Indians” meet in upstate NY

                                Gottlieb Daimler patents automobile motor

                                Metropolitan Opera opens

                                Amsterdam Concertgrbouw founded

                                Third Symphony                                                  Brahms

                                Espana                                                                   Chabrier

                                Trois Valses romantiques                                   Chabrier

                                Trio in F Minor, op. 65                                        Dvorak

                                Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor                                                1883-1953               Composer

                                Blake, Eubie                                                                          1883-1983               Musician

                                Cannon, Gus                                                                         1883-1979               Composer             

                                Casella, Alfredo                                                                    1883-1947

                                Demuth, Charles                                                                   1883-1935

                                Dyson, George                                                                     1883-1964               Composer

                                Eastman, Max                                                                       1883-

                                Fleming, Victor                                                                     1883-1949

                                Hasek, Jaroslav                                                                    1883-1923

                                Hess, V. F.                                                                             1883-1964

                                Jaspers, Karl                                                                         1883-1969

                                Kafka, Franz                                                                          1883-1924

                                Kazantzakis, Nikos                                                               1883-1957

                                Keynes, John Maynard                                                      1883-1946

                                Nunez Regueiro, Manuel                                                    1883-      

                                Orozco, Jose Clemente                                                        1883-1949

                                Ortega y Gasset, Jose                                                          1883-1955

                                Richthofen, Ferdinand von                                                 1883-1905

                                Sheeler, Charles                                                                    1883-1965

                                Smith, Mamie                                                                        1883-1946               Singer

                                Talich, Vaclav                                                                       1883-1961               Conductor (Kromeriz, Moravia)

                                Varese, Edgar                                                                        1883-1965               Composer

                                Webern, Anton Friedrich Wilhelm                                    1883-1945

                                Williams, William Carlos                                                     1883-1963

                                Abdelkader                                                                           1807-1883

                                Conscience, Hendrick                                                         1812-1883

                                Coste, Napoleon                                                                  1806-1883               Composer             

                                Doppler, Albert Franz                                                          1821-1883               Composer

                                Dore, Gustave                                                                       1832-1883

                                Flotow, Friedrich von                                                          1812-1883               Composer

                                Gale, Leonard Dunnell                                                         1800-1883

                                Green, J. R.                                                                            1837-1883               Historian (England)

                                Manet, Eduard                                                                      1832-1883               Painter

                                Marx, Karl                                                                              1818-1883               Political Philosopher (Trier, Rhineland)

                                Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich                                              1818-1883

                                Volkmann, Friedrich Robert                                                1815-1883               Composer

                                Wagner, Richard                                                                  1813-1883               Composer

1884                        King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (Burne-Jones)

                                The Burghers of Calais (Pierre Auguste Renoir)

                                They did not expect him (Ilya Repin)

                                Un dimanche a la grande jatte (Georges Seurat) (1884)

                                Cromer Bird Design (Mackmurdo) - Arts and Crafts Movement

                                Huckleberry Finn (Twain)

                                Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson)

                                Siege of Kartoum begins (3/14-18)

                                Third Reform Act passed in England

                                Berlin West Africa Conference (-1885)

                                Berlin Conference - European powers decide on "spheres of influence" in Africa - partition complete 1895

                                Declaration of German African protectorates (-1885)

                                Germany occupies Togoland, Cameroons, and South-West Africa

                                British General Charles Gordon sent to the Sudan to rescue Egyptian garrisons - beseiged at Khartoum

                                Lord Ripon -                         (India)                                                    Governor General (1880-)

                                Compound turbine invented for steam navigation

                                Pasteur innoculates against rabies

                                Mean solar day adopted as a unit of universal time

                                Tesla emigrates to the United States

                                Manon                                                                   Massenet

                                L’Enfant prodigue                                                Debussy

                                Bachelard, Gaston                                                                1884-1962

                                Beckman, Max                                                                      1884-1950               Painter

                                Debey, Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus                                 1884-1966

                                Griffes, Charles Tomlinson                                                 1884-1920               Composer

                                Meulemans, Arthur                                                             1884-1966               Composer

                                Martin, Sara                                                                          1884-1955               Composer

                                Modigliani, Amedeo                                                            1884-1920               Painter

                                Pound, Ezra Loomis                                                             1884-1972               Writer    

                                Truman, Harold S.                                                                1884-1972               President

                                Wellesz, Egon Joseph                                                         1884-1974               Composer (Austria)

                                Brassin, Louis                                                                       1840-1884               Composer

                                Calverley, Charles S.                                                            1831-1884

                                Rott, Hans                                                                             1858-1884               Composer

                                Smetana, Bedrich Friedrich                                                 1824-1884               Composer

1885                        Liverpool Docks (John Atkinson Grimshaw)

                                Mont St. Victoire (Paul Cezanne) (-1887)

                                The Potato Eaters (Vincent van Gogh)

                                Snowbound (John Henry Twachtman)

                                The Rise of Silas Lapham (Howells)

                                Contes et Nouvelles (Maupassant)

                                History of Rome, vol. 5 (Mommsen)

                                WAR OF THE CURRENTS +    (1885-1890)                     Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Khartoum taken and General Charles Gordon killed by Muhammed ibn Abdala (the Mahdi) (1/26)

                                Grover Cleveland inaugurated (3/4)

                                --------------------------------------------------------

                                Socialist party forms in Belgium

                                New Guinea annexed by Great Britain and Germany

                                Great Britain establishes protectorate over southern Nigeria and Bechuanaland, south Africa

                                German East Africa established

                                German protectorate created over the Sultan of Oman’s coastal possessions in East Africa

                                Congo Free State set up under Leopold II of Belgium

                                Indian National Congress organized

                                Third Anglo-Burmese War - Britain annexes upper Burma (-1886)

                                France gains protectorates over Annam and Tonkin (Indochina)

                                First American street railway

                                Rock Springs Massacre  & Tacoma anti-Chinese race riot

                                Brooklyn Bridge construction

                                Henry Richardson designs Marshall Field warehouse

                                French chemist Louis Pasteur gives first innoculation against rabies

                                M. Whitmark & Sons first published music in New York

                                Tin Pan Alley begins on west 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Ave NYC

                                Boston Pops Orchestra forms (7/7)

                                Te Deum                                                                Bruckner

                                Der Zigeunerbaron                                              Johann Strauss II

                                Fourth Symphony                                                                Brahms

                                Habanera                                                               Chabrier

                                The Mikado                                                          Gilbert & Sullivan

                                Symphony No. 1 in D Major (-1888) Mahler  

                                Avery, Milton                                                                       1885-1965

                                Berg, Alban Maria Johannes                                             1885-1935               Composer

                                Bohr, Niels Henrik David                                                    1885-1962

                                Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye                                   1885-1916               Composer

                                Collet, Henri                                                                          1885-1951

                                Delaunay, Robert                                                                 1885-1941

                                Durant, Will                                                                          1885-1981

                                Jackson, Papa Charlie                                                          1885-1938

                                Jolson, Al                                                                              1885-1950

                                Kern, Jerome                                                                         1885-1945

                                Koskenniemi, Veikko Antero                                             1885-1962

                                Lawrence, D. H.                                                                    1885-1930

                                Lemba, Artur                                                                         1885-1963               Composer

                                Lewis, Sinclair                                                                       1885-1951

                                Lukacs, Gyorgy                                                                    1885-1971

                                Mauriac, Francois                                                                1885-1970

                                Maurois, Andre                                                                    1885-1967

                                Morton, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll)                                           1885-1941               Composer              (1890)

                                Oliver, Joe (King)                                                                  1885-1938               Trumpeter

                                Russolo, Luigi                                                                      1885-1947              

                                Taylor, Joseph Deems                                                         1885-1966               Composer

                                Thomas, George W.                                                             1885-1936               Composer

                                Hiller, Ferdinand                                                                   1811-1885               Composer

                                Hugo, Victor                                                                         1802-1885

                                Kiel, Friedrich                                                                       1821-1885               Composer

                                Norman, Ludwig                                                                   1831-1885               Composer

                                Zarebski, Juliusz                                                                   1854-1885               Composer

1886                        The Lady of Shallot (William Holman Hunt)

                                Un Soir de carnaval (Henri Rousseau)

                                Statue of Liberty

                                Pecheur d'Islande (Loti)

                                Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)

                                WAR OF THE CURRENTS ...    (1885-1890)                    Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Haymarket Riot (5/4)

                                Geronimo surrenders (9/4)

                                Statue of Liberty dedicated (10/28)

                                American Federation of Labor organized (12)

                                Irish Home Rule Bill - introduced by British Prime Minister William Gladstone - defeated

                                First Home Rule Bill's defeat followed by splittin gof the Liberal party

                                Gold discovered in Witwatersrand South Africa

                                Anglo-German East African boundary agreement

                                Royal Niger Company granted charter

                                Seattle anti-Chinese riots - five killed

                                Phone line in Indian Territory

                                William P. Dally elected mayor of Perth Amboy

                                A lfonso XII -                        (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon 

                                Maria Cristina +-                                (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon  (regent)

                                Alfonso XIII +                       (Spain)                                                   House of Bourbon 

                                Alexander Joseph -             (Bulgaria)                                             Prince (from Battenberg) neph. of Alexander II

                                Violin Sonata                                                        Franck

                                Arp, Jean                                                                               1886-1966

                                Banfi, Antonio                                                                      1886-1957                                                              

                                Barth, Karl                                                                             1886-1968

                                Benn, Gottfried                                                                     1886-1956

                                Clarke, Rebecca                                                                    1886-1979               Composer

                                Fournier, Henri Alban                                                         1886-1914

                                Furtwangler, Wilhelm                                                          1886-1954               Composer/ Conductor

                                Han-min, Hu                                                                          1886-1936

                                Hausmann, Raoul                                                                 1886-1971

                                Kokoschka, Oskar                                                                1886-1980               Painter

                                Levy, Paul                                                                             1886-1971

                                Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig                                               1886-1969

                                Ory, Edward (Kid)                                                                1886-1973               Musician

                                Pevsner                                                                                  1886-1962

                                Prall, David Wright                                                              1886-1940

                                Rainey, Gertrude “Ma”                                                       1886-1939               Jazz Singer

                                Siegbahn, K. M. G.                                                               1886-1978

                                Wiegmann, Marie                                                                1886-1973

                                Chancourtois, Alexandre-Emile Beguyer de                    1820-1886

                                Chipp, Edmund Thomas                                                     1823-1886               Composer

                                Dickinson, Emily                                                                  1830-1886

                                Durand, Asher                                                                      1796-1886

                                Lizt, Franz                                                                              1811-1886               Composer

                                Loomis, Mahlon                                                                   1826-1886

                                Ponchielli, Amilcare                                                             1834-1886               Composer

                                Ranke, Leopold von                                                            1795-1886               Historian (Germany)

                                Richardson, Henry Hobson                                               1838-1886

1887                        Flying Dutchman (Albert Pinkham Ryder)

                                Self-Portrait (Vincent van Gogh)

                                The Bridge (Philip Wilson Steer)

                                Der Vater (Strindberg)

                                WAR OF THE CURRENTS ...    (1885-1890)                    Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Reinsurance Treaty - between Germany and Russia

                                War between Italy and Ethiopia (-1889)

                                United States acquires Pearl Harbor

                                Dawes Severalty Act (General Allotment) - extinguishing tribal ownership of lands in US (2/8)

                                Edmunds-Tucker Act - disincorporates Mormon church - ends womans suffrage in UT

                                Francois Paul Grevy -         (France)                                                 Jules                                                     

                                Marie Francois Carnot +   (France)                                                 Sadi

                                Ferdinand +                          (Bulgaria)                                             Prince (from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)

                                Edison invents kinetoscope

                                Daimler's internal combustion engine automobile

                                Otello                                                                     Verdi

                                Le Roi malge lui                                                    Chabrier

                                Sarabandes                                                           Satie (1st in September)

                                Atterberg, Kurt                                                                     1887-1974               Composer

                                Broad, Charles Dunbar                                                        1887-1971

                                Caird, John                                                                            1887-

                                Chagall, Marc                                                                       1887-1985

                                Duchamp, Marcel                                                                1887-1968

                                Eller, Heino                                                                            1887-1970               Composer

                                Gris, Juan                                                                               1887-1927               Painter

                                Hertz, Gustav                                                                        1887-1975

                                Lofton, Cripple Clarence                                                     1887-1957               Musician

                                Macke, August                                                                    1887-1914

                                Madetoya, Leevi                                                                  1887-1947               Composer

                                Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys                                         1887-1915

                                Muir, Edwin                                                                          1887-1959

                                O’keefe, Georgia                                                                   1887-1986

                                Patton, Charley                                                                     1887-1934               Musician

                                Perse, Saint-John (Alexis Leger)                                        1887-1975

                                Roberts, Luckey                                                                   1887-1968

                                Schrodinger, Erwin                                                              1887-1961

                                Schwitters, Kurt                                                                   1887-1948               Composer

                                Villa-Lobos, Heitor                                                               1887-1959               Composer

                                Bachofen, Johann Jakob                                                     1815-1887

                                Baird, Spencer Fullerton                                                     1823-1887

                                Borodin, Alexander Porfirievich                                        1833-1887               Composer

                                Dix, Dorothea Lynde                                                           1802-1887

                                Fechner, Gustav Theodor                                                   1801-1887

                                Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert                                                   1824-1887

1888                        The Vision after the sermon (Gauguin)

                                Hide and Seek (William Merritt Chase)

                                Christ’s entry into Brussels in 1889 (Ensor)

                                The Sunflowers (Van Gogh)

                                Dionysos (adolf von Hildebrand)

                                WAR OF THE AC/DC CURRENTS ...    (1885-1890)                      Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Great Blizzard in US East Coast  - 400 dead (3/11-14)

                                US election of the 51st US Congress - Rebublicans return to power 173-156 (11)

                                Benjamin Harrison is elected 23rd President of the US - Republican (Ohio) (11)

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                                The “Great Dry Up” -US

                                Social Democratic Party forms in Austria

                                Imperial British East Africa Company arrives in Kenya

                                William I -                            (Prussia)                                                               King

                                Frederick III +-                    (Germany)

                                William II +                          (Germany)                                             Emperor (Kaiser Wilhelm)

                                Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam forms

                                Fifth Symphony                                                   Pyotr Tchaikovsky

                                Symphony in D minor                                         Franck

                                Joyeuse Marche                                                   Chabrier

                                Scheherazade                                                        Rimsky-Korsakov

                                Don Juan                                                               Richard Strauss

                                Des Knaben Wunderhorn                                   Mahler

                                Morike Lieder                                                       Wolf

                                Gymnopiedies                                                        Eric Satie

                                Agnon, Shmuel Yosef                                                         1888-1970

                                Anderson, Maxwell                                                             1888-1959

                                Baird, John Logle                                                                 1888-1947

                                Bairnsfather, Bruce                                                              1888-1959

                                Berlin, Irving                                                                         1888-1989               Composer

                                Chandler, Raymond                                                             1888-1959

                                Chirico, Giorgio de                                                               1888-1978

                                Cummings, Irving                                                                 1888-1959

                                Curtiz, Michael                                                                     1888-1962

                                Durey, Louis                                                                         1888-1979

                                Eliot, Thomas Stearns                                                         1888-1965

                                Ledbetter, Huddie                                                                1888-1949               Musician

                                O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone                                                 1888-1953

                                Perry, Antoinette                                                                 1888-1946

                                Pessoa, Fernando Antonio Noguieira                              1888-1935

                                Raman, Chandrasekhara V.                                                 1888-1970

                                Rhadhakrishnan, Sarvapalli                                                1888-1975

                                Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil                                                          1888-1964

                                Stern, Otto                                                                             1888-1969

                                Stokes, Frank                                                                        1888-1955               Musician

                                Wright, Frank                                                                       1888-1960

                                Zernike, Fritz                                                                         1888-1966

                                Alcott, Amos Bronson                                                        1799-1888

                                Alcott, Louisa May                                                             1832-1888

                                Alkan, Charles Henri Valentin                                            1813-1888               Composer

                                Arnold, Matthew                                                                 1822-1888

                                Clarke, James Freeman                                                        1810-1888

                                Herz, Henri                                                                            1803-1888               Composer

                                Heller, Stephen                                                                     1813-1888               Composer

                                Kelly, William                                                                       1811-1888

                                Lear, Edward                                                                         1812-1888

                                Storm, Theodor                                                                    1817-1888

                                Teichmuller, Gustav                                                             1832-1888

1889                        Interior of a Cellar (Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch)

                                The Anemones from Flora's Feast (Walter Crane)

                                Moonlight, Indian Encampment (Blakelock)

                                Old Woman with Masks (Ensor)

                                History of the United States (Adams)

                                Eiffel Tower construction complete

                                WAR OF THE AC/DC CURRENTS ...    (1885-1890)                      Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress dies by apparent suicide (murder?) (1/30)

                                Promulgation of Meiji Constitution in Japan (2/11)

                                Indian Appropriations bill allows opening of settlement in Indian Territory (US) (3)

                                Benjamin Harrison inaugurated (3/4)

                                Battle of Metemma - Mahdists under Adballahi ibn Muhammad defeat Ethiopians Yohannes IV (3/9)

                                Menelik II (Shewa ruler) declares himself emperor of Ethiopia (3/25)

                                Eiffel Tower opens in Paris (3/31)

                                Adolf Hitler is born (4/20)

                                Unassigned Lands land run in Oklahoma - Oklahoma City and Guthrie form immediately(4/22)

                                Johnstown Flood - 2,200 dead (5/31)

                                First long distance electric power transmission line in US is completed -Willamette Falls-Portland (6/3)

                                Great Seattle Fire (6/6)

                                Wall Street Journal begins publication (7/8)

                                London Docker's Strike breaks out - victory for the strikers and milestone in the British Labour Mvmt (8/14)

                                Fusajiro Yamauchi forms Nintendo company to produce Hanafuda cards (9/23)

                                Tenterfield Oration - Sir Henry Parkes premier of New South Wales calls for Federation of Australia (10/24)

                                North Dakota and South Dakota become 39th and 40th US states (11/2)

                                Montana becomes the 41st US state (11/8)

                                Washington becomes the 42nd US state (11/11)

                                Nellie Bly leaves New York on 72 day around the world trip (11/14)

                                Brazil expels emperor and becomes a republic under its first President Deodoro Fonseca (11/15)

                                First Jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco (11/23)

                                --------------------------------------------------------

                                Second International founded

                                Eduard Bernstein proposes his "revisionist" departure from orthodox Marxism

                                Georges Boulanger, former French war minister, flees after plotting against Third Republic

                                Treaty of Uccialli (Wichale) - Italy gains protectorate over Ethiopia

                                Cecil Rhodes founds British South Africa Company - charter granted

                                Panama scandal - financial scandal in France caused by collapse of Panama Canal Company

                                Wovoka (Paiute) Ghost Dance spreads

                                Union Party forms (progressive labor and farm faction) at Salem OR meeting

                                Controversy of 1889

                                Paris World's Fair opens - touting the triumph of machinery

                                Debussy hears gamelan at the Paris International Exhibition

                                Jukeboxes go into mass production

                                Louis I -                 (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Carlos I +                              (Portugal)                                             House of Braganza

                                Milan I -                 (Serbia)                                                 King

                                Alexander I +                        (Serbia)                                                 King

                                Sleeping Beauty                                                   Tchaikovsky

                                First Symphony                                                    Mahler

                                Spanisches Liederbuch                                       Wolf

                                Don Juan                                                               Richard Strauss

                                Schipa, Tito                                                                           1889-      

                                Abbott, George                                                                    1889-

                                Aiken, Conrad                                                                      1889-1973

                                Akhmatova, Anna                                                               1889-1966

                                Bagley, Enid                                                                          1889-1946

                                Baumeister, Willi                                                                  1889-1955

                                Benchley, Robert                                                                 1889-1945

                                Benton, Thomas Hart                                                          1889-1975               Painter

                                Chaplin, Charlie                                                                    1889-                       Actor

                                Cocteau, Jean                                                                       1889-1963               Artist

                                Collingwood, Robin George                                               1889-1943               Philosopher/Historian (Oxford,England)

                                Dinicu, Grigoras                                                                   1889-1949               Composer

                                Dreyer, Carl Theodor                                                           1889-1968               Director

                                Evans, Ulick Richardson                                                     1889-1980              

                                Gance, Abel                                                                          1889-1981               Director

                                Heidegger, Martin                                                                1889-1976               Philosopher

                                Hitler Adolf                                                                           1889-1945               Dictator

                                Johnson, Bunk                                                                     1889-1949               Musician

                                Keppard, Freddie                                                                 1889-1933               Trumpeter

                                LaRocca, Nick                                                                       1889-1961               Musician

                                Marcel, Gabriel                                                                     1889-1973               Philosopher /dramatist/critic (Paris)

                                Mistral, Gabriela   Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga                   1889-1957               Poet/Educational Theorist (Chile)    

                                Toynbee, Arnold Joseph                                                    1889-1975               Historian (Oxford)

                                Wittgenstein, Ludwig                                                         1889-1951               Philosopher

                                Bottesini, Giovanni                                                              1821-1889               Composer

                                Browning, Robert                                                                 1812-1889               Poet

                                Dalton, John Call                                                                  1825-1889              

                                Hanselt, Adolph von                                                           1814-1889               Composer

                                Joule, James Prescott                                                          1818-1889

                                Newlands, John Alexander                                                 1837-1889

                                Plante, Gaston                                                                      1834-1889

1890                        Basket of Apples (Paul Cezanne) (-1894)

                                The Old Bedford (Walter Sickert)

                                Madame Charles Mans (Theo van Rysselberghe)

                                Cypresses and Two Figures (Vincent van Gogh)

                                Dr. Gachet (Vincent van Gogh)

                                Beach at Gravelines (Georges Seurat)

                                Le Chahut (Georges Seurat)

                                Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)

                                How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis)

                                New Romanticism - Symbolism - Art for Art's Sake - Decadence - Post Impressionism (-1905)

                                WAR OF THE AC/DC CURRENTS     (1885-1890)                         Westinghouse/Tesla AC vs. Edison DC

                                Kingdom of Italy annexes Eritrea as a colony (1/1)

                                Nellie Bly returns to New York from record breaking 72 day trip around the world (1/25)

                                US House in uproar over Thomas "Czar Reed" new Speaker of the House tactics in WV contested election (1/29)

                                German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck dismissed by William II (3/20)

                                McKinley Tariff Act passes through the Senate 164-142 (5/21)

                                Oklahoma territorial government comes into existence; No Man’s Land added  (6)

                                Zanzibar Settlement - Great Britain receives Zanzibar and Pemba, East Africa - Heligoland to Germany (7/1)

                                Sherman Anti-Trust Act passes - prohibiting monopolies (7/2)

                                Idaho becomes the 43rd state in the US (7/3)

                                Wyoming becomes the 44th state in the US (7/10)

                                Vincent Van Gogh shoots himself in the chest - dies two days later (7/27)

                                First execution by electrocution William Kemmler for murder at Auburn State Prison, New York (8/6)

                                Sauk, Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie reservations in IT opened to settlement (1,282,434 acres) (9)

                                McKinley Tariff Act is signed by President Harrison (10/1)

                                Daughters of the American Revolution is formed in Washington D.C. (10/11)

                                William III King of the Netherlands dies without male heir - Wilhelmina succeeds (11/23)

                                Meiji Constitution goes into effect as the First Diet convenes (11/29)

                                Sitting Bull murdered at Standing Rock Reservation (12/15)

                                Wounded Knee Massacre - Big Foot and 350-400 followers massacred by US 7th Cavalry  (12/29)

                                Ellis Island opened (12/31)

                                Anglo-German African boundaries agreement

                                "Pioneer Column" to Rhodesia

                                First session of the Inperial Diet in Japan

                                National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) founded - Cady Stanton pres.

                                Yosemite National Park established

                                Gottlieb Daimler founds the Daimler Motor Company  at Cannstatt, Germany

                                Otto von Bismarck -             (German Reich)                                     Chancellor

                                William III -                           (Netherlands)

                                Wilhelmina +                         (Netherlands)

                                Deutsche Grammophon started by Emile Berliner

                                Borodin's Prince Igor gets first performance

                                Pique Dame                                                           Tchaikovsky

                                Symphony in B-flat Major (-1898)                     Chausson

                                Cavaleria Rusticana                                             Mascagni

                                Death and Transfiguration                                 Richard Strauss

                                Gnossiennes                                                         Satie

                                Bush, Vannevar                                                                    1890-1974  )-(

                                Capek, Karel                                                                          1890-1938

                                Creath, Charlie                                                                      1890-1951               Musician

                                Ibert, Jacques                                                                       1890-1962               Composer

                                Jackson, Jim                                                                          1890-                       Musician

                                Jackson, Papa Charlie                                                          1890-                       Musician

                                Jennewein, Carl Paul                                                            1890-

                                Lewis, Ted                                                                             1890-1971               Musician

                                Lissitzky, El                                                                           1890-1941

                                Man Ray                                                                                1890-1976

                                Marable, Fate                                                                        1890-1947               Musician

                                Martin, Frank                                                                        1890-                       Musician

                                Martinu, Bohuslav                                                               1890-1959               Composer

                                Morandi, Giorgio                                                                  1890-1964               Painter

                                Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich                                            1890-1960

                                Porter, Katherine Anne                                                       1890-      

                                Schiele, Egon                                                                        1890-1918               Painter

                                St. Cyr, Johnny                                                                     1890-1966               Musician

                                Franck, Cesar Auguste Jean Guillaume Hub.                  1822-1890               Composer

                                Gade, Niels Wilhelm                                                            1817-1890               Composer

                                Lachner, Franz                                                                      1803-1890               Composer

                                Schliemann, Heinrich                                                           1822-1890

                                Sitting Bull                                                                            1834-1890

                                Spir, African                                                                          1837-1890

                                Van Gogh, Vincent                                                               1853-1890               Painter

1891                        The Doctor (Luke Fildes)

                                The Bath (Mary Cassatt)

                                On Strike (Hubert von Herkomer)

                                Monument to Henry Ward Beecher (John Adams Ward)

                                The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)

                                Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)

                                Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)

                                Augustus Saint-Gaudens designs the Adams Memorial

                                Forest Reserve Act passed (3/3)

                                Rerum Novarum issued by Pope Leo XIII - supports the right to form labor unions (5/15)

                                Compulsory education for Indian children introduced - US

                                Mob in Valpairaiso

                                Cheyenne and Arapaho land in IT opened to settlement (4,397,771 acres) (spring)

                                Hopewell, NJ incorporated

                                Chilean Civil War - destroyer ships used

                                Tchaikovsky invited to US to inaugurate Carnegie Hall, also tracels to Baltimore & Philadelphia

                                Chicago Symphony Orchestra forms

                                Bourree fantastique                                             Chabrier

                                Italienisches Liederbuch                                     Wolf

                                Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond                                      1891-1975               Composer

                                Bothe, Walter                                                                       1891-1957

                                Bulgakov, Mikhail                                                                1891-1940

                                Carnap, Rudolf                                                                     1891-1970

                                Chadwick, James                                                                  1891-1974

                                Christie, Agatha                                                                   1891-1976               Novelist

                                Dix, Otto                                                                                1891-1967               Painter

                                Ernst, Max                                                                             1891-1976               Painter

                                Goulding, Edmund                                                               1891-1959

                                Gramsei, Antonio                                                                 1891-1937

                                Lagerkvist, Par Fabian                                                         1891-1974

                                Miller, Henry                                                                         1891-1980               Writer

                                Porter, Cole                                                                           1891-1964               Composer

                                Prokofiev, Sergei                                                                  1891-1953               Composer

                                Reichenbach, Hans                                                              1891-1953

                                Sachs, Nelly                                                                          1891-1970

                                Torroba, Federico Moreno                                                 1891-                       Composer

                                Blavatsky, Helena                                                                1831-1891

                                Bradlaugh, Charles                                                              1833-1891

                                Delibes, Clement Philibert Leo                                           1836-1891               Composer

                                Goncharov, Ivan Aleksanrovich                                       1812-1891               Novelist (Simbirsk, Russia)

                                Haussmann, Georges Eugene                                            1809-1891

                                Litolff, Henry Charles                                                          1818-1891               Composer

                                Otto, Nikolaus                                                                      1832-1891

                                Rimbaud, Arthur                                                                  1854-1891               Writer

                                Seurat, Georges                                                                    1859-1891               Painter

                                Weber, Wilhelm Eduard                                                      1804-1891

1892                        The Card Players (Cezanne)

                                Old Models (William Michael Harnett)

                                O Grave, Where is thy Victory? (Jan Theodore Toorop)

                                Still-life with Bottles (Floris Verster)

                                Breton Women at Le Pouldu (Paul Serusier)

                                At the Moulin Rouge (Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec)

                                Vase with a Nude (Bourdelle)

                                Pelleas et Melisande (Maeterlinck)

                                Bomb explodes in FRench Chamber of Deputies

                                Homestead, PA steel strike - 7 guards & 11 strikers and spectators killed (7/6)

                                India Councils Act

                                Panama Scandal - de Lesseps and associates tried for corruption in France - sentences set aside (-1893)

                                Crow tribal land opened to settlement (2,000,000 acres)

                                Sierra Club founded

                                Coeur d’Alene silver miners riot

                                Berliner incorporates US Gramophone Co. in DC

                                Eighth Symphony                                                                Bruckner

                                The Nutcracker                                                     Tchaikovsky

                                La Bonne Chanson                                              Faure

                                I Pagliacci                                                              Leoncavallo

                                String Quartet in G Minor                                   Debussy

                                "After the Ball"                                                    Charles K. Harris  (sold five million copies)

                                "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"          Charles Coburn

                                Andric, Ivo                                                                            1892-1975

                                Appleton, Edward Victor                                                    1892-1965

                                Compton, Arthur Holly                                                       1892-1962

                                Broglie, Victor Pierre Raymond de                                    1892-1987

                                Buck, Pearl (Walsh, nee Sydenstricker)                           1892-1973

                                Deutsch, Max                                                                       1892-1982               Composer (Germany)

                                Dodds, Johnny                                                                     1892-1940               Musician

                                Grofe, Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von                               1892-1972               Composer

                                Hauser, Arnold                                                                     1892-1978

                                Honegger, Arthur                                                                 1892-1955               Composer

                                Howells, Herbert                                                                  1892-1983               Musician

                                Hurt, Mississippi John                                                        1892-1966               Musician

                                Kilpinen, Yrjo                                                                        1892-1959               Composer

                                Lajtha, Lazlo                                                                          1892-1963               Composer

                                MacLeish, Archibald                                                           1892-1982

                                Milhaud, Darius                                                                   1892-1974               Composer

                                Millay, Edna St. Vincent                                                     1892-1950               Poet

                                Pinza, Ezio                                                                             1892-                       Opera Singer

                                Red, Speckled                                                                       1892-1973               Musician

                                Sackville-West, Victoria Marie                                          1892-1962

                                Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji                                                1892-1988               Composer

                                Tailleferre, Germaine                                                            1892-1983               Composer

                                Thompson, George P.                                                          1892-1975

                                Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel                                               1892-1973               Writer

                                Watt, Robert Alexander Watson                                       1892-1973

                                Wood, Grant                                                                         1892-1942               Painter

                                Yellen, Jack                                                                           1892-1991               Musician

                                Bahaullah                                                                              1817-1892

                                Cornoldi, Giovanni Mari                                                     1822-1892

                                Field, Cyrus West                                                                1819-1892

                                Harnett, William Michael                                                    1848-1892

                                Lalo, Edouard-Victoire-Antoine                                        1823-1892               Composer

                                Liberatore                                                                              1810-1892

                                Porter, Noah                                                                          1811-1892

                                Renan, Ernst                                                                         1823-1892

                                Tennyson, Alfred Lord                                                       1809-1892               Poet

                                Whitman, Walt                                                                     1819-1892               Poet

1893                        The Hunter's Return (Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl)

                                Girl with a Parrot (Henry Tonks)

                                The scream (Edvard Munch)

                                Loie Fuller in the Dance of the Veils (Henri M. Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec)

                                Eros - from the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (Sir Alfred Gilbert)

                                Salome (Wilde)

                                The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)

                                Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition

                                Grover Cleveland’s second inauguration (3/4)

                                Panic of 1893 begins (5/4-5)

                                Cherokee reservations in Indian Territory opened to settlement (6,014,239 acres) (9/16)

                                Gladstone reintroduces Irish Home Rule Bill - defeated by House of Lords

                                Independent Labour Party founded in England by socialist Keir Hardie

                                General strike in Belgium

                                Franco-Russian Alliance (-1894)

                                French conquest of Dahomey (ff.)

                                France sets up protectorate over Ivory Coast, West Africa

                                Matabele War - Breat Britain versus Matabele people in Zimbabwe - first use of Maxim Gun (-1894)

                                Western Federation of Miners formed

                                Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis

                                Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) held

                                Financial panic begins four year depression

                                Anti-Saloon League founded

                                Chicago World’s Fair

                                Carburetor is invented by Hungarians Donát Bánki and János Csonka

                                Chicago World’s Fair, ragtime disseminated

                                Falstaff                                                                   Verdi

                                Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)                            Tchaikovsky

                                Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “New World”     Dvorak

                                Hansel und Gretel                                                Humperdinck

                                Manon Lescaut                                                    Puccini

                                Hora Novissima                                                    Horatio Parker

                                Ager, Milton                                                                         1893-1979               Musician

                                Anderson, John                                                                   1893-1962

                                Baade, Walter                                                                       1893-1960

                                Benjamin, Arthur                                                                  1893-1960               Musician

                                Bodenheim, Maxwell                                                           1893-1954

                                Boulanger, Juliette Maria Olga Lili                                    1893-1918               Musician

                                Bradford, Perry “Mule”                                                       1893-1970               Musician

                                Broonzy, Big Bill                                                                  1893-1958               Musician

                                Burchfield, Charles                                                              1893-1967

                                Dieterle, William                                                                   1893-1972

                                Durante, Jimmy                                                                     1893-1980               Musician

                                Goossens, Eugene                                                               1893-1962               Conductor (London, England)

                                Grosz, George                                                                       1893-1959

                                Huidobro, Vicente                                                                1893-1948

                                Langgaard, Rued Immanuel                                                1893-1952               Musician

                                Lewis, Furry                                                                          1893-1981

                                Marquand, John                                                                   1893-1960               Novelist

                                Mayakovsky, Vladimir                                                        1893-1930               Futurist Poet (Baghdati, Georgia) (7/19)

                                Miro, Joan                                                                             1893-1983

                                Mompou, Frederic                                                               1893-1987               Composer/Pianist

                                Negrea, Martian                                                                   1893-1973               Musician

                                Owen, Wilfred                                                                      1893-1918

                                Parker, Dorothy                                                                    1893-1967

                                Pudovkin, Vsevolod                                                            1893-1953

                                Read, Herbert                                                                        1893-1968

                                Rosenberg, Alfred                                                               1893-1946               German Nazi Leader (Reval, Estonia)

                                Segovia, Andres                                                                  1893-1987               Musician

                                Williams, Clarence                                                               1893-1965               Musician

                                Brown, Ford Madox                                                             1821-1893

                                Considerant, Victor Prosper                                               1808-1893

                                Erkel, Ferenc                                                                         1810-1893               Composer

                                Gounod, Charles Francois                                                  1818-1893               Composer

                                Hayes, Rutheford B.                                                            1822-1893

                                Kummer, Ernst Eduard                                                        1810-1893

                                Maupassant, Guy de                                                           1850-1893

                                Moleschott, Jakob                                                               1822-1893

                                Parkman, Francis                                                                  1823-1893               Historian (Boston)

                                Stone, Lucy Blackwell                                                         1818-1893

                                Taine, Hyppolyte                                                                 1828-1893

                                Tchaikovsky, Peter                                                              1840-1893               Composer

                                Waterson, James                                                                  1834-1893               Composer

1894                        The Valley of Mexico seen from the hill of Guadelupe (Jose Maria Velasco)

                                The Salon in the rue des Moulins (Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec)

                                The Smith (Johan Thorn Prikker)

                                The Conversation (Edouard Vuillard)

                                Limburgh on the Lahn (Alexander Benois)

                                Yvette Guilbert (Medardo Rosso)

                                Candida (Shaw)

                                Jungle Book (Kipling)

                                Jacob S. Coxey’s Unemployment March - US (4/30)

                                President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated (stabbbed delivering a public speech in Lyon (6/24)

                                French officer Alfred Dreyfus convicted of treason and deported - becomes major political affair (12/22)

                                Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun  is premiered in Paris - major moment at the beginning of Modernism (12/22)

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                                British protectorate over Uganda

                                French occupation of Timbuktu

                                French conquest of Madagascar (ff.)                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                Dreyfus Affair - intellectuals become a new political force (-1906)

                                Ottoman Turks massacre Armenians

                                First Sino-Japanese War -  between China and Japan over Korea (-1895)

                                Sun Yat-sen founds first of several revolutionary societies in China

                                Miners riot - US

                                Carey Act - 1,000,000 acres of public land granted in arid states

                                Edison’s kinetoscope given first public showing (4/14)

                                Marie Francois Carnot -    (France)                                                 Sadi

                                Jean Paul Casimir Perier +(France)                                                              Pierre

                                Alexander III -                      (Russia)                                                 Emperor

                                Nicholas II +                         (Russia)                                                 Emperor (last Tsar)

                                Chamaraja Wodeyar IX -(Mysore)

                                Sannidhana +                       (Mysore)                                                H.H. Vani Vilas (regent)

                                Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV +(Mysore)                                               Nalvadi

                                Gramophone’s first discs not for toy use

                                Billboard Magazine first published

                                Carl Nielson's Symphony #1 premiers in Copenhagen (3/14)

                                New World Symphony                                       Dvorak

                                Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”             Debussy

                                Babel, Isaac                                                                           1894-1941

                                Bennett, Robert Russell                                                      1894-1981               Musician

                                Borzage, Frank                                                                      1894-1962

                                Celine, Louis Ferdinand                                                      1894-1961

                                cummings, e. e.                                                                     1894-1962

                                Gold, Lou                                                                               1894-1950               Musician

                                Graham, Martha                                                                    1894-1991

                                Granados, Enrique                                                               1894-1928               Composer

                                Huxley, Aldous                                                                    1894-1963

                                Johnson, James Price                                                          1894-1955               Musician

                                Johnson, Lonnie                                                                  1894-1970               Musician

                                Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich                                               1894-1984

                                Moeran, Ernest John                                                           1894-1950               Musician

                                Moten, Bennie                                                                      1894-1935               Musician

                                Piston, Walter Hamor                                                          1894-1976               Composer

                                Renoir, Jean                                                                          1894-1979

                                Schulhoff, Ervin                                                                   1894-1942               Composer

                                Smith, Bessie                                                                        1894-1937               Singer

                                Soutine, Chaim                                                                     1894-1943

                                Thurber, James                                                                     1894-1961

                                Warlock, Peter                                                                      1894-1930               Musician

                                Yancey, Jimmy                                                                      1894-1951               Musician

                                Caillebotte, Gustave                                                            1848-1894

                                Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel                                                 1841-1894               Composer

                                Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich                                            1821-1894

                                Froude, J. A.                                                                         1818-1894               Historian (England)

                                Gallagher, William Davis                                                     1808-1894

                                Helmholtz, Ludwig Ferdinand von                                    1821-1894               Physicist

                                Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf                                                         1857-1894

                                Holmes, Oliver Wendell                                                      1809-1894

                                Innes, George                                                                       1825-1894

                                Lekeu, Guillaume                                                                  1870-1894               Composer

                                McCosh, James                                                                    1811-1894

                                Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer                                                  1804-1894

                                Rubinstein, Anton                                                               1829-1894               Composer

                                Stevenson, Robert Louis                                                    1850-1894

                                Stieltjes, Thomas Jan                                                           1856-1894

1895                        Northeaster (Winslow Homer)

                                Sailing Boats at Cagnes (Pierre Auguste Renoir)

                                Boats at St. Tropez (Paul Signac)

                                Studies of Hysteria (Freud/Josef Breuer)

                                Treaty of Shimonoseki - Japan gains Formosa (Taiwan) - China recognizes Korea's independence (4/17)

                                Italo-Abbyssinian War - war between Italy and Ethiopia (-1896)

                                Armenians massacred in Constantinople

                                Territory of South African Company named Rhodesia after Cecil Rhodes

                                Jameson Raid - attack on Boer republic of Transvaal

                                British protectorate over East Africa (Kenya)

                                Sun Yat Sen flees China after abortive revolt fails against Ching  (Manchu) dynasty

                                Revolutionary movement active in Cuba against Spain (-1898)

                                Kickapoo reservation in Indian Territory settled (206,662 acres)

                                Booker T. Washington’s accommodation speech at Atlanta Exposition

                                Jean Paul Casimir Perier -    (France)                                                 Pierre

                                Francois Felix Faure +         (France)                                                 (-1899)

                                Marconi sends first radio signal 1.5 km (9)

                                Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays

                                Cello Concerto in B minor                                   Dvorak

                                Till Eulenspiegel                                                   R. Strauss

                                “Please Say You Will”                                        Joplin

                                “A Picture of Her Face”                                      Joplin

                                Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario                                            1895-1968               Composer

                                Edwards, Cliff “Ukelele Ike”                                               1895-1971               Musician

                                Ford, John                                                                             1895-1973

                                Fuller, Buckminster                                                              1895-1983

                                Hammerstein, Oscar                                                             1895-1960

                                Hart, Lorenz                                                                          1895-1943               Composer

                                Hindemith, Paul                                                                    1895-1963               Composer

                                Humphrey, Doris                                                                  1895-1958

                                Jacob, Gordon                                                                      1895-1984               Musician

                                Langer, Susanne K.                                                             1895-1985

                                Nichols, Dudley                                                                   1895-1960

                                Noone, Jimmy                                                                       1895-1944               Musician

                                Orff, Carl                                                                                1895-                       Composer

                                Petit, Buddie                                                                         1895-1931               Musician

                                Still, William Grant                                                               1895-1978               Composer

                                Tamm, Igor Y.                                                                       1895-1971

                                Xirau Palau, Joaquin                                                            1895-

                                Douglass, Frederick                                                             1817-1895

                                Dumas, Alexander                                                                1824-1895

                                Engels, Friedrich                                                                  1820-1895

                                Frothingham, Octavius Brooks                                          1822-1895

                                Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul                                             1849-1895               Composer

                                Halle, Charles                                                                        1819-1895

                                Huxley, Thomas                                                                   1825-1895

                                Locker-Lampson, Frederick                                                1821-1895

                                Loschmidt, Johann Joseph                                                 1821-1895

                                Marti, Jose                                                                            1853-1895

                                Meyer, Lothar                                                                       1830-1895

                                Moore, Henry                                                                       1831-1895

                                Morisot, Berthe                                                                    1841-1895

                                Pasteur, Louis                                                                       1822-1895

                                Suppe, Franz Suppe                                                             1819-1895               Composer

                                Vogt, Karl                                                                              1817-1895

1896                        Orion (George Frederick Watts)

                                Jupiter and Semele (Gustave Moreau)

                                Self-Portrait with Skeleton (Lovis Corinth)

                                Maternity (Paul Gauguin)

                                The Battle at Nafels (Ferdinand Hodler) (-1897)

                                Union Square in Spring (Childe Hassam)

                                A Shropshire Lad (Houseman)

                                Der Judenstaat (THeodor Herzl)

                                Battle of Adua - Ethiopian victory over Italian forces (3/1)

                                Nicholas II is crowned czar of Russia (5/13)

                                Khodynka Tragedy - 1389 people trampled to death at a festival held for Nicholas II's crowning (5/27)

                                Plessey v. Ferguson - “separate but equal” (5/18)

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                                Anglo-Egyptian forces led by General Kirchener begin reconquest of Sudan

                                British occupation of Ashanti

                                Final Anglo-Ashanti War - Ashanti defeated

                                British exile Ashanti King Premph

                                Revolts in Matabeleland and Mashonaland (-1897)

                                Treaty of Addis Ababa - Italy recognizes independence of Ethiopia

                                France annexes Madagascar

                                Jameson Raid on Transvaal fails

                                British protectorates established in Sierra Leone and east Africa

                                Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan (-1898)

                                Assassination of Nasiruddin Shah of Iran

                                Anglo-French agreement settles boundaries in Siam (Thailand)

                                William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech

                                Fourth Party System in the United States (-1932)

                                AFM  established

                                Four Serious Songs                                             Brahms

                                Istar                                                                        d'Indy

                                La Boheme                                                            Puccini

                                Der Corregidor                                                      Wolf

                                Indian Suite                                                           MacDowell

                                Ardon, Mordecai                                                                 1896-1992

                                Artaud, Antonin Marie Joseph                                         1896-1948               Actor/Writer

                                Blunden, Edmund Charles                                                  1896-

                                Cox, Ida                                                                                  1896-1967               Singer

                                Dos Passos, John Roderigo                                                1896-

                                Piaget, Jean                                                                           1896-1980

                                Fitzgerald, F. Scott                                                               1896-1940               Novelist

                                Hanson, Howard                                                                  1896-1981               Composer

                                Hawks, Howard                                                                    1896-1977               Director

                                Lewis, Steve                                                                          1896-1941               Musician

                                Montale, Eugenio                                                                 1896-1981

                                Sessions, Roger                                                                   1896-1985               Composer

                                Termen, Lev Sergeivitch                                                     1896-1993

                                Waismann, Friedrich                                                           1896-1959

                                Weinberger, Jaromir                                                            1896-1967               Composer

                                Avenarius, Richard                                                              1843-1896

                                Bruckner, Anton  Joseph                                                   1824-1896               Composer

                                Falero, Luis Ricardo                                                             1851-1896

                                Fizeau, Armand Hyppolyte Louis                                     1819-1896

                                Grove, William                                                                      1811-1896

                                Millais, John                                                                         1829-1896

                                Morris, William                                                                     1834-1896

                                Patmore, Coventry                                                               1823-1896

                                Schumann, Clara Weick                                                      1819-1896               Composer

                                Stowe, Harriet Beecher                                                        1811-1896               Novelist

                                Verlaine, Paul                                                                        1844-1896               Poet

1897                        Comte Robert de Montesquiou (Boldini)

                                Where do we come from? What are we? (Gauguin)

                                Ladies on a Ferry Boat (Beitner)

                                Frontispiece to The Pierrot of the Minute by ernest Dowson (Beardsley)

                                Lakeside (Kuroda Kiyoteru) in the western style

                                Balzac (Auguste Rodin)

                                William McKinley inaugurated (3/4)

                                Load of Gold reaches Seattle from Klondike (7/17)

                                First Zionist Congress meets in Basel Switzerland (9/3)

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                                Greece and Ottoman Empire at war over Crete

                                Germans occupy Kiaochow, China

                                Klondike Gold Rush (-1898)

                                Dingley Tarrif

                                Freud discovers essential principles pf psychoanalysis - undertakes his self-analysis

                                Mahler becomes director of the Vienna Opera

                                The Stars and Stripes Forever                          Sousa

                                Fervaal                                                                  d'Indy

                                Don Quixote                                                         Richard Strauss

                                The Sorcerer’s Apprentice                                 Dukas

                                Bechet, Sidney                                                                     1897-1959               Musician

                                Blackett, P. M. S.                                                                  1897-1974

                                Capra, Frank                                                                          1897-1991               Director

                                Cockcroft, John D.                                                               1897-1967

                                Cowell, Henry                                                                       1897-1965               Composer

                                Curry, John Steuart                                                              1897-1946

                                Dunn, Johnny                                                                       1897-1937               Musician

                                Faulkner, William                                                                  1897-1962               Novelist

                                Henderson, Fletcher                                                            1897-1952               Composer

                                Jefferson, Blind Lemon                                                       1897-1930               Musician

                                Jessup, Philip Caryl                                                             1897-

                                Korngold, Erich Wolfgang                                                 1897-1957               Composer

                                Krishnamurti, Jiddu                                                             1897-

                                Mankiewicz, Herman                                                           1897-1953               Director

                                Minnie, Memphis                                                                 1897-1973               Singer

                                Porter, Quincy                                                                      1897-1966               Musician

                                Reich, Wilhelm                                                                     1897-1957

                                Smith, Willie the Lion                                                          1897-1973               Musician

                                Tansman, Alexandre                                                            1897-1986               Composer

                                Thomson, Virgil                                                                    1897-1989               Composer

                                Adams, William Taylor                                                       1822-1897

                                Boellmann, Leon                                                                  1862-1897               Composer

                                Brahms, Johannes                                                                1833-1897               Composer

                                Cope, Edward                                                                       1840-1897

                                Godefroid, Felix                                                                    1818-1897               Composer

                                George, Henry                                                                      1839-1897               Economist (United States)

                                Pabst, Paul                                                                            1854-1897               Composer

                                Sylvester, James Joseph                                                     1814-1897

                                Weierstrass, Theodore                                                       1815-1897

1898                        Asher Wertheimer (John Singer Sargent)

                                La Dame aux Camelias (Alfons Mucha)

                                Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand)

                                J'Accuse (Emile Zola)

                                Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

                                "J'Accuse" letter by Emile Zola published - brings attention to the unjust treatment of Alfred Dreyfus (1/13)

                                Spanish Minister Depuy de Lome's letter calls McKinley, a "weak bidder for the admiration of the crowd" (2/9)

                                USS Maine destroyed (2/15)

                                Battle of the Atbara River - Mahdists under the Khalifa are defeated by the British

                                US blockade of Cuba (4/22)

                                US declares war on Spain (4/24)

                                Battle of Manila Bay - Commodore George Dewey sinks the Spanish fleet (5/1)

                                Omaha Trans Mississippi and International Exhibition opens (6/1)

                                US takes Guam (6/20)

                                Battle of San Juan Hill (7/1)

                                Battle of El Caney (7/1)

                                Admiral Sampson destroys six ships of Cervera's fleet that had run the blockade (7/3)

                                Hawai'i is annexed (7/7)

                                French force of 150 under Jean Baptiste Marchand arrives at Fashoda after 14 month trek from Brazzaville (7/10)

                                Spanish forces capitulate on Cuba (7/16)

                                Nelson A. Miles' army occupies Puerto Rico (7/25)

                                Spanish American war ends - peace protocol signed (8/12)

                                Manila falls to the US (8/13)

                                Battle of Omdurman - British defeat Sudanese Mahdiyya Army - retake Sudan (9/2)

                                Empress Elizabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperror Franz Joseph is assassinated by anarchist Luigi Lucheni (9/10)

                                Fashoda Incident - powerful flotilla of gunboats arrives at Fashoda under Kitchener - standoff w/ French  (9/18)

                                William McKinley visits Omaha World's Fair (10/12)

                                French government orders the evacuation of soldiers from Fashoda - ending the crisis with Great Gritain (11/3)

                                Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillipines acquired from Spain (12/2) (12/10)

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                                First German Navy Law begins naval race with Great Britain

                                Social Democratic Party founded in Russia

                                French defeat of Samori Toure

                                Mali becomes the French Sudan, part of the French Federation of West Africa

                                China cedes Port Arthur to Russia

                                Hundred Days of Reform under K'ang Yu-wei (Japan)

                                Spanish-American War - over Cuba

                                McKinley's war message

                                Treaty of Paris - Cuba gains independence - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the US

                                United States annexes Hawaii

                                Indian Congress of 1898 at the Omaha World's Fair

                                Berliner opens UK branch in London

                                Artur Rubinstein’s debut with Berlin Symphony Orchestra

                                Sadko                                                                     Rimsky-Korsakov

                                Sea Pieces                                                             MacDowell

                                Ein Heldenleben                                                   Richard Strauss

                                Aalto, Alvar                                                                          1898-1976

                                Aleixandre, Vicente                                                              1898-1984

                                Armstrong, Lil Hardin                                                         1898-1971               Singer

                                Barbarin, Paul                                                                       1898-1969               Composer

                                Benet, Stephen Vincent                                                      1898-1943

                                Brecht, Bertolt                                                                      1898-1956               Playwright

                                Calder, Alexander                                                                1898-                       Sculptor (Philadelphia, US)

                                Clair, Rene                                                                             1898-1981              

                                Dodds, Warren “Baby”                                                      1898-1959               Musician

                                Eisenstein, Sergei                                                                 1898-1948               Director (Russia)

                                Eisler, Hanns                                                                         1898-1962               Composer

                                Escher, M. C.                                                                        1898-1972               Visual artist

                                Gershwin, George                                                                 1898-1937               Composer

                                Harris, Roy                                                                            1898-1979               Composer

                                Lorca, Frederico Garcia                                                       1898-1936

                                Magritte, Rene                                                                      1898-1967               Painter

                                Marcuse, Herbert                                                                 1898-1979

                                Marsh, Reginald                                                                   1898-1954

                                McTell, Blind Willie                                                             1898-1959               Musician (Georgia)(1901)

                                Moore, Henry                                                                       1898-1986               Sculptor

                                Morris, Tommy                                                                     1898-                       Musician

                                Ormandy, Eugene                                                                1899-                       Conductor (Budapest, Hungary)

                                Rabi, I. I.                                                                                1898-1988

                                Remarque, Erich Maria                                                        1898-1970

                                Robeson, Paul                                                                      1898-1976               Singer

                                Singleton, Arthur “Zutty”                                                  1898-1975               Musician

                                Williams, Clarence                                                               1898-1965

                                Beardsley, Aubrey                                                               1872-1898               Visual Artist

                                Bessemer, Henry                                                                  1813-1898

                                Boudin, Louis Eugene                                                         1824-1898

                                Burne-Jones, Edward                                                          1833-1898               Painter

                                Caird, John                                                                            1820-1898

                                Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carrol)                     1832-1898

                                Ganivet y Garcia, Angel                                                      1865-1898

                                Jenner, William                                                                     1815-1898

                                Mallarme, Stephane                                                             1842-1898

                                Moreau, Gustave                                                                 1826-1898

                                Pepper, William                                                                    1843-1898

                                Topelius, Zacharias                                                             1818-1898

1899                        Dancers (Edgar Degas)

                                The Dance of Life (Edvard Munch) (-1900)

                                In a Private Room at Le Rat Mort (Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse Lautrec)

                                The Peasant's Son (Jeppe Aakjaer)

                                The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

                                School and Society (John Dewey)

                                The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Houston Stewart Chamberlain)

                                Treaty of Paris ratified - ends Spanish American War (2)

                                Filipino guerrila war against US starts (2/4)

                                First Hague Peace Conference convenes - aims to settle international disputes peacefully (5/18)

                                Hague Convention signed (7/29)

                                Battle of Umm Diwaykarat - final obliteration of the Madiyya (11/24)

                                Second Boer War begins - between British and Transvaal Boers in South Africa (10/11) (-1902)

                                Boers besiege Mafeking, Kimberly, and Ladysmith

                                France withdraws from the Sudan

                                Open Door Policy in China

                                Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid bank robberies  (-1901)

                                United Fruit Company formed

                                Francois Felix Faure -        (France)                                                 (1895-)

                                Emile Francois Loubet +    (France)

                                Lord Curzon +                     (India)                                                    Governor General (-1905)

                                Internationale Mukikgesellschaft founded at Leipzig

                                Gramophone establishes branch in Montreal

                                Charleston Rag

                                Catalonia                                                               Albeniz

                                Reminiscinces of a Life of the Tsar                   Balakirev

                                Nocturnes                                                             Debussy

                                Finlandia                                                                Sibelius

                                Maple  Leaf Rag                                                   Scott Joplin

                                Pavane pour une infante defunte                      Ravel

                                Verklarte Nacht                                                     Schoenberg

                                Smith, Pinetop                                                                      1899-1929               Musician

                                Williamson, Sonny Boy                                                      1899-1965               Musician

                                Astaire, Fred                                                                         1899-1987               Dancer

                                Asturias, Miguel Angel                                                      1899-1974

                                Auric, Georges                                                                     1899-1983               Composer

                                Bogart, Humphrey                                                               1899-1957               Actor

                                Borges, Jorge Luis                                                               1899-1986               Poet/Critic (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

                                Cagney, James                                                                      1899-1986               Actor

                                Carmichael, Hoagy                                                               1899-1981               Composer

                                Chavez, Carlos                                                                      1899-1978               Composer

                                Crane, Harold Hart                                                               1899-1932               Writer

                                Cukor, George                                                                       1899-1983               Director

                                Ellington, Edward Kennedy (Duke)                                  1899-1974               Composer

                                Forester, Cecil Scott                                                            1899-1966               Novelist (Cairo/England)

                                Hemingway, Ernest Miller                                                  1899-1961               Writer

                                Hitchcock, Alfred                                                                 1899-1980               Director

                                Kawabata, Yasunari                                                             1899-1972               Novelist (Japan)

                                Nabakov, Vladimir                                                                1899-1977               Novelist (St. Petersburg, Russia)

                                Poulenc, Francis                                                                   1899-1963               Composer

                                Revueltas, Silvestre                                                             1899-1940               Composer

                                Smith, Pinetop                                                                      1899-1929               Musician

                                Tamayo, Rufino                                                                    1899-1991               Painter (Oaxaca, Mexico)

                                Tcherepnin, Alexander                                                        1899-1977               Composer

                                Thompson, Randall                                                             1899-1984               Composer

                                Vleck, John H. van                                                               1899-1980

                                Williamson, Sonny Boy                                                      1899-1965               Musician

                                Alger, Horatio                                                                       1832-1899               Writer

                                Buchner, Ludwig                                                                  1824-1899

                                Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm                                                     1811-1899

                                Chausson, Ernest Amedee                                                 1855-1899               Composer

                                Daly, Augustin                                                                     1838-1899

                                Janet, Paul                                                                             1823-1899

                                Sisley, Alfred                                                                        1839-1899               Painter

                                Strauss II, Johann                                                                1825-1899               Composer

 



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