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Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century

Table of Contents

Arabic Literary Renaissance




Development of Working-Class Libraries




Spread of the Waltz




Emergence of the Primitives




Davy Develops the Arc Lamp




Professional Theaters Spread Throughout America




First Asteroid Is Discovered




House of Representatives Elects Jefferson President




Tripolitan War




Flinders Explores Australia




Britain Adopts Gas Lighting




Cobbett Founds the Political Register




U.S. Military Academy Is Established




Trevithick Patents the High-Pressure Steam Engine




Lambton Begins Trigonometrical Survey of India




Dalton Formulates the Atomic Theory of Matter




Elgin Ships Parthenon Marbles to England




Marbury v. Madison




Louisiana Purchase




Great Britain Begins Colonizing Tasmania




British and Foreign Bible Society Is Founded




Saussure Publishes His Research on Plant Metabolism




Ohio Enacts the First Black Codes




Lewis and Clark Expedition




Twelfth Amendment Is Ratified




Bonaparte Is Crowned Napoleon I




Burr’s Conspiracy




Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Introduces the Romantic Age




Exploration of West Africa




Battle of Trafalgar




Battle of Austerlitz




Pike Explores the American Southwest




Bowdler Publishes The Family Shakespeare




Moore Publishes Irish Melodies




Rise of the Knickerbocker School




Congress Bans Importation of African Slaves




Hegel Publishes The Phenomenology of Spirit




Maiden Voyage of the Clermont




Ottomans Suppress the Janissary Revolt




Tenskwatawa Founds Prophetstown




American Fur Company Is Chartered




Dos de Mayo Insurrection in Spain




Peninsular War in Spain




Lamarck Publishes Zoological Philosophy




Fletcher v. Peck




Astorian Expeditions Explore the Pacific Northwest Coast




Hidalgo Issues El Grito de Dolores




Mexican War of Independence




Egypt Fights the Wahh?b?s




Construction of the National Road




Muhammad ‘Al? Has the Maml?ks Massacred




Luddites Destroy Industrial Machines




Krupp Works Open at Essen




Battle of Tippecanoe




Brothers Grimm Publish Fairy Tales




Burckhardt Discovers Egypt’s Abu Simbel




War of 1812




Napoleon Invades Russia




Battle of Salamanca




Battle of Borodino




Founding of McGill University




Bolívar’s Military Campaigns




Creek War




Battle of the Thames




Battle of Leipzig




Fraunhofer Invents the Spectroscope




Scott Publishes Waverley




Exploration of Arabia




Goya Paints Third of May 1808* Execution of the Citizens of Madrid




Communitarian Experiments at New Harmony




France’s Bourbon Dynasty Is Restored




Britain Acquires the Cape Colony




Congress of Vienna




Hartford Convention




Westward American Migration Begins




Biedermeier Furniture Style Becomes Popular




Battle of New Orleans




Treaty of Ghent Takes Effect




Tambora Volcano Begins Violent Eruption




Red River Raids




Organization of the German Confederation




Battle of Waterloo




Second Peace of Paris




Laënnec Invents the Stethoscope




Rossini’s The Barber of Seville Debuts




Second Bank of the United States Is Chartered




African Methodist Episcopal Church Is Founded




American Bible Society Is Founded




Rise of the Cockney School




Ricardo Identifies Seven Key Economic Principles




Zulu Expansion




San Martín’s Military Campaigns




Third Maratha War




Seminole Wars




Search for the Northwest Passage




Schopenhauer Publishes The World as Will and Idea




Irving’s Sketch Book Transforms American Literature




Babbage Designs a Mechanical Calculator




Adams-Onís Treaty Gives the United States Florida




McCulloch v. Maryland




Unitarian Church Is Founded




Savannah Is the First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic




British Parliament Passes the Six Acts




China’s Stele School of Calligraphy Emerges




Free Public School Movement




Social Reform Movement




Jesuits Are Expelled from Russia, Naples, and Spain




Europeans Explore the Antarctic




Costumbrismo Movement




London’s Cato Street Conspirators Plot Assassinations




Missouri Compromise




Congress Passes Land Act of 1820




Neapolitan Revolution




Ampère Reveals Magnetism’s Relationship to Electricity




Greeks Fight for Independence from the Ottoman Empire




Santa Fe Trail Opens




Jedediah Smith Explores the Far West




Exploration of North Africa




Brazil Becomes Independent




Great Britain Withdraws from the Concert of Europe




Hokusai Produces Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji




Hartford Female Seminary Is Founded




Wakley Introduces The Lancet




President Monroe Articulates the Monroe Doctrine




British Parliament Repeals the Combination Acts




Paris Salon of 1824




Ranke Develops Systematic History




Buckland Presents the First Public Dinosaur Description




Gibbons v. Ogden




First Performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony




U.S. Election of 1824




Great Java War




Stockton and Darlington Railway Opens




Erie Canal Opens




Decembrist Revolt




First Meetings of the Plymouth Brethren




Young Germany Movement




Portugal’s Miguelite Wars




Arnold Reforms Rugby School




Cherokee Phoenix Begins Publication




Second Russo-Turkish War




Roman Catholic Emancipation




Webster Publishes the First American Dictionary of English




U.S. Election of 1828




Irish Immigration to Canada




Treaty of Adrianople




British Abolish Suttee in India




Scientists Study Remains of Giant Moas




American Renaissance in Literature




Trail of Tears




Southerners Advance Proslavery Arguments




Barbizon School of Landscape Painting Flourishes




Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Opens




Webster and Hayne Debate Slavery and Westward Expansion




Hugo’s Hernani Incites Rioting




Smith Founds the Mormon Church




Congress Passes Indian Removal Act




France Conquers Algeria




Lyell Publishes Principles of Geology




July Revolution Deposes Charles X




Belgian Revolution




Delacroix Paints Liberty Leading the People




First Polish Rebellion




Mazzini Founds Young Italy




Hiroshige Completes The Tokaido Fifty-Three Stations




Garrison Begins Publishing The Liberator




Cherokee Cases




Tocqueville Visits America




McCormick Invents the Reaper




Turner Launches Slave Insurrection




Faraday Converts Magnetic Force into Electricity




Turko-Egyptian Wars




Abdelkader Leads Algeria Against France




La Sylphide Inaugurates Romantic Ballet’s Golden Age




British Parliament Passes the Reform Act of 1832




Jackson Vetoes Rechartering of the Bank of the United States




Nullification Controversy




British Parliament Passes the Factory Act




Great Britain Occupies the Falkland Islands




Oxford Movement Begins




Slavery Is Abolished Throughout the British Empire




Birth of the Penny Press




Carlist Wars Unsettle Spain




American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded




Oberlin College Opens




German States Join to Form Customs Union




Clay Begins American Whig Party




British Parliament Passes New Poor Law




Blair Patents His First Seed Planter




Finney Lectures on “Revivals of Religion”




South Africa’s Great Trek Begins




Strauss Publishes The Life of Jesus Critically Examined




Andersen Publishes His First Fairy Tales




Melbourne, Australia, Is Founded




British Parliament Passes Municipal Corporations Act




Texas Revolution




Transcendental Movement Arises in New England




Colt Patents the Revolver




Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad Opens




Mazzini Begins London Exile




Panic of 1837 Begins




Rebellions Rock British Canada




Mount Holyoke Female Seminary Opens




Aroostook War




Schwann and Virchow Develop Cell Theory




Chartist Movement




Queen Victoria’s Coronation




Blanc Publishes The Organization of Labour




Daguerre and Niépce Invent Daguerreotype Photography




First Afghan War




Layard Explores and Excavates Assyrian Ruins




Amistad Slave Revolt




First Opium War




Stephens Begins Uncovering Mayan Antiquities




American Era of “Old” Immigration




Russian Realist Movement




Liebig Advocates Artificial Fertilizers




Great Britain Establishes Penny Postage




British Houses of Parliament Are Rebuilt




U.S. Election of 1840




Upper and Lower Canada Unite




Congress Passes Preemption Act of 1841




Tennyson Publishes “Morte d’Arthur”




Commonwealth v. Hunt




Frémont Explores the American West




Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion




Webster-Ashburton Treaty Settles Maine’s Canadian Border




Carlyle Publishes Past and Present




Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Debuts




First Minstrel Shows




Wilson Launches The Economist




Anti-Irish Riots Erupt in Philadelphia




Morse Sends First Telegraph Message




Goodyear Patents Vulcanized Rubber




Clipper Ship Era Begins




Modern Baseball Begins




Great Irish Famine




Newman Becomes a Roman Catholic




Mormons Begin Migration to Utah




Battle of Palo Alto




Mexican War




British Parliament Repeals the Corn Laws




United States Acquires Oregon Territory




United States Occupies California and the Southwest




Establishment of Independent U.S. Treasury




Smithsonian Institution Is Founded




Howe Patents His Sewing Machine




Safe Surgical Anesthesia Is Demonstrated




Boole Publishes The Mathematical Analysis of Logic




Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line Begins




Taos Rebellion




Semmelweis Develops Antiseptic Procedures




Liberia Proclaims Its Independence




Battle of Chapultepec




Douglass Launches The North Star




Exploration of East Africa




Italian Revolution of 1848




California Gold Rush Begins




Marx and Engels Publish The Communist Manifesto




Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ends Mexican War




Paris Revolution of 1848




Prussian Revolution of 1848




Second Anglo-Sikh War




Ground Is Broken for the Washington Monument




Seneca Falls Convention




Swiss Confederation Is Formed




Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Begins




Chinese Begin Immigrating to California




First Test of Canada’s Responsible Government




Dostoevski Is Exiled to Siberia




Rise of Burlesque and Vaudeville




First U.S. Petroleum Refinery Is Built




Underground Railroad Flourishes




Clausius Formulates the Second Law of Thermodynamics




Compromise of 1850




California’s Bloody Island Massacre




Second Fugitive Slave Law




Tennyson Becomes England’s Poet Laureate




Gold Is Discovered in New South Wales




Melville Publishes Moby Dick




Comte Advances His Theory of Positivism




China’s Taiping Rebellion




London Hosts the First World’s Fair




Akron Woman’s Rights Convention




America Wins the First America’s Cup Race




Modern New York Times Is Founded




Stowe Publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin




Dickens Publishes Bleak House




Canada’s Grand Trunk Railway Is Incorporated




Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Becomes Emperor of France




Qing Dynasty Confronts the Nian Rebellion




Pacific Railroad Surveys




National Council of Colored People Is Founded




Burton Enters Mecca in Disguise




Crimean War




Livingstone Sees the Victoria Falls




Gadsden Purchase Completes the U.S.-Mexican Border




Wallace’s Expeditions Give Rise to Biogeography




Perry Opens Japan to Western Trade




Congress Passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act




Birth of the Republican Party




Siege of Sevastopol




Battle of Balaklava




Nightingale Takes Charge of Nursing in the Crimea




Pius IX Decrees the Immaculate Conception Dogma




Bessemer Patents Improved Steel-Processing Method




Courbet Establishes Realist Art Movement




Walker Invades Nicaragua




Muslim Rebellions in China




Bleeding Kansas




Neanderthal Skull Is Found in Germany




Flaubert Publishes Madame Bovary




Second Opium War




Pasteur Begins Developing Germ Theory and Microbiology




First African American University Opens




Dred Scott v. Sandford




Otis Installs the First Passenger Elevator




Sepoy Mutiny Against British Rule




New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children Opens




Texas’s Cart War




British Parliament Passes the Matrimonial Causes Act




Brunel Launches the SS Great Eastern




Virgin Mary Appears to Bernadette Soubirous




Fraser River Gold Rush Begins




Lincoln-Douglas Debates




Rothschild Is First Jewish Member of British Parliament




France and Spain Invade Vietnam




Mill Publishes On Liberty




Smiles Publishes Self-Help




Battle of Solferino




Last Slave Ship Docks at Mobile




Napoleon III and Francis Joseph I Meet at Villafranca




Commercial Oil Drilling Begins




Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry




Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species




China’s Self-Strengthening Movement Arises




Lenoir Patents the Internal Combustion Engine




Pony Express Expedites Transcontinental Mail




Apache and Navajo War




Garibaldi’s Redshirts Land in Sicily




Lincoln Is Elected U.S. President




Archaeopteryx Lithographica Is Discovered




Morris Founds Design Firm




Apache Wars




Establishment of the Confederate States of America




Emancipation of Russian Serfs




Lincoln Is Inaugurated President




Italy Is Proclaimed a Kingdom




U.S. Civil War




First Battle of Bull Run




Transcontinental Telegraph Is Completed




France Occupies Mexico




Cixi’s Coup Preserves Qing Dynasty Power




Spencer Introduces Principles of Social Darwinism




Battle of the Monitor and the Virginia




Lincoln Signs the Homestead Act




Lincoln Signs the Morrill Land Grant Act




Great Sioux War




Bismarck Becomes Prussia’s Minister-President




Slave Traders Begin Ravaging Easter Island




Bah?’?ism Takes Form




Greece Unifies Under the Glücksburg Dynasty




Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation




First Underground Railroad Opens in London




Russia Crushes Polish Rebellion




Congress Passes the National Bank Acts




Union Enacts the First National Draft Law




Paris’s Salon des Refusés Opens




Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga




Long Walk of the Navajos




Reconstruction of the South




Hill Launches Housing Reform in London




Danish-Prussian War




“In God We Trust” Appears on U.S. Coins




International Red Cross Is Launched




First International Is Founded




Sherman Marches Through Georgia and the Carolinas




Sand Creek Massacre




Pius IX Issues the Syllabus of Errors




Mendel Proposes Laws of Heredity




Naturalist Movement Begins




Basuto War




Congress Creates the Freedmen’s Bureau




Surrender at Appomattox and Assassination of Lincoln




Paraguayan War




Watie Is Last Confederate General to Surrender




Booth Establishes the Salvation Army




Vassar College Opens




Morant Bay Rebellion




Mississippi Enacts First Post-Civil War Black Code




Thirteenth Amendment Is Ratified




Birth of the Ku Klux Klan




North German Confederation Is Formed




Civil Rights Act of 1866




Memphis and New Orleans Race Riots




Suffragists Protest the Fourteenth Amendment




Fenian Risings for Irish Independence




Red Cloud’s War




Austria and Prussia’s Seven Weeks’ War




Battle of Könniggrätz




First Transatlantic Cable Is Completed




Fetterman Massacre




Chisholm Trail Opens




Lister Publishes His Theory on Antiseptic Surgery




Marx Publishes Das Kapital




U.S. Department of Education Is Created




Russia Sells Alaska to the United States




Austrian Ausgleich




British North America Act




British Parliament Passes the Reform Act of 1867




Nobel Patents Dynamite




Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty




National Grange Is Formed




Bakunin Founds the Social Democratic Alliance




Last Convicts Land in Western Australia




Japan’s Meiji Restoration




Impeachment of Andrew Johnson




Lartet Discovers the First Cro-Magnon Remains




British Expedition to Ethiopia




Promulgation of Japan’s Charter Oath




Great Britain’s First Trades Union Congress Forms




Sholes Patents a Practical Typewriter




Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified




Burlingame Treaty




Spanish Revolution of 1868




Cuba’s Ten Years’ War




Washita River Massacre




Gladstone Becomes Prime Minister of Britain




Baseball’s First Professional Club Forms




First Modern Department Store Opens in Paris




Golden Age of Flamenco Begins




Mendeleyev Develops the Periodic Table of Elements




Westinghouse Patents His Air Brake




Woman Suffrage Associations Begin Forming




First Transcontinental Railroad Is Completed




Scandals Rock the Grant Administration




First Riel Rebellion




Suez Canal Opens




Wyoming Gives Women the Vote




Vatican I Decrees Papal Infallibility Dogma




Aesthetic Movement Arises




Japan Expands into Korea




Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society Is Founded




Standard Oil Company Is Incorporated




Schliemann Excavates Ancient Troy




Franco-Prussian War




Battle of Sedan




Prussian Army Besieges Paris




Darwin Publishes The Descent of Man




Díaz Drives Mexico into Civil War




Kulturkampf Against the Catholic Church in Germany




Great American Buffalo Slaughter




Przhevalsky Explores Central Asia




German States Unite Within German Empire




Third French Republic Is Established




Grant Signs Indian Appropriation Act




Paris Commune




Barnum Creates the First Modern American Circus




Treaty of Washington Settles U.S. Claims vs. Britain




Great Chicago Fire




Dominion Lands Act Fosters Canadian Settlement




Metropolitan Museum of Art Opens




Yellowstone Becomes the First U.S. National Park




Ward Launches a Mail-Order Business




Ukrainian Mennonites Begin Settling in Canada




Exploration of Africa’s Congo Basin




Zanzibar Outlaws Slavery




Second British-Ashanti War




“Crime of 1873”




Congress Passes the Comstock Antiobscenity Law




Three Emperors’ League Is Formed




Canada Forms the North-West Mounted Police




Anthony Is Tried for Voting




Canada’s Mackenzie Era




First Impressionist Exhibition




Red River War




Glidden Patents Barbed Wire




Supreme Court of Canada Is Established




Bizet’s Carmen Premieres in Paris




Congress Enacts the Page Law




Minor v. Happersett




Theosophical Society Is Founded




Eddy Establishes the Christian Science Movement




Post-Impressionist Movement Begins




Canada’s Indian Act




Spanish Constitution of 1876




Sioux War




Bulgarian Revolt Against the Ottoman Empire




Otto Invents a Practical Internal Combustion Engine




Philadelphia Hosts the Centennial Exposition




Battle of the Little Bighorn




Bell Demonstrates the Telephone




Declaration of the Rights of Women




First Performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle




American Library Association Is Founded




Former Samurai Rise in Satsuma Rebellion




Hayes Becomes President




Third Russo-Turkish War




Nez Perce War




Texas’s Salinero Revolt




Edison Patents the Cylinder Phonograph




Muybridge Photographs a Galloping Horse




Irving Manages London’s Lyceum Theatre




Congress of Berlin




Macdonald Returns as Canada’s Prime Minister




Germany Passes Anti-Socialist Law




A Doll’s House Introduces Modern Realistic Drama




Powell Publishes His Report on the American West




Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift




Zulu War




War of the Pacific




Edison Demonstrates the Incandescent Lamp




Brahmin School of American Literature Flourishes




Roux Develops the Theory of Mitosis




Rise of Yellow Journalism




Irish Tenant Farmers Stage First “Boycott”




First Boer War




Bismarck Introduces Social Security Programs in Germany




Stevenson Publishes Treasure Island




London’s Savoy Theatre Opens




First Birth Control Clinic Opens in Amsterdam




Metchnikoff Advances the Cellular Theory of Immunity




Standard Oil Trust Is Organized




Koch Announces His Discovery of the Tuberculosis Bacillus




French Indochina War




Kilmainham Treaty Makes Concessions to Irish Nationalists




Arthur Signs the Chinese Exclusion Act




Triple Alliance Is Formed




Korean Military Mutinies Against Japanese Rule




Battle of Tel el Kebir




San Francisco’s Chinese Six Companies Association Forms




Galton Defines “Eugenics”




World’s First Skyscraper Is Built




Pendleton Act Reforms the Federal Civil Service




Brooklyn Bridge Opens




Krakatoa Volcano Erupts




Civil Rights Cases




Metropolitan Opera House Opens in New York




Gaudí Begins Barcelona’s Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Família




Maxim Patents His Machine Gun




New Guilds Promote the Arts and Crafts Movement




Decadent Movement Flourishes




Fabian Society Is Founded




Indian Legislative Council Enacts the Ilbert Bill




Siege of Khartoum




Gold Is Discovered in the Transvaal




U.S. Election of 1884




Berlin Conference Lays Groundwork for the Partition of Africa




Twain Publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn




British Parliament Passes the Franchise Act of 1884




Indian National Congress Is Founded




Second Riel Rebellion Begins




Rise of the Symbolist Movement




French Right Wing Revives During Boulanger Crisis




Benz Patents the First Practical Automobile




Pemberton Introduces Coca-Cola




Irish Home Rule Debate Dominates British Politics




Statue of Liberty Is Dedicated




American Federation of Labor Is Founded




Interstate Commerce Act




General Allotment Act Erodes Indian Tribal Unity




American Protective Association Is Formed




Goodwin Develops Celluloid Film




Conan Doyle Introduces Sherlock Holmes




Rodin Exhibits The Thinker




Ramón y Cajal Shows How Neurons Work in the Nervous System




Rhodes Amalgamates Kimberley Diamondfields




Dunlop Patents the Pneumatic Tire




Great Britain Strengthens Its Royal Navy




Japan Adopts a New Constitution




Eiffel Tower Is Dedicated




Johnstown Flood




Addams Opens Chicago’s Hull-House




First Pan-American Congress




Dahomey-French Wars




Rise of Tin Pan Alley Music




Mississippi Constitution Disfranchises Black Voters




U.S. Census Bureau Announces Closing of the Frontier




Women’s Rights Associations Unite




Harrison Signs the Sherman Antitrust Act




Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin




Wounded Knee Massacre




Naismith Invents Basketball




Strowger Patents Automatic Dial Telephone System




Papal Encyclical on Labor




America’s “New” Immigration Era Begins




Toulouse-Lautrec Paints At the Moulin Rouge




Ellis Island Immigration Depot Opens




Diesel Patents the Diesel Engine




Anti-Japanese Yellow Peril Campaign Begins




Birth of the People’s Party




Hardie Becomes Parliament’s First Labour Member




Munch Paints The Scream




Nansen Attempts to Reach the North Pole




Chicago World’s Fair




New Zealand Women Win Voting Rights




British Subdue African Resistance in Rhodesia




National Council of Women of Canada Is Founded




Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Launch the Dry Cereal Industry




Ottomans Attempt to Exterminate Armenians




Franco-Russian Alliance




Pullman Strike




Kabo Reforms Begin Modernization of Korean Government




Sino-Japanese War




Dreyfus Affair




Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Premieres




Hearst-Pulitzer Circulation War




Hawaii’s Last Monarch Abdicates




Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Is Staged in St. Petersburg




Cuban War of Independence




Chinese Californians Form Native Sons of the Golden State




Germany’s Kiel Canal Opens




Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech




Röntgen Discovers X Rays




Nobel Bequeaths Funds for the Nobel Prizes




First Commercial Projection of Motion Pictures




Jameson Raid




Brooks Brothers Introduces Button-Down Shirts




Immigrant Farmers Begin Settling Western Canada




Herzl Founds the Zionist Movement




Sudanese War




Ethiopia Repels Italian Invasion




Modern Olympic Games Are Inaugurated




Plessy v. Ferguson




Marconi Patents the Wireless Telegraph




Laurier Becomes the First French Canadian Prime Minister




Klondike Gold Rush Begins




McKinley Is Elected President




First U.S. Hydroelectric Plant Opens at Niagara Falls




Ellis Publishes Sexual Inversion




Abel and Takamine Isolate Adrenaline




Greco-Turkish War




“Aspirin” Is Registered as a Trade Name




Bjerknes Founds Scientific Weather Forecasting




Congress Passes Dingley Tariff Act




Ross Establishes Malaria’s Transmission Vector




New Library of Congress Building Opens




Scramble for Chinese Concessions Begins




Beijerinck Discovers Viruses




Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party Is Formed




United States v. Wong Kim Ark




Stratosphere and Troposphere Are Discovered




Spanish-American War




Fashoda Incident Pits France vs. Britain




Moscow Art Theater Is Founded




Hilbert Publishes The Foundations of Geometry




Joplin Popularizes Ragtime Music and Dance




Rediscovery of Mendel’s Hereditary Theory




Philippine Insurrection




First Hague Peace Conference




Hay Articulates “Open Door” Policy Toward China




South African War




Siege of Mafeking




Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams




Lebesgue Develops New Integration Theory




Wiechert Invents the Inverted Pendulum Seismograph




Puccini’s Tosca Premieres in Rome




Kodak Introduces Brownie Cameras




British Labour Party Is Formed




Evans Discovers Crete’s Minoan Civilization




Boxer Rebellion




Suppression of Yellow Fever




Zeppelin Completes the First Flying Dirigible




Galveston Hurricane




Dreiser Publishes Sister Carrie




Articulation of Quantum Theory




General Electric Opens Research Laboratory