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French neo-impressionist painter Georges Seurat makes Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte.
Georges Seurat die
Chardonnet silk
Pointillism was made
Pointillism died out
Thomas Stevens
Battle of Chelenqo
Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeastern USA
2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in north east US
French troops occupy Nioro
Ellis Island becomes the reception center
the Great Northern Railway
x-rays
Alaska becomes a US territory
1st roller coaster
Statue of Liberty
The first photograph of a tornado
Last of the eastern cougar
Battle of Nui Bop in the Sino-French War.
legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom
Chrome tanning process for leather patented
"What I Believe In"
Enigma outbreak of tornadoes
British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote
US adopts Standard Time
1st long-distance telephone call
Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world
Toledo Blue Stockings
Ringling Brothers circus premieres
Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
The 1st published "Good Housekeeping" magazine
"Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
US Salvation Army officially organized
1st mass production of shoes
Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1st cafeteria opens
"Manfred" symphony premieres
John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola
Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver
1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 died
Netherland's New Code of Criminal Law enforced
Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
Work begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day
Snow falls in San Francisco
Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Ilinois
Hannibal Goodwin
Gaslamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
Dmitri Mendeleev makes an ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet above Klin to observe an eclipse
Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
The National Geographic Society
Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system,
hailstones as big as oranges killed 246 people and 1600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad
First recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt
1st baby to be placed in an incubator
"Jack the Ripper" murders 2
The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim
Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim
National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time
Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after an argument with Paul Gauguin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
88 people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster, Ireland
Flood ravages Dutch coast
1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris
1st dishwashing machine marketed
2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers
Exposition Universelle in Paris
88 people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster
Cable Cars begin service
Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1st ship-to-shore wireless message
1st motion picture
Softball rules was adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
Belgium rules on the women and child labor law
1st female White House staffer
19.2 feet alligator shot
1st US state naval militia organized
A tornado strikes Louisville dead 76 and injuring 200
Ellis Island opened
Great Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland
Idaho admitted as 43rd state
Wyoming becomes 44th state
Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, 540 dead
Daughters of American Revolution founded
1st US Army - US Navy football game Navy 24 Amy 0
Mine explosion kills 109
Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
1st buffalo purchased
Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
music Hall opens in New York
The first public display of Edison's prototype
Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hail kills 16 horses
patents motion picture camera
Mine explosion kills 100
Coca-Cola is incorporated in Atlanta, USA
4th & last British government
Sunday school teacher
Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar
Jaap Eden
U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston
Cleveland passes Park Act
ice cream soda is America's national drink
Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time
Panic of 1893
"quick clay"
1st Ferris wheel
Great stock crash
Pomeroy, Iowa
The first cultured pearl
Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful"
1st US bowling magazine
combustion engine
Bering Sea
Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston
New Zealand
The first gasoline-powered car
3rd worst hurricane in US
Battle of Shangani
The treaty of the Durand Line
1st newspaper color supplement
Women vote
Electric car built
"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze"
1st public showing of the kinetoscope
Denmark adopts Mid-European time
flim of Fred Ott sneezing
Coca-Cola
11 strikers killed in a riot
Henri Desgrange
Boston fire
Karl Benz
Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley
Frederick Lugard's
Hinckley
H. H. Holmes
Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1st rolling lift bridge opens
Moving picture projector patented
Cuban war for independence begins
Los Angeles Railway established
Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power
First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
Battle at Amba Alagi
Ping Yang
drunk driving
First election of Hawaiian Republic
Dr Roux of Paris
Nicholas II
Announcement of gold discovery in Yukon
Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite
Tornado kills 78 in Texas
Tornado hit St Louis
Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio
Henry Ford
Tsunami
First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand
1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii
Battle at Bida Gold Coast
A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere
Battle at Thessalie
The first successful submarine
Possibly most severe quake in history
A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii
1st ship arrives in Seattle
1st electric taxis drive in London
1st British bus service opens
World's first car dealer opens in London
1st motorcycle race
London
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine
Treaty of Paris
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor
1st auto insurance policy in US issued
the first modern submarine
Battle of Atbara River
First Navy Law is passed
Spanish-American War
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act
US Marines land in Cuba
US marines attack
The United States Navy Hospital Corps
1st amusement pier opens
US captures Guam
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet
US Senate agrees to annex Hawai
Spanish American War
Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
Rudolf Diesel of Germanye
Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War
Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
Goodyear tire
Battle of Omdurman
Machine gun 1st used in battle
20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
Dutch railway opens
American flag raised in Puerto Rico
Cheerleading begins
Snow and ice storm over US kills 455
The Titanic
Cuba liberated from Spanish rule by the US
"automobile",
US takes possession of Wake Island
The Philippine-American War begins
US Congress begins using voting machines
US Congress authorizes the silver dollar
"Aspirin"
The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens
Ernest Rutherford
1st auto repair shop opens
New Richmond Tornado
Brazo River in Texas floods
1st motorcycle race
8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska
first can of evaporated milk
2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
Battle at Talana Hill
Battle at Elandslaagte Natal
Battle at Rietfontein
Battle of Ladysmith
Battle at Willow Grange
Battle at Belmont
Battle at Graspan, Cape colony
Battle of Mud River
The Battle of Tirad Pass
Boer War
Battle at Storm Berge
1st case of plague on Oahu
Battle at Colenso
British fleet
