...Date... AGE Event
1877/--/-- -1 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- -1 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- -1 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- -1 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- -1 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- -1 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- -1 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- -1 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- -1 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- -1 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- -1 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1877/08/29 0 *** Lafever, Mary Louraine (Maynard) - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) Silver Point, Dekalb County, Tennessee
1878/--/-- 0 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 0 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 0 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 0 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 0 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 0 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 0 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 0 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1878/05/02 0 *** Martin, Mary (Elrod) [Grandmother] - Died Judd Church Cem. Putnam County TN
1879/--/-- 1 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 1 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 1 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 1 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 1 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 1 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 1 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 1 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 1 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 1 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 2 *** Lafever, Asher [Great Grandfather] - Died
1880/--/-- 2 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 2 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 2 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 2 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 2 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 2 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 2 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 2 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1880/04/07 2 *** Lafever, Eli [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) Putnam County, TN
1881/--/-- 3 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 3 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 3 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 3 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 3 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 3 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 3 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 3 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 3 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 3 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 3 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1882/--/-- 4 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 4 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 4 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 4 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 4 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 4 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1882/11/25 5 *** Lafever, Thomas Samuel [Grandfather] - Died Putnum County Tennessee Pleasant View Cem. Putnam county TN
1883/--/-- 5 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 5 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 5 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 5 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 5 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 5 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 5 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 5 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 5 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 5 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 5 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1883/04/08 5 *** Lafever, Levi Lee [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever)
1884/--/-- 6 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 6 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 6 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 6 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 6 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 6 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 7 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 7 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 7 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 7 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 7 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 7 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 7 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 7 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 7 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 7 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1885/03/14 7 *** Lafever, Luke Gilliam [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever)
1886/--/-- 8 - Apache Indian chief Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles.
1886/--/-- 8 - Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War.
1886/--/-- 8 - British prime minister Gladstone introduces an unsuccessful Home Rule bill for Ireland.
1886/--/-- 8 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin completes The Kiss.
1886/--/-- 8 - Gold is discovered in Transvaal, South Africa.
1886/--/-- 8 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 8 - Jose Balmaceda becomes president of Chile.
1886/--/-- 8 - Samuel Gompers organizes the American Federation of Labor.
1886/--/-- 8 - The Anglo-German Agreement recognizes German control over Tanganyika (Tanzania).
1886/--/-- 8 - The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York Harbor.
1887/--/-- 9 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
1887/--/-- 9 - France creates the Union of Indochina (most of modern day Vietnam and Kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 9 - The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 10 - A patent is issued to American inventor John H. Loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 10 - American inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 10 - Britain unites its Caribbean colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
1888/--/-- 10 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints Still Life With Sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 10 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 10 - Jack the Ripper murders seven women in London.
1888/--/-- 10 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov writes Scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 10 - The National Geographic Magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 10 - William II succeeds Frederick III as emperor of Germany.
1889/--/-- 11 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- 11 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- 11 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- 11 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- 11 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- 11 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- 11 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 11 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 11 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 11 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 11 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 11 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 11 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/03/01 11 *** Lafever, Winfield [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever)
1890/--/-- 12 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 12 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 12 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 12 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 12 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 12 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 12 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 12 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 12 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 12 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 12 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 12 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 12 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 12 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 12 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 12 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 12 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1890/10/15 13 *** Lafever, Asher [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) Tennessee
1891/--/-- 13 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 13 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 13 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 13 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 13 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 13 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1892/--/-- 14 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 14 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 14 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 14 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 14 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 14 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1893/--/-- 15 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 15 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 15 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 15 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 15 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 15 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 15 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 15 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 15 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1894/--/-- 16 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 16 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 16 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 16 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 16 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 16 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 16 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 16 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 16 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1894/05/02 16 *** Lafever, Elvira [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever)
1895/--/-- 17 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 17 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 17 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 17 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 17 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 17 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 17 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 17 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 17 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 17 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 17 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1896/--/-- 18 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 18 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 18 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 18 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 18 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 18 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 18 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1896/09/09 19 *** Lafever, Columbus [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Asher and Elrod, Canzada (Lafever)
1897/--/-- 19 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 19 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 19 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 19 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 19 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 19 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 19 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 19 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 19 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 19 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 19 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 19 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1897/05/24 19 *** Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) [1st cousin] - Born to Lafever, William Thomas
1898/--/-- 20 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 20 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 20 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 20 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 20 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 20 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 20 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 20 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 20 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 20 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 20 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 20 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 20 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 20 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 20 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 20 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1899/--/-- 21 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 21 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 21 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 21 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 21 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 21 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 21 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 21 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 21 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1900/--/-- 22 *** Lafever, Mary Canzada [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Andrew J.
1900/--/-- 22 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 22 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 22 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 22 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 22 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 22 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 22 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 22 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 22 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 22 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 22 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 22 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 22 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 22 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 22 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 22 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/02/22 22 *** Lafever, Mary Louraine (Maynard) - Died Silverpoint, Tennessee Pleasant View cem. Putnam county TN
In 1877 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1900 Transportation was by:
Balloon
in addition.
In 1877 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1900 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1877 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1877 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1877 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1877 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
Mines
In 1877 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:56:50