Spring Semester 2000, Vol. 11, no. 1

Statue of Liberty Timeline (1865-1886)

1865   

  • dinner in France held by Edouard de Laboulaye, where de Laboulaye suggests statue to Bartholdi

  • President Lincoln assassinated

  • 13th Amendment abolishes slavery

1866  

  • Vassili Kandinsky, Russian painter, born

1867   

  • Kathe Kollwitz, German artist, born

  • gold discovered in Wyoming

  • Russia sells Alaska to America for $7,200,000

1868    

  • Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women

  • skeleton of Cro-Magnon man (first homo-sapien in Europe) found in France

1869    

  • opening of Suez Canal

  • Cincinnati Red Stockings become first salaried baseball team

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman

  • Suffrage Association

1870    

  • Franco Prussian war

  • John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company

1871   

  • P.T. Barnum opens his circus in Brooklyn, New York

  • George Eliot publishes Middlemarch

  • Charles Darwin publishes The Descent of Man

1872   

  • Civil War in Spain

  • first international soccer game (England vs. Scotland)

1873    

  • Susan Elizabeth Blow opens first public kindergarten in America in Missouri

  • color photographs first developed

1874    

  • Robert Frost born

  • Gertrude Stein born

  • first American zoo established in Philadelphia

1875   

  • Kwang Hsu becomes Emperor of China

  • first roller skating rink opens in London

1876            

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

  • Colorado becomes state in America

1877    

  • Thomas Alva Edison invents phonograph

1878

  • David Hughes invents microphone

  • Thomas Hardy publishes The Return of the Native

1879   

  • Henrik Ibsen publishes A Doll?s House

1880    

  • Helen Keller, American deaf and blind educator, born

  • Paiute Indian leader Sarah Winnemucca protests Indian Reservation conditions

1881    

  • Pablo Picasso born

  • political parties founded in Japan

1882    

  • Virginia Woolf, English novelist, born

  • Charles Darwin dies

  • America bans Chinese immigrants for 10 years

1883    

  • first skyscraper built in Chicago (10 stories)

  • Sojourner Truth, American reformer, dies

 

1884    

  • Rodin completes The Burghers of Calais sculpture

  • Oxford English Dictionary begins publication

1885    

  • Benz builds gasoline engine for motorcar

  • Sir Francis Galton proves the individuality of fingerprints

  • Vincent Van Gogh paints The Potato Eaters

1886    

  • Statue of Liberty dedicated

 

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