| TimeLine |
With
the Compliments of Mr Pitt-Rivers & Miss Forsyth |
| 1872 |
Marie
Celeste “ghostship” found |
| 1880-81 |
First
Boer War - Transvaal defeats Britain |
| 1882 |
Society
for Psychical Research founded
Ignatius Donally publishes Atlantis, the Antideluvian world |
| 1883 |
Moon
goes dark after Krakatoa eruption |
| 1885 |
"Gordon
of India" Killed in Khartoum |
| 1886 |
Gold
found in Transvaal
Schiaparelli maps "canals" on mars |
| 1887 |
First
Sherlock Holmes Novel Published. A Study in Scarlet. |
| 1888 |
Jack
the Ripper murders ten streetwalkers. |
| 1889 |
New
Meiji constitution for Japan; first general election in 1890
Pedro II deposed by army revolt; Brazil becomes a republic
Eiffel Tower erected in Paris
"Three men in a boat" written by Jerome K.Jerome |
| 1890 |
First
Electric tube in London.
American Indians butchered at Wounded Knee
H.P.Lovecraft born |
| 1891 |
Civil
war in Chile
Conan-Doyle, Arthur "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes"
Famine in Russia
First practical Hydro electric station
Oscar Wilde Publishes "Dorian Grey"
Sybil Corbet takes "ghost"picture at Combermere Hall,
Charles Wells "breaks the bank" at Monte Carlo |
| 1892 |
First
automatic telephone switchboard
Tchaikowsky "The Nutcracker"
Monet paints "Rouen Cathedral"
Zola, Emile - "La Debacle"
Gladstone PM in Britain
British Medical Society announce Hypnotism "to be of use" |
| 1893 |
Karl
Benz & Henry Ford build first cars; Diesel patents engine
Verdi "Falstaff"
Art Nouveau appears in Europe
Zulu Revolt in SA suppressed |
| 1894 |
Kipling,
R - "The Jungle Book"
Dreyfuss arrested for treason
Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Wildes "Salome" |
| 1894-96 |
Abyssinian-Italian
War: Italy defeated, forced to withdraw |
| 1894-95 |
War
between Japan and China; Japanese win, occupy Korea |
| 1895-96 |
Jameson
Raid into Transvaal |
| 1895 |
Marconi
invents wireless telegraphy
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
du Marier, George - Trilby
Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest
Freud, Sigmund - Studies in Hysteria
Washington, Booker T. - "Atlanta Exposition Address"
Lumiere, Louis & Auguste Lumieres exhibit films in public, Paris
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure
Yeats, William - Butler Poems
Revolt in Cuba
Charles Fortes 21st birthday (fortean...)
Roentgen discovers x-rays
Oscar Wilde imprisoned
Alphonse Muchas Poster of Sarah Bernhardt much admired |
| 1896 |
France
takes Madagascar
Ethiopian ruler Menelik crushes Italian army at Adowa
British persuade Malay states to form federation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Verlaine, Paul (d)
Morris, Wiliam and Edward Burne-Jones Kelmscott - Chaucer
Philippines come under U.S. rule
First "Modern" Olympics Held
Battle of Adua
Chekhov - "The Seagul"
Puccini - "La Boheme"
Becqueral discovers radioactivity
William Ramsey discovers helium
First recorded UFO sighting over California
Nobel Prizes Established |
| 1897 |
Germany
occupies Kiao-chow in North China
Crete joins Greece; Turkey declares war & is defeated
Rodin - "Victor Hugo" (sculpture)
R Ross discovers malaria bacillus
Slavery banned in Zanzibar
Ellis, Havelock Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Klondike Gold Rush begins
Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Conrad, Joseph - Nigger of the Narcissus
Vienna Secession Exhibition
Thomson, Sir Joseph - John Thomson discovered the electron
Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee
St Therese of Lisieux dies, miracles occur soon after |
| 1897-98 |
British-Sudan
War: British defeat rebels |
| 1898 |
Dreyfus
acquited
Count von Zepplin builds his airship
Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium & polonium
In China Dowager Empress Cixi crushes attempts at reform
Spanish-American War; Spain gives Cuba independence, United
States takes Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines as colonies
(End of Spanish Empire)
United States annexes Hawaii
Chopin, Kate The Story of an Hour
Beardsley, Aubrey (d)
Carroll, Lewis (d)
Mallarme, Stephane (d)
James, Henry - Turn of the Screw
Crane, Stephen - The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure
Wilde, Oscar - "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds
Anti-Imperialist League formed in Boston
First Disc recordings. |
| 1899-02 |
Second
Boer War in South Africa |
| 1899 |
France
proclaims protectorate in Laos, southeast Asia
Australia and New Zealand troops sent to Boer War
Kipling, Rudyard - White Man's Burden
First magnetic recording of sound
Aspirin introduced
Elgar "Enigma Variations" |
| 1900 |
Boxer
Rising, China
Commonwealth of Australia created
Max Planck postulate quantum theory
Berezoukha frozen mammoth discovered in Siberia
Winston Churchill becomes an M.P. |
| 1901 |
First
transatlantic wireless transmitted by Marconi
Queen Victoria dies
Schoolteachers Ms Moberley and Jourdain "Travel in Time" at Versailles
"A Trip to the Moon" by Meliers is the first Sci fi film released! |
| 1902 |
"Heart
of Darkness" written by Joseph Conrad |
| 1903 |
First
powered aircraft flown by the Wright brothers
The Pankhursts form the Womens Social and Political Union |
| 1904 |
Trans-Siberian
railway opens |
| 1905 |
Aleister
Crowleys "revelations" in Egypt
The Russian revolution.
Henry Irving (d) |
| 1906 |
First
dreadnaught battleship launched |
| 1907 |
Baden
Powell starts first scout camp |
| 1917 |
"Cottingly"
Faeries seen and photographed by two girls nr. Haworth. |