Swan Lake” performed, Mahler composes, Richard Strauss composes, Robert Newman arranges concerts in London, Wilhelm Kienzl composes, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X-rays, Marconi invents radio telegraphy, Sigmund Freud writes, death of Louis Pasteur, Auguste and Louis Lumiere invents motion-picture camera, Konstantin Isiolkovksi formulates principle of rocket reaction propulsion, C von Linde constructs machine for liquefaction of air, King C Gilette invents safety razor, death of German socialist Friedrich Engels, Peter Latham of Britain becomes world lawn tennis champion, Kiel Canal of germany opened, Oscar Wilde’s unsuccessful libel action against Marquis-of-Queensberry, American Bowling Congress formed to govern the game, First professional football game played in US at Latrobe PA, First US Open Golf Championship held, Cuba revolts against Spain, US supports intervention, End of Chinese-Japanese War providing for an independent Korea. China turns Taiwan over to Japan - later returned to China under force, Friedrich Engels dies, Marconi works the wireless radio, X rays discovered by Roentgen, Louis Pasteur dies, Mar 22 first motion picture shown in a theater in Paris, Marconi invents wireless telegraphy, Cubans revolt against Spain, UT Constitutional Convention held Mar, Nov - Constitution ratified, Male residents get to vote, NY creates Dept of Sanitation, First auto race Nov 28 in Chicago, Dec 9 First Stake in Mexico created, Jun 9 First Stake in CAN created at Cardston, Utah Constitutional Convention created, Strauss composes, Homer paints, Roentgen discovers X rays, Malayan rubber plantations begin production, Treaty of Shimonoseki - China cedes Taiwan and Pescadores to Japan, Sun Yixan attempt at revolution in Guangzhou fails, US promotes Monroe Doctrine in conflict between Britain and Venezuela; treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan humiliates China; War for Cuban Independence started; unions super-organize in France
1896 Bad year for tornadoes in US, end reign of Nasir-ud-Din of Persia, France takes Madagascar, Ethiopian ruler Menelik crushes Italian army at Adowa, British persuade Malay states to form federation, St. Louis MO tornado, tsunamis in Japan, Plessy v Ferguson ruling in New Orleans * Cleveland admits Utah as 45th state, Church property returned, McKinley wins election, in spite of 83% of Utah voting for Bryan, College of New Jersey becomes Princeton U, Apr- Sandusky OH gets F4 tornado, May - Most violent week of tornado activity in US history in Great lakes region, May - St. Louis tornado drives wood through steel, End of minor US depression, UT - miners limited to 8 hour day, “Wild Bunch” formed in Brown’s Park UT by Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, death of American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, death of German pianist Clara Wiek-Schumann, death of French author Edmond de Goncourt, death of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, death of German chemist Friedrich August von Kekule, death of English painter John Everett Millais, death of Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson, death of English painter and sculptor Lord Leighton, death of Alfred Nobel – founder of Nobel Peace Prize and inventor of TNT, death of French-English artist and novelist George du Maurier, death of German historian Heinrich von Tritschke, death of English poet and artist William Morris, death of Brazilian composer A Carlos Gomez, death of German philosopher Richard Acenarius, death of French lyric poet Paul Verlaine, end of Australian heat wave killing 437, Japanese quake and tsunami – very strong, shortest war ever – Zanzibar v. Britain lasts 38 minutes, start of Indian famine killing 19 million by 1902, Plessy v. Ferguson allows “separate but equal”, death of German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, end of Nasr-ed-Din the Shah of Persia, Greece - Olympic games revived, Early zippers patented by Whitcomb Judson, Brooks Brothers introduce button-down collars for polo players, Starr Jameson surrenders at Doornkop – Kaiser William II sends “Kruger telegram” – Cecil Rhodes resigns premiership, military alliance between Transvaal and Orange Free State – Matabele revolt in Rhodesia put down by Baden-Powell, UT becomes state, Italy defeated by Abyssinians at Asowa – Italy sues for peace and withdraws its protectorate from Abyssinia, New evidence for the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus suppressed in France, Nasr-ed-Din Shah of Persia assassinated, France annexes Madagascar, Further massacres of Armenians in Constantinople, Kitchener begins campaign against the Mahdi in Sudan, Russia and China sign Manchuria Convention, Czar Nicholas II visits Paris and London, William McKinley elected #25, death of writer Verlaine, death of American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, death of French author Edmond de Goncourt, death of English writer William Morris, Pierre Louys writes, RM Riike writes, Chekhov writes, Henri Bergson writes, Five annual Nobel Prizes established in physics physiology medicine chemistry literature and peace, foundation of Zionism as Theodor Herzl writes, Frederick Leighton paints “Clytie”, national portrait gallery moved to Westminster, Cartoonist Phil May joins “Punch”, German art magazines appear in Munich, death of musician Anton Burckner, Sidney Jones composes, death of German pianist Clara Wick-Schumann, Edward MacDowell composes “Indian Suite”, Richard Strauss composes “Also Sprach Zarathustra”, Puccini composes “La Boheme”, Hugo Wolf composes, Giordano composes, last Gilbert and Sullivan composition “The Grand Duke”, William Ramsay discovers helium, Enrest Rutherford finds magnetic detection of electrical waves, Niagara falls electrical plant opens, death of Alfred Nobel French physicist AH Becquerel discovers radioactivity, first English all-steel building, Alfred Harmsworth issues news “Daily Mail”, first modern Olympics held in Athens, “Persimmon” wins Derby – horse owned by Prince of Wales, First Alpine ski school founded in Austria, Royal Victorian Order founded, Beginning of Klondike gold rush at Bonanza Creek CAN, Cleveland admits Utah as 45th state, Church property returned, McKinley wins election, in spite of 83% of Utah voting for Bryan, Brahms and Puccini compose, Gauguin paints, Alfred Nobel dies, first US showing of motion pictures, First real Olympics in modern times in Athens, Utah becomes 45th state Jan 4, William McKinley elected #25, Congress declares Jim Crow laws legal in Plessy v Ferguson, Bryan is free silver candidate, Gold discovered in the Klondike Aug 17, 8 hour work day becomes law, Formal fast Sunday initiated Nov 5, Congress gives Church property rights again, Duryea Motor Wagon Co. Makes first Motor vehicle, gold discovered in the Yukon, Ndebele massacre whites and their African supporters in Matebeleland, China, through Li Hongzhang, permits Russia to build railroad across Manchuria, Malay states of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang are federated, Ethiopian defeat of Italians at Adowa secures 40 years of independence, Holland (Netherlands) extends suffrage; UT enters union; Democrats win presidency with McKinley, Labor groups gain power in Democratic Party; Italians defeated in Abyssinia AFR; Gold rush in Klondike
1897 WV Elva Zona Heaster-Shue found dead, and afterward her ghost appears to her mother proclaiming murder. Hercorpse is exhumed and shown to have a crushed windpipe, Assam India quake and Sanriku tsunami kills 1500 est. 8.3, Slavery banned in Zanzibar, New Zealand introduces eight-hour working day and retirement pensions, Eruption in Philippines at Mt. Mayon killing 1335, McKinley meets with Saints, cannot make the trip to Utah, appoints LDS for position, Dingley Terriff raises rates to 57%, Gold discovered in Alaska, UT - Actress Betty Compson born in Beaver UT, Butch Cassidy and “Wild Bunch” rob mining camp at Castle Gate – camp at Hanksville’s Robbers Roost, death of Swiss art historian Jakob Burchardt, death of Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant, death of Heinrich von Stephan the German statesman and promoter of the First International Postal Union, death of George M Pullman the designer of railroad cars, death of German composer Johannes Brahms, death of American economist Henry George, death of French novelist Alphonse Daudet, small CA quake 6.3, WEB Du Bois and Rev. Alexander Crummell establish African Negro Academy, British J.J. Thompson discovers electron, Emile Durkeim's "Suicide", William Falkner born, Crete proclaims union with Greece – Turkey declares war with Greece and is defeated in Thessaly – armistice followed by Peace of Constantinople, William McKinkey inaugurated, King of Korea proclaims self emperor, Mathieu Dreyfud discovers that the document on which his brother Alfred was convicted was written by major MC Esterhazy – Dreyfus affair?, Germany occupoes Kiao-Chow in N China, Russia occupoes Port Authur, death of French novelist Anphonse Daudet, Writers: Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Stefan George, Kipling (Captains Courageous), Strindberg, HG Wells (The Invisible Man), Edmond rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac), Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Havelock Ellis, death of Swiss art historian Jakob Burckhardt, Matisse paints “Dinner Table”, Rodin sculpts “Victor Hugo”, Rudolph Dirks debuts “Katzenjammer Kids” comic strip, Henri Le Douanier Rousseau paints “Sleeping Gypsy”, Sir Henry Tate donates Tate gallery to British people, Max Klinger paints, Pissarro paints, death of Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler conducts Vienna Opera, Vincent d’Indy composes, Ronald ross discovers malaria bacillus, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) studies cathode rays, Julius Hann writes “Handbook of Climatology” J.J.Thompson discovers electron, Severe famine in India, World Expo in Brussels, founding of Royal Automobile Club in London, Sultin of Zanzibar abolishes slavery, Zionist Congress in Basel Switzerland under Herzl and Nordau, Wueen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, McKinley meets with Saints, cannot make the trip to Utah, appoints LDS for position, US intervenes in Cuban conflict. Spain grants Cuba self- government, but riots break out, Brahm dies, Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Congress passes the Dingley Tariff, Oct 15 Church announces it would issue bonds to lighten the debt, President Wilford Woodruff dies Sep 2, President Lorenzo Snow ordained Sep 13, Apr 24 Spain declares war on US, Soft coal miners go on strike as United Mine Workers, winning an 8 hour day, Church membership reaches 250,000, Strauss and Sousa compose, Pathan uprising on nw frontier in India put down, Death of Johannes Brahms, Laurier if Canada creates tariff deal with Britain; end of Panic (depression) in US - six year upturn
1898 Utahns volunteer in Spanish American war, In China, Dowager Empress Cixi crushes reform attempts, US annexes Hawaii, Drought and famine in India * McKinley appoints George Albert Smith (not an apostle then) to U.S. Land Office in Utah, Annie Oakley volunteers to lead women sharpshooters into Spanish American war, Jan - F4 tornado strikes Fort Smith AR,
Feb - First female cyclone named in Australia as Eline hits, SD adopts initiative and referendum processes for balloting, Teddy Roosevelt leads and organizes the "Rough Riders", U.S. sympathies turn toward Cuba and against Spain as American business interests suffer from the revolt, Feb - news articles showing anti-American sentiment from Spain published, Feb - Battleship Maine sunk in Cuban harbor, Sec. of Navy Theodore Roosevelt publicly criticizes McKinley for not declaring war, Mar - U.S. sends ultimatum to Spain, which is accepted April 9, Apr 19 - - war declared on Spain, Jul - U.S. acquires Wake island, Aug - Manila, Philippines surrenders to U.S., Oct - Spain and U.S. enter treaty negotiation, Philippines rebel against U.S. rule, death of British statesman William Gladstone, death of German statesman Otto von Bismarck, death of German novelist Theodor Fontane, death of Swiss author Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, death of French painter Gustave Moreau, death of German botanist Ferdinand Julius Cohn, death of Eduard Remenyi the Hungarian violinist who toured with Brahms, death of author Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), death of Belgian painter and engraver Felician Rops, death of English painter and designer Edward Burne-Jones, death of false claimant to the Tichborne estates Arthur Orton, death of German novelist and Egyptologist Georg Ebers, death of American temperance worker and reformer France E Willard, death of Scottish novelist William Black, death of French poet Stephane Mallarme, two notable CA quakes, John Merrick founds North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, starting a push for black businesses in Durham, NC, General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims Philippines independent of Spain, Chinese "100 Days" reforms repressed – end of Emperor Kwanag Hsu, Spanish American War - US gains Cuba and Puerto Rico, Curies discover radium and polonium, Major Esterhazy acquitted in Dreyfus forgery trial – Zola publishes open letter to French President and is impridoned – Colonel Henry admits forgery of a document in Dreyfus case, Paul Kruger reelected President of Transcaal, Russia obtains lease of Port Arthur China – Britain obtains lease of Kowloon, Kitchener wins battles at Atbara river and Omdurman and reaches Fashoda, US declares war on Spain over Cuba – Spanish fleet destroyed at Manila – Treaty of Paris – Spain cedes Cuba Puerto Rico Guam and Philippines for 20 million, death of Bismarck, death of Gladstone, Empress Elizabeth of Austria murdered by Italian anarchist in Geneva, Kaiser Wilhelm visits Palestine and Syria, “The Boxers” anti-Western group forms in China, death of author Stephane Mallarme, death of German novelist Theodor Fontane, Authors: Knut Hamsun, Anthony Hope, Thomas Hardy, JK Huysmans, Henry James (Turn of the Screw), HG Wells (War of the Worlds), Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Bismarck, death of Belgian painter Felicien Rops, Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow opens, Toscanini appears at La Scala in Milan, Ramsay discovers inert atmospheric gasses of xenon krypton and neon, Japanese bacteriologist Shiga discovers dysentery bacillus (Shigella), German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds his airship, Photographs first taken utilizing artificial light, Paris metro opens, following construction of Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges New York’s five boroughs decide to unite as New York, McKinley appoints George Albert Smith (not an apostle then) to U.S. Land Office in Utah, US sends the Maine to Cuba, blown up Feb 15... Battle of San Juan hill July, Dec 10 Treaty of Paris 1898 ends Spanish American War, US annexes Hawaii, Spanish-American War after Spain crushes Cuban rebellion, US gets Philippines, Guam, Wake, Puerto Rico Spanish- American War, President Lorenzo Snow re-affirms tithing May 8, Marie and Pierre Curie discover Radium, Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac, Rimsky-Korsakov and Strauss compose, Britain creates W African Frontier Force, Kitchener defeats Mahdists at Omdurman and defuses Fashoda incident in Africa- clash between French and British military missions in Sudan causes mutual hostility, McKinkey declares war on Spain, Spain loses Philippines, US gains Hawaii; treaty signed for division of Portuguese colonies in Africa; due to Chinese poverty, ports leased to Germans and British - including Hong Kong
1899 Drought at horn of AFR, Second Boer War in S Africa begins, France proclaims protectorate in Laos, Australian and New Zealand troops sent to Boer War, "Storm King" blizzard hits East Coast from FL to ME, British withdraw from Samoa, leaving control to U.S. and Germany until WWI, death of Johann Strauss the “Waltz King”, death of French drama critic Francisque Sarcey, death of British naval officer Philip Howard Colomb that devised the signaling system, death of German statesman Leo Count von Caprivi, death of Horatio Alger the American author of novels for boys, death of American lawyer and agnostic Robert G Ingersoll, death of American evangelist Dwight L Moody, death of American playwright Augustin Daly, death of French impressionist Alfred Sisley, death of Austrian operetta composer Karl Millocker, storm in Norway kills 30, Alaskan quakes est. at 7.9 and 8.5, National Afro-American Council calls for day of fasting to protest lynchings and massacres, Scott Joplin presents “Maple Leaf Rag”, Guglielmo Marconi sends first radio signal across English Channel, US refuses to recognize Philippines as independent – war ignited, death of RW Bunsen inventor of the burner, death of Italian painter Giovanni Segantini, rubber-heel shoes patented, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan convention, Philippines demand independence from US, Johannesburg Uitlanders complain to Queen Victoria against Boers, Bloemfontein Conference on Transvaal – Paul Kruger’s ultimatum provokes Boer War between Britain and the Boers – Boers defeated at Glencoe – Boer General Piet Joubert wins Battle of Nicholson’s Nek and takes Ladysmith in Natal – British are defeated at Stormberg Magersfontein and Colenso (“Black Week”) Canadian and Australian volunteers land in S Africa, First Peace Conference at the hague, French annul Dreyfus judgement and orders retrial – Dreyfus pardoned by presidential decree, Kaiser Wilhelm II visits England, Germany secures Baghdad Railroad contract, Karl Kraus begins to publish “Fackel” in Vienna, Authors: Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Pinero, Ibsen, Stefan george, Andre Gide, Ki[ling, Tolstoi, Oscar Wilde (The Importance of being Earnest”, HS Chamberlain, John Dewey (School and Society), Ernst Haeckel, Alexander Bain, James Ward, Pope Leo XIII condemns the “Americanism” if Isaac Thomas Hecker, death of Italian painter Giovanni Segantini, death of French painter Alfred Sisley, Elgar composes Sibelius composes, bruckner composes, death of Johann Strauss, death of Karl Millocker the Viennese composer, Richard Strauss (not Johann the dead) composes, Rutherford discovers alpha and beta rays in radioactive atoms, Pringsheim and Lummer start radiation studies, First magnetic recording of sound, London Borough councils established, by this time the Monster of Lough Auna in Iraland and Angeoa at Iliamna Lake in Alaska seen – both horse-like, Battle of Colenso during Second Boer War results in humiliating British defeat, S African State wars against the British, Philippines rebel against US control, Scott Joplin and others popularize Ragtime music, Boer War in S. Africa, First Hague Conference meets, Open Door policy proclaimed allowing trade with China, Feb 10 Spanish-American war officially ends, Ravel and Schoenberg, Sibelius and Joplin compose, Boer War, Second Anglo-Boer War - British overcome Afrikaners, Boer War begins as African republics send Britain an ultimatum to be left alone; Boer War begins in southern Africa; Hay proposes Open Door doctrine toward China; Britain withdraws from Samoa
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