...Date... AGE Event
1861/--/-- -1 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1861/--/-- -1 - American locksmith Linus Yale Jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- -1 - CONFEDERACY
1861/--/-- -1 - Civil War Begins
1861/--/-- -1 - English designer William Morris starts the Arts and Crafts Movement.
1861/--/-- -1 - Explorers Burke and Wills die during their north-south crossing of Australia.
1861/--/-- -1 - French artist Eugene Delacroix paints the Lion Hunt.
1861/--/-- -1 - General George B. McClellan is made commander of the Union forces.
1861/--/-- -1 - Italy is unified under Victor Emmanuel II.
1861/--/-- -1 - John Ericsson designs the Monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- -1 - Kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the Union.
1861/--/-- -1 - Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th U.S. president; Hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- -1 - Nicholas II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1861/--/-- -1 - The Confederate States of America declare their independence from the U.S.
1861/--/-- -1 - The Confederates defeat the Union army in the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861/--/-- -1 - The Southern states meet to draft a constitution; Davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- -1 - The Trent Affair begins when a Union ship intercepts a British steamer.
1861/--/-- -1 - The United States introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- -1 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins the U.S. Civil War.
1861/--/-- -1 - Unification of Italy
1861/--/-- -1 - Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
1861/01/31 -1 *** Wood, John [Great Uncle] - Died Clinton County, KY Clinton County, KY Clinton County, KY
1861/10/29 0 *** Ewing, William Jesse - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky
1861/12/04 0 *** Wood, Reuben Bayless [Uncle] - Died Killed by Guerrillas during the Civil War. Clinton County, Kentucky Irwin Cem. Clinton County Kentucky
1862/--/-- 0 - A Union fleet under David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.
1862/--/-- 0 - Bartolome Mitre unites Argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 0 - Brady, O'Sullivan and Gardner document the Civil War in photographs.
1862/--/-- 0 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart makes the first south to north crossing of Australia.
1862/--/-- 0 - Foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 0 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her debut at the Comedie Francaise.
1862/--/-- 0 - French impressionist artist Edouard Manet paints Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
1862/--/-- 0 - French physicist Jean Foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 0 - French writer Victor Hugo completes his social novel Les Miserables.
1862/--/-- 0 - Lee defeats the Union army in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862/--/-- 0 - Lee's Confederate invasion of Maryland is halted at the Battle of Antietam.
1862/--/-- 0 - McClellan is defeated in the Seven Days Battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 0 - Napoleon III imposes the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.
1862/--/-- 0 - Richard J. Gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 0 - Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons.
1862/--/-- 0 - The first recorded ski competition is held near Oslo in Norway.
1862/--/-- 0 - The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack clash at Hampton Roads, Va.
1862/--/-- 0 - Union forces under Burnside are defeated at the Battle of Fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 0 - Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1862/--/-- 0 - Union forces under McClellan begin the Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond.
1862/--/-- 0 - William I appoints Otto von Bismarck as minister president of Prussia.
1862/02/12 0 *** Wood, Abram [Great Uncle] - Died Bunker Hill, Macoupin, IL Bunker Hill, Macoupin, IL
1863/--/-- 1 - Cambodia (Kampuchea) becomes a French protectorate.
1863/--/-- 1 - English philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes Utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 1 - French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro exhibits at the Salon des Refuses.
1863/--/-- 1 - George I succeeds Otto as king of Greece.
1863/--/-- 1 - Grant defeats the Confederates in the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863/--/-- 1 - Ismail Pasha rules Egypt under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
1863/--/-- 1 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery in the Confederate states.
1863/--/-- 1 - London's Metropolitan Railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 1 - The Confederate guerrilla band Quantrill's Raiders pillage Lawrence, Kansas.
1863/--/-- 1 - The Confederates defeat the Union army at Chancellorsville; Jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 1 - The Confederates under Lee are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 1 - The French occupy Mexico City in support of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1863/--/-- 1 - The London Football Association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 1 - West Virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the Union.
1863/10/18 1 *** Bayless, Mary (Wood) [Grandmother] - Died Clinton County, Kentucky Irwin Cemetery, huge limestone block
1864/--/-- 2 - A Chinese army under Gordon recaptures Nanking and ends the Taiping Rebellion.
1864/--/-- 2 - A Union army under Sherman invades Georgia, begining the Atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 2 - Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
1864/--/-- 2 - Denmark is defeated by Prussia; Schleswig-Holstein is ceded to Germany.
1864/--/-- 2 - Nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 2 - Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez begins the War of the Triple Alliance.
1864/--/-- 2 - Sherman defeats the Confederates at Atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 2 - The Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.
1864/--/-- 2 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks a Federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 2 - The Geneva Convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 2 - The Ionian Islands are ceded to Greece by Britain.
1864/--/-- 2 - The Union launches a drive on Richmond but falters in the Wilderness Campaign.
1864/--/-- 2 - Ulysses S. Grant is made general in chief of all the Union armies.
1864/09/07 2 *** Wood, David Reuben [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Wood, James Elvin and Baker, Aurelia (Wood)
1865/--/-- 3 - Andrew Johnson (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1865/--/-- 3 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the U.S.
1865/--/-- 3 - Civil War Ends
1865/--/-- 3 - Confederate forces under Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865/--/-- 3 - Count Leo Tolstoi begins his monumental Russian novel War and Peace.
1865/--/-- 3 - English author Lewis Carroll writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1865/--/-- 3 - Johnston surrenders the last Confederate army to Sherman, ending the U.S. Civil War.
1865/--/-- 3 - Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"
1865/--/-- 3 - Lincoln assassinated
1865/--/-- 3 - Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
1865/--/-- 3 - Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment.
1865/--/-- 3 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery.
1865/--/-- 3 - The Petersburg Campaign is won by Union forces; Lee evacuates Richmond.
1866/--/-- 4 - British engineer Robert Whitehead invents the first self-propelled torpedo.
1866/--/-- 4 - Congress authorize (but do not mandate) the use of the metric system in the U.S.
1866/--/-- 4 - Mendel publishes his genetic research in Experiments With Plant Hybrids.
1866/--/-- 4 - Prussia and Italy defeat Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.
1866/--/-- 4 - The Ku Klux Klan is founded in the southern United States.
1866/09/09 4 *** Ewing, Mariba Augusta (Mackey) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Ewing, Benjamin and Hudson, Martha (Ewing)
1866/09/26 4 *** Gwinn, George W. & Wood, Elizabeth Gibbons (Gwinn) [1st cousin] - Married Clinton County Kentucky
1867/--/-- 5 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 5 - Bismark forms the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 5 - Diamond fields are discovered in South Africa.
1867/--/-- 5 - English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron takes Sir John Herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 5 - French troops withdraw from Mexico; Emperor Maximilian is executed by Juarez.
1867/--/-- 5 - Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1867/--/-- 5 - Nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the Union.
1867/--/-- 5 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 5 - The Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 creates the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1867/--/-- 5 - The Dominion of Canada is established by the British North America Act.
1868/--/-- 6 - A military coup led by General Juan Prim deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1868/--/-- 6 - A skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is discovered in southern France.
1868/--/-- 6 - British labor unions form the Trades Union Congress.
1868/--/-- 6 - Christopher Sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 6 - Chulalongkorn succeeds his father Mongkut as the king of Siam (Thailand).
1868/--/-- 6 - Feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish Revolution.
1868/--/-- 6 - Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 6 - Ndebele king Mzilikazi dies in Africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son Lobengula.
1868/--/-- 6 - The Meiji dynasty is restored in Japan; the Tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 6 - The Ten Years' War begins in Cuba against Spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 6 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached by Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
1868/--/-- 6 - William Gladstone becomes Liberal prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1868/05/08 6 *** Wood, Elizabeth Sonora (Maupin) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Wood, James Elvin and Baker, Aurelia (Wood)
1869/--/-- 7 - 200 pitched battles between Indians and U.S. Calvary
1869/--/-- 7 - English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy.
1869/--/-- 7 - French artist Eugene Louis Boudin paints On the Beach at Deauville.
1869/--/-- 7 - Grant is inaugurated as the 18th U.S. president; Colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 7 - James Gordon Bennett Jr. commissions Stanley to search for Livingston in Africa.
1869/--/-- 7 - John Roebling designs the Brooklyn Bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 7 - Louis Riel leads the Red River Rebellion in Canada.
1869/--/-- 7 - Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in Bavaria.
1869/--/-- 7 - Philadelphia garment workers organize the Knights of Labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 7 - Pope Pius IX calls the First Vatican Council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 7 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky begins work on his opera Boris Gudunov.
1869/--/-- 7 - Suez Canal opens
1869/--/-- 7 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 7 - The Suez Canal is opened in Egypt.
1869/--/-- 7 - The first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 7 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869/--/-- 7 - Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1869/--/-- 7 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific
1870/--/-- 8 - American industrialist John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.
1870/--/-- 8 - French war minister Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 8 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Troy.
1870/--/-- 8 - Paraguayan dictator Solano Lopez dies, ending the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870/--/-- 8 - Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1870/--/-- 8 - The Franco-Prussian War begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by Bismark.
1870/--/-- 8 - The Prussians defeat the French at Sedan; Napoleon III is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 8 - The Third Republic is formed in France; a Government of National Defense is established.
1870/--/-- 8 - The city of Miami is founded in Florida.
1870/12/14 9 *** Wood, Samuel Armitage [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Wood, James Elvin and Baker, Aurelia (Wood)
1871/--/-- 9 - American explorer Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr. Livingston in central Africa.
1871/--/-- 9 - Charles Taze Russell founds the Jehovah's Witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 9 - Fire destroys one-third of the city of Chicago.
1871/--/-- 9 - P.T Barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 9 - The Franco-Prussian War ends; Alsace and Lorraine are ceded to Germany.
1871/--/-- 9 - The French surrender to Prussia incites the Commune of Paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 9 - The German Empire is formally proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles.
1871/--/-- 9 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 9 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain
1872/--/-- 10 - American artist James McNeill Whistler paints the Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1872/--/-- 10 - English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes Middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 10 - Indian leader Kintpuash leaves the Modoc reservation; the Modoc Wars begin.
1872/--/-- 10 - Monet paints Impression: Sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 10 - Photographer Eadweard Muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 10 - The Challenger Expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 10 - The cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest (the capital of Hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 10 - The death of Kamehameha V ends the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 10 - The first woman impressionist artist Berthe Morisot paints The Cradle.
1872/02/06 10 *** Wood, Nannie Piera (White) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Wood, Armistead Armstrong
1872/10/12 10 *** Gwinn, Reuben Wood [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Gwinn, George W. and Wood, Elizabeth Gibbons (Gwinn)
1873/--/-- 11 - Englishman Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 11 - French novelist Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days.
1873/--/-- 11 - The Pacific Scandal in Canada causes the collapse of the Conservative government.
1873/--/-- 11 - The Panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the U.S.
1873/08/07 11 *** Wood, Elizabeth Gibbons (Gwinn) [1st cousin] - Died Guinn cem. Clinton County Kentucky
1874/--/-- 12 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 12 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 12 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 12 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 12 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 12 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 12 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1875/--/-- 13 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 13 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 13 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 13 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 13 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 13 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1876/--/-- 14 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 14 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 14 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 14 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 14 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 14 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 14 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 14 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 14 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 14 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 14 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 14 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 14 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 14 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 14 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 14 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
1876/04/18 14 *** Ewing, Jesse Chilton [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Ewing, Benjamin and Hudson, Martha (Ewing)
1876/06/05 14 *** Wood, Armistead Armstrong [1st cousin] - Died
1877/--/-- 15 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- 15 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- 15 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 15 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- 15 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- 15 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- 15 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- 15 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 15 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- 15 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 15 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1878/--/-- 16 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 16 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 16 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 16 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 16 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 16 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 16 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 16 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 17 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 17 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 17 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 17 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 17 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 17 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 17 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 17 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 17 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 17 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 18 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 18 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 18 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 18 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 18 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 18 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 18 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 18 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1881/--/-- 19 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 19 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 19 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 19 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 19 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 19 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 19 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 19 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 19 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 19 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 19 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1882/--/-- 20 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 20 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 20 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 20 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 20 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 20 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1883/--/-- 21 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 21 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 21 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 21 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 21 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 21 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 21 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 21 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 21 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 21 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 21 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1883/01/01 21 *** Ewing, Matthew [Uncle] - Died
1883/02/-- 21 *** Wood, Anna H. [Aunt] - Died Tarrant County, Texas
1883/10/23 21 *** Wood, Bayless Lemoyn [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Wood, James Elvin and Baker, Aurelia (Wood)
1884/--/-- 22 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 22 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 22 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 22 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 22 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 22 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 23 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 23 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 23 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 23 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 23 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 23 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 23 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 23 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 23 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 23 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1885/12/06 24 *** Ewing, William Jesse - Died Huntsville, Texas
In 1861 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1861 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1861 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1861 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1861 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1861 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
In 1861 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:24