Ellen Agnes (Cunningham) Blish1870 through 1925
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
1870 US black men can vote
1870 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
1871 Great Fire destroys Chicago
1873 Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
1876 Colorado enters the union - 38th
1876 Little Big Horn - Battle
1876 Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
1876 US Centennial
1877 Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
1878 1st commercial telephone exchange in US
1879 Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
1879 Zulu war
1881 James A Garfield president of US
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
1881 President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1884 1st subway
1884 Motorcycle
1885 Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
1886 Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
1887 X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
1888 70...77 rpm musical records
1889 Holerith invents the punch card
1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
1889 Montana enters the union - 41st
1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th
1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th
1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd
1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory
1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
1893 Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
1896 Utah enters the union - 45th
1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
1898 Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
1900 Boxer rebellion in China
1900 Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed
1900 Hawaii organized as a territory
1901 First British submarine launched
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
1901 US President William McKinley assassinated
1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded
1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
1903 Nikola Tesla patents logic gates
1903 Airplane
1904 Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
1907 Plastic
1907 Oklahoma enters the union - 46th
1908 Tunguska atmospheric object explosion
1909 Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
1909 North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp.
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1910 Halleys Comet
1911 South pole reached by Roald Amundsen
1912 New Mexico enters the union - 47th
1912 Titanic sinks
1912 Arizona enters the union - 48th
1912 Alaska organized as a territory
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
1914 The Bra
1914-1918 World War I
1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity
1916 Sonar
1916 Irish Easter Rebellion
1917 Russian revolution
1917 US enters WWI
1918-1933 Prohibition
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
1919 League of Nations instantiated
1919 Shortwave Radio
1920 Palestine established
1920-1929 Roaring 20s
1920 Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage)
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
1922 Insulin made available to diabetics
1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
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