In the year 1828, the first American-Indian newspaper, Cherokee Phoenix, is published in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (Feb 21), French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, and later return alive (Apr 20), Simon Bolivar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia (Aug 27), Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States (Dec 3) - and all these fine people were born: 1828-xxxx James McKay* fur trader - Fort Edmonton, Canada (1879/51) 1828-0101 1828-0103 Karl Collan* writer/ composer - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1871/43) 1828-0105 Gabriel Jussilainen* farmer/folk lorist/fennoman - Korvi village, GD of Finland (1884/56) 1828-0110 1828-0117 Alexandru Cernat* Romanian general/politician - Galați or Vârlezi, Principality of Moldavia (1893/65) 1828-0122 Dora d’Istria* Romanian writer/feminist - Bucharest, Wallachia (1888/60) 1828-0123 Saigō Takamori* 西郷 隆盛 samurai - Kagoshima, Japan (1877/49) 1828-0131 Oskar Toppelius* schoolteacher/literary reseacher/theater critic - Oulu, GD of Finland (1904/76) 1828-0201 Meyer Guggenheim* the patriarch of the Guggenheim family - Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland (1905/77) 1828-0208 Jules Verne* poet/playwright/science fiction writer - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1905/77) 1828-0224 Matthew T. Continue reading

In the year 1895, Mintonette - later known as volleyball - is created by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts (Feb 9), first worldwide gasoline bus starts in Germany (Mar 18), Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (Mar 30), Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays (Nov 5), Alfred Nobel signs his last will, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (Nov 27), Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data on climate change (Dec 11), Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris (Dec 28) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1896, the X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time (Jan 18), the very first speeding fine is written in England (Jan 28), the first edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport is published (Apr 3), the first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece (Apr 6), the Ford Quadricycle is completed, marking the start of “putting America - and the rest of the world - on wheels” (Jun 4), Richard Strauss' _Also Sprach Zarahustra_is first performed, in Frankfurt (Nov 27), the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, the Glasgow Subway in Scotland, opens (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1897, the word “computer” is first used in the journal Engineering (Jan 22), William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States (Mar 4), the first Boston Marathon is held (Apr 19), Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom (Jun 22), the Klondike Gold Rush begins (Jul 17), aspirin is successfully synthesized by Felix Hoffmann (Aug 10), Thomas Edison is granted a patent for Kinetoscope, a precursor of the movie projector (Aug 31) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_339” align=“alignright” width=“306”]1 Manhattan 2 Brooklyn 3 Queens 4 The Bronx 5 Staten Island[/caption] In the year 1898, New York City is divided into five boroughs (Jan 1), Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations with the United States military (Apr 5), neon is discovered at a laboratory in London (Jun 7), Britain makes a 99 year rent of Hong Kong from China (Jun 9), the United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands (Jul 7), Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola (Aug 28), the Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War (Dec 10), Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of an element they name radium (Dec 26) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1809, Robert Fulton patents the steamboat (Feb 11), James Madison becomes the 4th U.S.President (Mar 4), King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates (Mar 29), Sweden restores political power to the Riksdag after authoritarian rule since 1772 (Jun 6), the city of La Paz declares its independence and forms first independent government in Spanish America (Jul 16), Ecuador declares independence from Spain (Aug 10), the Finnish territory of Sweden becomes part of Russia, the Grand Duchy of Finland, in the Treaty of Hamina (Sep 17) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

The Tower Bridge in London in 1900 In the year 1894, William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States (Jan 7), Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time (Mar 12), Blackpool Tower is opened for visitors in Blackpool, England (May 14), the Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic (Jun 30), the First Sino-Japanese War starts (Aug 1), New Zealand enacts the world’s first minimum wage law (Aug 31), Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia (Nov 1) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1881, Andrew Watson makes his debut in Scotland to become the first black international football player (Mar 12), tsar Alexander II is assassinated in Russia (Mar 13), Romania is proclaimed a kingdom (May 10), the world’s first regular electric tram service starts in Berlin (May 16), the American Red Cross is established (May 21), Billy the Kid is shot dead in New Mexico (Jul 14), Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to U. Continue reading

In the year 1874, New York City annexes the Bronx (Jan 1), Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting exclusive trading rights (Mar 18), Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans (May 20), the movement for osteopathic medicine in the U.S. starts (Jun 22), the first public zoo in the U.S. opens in Philadelphia (Jul 1), the first incandescent light bulb is patented in both Canada and the United States, but the U. Continue reading

President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic (Jan 14), nine men from various Jewish charitable organizations form Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (Jan 15), the first British public toilet for women opens in London (Feb 11), French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first - around 30 km long - airship trip (Sep 24), Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Demonstration of the free-fall prevention mechanism in 1854 In the year 1857, the Estonian newspaper, Postimees, is established (Jan 1), the largest slave auction in the United States history is held in Savannah, Georgia (Mar 3), the first Otis elevator is installed, in New York City (Mar 23), Indian combatants capture Delhi from the British East India Company (May 11), the Victoria and Albert Museum is officially opened in London (Jun 22), Sheffield F. Continue reading

In the year 1899, Opel Motors open for business (Jan 21), Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark (Mar 6), Jean Sibelius’s First Symphony premiers in Helsinki (Apr 26), gold is discovered in Nome, Alaska, leading to the Nome Gold Rush (Jul 27), Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident (Sep 13), the FC Barcelona Association football club is founded (Nov 29) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_160” align=“alignright” width=“388”]SS Savannah in 1819[/caption] In the year 1819, Spain cedes Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and for $5 million (Feb 22), all onboard the French slave ship Le Rodeur become blind during the voyage over Atlantic, and consequently all of the slaves are thrown overboard (Apr 6), the SS Savannah leaves Georgia to become the first steamship to cross Atlantic, arriving at Liverpool on June 20 (May 22), Columbia acquires independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar (Aug 7), Museo del Prado opens in Madrid (Nov 19) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1839, the first photograph of the Moon is taken by the French photographer Louis Daguerre (Jan 2), the Boston Morning Post first records the use of “O.K” (which stands for “oll korrekt”) (Mar 23), the world’s first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation in England (Apr 9), Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (Jun 22), British forces seize Hong Kong as a base, as it prepares to wage the First Opium War (Aug 23) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_152” align=“alignright” width=“426”]Zeppelin from the year 1936[/caption] In the year 1900, the first electric bus becomes operational in New York City (Jan 2), Dwight F Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament (Feb 9), Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country (Feb 14), the British Labour Party is formed (Feb 27), the Paris World Exhibition opens (Apr 14), Hawaii becomes an official U. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_81” align=“alignleft” width=“294”]Blessing the flag of Revolution in 1821[/caption] In the year 1821, the revolutionary Greek flag is raised at Agia Lavra, marking the looming independence from the Ottoman Empire - later celebrated as the Greek Independence Day (Mar 25), Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena (May 5), the United States takes possession of Florida, the territory bought from Spain (Jul 10), the Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time (Aug 4), the world’s first geographical society is established in Paris, France (Dec 15), Spain loses many of its South American colonies during the year 1821 - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Jaffa Road in the 19th century Jerusalem Here you have all the years between 1801 and 1900. A century that saw hundreds of important inventions in all fields of science. Click on any of these years to see who was born where, and what they did or accomplished during their lives. If you have ancestors born during this time period, you can as a patron have them easily added in the list. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_102” align=“alignleft” width=“354”]Alaska area compared with the other U.S. states[/caption] In the year 1867, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (Feb 3), Johann Strauss' The_ Blue Danube_ is first performed, in Vienna (Feb 13), the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars (Mar 30), Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada - the first independent dominion in the British Empire (May 29), Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital (Sep 14), the last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji (Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1889, the Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia (Jan 15), the Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (Mar 31) and opens for the public in Paris, France (May 6), the Wall Street Journal is established (Jun 8), the Children’s Charter is passed in the United Kingdom, imposing criminal penalties to deter child abuse (Aug 26), the Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris (Oct 6), in San Francisco, the first jukebox goes into operation (Nov 23) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_3731” align=“alignright” width=“311”]Rosetta Stone (photo by Hans Hillewaert)[/caption] In the year 1822, the first group of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive to the west coast of Africa, founding later that year Monrovia (Jan 7), Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae (Jul 13), Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (Sep 7), Egyptian hieroglyphs are finally deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone (Sep 27), Pedro I is crowned as the first Emperor of Brazil (Dec 1) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading