...Date... AGE Event
1860/--/-- 0 *** Cowan, William J. "Bill" - Born to Cowan, William J. and Walker, Julia Ann (Cowan)
1860/--/-- 0 *** Owen, Louisa B. (O'Conner) [1st cousin] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1860/--/-- 0 - Abraham Lincoln is elected as the first Republican president of the United States.
1860/--/-- 0 - China resists the Tientsin Treaty; Anglo-French forces occupy Peking.
1860/--/-- 0 - English novelist Wilkie Collins writes The Woman in White.
1860/--/-- 0 - Florence Nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 0 - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes The Mill on the Floss.
1860/--/-- 0 - Italian patriot Garibaldi invades Sicily and Naples with his 1,000 Redshirts.
1860/--/-- 0 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 0 - Sardinia-Piedmont seizes the Papal States in Italy.
1860/--/-- 0 - South Carolina becomes the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
1860/--/-- 0 - The Crittenden Compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 0 - The Maori Wars begin against the British in New Zealand.
1860/--/-- 0 - The pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
1861/--/-- 1 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1861/--/-- 1 - American locksmith Linus Yale Jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 1 - CONFEDERACY
1861/--/-- 1 - Civil War Begins
1861/--/-- 1 - English designer William Morris starts the Arts and Crafts Movement.
1861/--/-- 1 - Explorers Burke and Wills die during their north-south crossing of Australia.
1861/--/-- 1 - French artist Eugene Delacroix paints the Lion Hunt.
1861/--/-- 1 - General George B. McClellan is made commander of the Union forces.
1861/--/-- 1 - Italy is unified under Victor Emmanuel II.
1861/--/-- 1 - John Ericsson designs the Monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 1 - Kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the Union.
1861/--/-- 1 - Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th U.S. president; Hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 1 - Nicholas II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1861/--/-- 1 - The Confederate States of America declare their independence from the U.S.
1861/--/-- 1 - The Confederates defeat the Union army in the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861/--/-- 1 - The Southern states meet to draft a constitution; Davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 1 - The Trent Affair begins when a Union ship intercepts a British steamer.
1861/--/-- 1 - The United States introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 1 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins the U.S. Civil War.
1861/--/-- 1 - Unification of Italy
1861/--/-- 1 - Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
1861/07/10 1 *** Owen, Robert A. [1st cousin] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1862/--/-- 2 - A Union fleet under David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.
1862/--/-- 2 - Bartolome Mitre unites Argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 2 - Brady, O'Sullivan and Gardner document the Civil War in photographs.
1862/--/-- 2 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart makes the first south to north crossing of Australia.
1862/--/-- 2 - Foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 2 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her debut at the Comedie Francaise.
1862/--/-- 2 - French impressionist artist Edouard Manet paints Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
1862/--/-- 2 - French physicist Jean Foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 2 - French writer Victor Hugo completes his social novel Les Miserables.
1862/--/-- 2 - Lee defeats the Union army in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862/--/-- 2 - Lee's Confederate invasion of Maryland is halted at the Battle of Antietam.
1862/--/-- 2 - McClellan is defeated in the Seven Days Battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 2 - Napoleon III imposes the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.
1862/--/-- 2 - Richard J. Gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 2 - Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons.
1862/--/-- 2 - The first recorded ski competition is held near Oslo in Norway.
1862/--/-- 2 - The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack clash at Hampton Roads, Va.
1862/--/-- 2 - Union forces under Burnside are defeated at the Battle of Fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 2 - Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1862/--/-- 2 - Union forces under McClellan begin the Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond.
1862/--/-- 2 - William I appoints Otto von Bismarck as minister president of Prussia.
1863/--/-- 3 - Cambodia (Kampuchea) becomes a French protectorate.
1863/--/-- 3 - English philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes Utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 3 - French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro exhibits at the Salon des Refuses.
1863/--/-- 3 - George I succeeds Otto as king of Greece.
1863/--/-- 3 - Grant defeats the Confederates in the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863/--/-- 3 - Ismail Pasha rules Egypt under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
1863/--/-- 3 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery in the Confederate states.
1863/--/-- 3 - London's Metropolitan Railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 3 - The Confederate guerrilla band Quantrill's Raiders pillage Lawrence, Kansas.
1863/--/-- 3 - The Confederates defeat the Union army at Chancellorsville; Jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 3 - The Confederates under Lee are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 3 - The French occupy Mexico City in support of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1863/--/-- 3 - The London Football Association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 3 - West Virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the Union.
1863/05/02 3 *** Owen, Robert A. [1st cousin] - Died Peolia Cem. Clinton county KY
1863/09/13 3 *** Owen, John B. [1st cousin] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen) near Livingston Tennessee
1864/--/-- 4 - A Chinese army under Gordon recaptures Nanking and ends the Taiping Rebellion.
1864/--/-- 4 - A Union army under Sherman invades Georgia, begining the Atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 4 - Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
1864/--/-- 4 - Denmark is defeated by Prussia; Schleswig-Holstein is ceded to Germany.
1864/--/-- 4 - Nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 4 - Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez begins the War of the Triple Alliance.
1864/--/-- 4 - Sherman defeats the Confederates at Atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 4 - The Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.
1864/--/-- 4 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks a Federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 4 - The Geneva Convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 4 - The Ionian Islands are ceded to Greece by Britain.
1864/--/-- 4 - The Union launches a drive on Richmond but falters in the Wilderness Campaign.
1864/--/-- 4 - Ulysses S. Grant is made general in chief of all the Union armies.
1864/08/09 4 *** Cowan, John L. [Uncle] - Died Cowan Cem. Clinton County KY
1865/--/-- 5 - Andrew Johnson (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1865/--/-- 5 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the U.S.
1865/--/-- 5 - Civil War Ends
1865/--/-- 5 - Confederate forces under Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865/--/-- 5 - Count Leo Tolstoi begins his monumental Russian novel War and Peace.
1865/--/-- 5 - English author Lewis Carroll writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1865/--/-- 5 - Johnston surrenders the last Confederate army to Sherman, ending the U.S. Civil War.
1865/--/-- 5 - Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"
1865/--/-- 5 - Lincoln assassinated
1865/--/-- 5 - Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
1865/--/-- 5 - Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment.
1865/--/-- 5 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery.
1865/--/-- 5 - The Petersburg Campaign is won by Union forces; Lee evacuates Richmond.
1866/--/-- 6 - British engineer Robert Whitehead invents the first self-propelled torpedo.
1866/--/-- 6 - Congress authorize (but do not mandate) the use of the metric system in the U.S.
1866/--/-- 6 - Mendel publishes his genetic research in Experiments With Plant Hybrids.
1866/--/-- 6 - Prussia and Italy defeat Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.
1866/--/-- 6 - The Ku Klux Klan is founded in the southern United States.
1866/03/11 6 *** Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen) [Aunt] - Died Suicide Peolia cem. Clinton County KY
1867/--/-- 7 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 7 - Bismark forms the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 7 - Diamond fields are discovered in South Africa.
1867/--/-- 7 - English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron takes Sir John Herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 7 - French troops withdraw from Mexico; Emperor Maximilian is executed by Juarez.
1867/--/-- 7 - Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1867/--/-- 7 - Nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the Union.
1867/--/-- 7 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 7 - The Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 creates the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1867/--/-- 7 - The Dominion of Canada is established by the British North America Act.
1868/--/-- 8 - A military coup led by General Juan Prim deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1868/--/-- 8 - A skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is discovered in southern France.
1868/--/-- 8 - British labor unions form the Trades Union Congress.
1868/--/-- 8 - Christopher Sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 8 - Chulalongkorn succeeds his father Mongkut as the king of Siam (Thailand).
1868/--/-- 8 - Feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish Revolution.
1868/--/-- 8 - Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 8 - Ndebele king Mzilikazi dies in Africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son Lobengula.
1868/--/-- 8 - The Meiji dynasty is restored in Japan; the Tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 8 - The Ten Years' War begins in Cuba against Spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 8 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached by Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
1868/--/-- 8 - William Gladstone becomes Liberal prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1868/02/24 8 *** Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan) [Wife] - Born to Wray, F. M. and Wheeler, Artema (Wray)
1869/--/-- 9 - 200 pitched battles between Indians and U.S. Calvary
1869/--/-- 9 - English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy.
1869/--/-- 9 - French artist Eugene Louis Boudin paints On the Beach at Deauville.
1869/--/-- 9 - Grant is inaugurated as the 18th U.S. president; Colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 9 - James Gordon Bennett Jr. commissions Stanley to search for Livingston in Africa.
1869/--/-- 9 - John Roebling designs the Brooklyn Bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 9 - Louis Riel leads the Red River Rebellion in Canada.
1869/--/-- 9 - Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in Bavaria.
1869/--/-- 9 - Philadelphia garment workers organize the Knights of Labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 9 - Pope Pius IX calls the First Vatican Council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 9 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky begins work on his opera Boris Gudunov.
1869/--/-- 9 - Suez Canal opens
1869/--/-- 9 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 9 - The Suez Canal is opened in Egypt.
1869/--/-- 9 - The first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 9 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869/--/-- 9 - Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1869/--/-- 9 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific
1870/--/-- 10 - American industrialist John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.
1870/--/-- 10 - French war minister Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 10 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Troy.
1870/--/-- 10 - Paraguayan dictator Solano Lopez dies, ending the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870/--/-- 10 - Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1870/--/-- 10 - The Franco-Prussian War begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by Bismark.
1870/--/-- 10 - The Prussians defeat the French at Sedan; Napoleon III is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 10 - The Third Republic is formed in France; a Government of National Defense is established.
1870/--/-- 10 - The city of Miami is founded in Florida.
1871/--/-- 11 - American explorer Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr. Livingston in central Africa.
1871/--/-- 11 - Charles Taze Russell founds the Jehovah's Witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 11 - Fire destroys one-third of the city of Chicago.
1871/--/-- 11 - P.T Barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 11 - The Franco-Prussian War ends; Alsace and Lorraine are ceded to Germany.
1871/--/-- 11 - The French surrender to Prussia incites the Commune of Paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 11 - The German Empire is formally proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles.
1871/--/-- 11 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 11 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain
1872/--/-- 12 - American artist James McNeill Whistler paints the Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1872/--/-- 12 - English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes Middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 12 - Indian leader Kintpuash leaves the Modoc reservation; the Modoc Wars begin.
1872/--/-- 12 - Monet paints Impression: Sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 12 - Photographer Eadweard Muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 12 - The Challenger Expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 12 - The cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest (the capital of Hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 12 - The death of Kamehameha V ends the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 12 - The first woman impressionist artist Berthe Morisot paints The Cradle.
1873/--/-- 13 - Englishman Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 13 - French novelist Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days.
1873/--/-- 13 - The Pacific Scandal in Canada causes the collapse of the Conservative government.
1873/--/-- 13 - The Panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 14 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 14 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 14 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 14 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 14 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 14 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 14 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1874/03/13 14 *** Cowan, James V. [Uncle] - Died Cowan Cem. Clinton County KY
1875/--/-- 15 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 15 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 15 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 15 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 15 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 15 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1876/--/-- 16 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 16 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 16 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 16 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 16 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 16 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 16 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 16 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 16 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 16 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 16 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 16 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 16 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 16 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 16 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 16 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
1877/--/-- 17 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- 17 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- 17 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 17 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- 17 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- 17 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- 17 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 17 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- 17 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 17 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1878/--/-- 18 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 18 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 18 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 18 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 18 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 18 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 18 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 18 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 19 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 19 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 19 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 19 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 19 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 19 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 19 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 19 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 19 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 19 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1880/--/-- 20 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 20 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 20 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 20 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 20 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 20 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 20 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 20 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1880/03/12 20 *** Pierce, Mary Susan (Guthrie) [2nd cousin] - Died Albany Cem. - Albany KY
1881/--/-- 21 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 21 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 21 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 21 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 21 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 21 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 21 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 21 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 21 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 21 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 21 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1881/08/07 21 *** Denney, Nancy Brittain [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Denney, William Matthew and Owen, Margaret Elizabeth (Denney)
1882/--/-- 22 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 22 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 22 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 22 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 22 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 22 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1883/--/-- 23 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 23 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 23 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 23 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 23 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 23 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 23 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 23 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 23 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 23 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 23 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1884/--/-- 24 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 24 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 24 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 24 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 24 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 24 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 25 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 25 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 25 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 25 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 25 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 25 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 25 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 25 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 25 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 25 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1886/--/-- 26 - Apache Indian chief Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles.
1886/--/-- 26 - Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War.
1886/--/-- 26 - British prime minister Gladstone introduces an unsuccessful Home Rule bill for Ireland.
1886/--/-- 26 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin completes The Kiss.
1886/--/-- 26 - Gold is discovered in Transvaal, South Africa.
1886/--/-- 26 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 26 - Jose Balmaceda becomes president of Chile.
1886/--/-- 26 - Samuel Gompers organizes the American Federation of Labor.
1886/--/-- 26 - The Anglo-German Agreement recognizes German control over Tanganyika (Tanzania).
1886/--/-- 26 - The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York Harbor.
1887/--/-- 27 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
1887/--/-- 27 - France creates the Union of Indochina (most of modern day Vietnam and Kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 27 - The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 28 - A patent is issued to American inventor John H. Loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 28 - American inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 28 - Britain unites its Caribbean colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
1888/--/-- 28 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints Still Life With Sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 28 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 28 - Jack the Ripper murders seven women in London.
1888/--/-- 28 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov writes Scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 28 - The National Geographic Magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 28 - William II succeeds Frederick III as emperor of Germany.
1888/10/17 28 *** Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan) [Wife] & Cowan, William J. "Bill" - Married Albany, KY
1889/--/-- 29 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- 29 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- 29 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- 29 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- 29 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- 29 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- 29 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 29 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 29 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 29 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 29 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 29 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 29 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1890/--/-- 30 *** Cowan, William J. [Father] - Died Cowan Cem. Clinton County KY
1890/--/-- 30 *** Walker, Julia Ann (Cowan) [Mother] - Died Cowan Cemetery, Clinton County KY
1890/--/-- 30 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 30 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 30 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 30 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 30 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 30 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 30 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 30 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 30 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 30 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 30 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 30 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 30 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 30 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 30 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 30 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 30 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1891/--/-- 31 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 31 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 31 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 31 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 31 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 31 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1892/--/-- 32 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 32 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 32 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 32 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 32 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 32 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1892/03/23 32 *** Cowan, David C. [Uncle] - Died Albany cem. - Albany KY
1892/07/31 32 *** Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan) [Grandmother] - Died Kansas Oak Hill Cem. Elk City Kansas
1892/09/08 32 *** Cowan, Floyd Herbert [Son] - Born to Cowan, William J. "Bill" and Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan)
1893/--/-- 33 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 33 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 33 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 33 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 33 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 33 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 33 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 33 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 33 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1894/--/-- 34 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 34 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 34 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 34 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 34 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 34 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 34 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 34 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 34 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1894/01/22 34 *** Cowan, Edward Preston [Son] - Born to Cowan, William J. "Bill" and Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan)
1895/--/-- 35 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 35 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 35 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 35 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 35 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 35 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 35 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 35 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 35 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 35 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 35 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1896/--/-- 36 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 36 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 36 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 36 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 36 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 36 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 36 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1896/01/02 36 *** Cowan, Fratie Ellen (Sloan) [Daughter] - Born to Cowan, William J. "Bill" and Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan)
1897/--/-- 37 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 37 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 37 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 37 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 37 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 37 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 37 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 37 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 37 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 37 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 37 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 37 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1898/--/-- 38 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 38 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 38 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 38 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 38 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 38 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 38 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 38 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 38 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 38 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 38 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 38 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 38 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 38 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 38 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 38 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/06/08 38 *** Cowan, Antha Artema (Shelton) [Daughter] - Born to Cowan, William J. "Bill" and Wray, Sarah Susan (Cowan)
1898/06/10 38 *** Cowan, Rachel (Pierce) [1st cousin once removed] - Died Albany Cem. Albany, KY
1899/--/-- 39 *** Cowan, William J. "Bill" - Died Cowan Cem. Clinton County KY
1899/--/-- 39 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 39 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 39 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 39 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 39 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 39 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 39 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 39 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 39 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
In 1860 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1899 Transportation was by:
Balloon
in addition.
In 1860 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1860 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1860 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1860 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1860 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
By 1899 War Making was by:
Machine guns
Iron Clad ships
Mines
in addition.
In 1860 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:58