...Date... AGE Event
1893/--/-- -1 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- -1 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- -1 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- -1 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- -1 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- -1 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- -1 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- -1 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- -1 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1893/02/06 0 *** Ewing, Bessie Forest - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" Albany, KY 42602
1894/--/-- 0 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 0 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 0 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 0 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 0 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 0 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 0 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 0 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 0 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1894/11/11 1 *** Ewing, Matthew Campbell [Brother] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1895/--/-- 1 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 1 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 1 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 1 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 1 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 1 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 1 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 1 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 1 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 1 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 1 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1896/--/-- 2 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 2 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 2 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 2 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 2 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 2 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 2 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1896/02/20 3 *** Ewing, Margaret Mariba [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1896/04/25 3 *** Ewing, Jesse [Grandfather] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1897/--/-- 3 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 3 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 3 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 3 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 3 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 3 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 3 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 3 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 3 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 3 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 3 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 3 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1897/05/01 4 *** Ewing, Charles Rogers [Brother] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1897/09/22 4 *** Ewing, Charles Rogers [Brother] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1897/11/28 4 *** Wood, Margaret B. [Great Aunt] - Died Clinton County, Kentucky Clinton County, Kentucky
1898/--/-- 4 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 4 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 4 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 4 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 4 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 4 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 4 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 4 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 4 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 4 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 4 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 4 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 4 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 4 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 4 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 4 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/09/18 5 *** Ewing, Jennie Lawless [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1899/--/-- 5 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 5 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 5 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 5 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 5 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 5 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 5 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 5 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 5 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1899/10/23 6 *** Ewing, Jennie Lawless [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1900/--/-- 6 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 6 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 6 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 6 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 6 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 6 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 6 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 6 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 6 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 6 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 6 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 6 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 6 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 6 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 6 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 6 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/01/03 6 *** Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby) [Grandmother] - Died Hiseville, Barren, Hiseville, KY
1900/02/29 7 *** Ewing, Nettie Irene [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1900/06/10 7 *** Bagby, John Howard [Grandfather] - Died Hiseville, Barren, Hiseville, KY
1901/--/-- 7 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- 7 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- 7 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 7 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- 7 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 7 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- 7 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- 7 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 7 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- 7 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 7 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 7 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- 7 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- 7 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- 7 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- 7 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- 7 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 7 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 7 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 7 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- 7 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- 7 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 7 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1901/10/01 8 *** Ewing, John Bagby [Brother] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1902/--/-- 8 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 8 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 8 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 8 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 8 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 8 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 8 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 8 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 8 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 8 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/08/-- 9 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1902/11/07 9 *** Burris, Stella E. (Hill) [1st cousin] - Born to Burris, Otho and Bagby, Annie
1903/--/-- 9 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 9 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 9 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 9 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 9 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 9 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 9 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 9 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 9 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 9 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 9 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 9 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 9 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 9 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 9 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 10 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1903/11/06 10 *** Ewing, Benjamin [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1904/--/-- 10 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 10 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 10 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 10 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 10 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 10 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 10 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 10 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 10 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 10 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/07/25 11 *** Ewing, Sophia (Cross) [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1905/--/-- 11 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 11 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 11 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 11 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 11 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 11 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 11 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 11 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 11 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 11 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 11 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 11 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 11 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 11 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 11 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 11 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 11 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 11 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 11 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/09/10 12 *** Lollar, Olivia (Ewing) & Ewing, Jesse Chilton [2nd cousin] - Married
1905/10/-- 12 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1905/10/29 12 *** Ewing, Bessie Forest - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1905/11/06 12 *** Ewing, Mary (Booher) [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" Albany, Clinton county, Kentucky
1905/11/06 12 *** Ewing, Robert [Brother] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
In 1893 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1905 Transportation was by:
Balloon
in addition.
In 1893 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1905 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1893 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1893 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1893 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1893 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
By 1905 War Making was by:
TNT
in addition.
In 1893 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:29