...Date... AGE Event
1867/--/-- 0 *** Bozarth, Elijah - Born to Bozarth, James Henry and Smith, Mary Ball (Bozarth)
1867/--/-- 0 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 0 - Bismark forms the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 0 - Diamond fields are discovered in South Africa.
1867/--/-- 0 - English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron takes Sir John Herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 0 - French troops withdraw from Mexico; Emperor Maximilian is executed by Juarez.
1867/--/-- 0 - Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1867/--/-- 0 - Nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the Union.
1867/--/-- 0 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 0 - The Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 creates the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1867/--/-- 0 - The Dominion of Canada is established by the British North America Act.
1868/--/-- 1 - A military coup led by General Juan Prim deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1868/--/-- 1 - A skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is discovered in southern France.
1868/--/-- 1 - British labor unions form the Trades Union Congress.
1868/--/-- 1 - Christopher Sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 1 - Chulalongkorn succeeds his father Mongkut as the king of Siam (Thailand).
1868/--/-- 1 - Feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish Revolution.
1868/--/-- 1 - Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 1 - Ndebele king Mzilikazi dies in Africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son Lobengula.
1868/--/-- 1 - The Meiji dynasty is restored in Japan; the Tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 1 - The Ten Years' War begins in Cuba against Spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 1 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached by Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
1868/--/-- 1 - William Gladstone becomes Liberal prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1869/--/-- 2 - 200 pitched battles between Indians and U.S. Calvary
1869/--/-- 2 - English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy.
1869/--/-- 2 - French artist Eugene Louis Boudin paints On the Beach at Deauville.
1869/--/-- 2 - Grant is inaugurated as the 18th U.S. president; Colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 2 - James Gordon Bennett Jr. commissions Stanley to search for Livingston in Africa.
1869/--/-- 2 - John Roebling designs the Brooklyn Bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 2 - Louis Riel leads the Red River Rebellion in Canada.
1869/--/-- 2 - Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in Bavaria.
1869/--/-- 2 - Philadelphia garment workers organize the Knights of Labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 2 - Pope Pius IX calls the First Vatican Council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 2 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky begins work on his opera Boris Gudunov.
1869/--/-- 2 - Suez Canal opens
1869/--/-- 2 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 2 - The Suez Canal is opened in Egypt.
1869/--/-- 2 - The first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 2 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869/--/-- 2 - Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1869/--/-- 2 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific
1870/--/-- 3 - American industrialist John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.
1870/--/-- 3 - French war minister Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 3 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Troy.
1870/--/-- 3 - Paraguayan dictator Solano Lopez dies, ending the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870/--/-- 3 - Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1870/--/-- 3 - The Franco-Prussian War begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by Bismark.
1870/--/-- 3 - The Prussians defeat the French at Sedan; Napoleon III is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 3 - The Third Republic is formed in France; a Government of National Defense is established.
1870/--/-- 3 - The city of Miami is founded in Florida.
1871/--/-- 4 - American explorer Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr. Livingston in central Africa.
1871/--/-- 4 - Charles Taze Russell founds the Jehovah's Witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 4 - Fire destroys one-third of the city of Chicago.
1871/--/-- 4 - P.T Barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 4 - The Franco-Prussian War ends; Alsace and Lorraine are ceded to Germany.
1871/--/-- 4 - The French surrender to Prussia incites the Commune of Paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 4 - The German Empire is formally proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles.
1871/--/-- 4 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 4 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain
1871/06/18 4 *** Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff) [Sister] - Born to Bozarth, James Henry and Smith, Mary Ball (Bozarth)
1872/--/-- 5 - American artist James McNeill Whistler paints the Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1872/--/-- 5 - English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes Middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 5 - Indian leader Kintpuash leaves the Modoc reservation; the Modoc Wars begin.
1872/--/-- 5 - Monet paints Impression: Sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 5 - Photographer Eadweard Muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 5 - The Challenger Expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 5 - The cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest (the capital of Hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 5 - The death of Kamehameha V ends the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 5 - The first woman impressionist artist Berthe Morisot paints The Cradle.
1873/--/-- 6 - Englishman Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 6 - French novelist Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days.
1873/--/-- 6 - The Pacific Scandal in Canada causes the collapse of the Conservative government.
1873/--/-- 6 - The Panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 7 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 7 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 7 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 7 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 7 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 7 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 7 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1875/--/-- 8 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 8 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 8 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 8 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 8 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 8 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1876/--/-- 9 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 9 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 9 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 9 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 9 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 9 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 9 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 9 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 9 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 9 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 9 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 9 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 9 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 9 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 9 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 9 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
1877/--/-- 10 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- 10 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- 10 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 10 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- 10 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- 10 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- 10 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- 10 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 10 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- 10 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 10 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1878/--/-- 11 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 11 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 11 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 11 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 11 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 11 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 11 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 11 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 12 *** Burton, Nancy Allen (Bozarth) [Grandmother] - Died died before 1880 White County, Tennessee
1879/--/-- 12 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 12 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 12 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 12 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 12 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 12 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 12 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 12 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 12 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 13 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 13 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 13 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 13 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 13 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 13 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 13 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 13 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1881/--/-- 14 *** Bozarth, William [Grandfather] - Died died after 1880 ??? Mine Lick, DeKalb County, Tennessee
1881/--/-- 14 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 14 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 14 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 14 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 14 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 14 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 14 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 14 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 14 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 14 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 14 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1881/12/08 14 *** Bozarth, James Henry [Father] - Died DeKalb County Tennessee Goff Cem. Dekalb County TN
1882/--/-- 15 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 15 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 15 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 15 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 15 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 15 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1883/--/-- 16 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 16 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 16 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 16 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 16 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 16 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 16 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 16 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 16 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 16 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 16 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1884/--/-- 17 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 17 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 17 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 17 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 17 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 17 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 18 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 18 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 18 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 18 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 18 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 18 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 18 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 18 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 18 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 18 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1886/--/-- 19 - Apache Indian chief Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles.
1886/--/-- 19 - Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War.
1886/--/-- 19 - British prime minister Gladstone introduces an unsuccessful Home Rule bill for Ireland.
1886/--/-- 19 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin completes The Kiss.
1886/--/-- 19 - Gold is discovered in Transvaal, South Africa.
1886/--/-- 19 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 19 - Jose Balmaceda becomes president of Chile.
1886/--/-- 19 - Samuel Gompers organizes the American Federation of Labor.
1886/--/-- 19 - The Anglo-German Agreement recognizes German control over Tanganyika (Tanzania).
1886/--/-- 19 - The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York Harbor.
1887/--/-- 20 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
1887/--/-- 20 - France creates the Union of Indochina (most of modern day Vietnam and Kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 20 - The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 21 - A patent is issued to American inventor John H. Loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 21 - American inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 21 - Britain unites its Caribbean colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
1888/--/-- 21 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints Still Life With Sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 21 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 21 - Jack the Ripper murders seven women in London.
1888/--/-- 21 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov writes Scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 21 - The National Geographic Magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 21 - William II succeeds Frederick III as emperor of Germany.
1888/07/05 21 *** Smith, Mary Ball (Bozarth) [Mother] - Died DeKalb County Tennessee Goff Cem. Dekalb County TN
1889/--/-- 22 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- 22 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- 22 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- 22 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- 22 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- 22 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- 22 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 22 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 22 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 22 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 22 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 22 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 22 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1890/--/-- 23 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 23 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 23 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 23 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 23 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 23 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 23 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 23 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 23 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 23 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 23 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 23 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 23 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 23 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 23 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 23 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 23 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1890/03/16 23 *** Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff) [Sister] & Goff, James M. -Jimmy- - Married Dekalb County TN
1891/--/-- 24 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 24 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 24 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 24 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 24 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 24 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1891/07/17 24 *** Goff, America Alice (Lafever) [Niece] - Born to Goff, James M. -Jimmy- and Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff)
1892/--/-- 25 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 25 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 25 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 25 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 25 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 25 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 26 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 26 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 26 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 26 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 26 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 26 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 26 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 26 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 26 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1893/04/07 26 *** Goff, Betty Ann (Morris) [Niece] - Born to Goff, James M. -Jimmy- and Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff)
1894/--/-- 27 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 27 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 27 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 27 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 27 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 27 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 27 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 27 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 27 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1895/--/-- 28 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 28 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 28 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 28 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 28 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 28 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 28 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 28 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 28 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 28 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 28 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1895/04/14 28 *** Goff, Charlie Clay [Nephew] - Born to Goff, James M. -Jimmy- and Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county Tennessee
1896/--/-- 29 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 29 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 29 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 29 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 29 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 29 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 29 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1897/--/-- 30 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 30 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 30 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 30 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 30 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 30 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 30 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 30 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 30 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 30 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 30 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 30 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1897/11/11 30 *** Goff, Nancy (Pullum) [Niece] - Born to Goff, James M. -Jimmy- and Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff)
1898/--/-- 31 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 31 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 31 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 31 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 31 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 31 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 31 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 31 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 31 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 31 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 31 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 31 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 31 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 31 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 31 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 31 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1899/--/-- 32 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 32 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 32 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 32 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 32 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 32 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 32 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 32 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 32 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1900/--/-- 33 *** Bozarth, Elijah - Died
1900/--/-- 33 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 33 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 33 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 33 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 33 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 33 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 33 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 33 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 33 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 33 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 33 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 33 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 33 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 33 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 33 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 33 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/03/08 33 *** Goff, Lena Gertrude (Pullum) [Niece] - Born to Goff, James M. -Jimmy- and Bozarth, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Goff)
In 1867 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1900 Transportation was by:
Balloon
in addition.
In 1867 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1900 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1867 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1867 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1867 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1867 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
In 1867 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:23