History Timeline

1850 - 1900 AD

1850 Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson
   Birth of Guy de Maussapant
   End of Romantic style
   Modern soccer (football) is born about this time
   Invention of jeans
1851 - 1864 Taiping rebellion
1851 Invention of the stereoscope - a 3D picture viewer
1853 Birth of Vincent Van Gogh
1854 Birth of John Philip Sousa
1853 - 1856 Crimean war, Russia defeated by France and Britain
1856 Sigmund Freud is born
   Birth of George Bernard Shaw
   Birth of John Singer Sargent
   Birth of Woodrow Wilson
   Birth of Edward Acheson - inventor of electrical wire insulation
   Birth of Nikola Tesla - inventor of AC power and wireless transmission of energy
1857 Birth of Joseph Conrad
1858 Birth of Theodore Roosevelt
   Birth of Puccini
   Birth of Max Planck
   Birth of Kang Yuwai
   First transatlantic telegraph cable connects Europe and North America
   Darwin proposes theory of natural selection
1859 Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle
   Birth of John Dewey
   Birth of Billy the Kid
   Birth of Knut Hamsun
1860 Birth of Gustav Mahler
   Birth of Anton Checkov
1861 Beginning of U.S. civil war
   Jeremy Bentham's 'Panopticon' idea is born
   Alexander II of Russia emancipates the serfs (of Russia)
1862 Birth of Claude Debussy
1863 Birth of Henry Ford
1864 Birth of Max Weber
1865 Birth of William Butler Yeats
   Birth of Rudyard Kipling
   Assasination of Abe Lincoln
   Klu Klux Klan (KKK) established
   13th amendment to the American constitution outlaws slavery
1866 Birth of H.G. Wells
   Birth of Sun Yat-Sen
1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia
   Birth of Frank Lloyd Wright
   Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1868 Birth of W.E.B. DuBois
1869 Birth of Gandhi
   Birth of Henri Mattise
   Opening of Suez Canal to Navigation
1870 Birth of Adolf Loos
   Germ theory of disease is proposed
   Birth of Alfred Adler who later invents the concept of 'the inferiority complex'
1870 - 1890 The last of the American Indian tribes were defeated and moved onto reservations in the United States
1871 Birth of Marcel Proust
   Birth of Ernest Rutherford
1872 Birth of Piet Mondrian
1873 Birth of Liang Qichao
1874 Birth of Winston Churchill
   Birth of Somerset Maugham
   Birth of Robert Frost
   Birth of Charles Ives
   Birth of Arnold Schoenberg
1875 Thomas Mann is born
   Birth of Carl Jung
   Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke
   Birth of Albert Schweitzer
   Birth of Bertrand Russell
   Birth of Albert I - King of the Belgians during the first World War
1876 Invention of the telephone
   Invention of internal-combustion engine
   Birth of Jack London
   Birth of Fred Albee
1877 Birth of Hermann Hesse
1878 Birth of William Aberhart (aka. Bible Bill)
1879 Birth of Albert Einstein
   Invention of light bulb
   Birth of Leon Trotsky
   Birth of Sir Patrick Abercrombie - pioneer of town planning in Britain
1879 - 1884 War of the Pacific between Bolivia, Peru, and Chile
1881 Birth of Pablo Picasso
   American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
   Pasteur develops anthrax vaccine
1882 Birth of F.D.R.
   Birth of James Joyce
   Birth of Virginia Woolf
   Pasteur develops rabies vaccine
1883 Birth of Benito Mussolini
   Birth of Edgard Varese
   Birth of Walter Gropius
   U.S. standard time zones adopted
1884 Birth of Harry S. Truman
1885 Birth of D.H. Lawrence
   Birth of Ezra Pound
   Birth of Niels Bohr
   Birth of Alban Berg
1886 Statue of Liberty is dedicated
   Birth of Aldo Leopold
   Birth of Diego Rivera
1887 Birth of Georgia O'Keefe
   Birth of Chiang-Kai Shek
   Birth of Le Corbusier
1888 Reign of Jack the Ripper in London (serial killer)
   Birth of T.S. Eliot
   George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera and roll film
   Birth of Arthur Schlesinger senior
   Slaves freed in Brazil
1889 Birth of Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher
   Eiffel Tower is built
   Birth of Graham Greene
   Birth of Jean Cocteau
   Birth of Martin Heidegger
1890 Height of Prussian Empire in Germany
   Birth of Charles de Gaulle
   Birth of Ho Chi Minh
   Birth of Mark Tobey
   Clement Ader pioneers aviation by building the 'Eole' - the first aeroplane
1891 Birth of Henry Miller
   Civil war in Chile
1892 Birth of Franco
   Birth of Cesar Vallejo
   First movies created - about 15 minutes in length
1893 Birth of Mao Tse-Tung
1894 Japan invades and defeats China
   Taiwan given to Japan from China
   Birth of Aldous Huxeley
   Birth of E.E. Cummings
1895 Norweigan Henryk John Bull makes first official landing on Antarctica, he    was a whaler
   Peak of art nouveau movement
   Birth of Lewis Mumford
   Birth of Buckminster Fuller
1896 Birth of F. Scott Fitzgerald
   Tabulating Machines Company is founded (later becomes IBM)
1898 Spanish-American war
   Birth of Zhou Enlai
   Birth of Liu Shaoqui
   Birth of Golda Meir
   U.S. annexes Hawaii
   Birth of Alvar Aalto - 'father of Modernism in Scandinavia'
   Birth of Berenice Abbott - photographer
1899 Birth of Duke Ellington
   Birth of Ernest Hemingway
   Birth of Jorge Luis Borges
1900 Boxer Uprising in northern China, peasants revolt against foreigners (Japanese)
   Iran adopts a constitution making the shah accountable to a code of laws