...Date... AGE Event
1858/--/-- -1 *** Bagby, Charles R. [Brother] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby)
1858/--/-- -1 - Benito Juarez becomes the first Mexican president of Indian descent.
1858/--/-- -1 - Bernadette Soubirous sees visions of the Vigin Mary in a grotto near Lourdes, France.
1858/--/-- -1 - Britain and France impose the Tientsin Treaty on China.
1858/--/-- -1 - British explorer John Hanning Speke discovers Lake Victoria in Africa.
1858/--/-- -1 - British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace outlines his theories of evolution.
1858/--/-- -1 - Charles Frederick Worth establishes his Paris fashion house.
1858/--/-- -1 - Cyrus W. Field lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1858/--/-- -1 - Federal forces end the Utah War; Brigham Young is replaced as governor of Utah Territory.
1858/--/-- -1 - French photographer Nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.
1858/--/-- -1 - German-American artist Albert Bierstadt begins his landscapes of the American west.
1858/--/-- -1 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld premiers in Paris.
1858/--/-- -1 - James Renwick begins the design of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
1858/--/-- -1 - Minnesota is inaugurated as the 32nd state of the Union.
1858/--/-- -1 - The Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood) are founded to overthrow British rule.
1858/--/-- -1 - The Indian Mutiny is suppressed by the British Army and loyal Indian troops.
1858/--/-- -1 - The government of India is transferred from the East India Company to the British crown.
1858/04/04 0 *** Bagby, Alice (Vincent) - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby)
1859/--/-- 0 - Abolitionist John Brown leads an attack on Harpers Ferry; he is captured and executed.
1859/--/-- 0 - Charles Darwin "Origin of Species"
1859/--/-- 0 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1859/--/-- 0 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins building the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1859/--/-- 0 - French inventor Ferdinand Carre develops a refrigeration system.
1859/--/-- 0 - Napoleon III assists the Italian statesman Cavour in a war against Austria.
1859/--/-- 0 - Oregon is inaugurated as the 33rd state of the Union.
1859/--/-- 0 - Queensland becomes a separate colony of Australia.
1860/--/-- 1 - Abraham Lincoln is elected as the first Republican president of the United States.
1860/--/-- 1 - China resists the Tientsin Treaty; Anglo-French forces occupy Peking.
1860/--/-- 1 - English novelist Wilkie Collins writes The Woman in White.
1860/--/-- 1 - Florence Nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 1 - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes The Mill on the Floss.
1860/--/-- 1 - Italian patriot Garibaldi invades Sicily and Naples with his 1,000 Redshirts.
1860/--/-- 1 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 1 - Sardinia-Piedmont seizes the Papal States in Italy.
1860/--/-- 1 - South Carolina becomes the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
1860/--/-- 1 - The Crittenden Compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 1 - The Maori Wars begin against the British in New Zealand.
1860/--/-- 1 - The pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
1860/06/07 2 *** Bagby, Edward Louis [Brother] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby)
1860/09/16 2 *** Bagby, William Waller [1st cousin] - Born to Bagby, William Wood and Smith, Catharine Byrd (Bagby)
1861/--/-- 2 *** Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" [Sister] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby) Hiceville, Barren County, Kentucky
1861/--/-- 2 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1861/--/-- 2 - American locksmith Linus Yale Jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 2 - CONFEDERACY
1861/--/-- 2 - Civil War Begins
1861/--/-- 2 - English designer William Morris starts the Arts and Crafts Movement.
1861/--/-- 2 - Explorers Burke and Wills die during their north-south crossing of Australia.
1861/--/-- 2 - French artist Eugene Delacroix paints the Lion Hunt.
1861/--/-- 2 - General George B. McClellan is made commander of the Union forces.
1861/--/-- 2 - Italy is unified under Victor Emmanuel II.
1861/--/-- 2 - John Ericsson designs the Monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 2 - Kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the Union.
1861/--/-- 2 - Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th U.S. president; Hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 2 - Nicholas II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1861/--/-- 2 - The Confederate States of America declare their independence from the U.S.
1861/--/-- 2 - The Confederates defeat the Union army in the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861/--/-- 2 - The Southern states meet to draft a constitution; Davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 2 - The Trent Affair begins when a Union ship intercepts a British steamer.
1861/--/-- 2 - The United States introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 2 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins the U.S. Civil War.
1861/--/-- 2 - Unification of Italy
1861/--/-- 2 - Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
1862/--/-- 3 - A Union fleet under David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.
1862/--/-- 3 - Bartolome Mitre unites Argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 3 - Brady, O'Sullivan and Gardner document the Civil War in photographs.
1862/--/-- 3 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart makes the first south to north crossing of Australia.
1862/--/-- 3 - Foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 3 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her debut at the Comedie Francaise.
1862/--/-- 3 - French impressionist artist Edouard Manet paints Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
1862/--/-- 3 - French physicist Jean Foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 3 - French writer Victor Hugo completes his social novel Les Miserables.
1862/--/-- 3 - Lee defeats the Union army in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862/--/-- 3 - Lee's Confederate invasion of Maryland is halted at the Battle of Antietam.
1862/--/-- 3 - McClellan is defeated in the Seven Days Battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 3 - Napoleon III imposes the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.
1862/--/-- 3 - Richard J. Gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 3 - Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons.
1862/--/-- 3 - The first recorded ski competition is held near Oslo in Norway.
1862/--/-- 3 - The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack clash at Hampton Roads, Va.
1862/--/-- 3 - Union forces under Burnside are defeated at the Battle of Fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 3 - Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1862/--/-- 3 - Union forces under McClellan begin the Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond.
1862/--/-- 3 - William I appoints Otto von Bismarck as minister president of Prussia.
1862/07/07 4 *** Bagby, William Wood [Uncle] - Died Wounded in Battle of Shiloh Apr. 7, 1862 home of Mr. Ed Trevitts, Okolona, MS Near Okolona Mississippi
1863/--/-- 4 - Cambodia (Kampuchea) becomes a French protectorate.
1863/--/-- 4 - English philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes Utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 4 - French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro exhibits at the Salon des Refuses.
1863/--/-- 4 - George I succeeds Otto as king of Greece.
1863/--/-- 4 - Grant defeats the Confederates in the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863/--/-- 4 - Ismail Pasha rules Egypt under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
1863/--/-- 4 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery in the Confederate states.
1863/--/-- 4 - London's Metropolitan Railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 4 - The Confederate guerrilla band Quantrill's Raiders pillage Lawrence, Kansas.
1863/--/-- 4 - The Confederates defeat the Union army at Chancellorsville; Jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 4 - The Confederates under Lee are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 4 - The French occupy Mexico City in support of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1863/--/-- 4 - The London Football Association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 4 - West Virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 5 - A Chinese army under Gordon recaptures Nanking and ends the Taiping Rebellion.
1864/--/-- 5 - A Union army under Sherman invades Georgia, begining the Atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 5 - Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
1864/--/-- 5 - Denmark is defeated by Prussia; Schleswig-Holstein is ceded to Germany.
1864/--/-- 5 - Nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 5 - Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez begins the War of the Triple Alliance.
1864/--/-- 5 - Sherman defeats the Confederates at Atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 5 - The Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.
1864/--/-- 5 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks a Federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 5 - The Geneva Convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 5 - The Ionian Islands are ceded to Greece by Britain.
1864/--/-- 5 - The Union launches a drive on Richmond but falters in the Wilderness Campaign.
1864/--/-- 5 - Ulysses S. Grant is made general in chief of all the Union armies.
1865/--/-- 6 - Andrew Johnson (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1865/--/-- 6 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the U.S.
1865/--/-- 6 - Civil War Ends
1865/--/-- 6 - Confederate forces under Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865/--/-- 6 - Count Leo Tolstoi begins his monumental Russian novel War and Peace.
1865/--/-- 6 - English author Lewis Carroll writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1865/--/-- 6 - Johnston surrenders the last Confederate army to Sherman, ending the U.S. Civil War.
1865/--/-- 6 - Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"
1865/--/-- 6 - Lincoln assassinated
1865/--/-- 6 - Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
1865/--/-- 6 - Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment.
1865/--/-- 6 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery.
1865/--/-- 6 - The Petersburg Campaign is won by Union forces; Lee evacuates Richmond.
1866/--/-- 7 - British engineer Robert Whitehead invents the first self-propelled torpedo.
1866/--/-- 7 - Congress authorize (but do not mandate) the use of the metric system in the U.S.
1866/--/-- 7 - Mendel publishes his genetic research in Experiments With Plant Hybrids.
1866/--/-- 7 - Prussia and Italy defeat Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.
1866/--/-- 7 - The Ku Klux Klan is founded in the southern United States.
1866/01/18 7 *** Bagby, Luther [Brother] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby)
1866/11/06 8 *** Bagby, Charles Davis [Great Uncle] - Died St. Joseph, Buchanan, MO
1867/--/-- 8 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 8 - Bismark forms the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 8 - Diamond fields are discovered in South Africa.
1867/--/-- 8 - English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron takes Sir John Herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 8 - French troops withdraw from Mexico; Emperor Maximilian is executed by Juarez.
1867/--/-- 8 - Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1867/--/-- 8 - Nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the Union.
1867/--/-- 8 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 8 - The Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 creates the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1867/--/-- 8 - The Dominion of Canada is established by the British North America Act.
1868/--/-- 9 - A military coup led by General Juan Prim deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1868/--/-- 9 - A skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is discovered in southern France.
1868/--/-- 9 - British labor unions form the Trades Union Congress.
1868/--/-- 9 - Christopher Sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 9 - Chulalongkorn succeeds his father Mongkut as the king of Siam (Thailand).
1868/--/-- 9 - Feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish Revolution.
1868/--/-- 9 - Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 9 - Ndebele king Mzilikazi dies in Africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son Lobengula.
1868/--/-- 9 - The Meiji dynasty is restored in Japan; the Tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 9 - The Ten Years' War begins in Cuba against Spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 9 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached by Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
1868/--/-- 9 - William Gladstone becomes Liberal prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1869/--/-- 10 - 200 pitched battles between Indians and U.S. Calvary
1869/--/-- 10 - English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy.
1869/--/-- 10 - French artist Eugene Louis Boudin paints On the Beach at Deauville.
1869/--/-- 10 - Grant is inaugurated as the 18th U.S. president; Colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 10 - James Gordon Bennett Jr. commissions Stanley to search for Livingston in Africa.
1869/--/-- 10 - John Roebling designs the Brooklyn Bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 10 - Louis Riel leads the Red River Rebellion in Canada.
1869/--/-- 10 - Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in Bavaria.
1869/--/-- 10 - Philadelphia garment workers organize the Knights of Labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 10 - Pope Pius IX calls the First Vatican Council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 10 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky begins work on his opera Boris Gudunov.
1869/--/-- 10 - Suez Canal opens
1869/--/-- 10 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 10 - The Suez Canal is opened in Egypt.
1869/--/-- 10 - The first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 10 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869/--/-- 10 - Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1869/--/-- 10 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific
1870/--/-- 11 *** Bagby, Annie [Sister] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby)
1870/--/-- 11 - American industrialist John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.
1870/--/-- 11 - French war minister Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 11 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Troy.
1870/--/-- 11 - Paraguayan dictator Solano Lopez dies, ending the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870/--/-- 11 - Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1870/--/-- 11 - The Franco-Prussian War begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by Bismark.
1870/--/-- 11 - The Prussians defeat the French at Sedan; Napoleon III is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 11 - The Third Republic is formed in France; a Government of National Defense is established.
1870/--/-- 11 - The city of Miami is founded in Florida.
1871/--/-- 12 - American explorer Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr. Livingston in central Africa.
1871/--/-- 12 - Charles Taze Russell founds the Jehovah's Witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 12 - Fire destroys one-third of the city of Chicago.
1871/--/-- 12 - P.T Barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 12 - The Franco-Prussian War ends; Alsace and Lorraine are ceded to Germany.
1871/--/-- 12 - The French surrender to Prussia incites the Commune of Paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 12 - The German Empire is formally proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles.
1871/--/-- 12 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 12 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain
1872/--/-- 13 - American artist James McNeill Whistler paints the Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1872/--/-- 13 - English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes Middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 13 - Indian leader Kintpuash leaves the Modoc reservation; the Modoc Wars begin.
1872/--/-- 13 - Monet paints Impression: Sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 13 - Photographer Eadweard Muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 13 - The Challenger Expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 13 - The cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest (the capital of Hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 13 - The death of Kamehameha V ends the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 13 - The first woman impressionist artist Berthe Morisot paints The Cradle.
1873/--/-- 14 - Englishman Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 14 - French novelist Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days.
1873/--/-- 14 - The Pacific Scandal in Canada causes the collapse of the Conservative government.
1873/--/-- 14 - The Panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 15 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 15 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 15 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 15 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 15 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 15 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 15 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1874/09/03 16 *** Bagby, Landon [Great Uncle] - Died St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO
1875/--/-- 16 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 16 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 16 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 16 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 16 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 16 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1875/12/19 17 *** Bagby, Roderick [Brother] - Born to Bagby, John Howard and Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby) Glasgow, Barren, KY
1876/--/-- 17 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 17 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 17 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 17 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 17 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 17 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 17 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 17 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 17 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 17 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 17 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 17 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 17 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 17 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 17 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 17 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
1877/--/-- 18 - Britain annexes Transvaal in South Africa.
1877/--/-- 18 - Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce tribe against the U.S. Army.
1877/--/-- 18 - Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th U.S. president; Wheeler becomes vice-president
1877/--/-- 18 - Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes canali (channels) on Mars.
1877/--/-- 18 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada
1877/--/-- 18 - Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1877/--/-- 18 - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
1877/--/-- 18 - The All-England lawn tennis championship is played at Wimbledon for the first time.
1877/--/-- 18 - The Japanese army suppresses a samurai revolt led by Saigo Takamori.
1877/--/-- 18 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1877/--/-- 18 - Turkish suppression of Balkan nationalists leads to a new Russo-Turkish War.
1878/--/-- 19 - Ismail Pasha presents Cleopatra's Needles to Britain (1878) and the U.S. (1880).
1878/--/-- 19 - Northern Cheyenne escape Indian Territory
1878/--/-- 19 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania are granted independence from Turkey.
1878/--/-- 19 - The Congress of Berlin reverses Russian gains from the San Stefano Treaty.
1878/--/-- 19 - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.
1878/--/-- 19 - The Russo-Turkish War ends; The Treaty of San Stefano is imposed on Turkey.
1878/--/-- 19 - The second Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1878/--/-- 19 - Turkey's provinces of Bosnia and Hercegovina are placed under Austrian administration.
1879/--/-- 20 - Belgian king Leopold II sponsors Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to the Congo.
1879/--/-- 20 - Cetewayo's Zulus defeat the British at Isandhlwana, but are beaten at Ulundi.
1879/--/-- 20 - Charles Stewart Parnell leads the Home Rule for Ireland party.
1879/--/-- 20 - General Roca defeats the Patagonian Indians, opening the Pampas for settlement.
1879/--/-- 20 - Impressionist artist Edgar Degas paints Ballerina Posing for a Photograph.
1879/--/-- 20 - Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen writes A Doll's House.
1879/--/-- 20 - Tawfiq Pasha succeeds his father Ismail Pasha as khedive (viceroy) of Egypt.
1879/--/-- 20 - Territorial disputes lead to the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru.
1879/--/-- 20 - Thomas Edison develops the first workable incandescent lamp (light bulb).
1879/--/-- 20 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
1879/02/20 20 *** Bagby, Richard [Great Uncle] - Died Holt County, MO
1880/--/-- 21 - American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt exhibits A Woman in Black at the Opera.
1880/--/-- 21 - Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged for murder.
1880/--/-- 21 - Boer (Afrikaner) uprisings begin against the British in Transvaal, South Africa.
1880/--/-- 21 - France annexes the Pacific island of Tahiti.
1880/--/-- 21 - French novelist Emile Zola writes Nana, a portrait of a prostitute.
1880/--/-- 21 - German composer Jacques Offenbach writes the opera Tales of Hoffmann.
1880/--/-- 21 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as British prime minister.
1880/--/-- 21 - Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky writes the 1812 Overture.
1880/09/01 22 *** Bagby, Charles Robert [Uncle] - Died
1880/12/08 22 *** Depp, Loue Hanson (Bagby) & Bagby, William Smith [Brother] - Married married in Metcalfe County KY
1881/--/-- 22 - Alexander II is assassinated by narodniki revolutionaries in Russia.
1881/--/-- 22 - Chester A. Arthur (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 22 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st U.S. president.
1881/--/-- 22 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins an abortive attempt to build the Panama Canal.
1881/--/-- 22 - Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th U.S. president; Arthur becomes vice-president.
1881/--/-- 22 - James A. Garfield (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1881/--/-- 22 - Japanese statesman Itagaki Taisuke founds the Jiyuto (Liberal party).
1881/--/-- 22 - Lillie Langtry, mistress of the Prince of Wales, makes her acting debut.
1881/--/-- 22 - President Garfield is assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau.
1881/--/-- 22 - The Sudanese under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad overthrow Egyptian rule.
1881/--/-- 22 - The first U.S. tennis championship is held in Newport, R.I.
1882/--/-- 23 - A Triple Alliance is established between Austria, Italy and Germany.
1882/--/-- 23 - Edison's New York plant begins supplying 59 customers with electricity.
1882/--/-- 23 - Impressionist artist Edouard Manet completes the Bar at the Folies-Bergere.
1882/--/-- 23 - Japanese statesman Okuma Shigenobu founds the Kaishinto, or Progressive, party.
1882/--/-- 23 - The British take control of Egypt, suppressing uprisings against Tawfiq Pasha.
1882/--/-- 23 - The U.S. begins to restrict immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Acts.
1883/--/-- 24 - Buffalo Bill Cody organizes his Wild West show.
1883/--/-- 24 - Civil Service established
1883/--/-- 24 - Cyrus H. K. Curtis publishes the Lady's Home Journal magazine.
1883/--/-- 24 - German philosopher Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche begins Thus Spake Zarathustra.
1883/--/-- 24 - Maxim invents machine gun
1883/--/-- 24 - Paul Kruger becomes president of the Boer republic of the Transvaal in South Africa.
1883/--/-- 24 - Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky proves that a rocket could work in the vacuum of space.
1883/--/-- 24 - The Brooklyn Bridge is completed in New York.
1883/--/-- 24 - The Fabian Society is founded in London to spread socialist ideas.
1883/--/-- 24 - The Island volcano of Krakatoa explodes in Indonesia, causing 36,000 deaths.
1883/--/-- 24 - The first skyscraper (10 stories) is built in Chicago by William LeBaron Jenney.
1884/--/-- 25 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"
1884/--/-- 25 - American author Mark Twain publishes the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884/--/-- 25 - Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate.
1884/--/-- 25 - German East Africa is formed from Rwanda, Mozambique,Tanzania and Burundi.
1884/--/-- 25 - Germany occupies South West Africa (Namibia).
1884/--/-- 25 - Lewis E. Waterman invents the first fountain pen with an ink reservoir.
1885/--/-- 26 *** Bagby, John Hanson [Nephew] - Born to Bagby, William Smith and Depp, Loue Hanson (Bagby) born in Glasgow, Barren county Kentucky
1885/--/-- 26 - Boston Symphony Orchestra organizes its Promenade Concerts (the Boston Pops).
1885/--/-- 26 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1885/--/-- 26 - French chemist Louis Pasteur develops a vaccine for rabies.
1885/--/-- 26 - General Gordon is killed by Mahdist forces at the siege of Khartoum in Sudan.
1885/--/-- 26 - Gottlieb Daimler develops the first motorcycle.
1885/--/-- 26 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1885/--/-- 26 - J. K. Stanley introduces his safety cycle, the basic model for the modern bicycle.
1885/--/-- 26 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination
1885/--/-- 26 - The Congo Free State (Zaire) becomes the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885/--/-- 26 - The Indian National Congress movement is founded in Bombay.
1886/--/-- 27 - Apache Indian chief Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles.
1886/--/-- 27 - Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War.
1886/--/-- 27 - British prime minister Gladstone introduces an unsuccessful Home Rule bill for Ireland.
1886/--/-- 27 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin completes The Kiss.
1886/--/-- 27 - Gold is discovered in Transvaal, South Africa.
1886/--/-- 27 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people
1886/--/-- 27 - Jose Balmaceda becomes president of Chile.
1886/--/-- 27 - Samuel Gompers organizes the American Federation of Labor.
1886/--/-- 27 - The Anglo-German Agreement recognizes German control over Tanganyika (Tanzania).
1886/--/-- 27 - The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York Harbor.
1887/--/-- 28 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
1887/--/-- 28 - France creates the Union of Indochina (most of modern day Vietnam and Kampuchea).
1887/--/-- 28 - The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms the absence of ether.
1888/--/-- 29 - A patent is issued to American inventor John H. Loud for the first ball-point pen.
1888/--/-- 29 - American inventor George Eastman introduces the Kodak box camera.
1888/--/-- 29 - Britain unites its Caribbean colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
1888/--/-- 29 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints Still Life With Sunflowers.
1888/--/-- 29 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography
1888/--/-- 29 - Jack the Ripper murders seven women in London.
1888/--/-- 29 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov writes Scheherazade.
1888/--/-- 29 - The National Geographic Magazine is published for the first time.
1888/--/-- 29 - William II succeeds Frederick III as emperor of Germany.
1889/--/-- 30 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1889/--/-- 30 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd U.S. president.
1889/--/-- 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide at Mayerling.
1889/--/-- 30 - German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg is exiled in Switzerland.
1889/--/-- 30 - Gustave Eiffel designs the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition.
1889/--/-- 30 - Japan's first prime minister Ito Hirobumi introduces the Meiji Constitution.
1889/--/-- 30 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state.
1889/--/-- 30 - Montana is inaugurated as the 41st state; Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/--/-- 30 - North Dakota and South Dakota are inaugurated as the 39th and 40th states.
1889/--/-- 30 - North Dakota is inaugurated as the 39th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 30 - Pedro II emperor of Brazil is overthrown in a coup; Brazil is declared a republic.
1889/--/-- 30 - South Dakota is inaugurated as the 40th state of the Union.
1889/--/-- 30 - Washington is inaugurated as the 42nd state.
1889/08/06 31 *** Bagby, Nancy Elizabeth (Rogers) [Great Aunt] - Died Wm. Rogers Cem, Barren county KY
1890/--/-- 31 - AFL founded by S Gompers
1890/--/-- 31 - American naval officer Alfred Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
1890/--/-- 31 - American psychologist William James publishes The Principles of Psychology.
1890/--/-- 31 - Cecil Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1890/--/-- 31 - Claude Debussy begins composing Suite Bergamasque, including Clair de lune.
1890/--/-- 31 - Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh commits suicide.
1890/--/-- 31 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor William II.
1890/--/-- 31 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state.
1890/--/-- 31 - Idaho is inaugurated as the 43rd state; Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 31 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore publishes Manasi (The Mind's Embodiment).
1890/--/-- 31 - Photographer Jacob Riis documents New York's poor in How the Other Half Lives.
1890/--/-- 31 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890/--/-- 31 - Sioux Indians are massacred at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
1890/--/-- 31 - The British South Africa Company occupies Zimbabwe; conflicts begin with the Ndebele.
1890/--/-- 31 - The Forth Railway Bridge is opened, replacing the Brooklyn Bridge as the longest span.
1890/--/-- 31 - Wyoming is inaugurated as the 44th state.
1890/--/-- 31 - Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.
1890/10/21 32 *** Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" [Sister] & Ewing, Robert Matthew - Married
1891/--/-- 32 - Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde publishes his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
1891/--/-- 32 - English novelist Thomas Hardy writes Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
1891/--/-- 32 - Eugene Dubois discovers the first Homo erectus remains on Java in Indonesia.
1891/--/-- 32 - French postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti.
1891/--/-- 32 - James Naismith devises the game of basketball in Springfield, Mass.
1891/--/-- 32 - The American Express Company introduces the first traveler's checks.
1891/11/18 33 *** Ewing, William Jesse Howard [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1892/--/-- 33 - French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints At the Moulin Rouge.
1892/--/-- 33 - Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne completes the Card Players.
1892/--/-- 33 - James J. Corbett wins the heavyweight boxing championship from John L. Sullivan.
1892/--/-- 33 - Strike at Carnegie Steel results in ten deaths
1892/--/-- 33 - The San Francisco Examiner begins printing the first newspaper comic strip.
1892/--/-- 33 - Writer and political revolutionary Jose Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary party.
1892/04/30 34 *** Wood, Virginia (Bagby) [Grandmother] - Died Glasgow, Barren, KY
1893/--/-- 34 - American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany begins producing Art Nouveau glassware.
1893/--/-- 34 - Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th U.S. president; Hendricks becomes vice-president.
1893/--/-- 34 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina
1893/--/-- 34 - France adds Laos to the Union of Indochina.
1893/--/-- 34 - Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule Bill is vetoed by the House of Lords in Britain.
1893/--/-- 34 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1893/--/-- 34 - Queen Liliuokalani is ousted in Hawaii; Sanford B. Dole, is elected president (1894).
1893/--/-- 34 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
1893/--/-- 34 - Victor Horta's Tassel House in Brussels initiates the Art Nouveau architectural style.
1893/02/06 34 *** Ewing, Bessie Forest [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" Albany, KY 42602
1894/--/-- 35 - Britain establishes a protectorate over Buganda and conquers the rest of Uganda.
1894/--/-- 35 - Czech decorative artist Alfons Mucha designs a poster of Sarah Bernhardt.
1894/--/-- 35 - Dreyfus case splits France
1894/--/-- 35 - English artist Aubrey Beardsley illustrates Oscar Wilde's Salome.
1894/--/-- 35 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book.
1894/--/-- 35 - Percival Lowell builds an observatory to study the Martian canals.
1894/--/-- 35 - Rebellion in Korea begins the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894/--/-- 35 - The arrest of army captain Albert Dreyfus creates a political crisis in France.
1894/--/-- 35 - Thousands of Armenians are massacred in Turkey.
1894/11/11 36 *** Ewing, Matthew Campbell [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1895/--/-- 36 - Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895/--/-- 36 - Japan defeats China; the Shimonoseki Treaty establishes Korean independence.
1895/--/-- 36 - Louis and Auguste Lumiere show the first motion pictures to a Paris cafe audience.
1895/--/-- 36 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin is exiled to Siberia.
1895/--/-- 36 - Sir Henry Irving becomes the first British actor to be knighted.
1895/--/-- 36 - The American Bowling Congress (ABC) is founded.
1895/--/-- 36 - The Cuban War of Independence begins against Spain; Jose Marti is killed in battle.
1895/--/-- 36 - The Jameson Raid on the Boer republic of Transvaal increases anti-British hostility.
1895/--/-- 36 - The first list of best-selling books is published by The Bookman magazine.
1895/--/-- 36 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1895/--/-- 36 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1896/--/-- 37 - A tsunami (tidal wave) kills 27,000 people in Japan.
1896/--/-- 37 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini writes the opera La Boheme.
1896/--/-- 37 - John Philip Sousa composes The Stars and Stripes Forever.
1896/--/-- 37 - King Menelik II defeats the Italians at Adwa, maintaining Ethiopian independence.
1896/--/-- 37 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal
1896/--/-- 37 - The first modern Olympic Games are held at Athens in Greece; 13 countries compete.
1896/--/-- 37 - Utah is inaugurated as the 45th state of the Union.
1896/02/20 37 *** Ewing, Margaret Mariba [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1897/--/-- 38 - American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids is begun by Rudolph Dirks.
1897/--/-- 38 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt helps to found the Vienna Secession group.
1897/--/-- 38 - British physician Havelock Ellis begins his Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
1897/--/-- 38 - English author Rudyard Kipling publishes Captains Courageous.
1897/--/-- 38 - French dramatist Edmond Rostand writes Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897/--/-- 38 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Sleeping Gypsy.
1897/--/-- 38 - McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th U.S. president; Hobart becomes vice-president.
1897/--/-- 38 - Russian author Anton Chekhov writes the play Uncle Vanya.
1897/--/-- 38 - Stanislavsky founds the Moscow Art Theater and begins the method acting technique.
1897/--/-- 38 - The first subway un the U.S. opens in Boston.
1897/--/-- 38 - Theodor Herzl organizes the World Zionist Congress at Basel in Switzerland.
1897/--/-- 38 - William Mckinley (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1897/05/01 39 *** Ewing, Charles Rogers [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1897/09/22 39 *** Ewing, Charles Rogers [Nephew] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1898/--/-- 39 - Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw publishes Arms and the Man.
1898/--/-- 39 - Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from the Chinese.
1898/--/-- 39 - Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor.
1898/--/-- 39 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released
1898/--/-- 39 - English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
1898/--/-- 39 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the U.S. in the Treaty of Paris.
1898/--/-- 39 - Spanish-American War, Cuba, Phillipines, US
1898/--/-- 39 - The Boxer Uprising begins in China; Empress Tz'u-hsi imprisons the emperor.
1898/--/-- 39 - The British under Kitchener defeat the Mahdists at Omdurman in Sudan.
1898/--/-- 39 - The Fashoda Incident leads to a French withdrawal from the Sudan.
1898/--/-- 39 - The Spanish fleet is destroyed off Cuba; Spain sues for peace.
1898/--/-- 39 - The Spanish-American War begins with a declaration of war by Congress.
1898/--/-- 39 - The U.S. army uses machine guns for the first time in the battle of Santiago.
1898/--/-- 39 - The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in the Spanish port of Manila in the Philippines.
1898/--/-- 39 - U.S. troops land on Cuba; Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders are in action.
1898/--/-- 39 - William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism inflames anti-Spanish feelings.
1898/09/18 40 *** Ewing, Jennie Lawless [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1899/--/-- 40 - American artist Winslow Homer paints the Gulf Stream.
1899/--/-- 40 - American composer Scott Joplin publishes his Maple Leaf Rag.
1899/--/-- 40 - Designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
1899/--/-- 40 - English composer Edward Elgar writes The Enigma Variations.
1899/--/-- 40 - Journalist and future statesman Winston Churchill escapes from Boer captivity.
1899/--/-- 40 - Sigmund Freud "Interpretation of Dreams"
1899/--/-- 40 - The British under Robert Baden-Powell are besieged by the Boers at Mafeking.
1899/--/-- 40 - The South African War begins between the Boers (Afrikaners) and the British.
1899/--/-- 40 - U.S. Secretary of State John M. Hay advocates an Open Door Policy for China.
1899/10/23 41 *** Ewing, Jennie Lawless [Niece] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1900/--/-- 41 - American novelist Theodore Dreiser publishes his first novel Sister Carrie.
1900/--/-- 41 - An international force lifts the Boxer siege of Peking.
1900/--/-- 41 - British politician Keir Hardie helps to found the Labour party.
1900/--/-- 41 - Chinese nationalists besiege foreigners in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.
1900/--/-- 41 - Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the electrocardiograph.
1900/--/-- 41 - Hawaii is made a U.S. Territory; Sanford Dole serves as the first governor.
1900/--/-- 41 - Hector Guimard uses Art Nouveau designs for the entrances to the Paris Metro.
1900/--/-- 41 - Humbert I is assassinated; he is succeeded by Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy.
1900/--/-- 41 - Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio publishes The Flame of Life.
1900/--/-- 41 - James J. Jeffries beats Jim Corbett to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1900/--/-- 41 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900/--/-- 41 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1900/--/-- 41 - Sir Arthur Evans begins the excavation of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete.
1900/--/-- 41 - The Boers begin a guerrilla war against the British occupation forces.
1900/--/-- 41 - The British defeat the Boer (Afrikaner) armies in South Africa and occupy Pretoria.
1900/--/-- 41 - The U.S. wins the first Davis Cup tennis contest.
1900/01/03 41 *** Smith, Sophia L. (Bagby) [Mother] - Died Hiseville, Barren, Hiseville, KY
1900/02/29 41 *** Ewing, Nettie Irene [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1900/06/10 42 *** Bagby, John Howard [Father] - Died Hiseville, Barren, Hiseville, KY
1901/--/-- 42 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia.
1901/--/-- 42 - A stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi is discovered in Susa, Iran.
1901/--/-- 42 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901/--/-- 42 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the National League.
1901/--/-- 42 - Andrew Carnegie sells his company and devotes himself to philanthropy.
1901/--/-- 42 - Britain incorporates Ashanti territory into the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1901/--/-- 42 - English author Beatrix Potter publishes her children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
1901/--/-- 42 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and Newfoundland.
1901/--/-- 42 - King C. Gillette founds the American Safety Razor Company.
1901/--/-- 42 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist
1901/--/-- 42 - President McKinley is assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1901/--/-- 42 - Queen Victoria dies; she is succeeded by her son Edward VII.
1901/--/-- 42 - Russia occupies Manchuria in north-east China.
1901/--/-- 42 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1901/--/-- 42 - Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of his five Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
1901/--/-- 42 - Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's Blue Period begins.
1901/--/-- 42 - Temperance advocate Carry Nation uses a hatchet to attack a Kansas saloon.
1901/--/-- 42 - The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.
1901/--/-- 42 - The first U.S. national bowling tournament is held.
1901/--/-- 42 - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1901/--/-- 42 - Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 26th U.S. president.
1901/--/-- 42 - Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs help found the American Socialist party.
1901/01/02 42 - Edward VII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1901/10/01 43 *** Ewing, John Bagby [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1902/--/-- 43 - American artist Robert Henri paints the New York street scene West 57th Street.
1902/--/-- 43 - Conan Doyle writes the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles.
1902/--/-- 43 - English author Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
1902/--/-- 43 - French filmmaker Georges Melies produces A Trip to the Moon.
1902/--/-- 43 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic recording.
1902/--/-- 43 - Maksim Gorky's The Lower Depths is produced at the Moscow Art Theater.
1902/--/-- 43 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1902/--/-- 43 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests
1902/--/-- 43 - The Photo-Secession group is founded in New York by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
1902/--/-- 43 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the South African War.
1902/08/-- 44 - Edward VII crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India at Wes
1902/11/07 44 *** Burris, Stella E. (Hill) [Niece] - Born to Burris, Otho and Bagby, Annie
1903/--/-- 44 - Alexander, King of Serbia, is assassinated; he is succeeded by Peter I.
1903/--/-- 44 - American author Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
1903/--/-- 44 - American novelist Henry James publishes The Ambassadors.
1903/--/-- 44 - Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman is produced in London.
1903/--/-- 44 - Colonel Francis Younghusband leads a British military expedition into Tibet.
1903/--/-- 44 - Edwin S. Porter directs the pioneering Western film The Great Train Robbery.
1903/--/-- 44 - Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
1903/--/-- 44 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radioactivity.
1903/--/-- 44 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a self-propelled airplane.
1903/--/-- 44 - Panama declares its independence from Columbia; the U.S. recognizes the new republic.
1903/--/-- 44 - The Rolls-Royce automobile company is founded in Britain.
1903/--/-- 44 - The U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal Zone.
1903/--/-- 44 - The first World Series baseball game is played.
1903/--/-- 44 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin organizes the Bolshevik revolutionary group.
1903/--/-- 44 - Wright Bros. first airplane
1903/10/-- 45 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (3) AL BOSTON (5)
1904/--/-- 45 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is produced.
1904/--/-- 45 - Ivan Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, is awarded the Nobel Prize.
1904/--/-- 45 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan is produced in London.
1904/--/-- 45 - Max Weber publishes The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
1904/--/-- 45 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America
1904/--/-- 45 - Russia and Japan at war
1904/--/-- 45 - Russian author Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is produced.
1904/--/-- 45 - Territorial disputes in Manchuria begin the Russo-Japanese War.
1904/--/-- 45 - The Abbey Theatre is founded in Dublin.
1904/--/-- 45 - The New York City subway is opened.
1904/07/25 46 *** Ewing, Sophia (Cross) [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1905/--/-- 46 - A general strike and revolution begin in Russia; Nicholas II grants a constitution.
1905/--/-- 46 - Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity
1905/--/-- 46 - Ambrose Fleming invents the thermionic valve, used to improve radio reception.
1905/--/-- 46 - American humorist and actor Will Rogers makes his New York City debut.
1905/--/-- 46 - American labor leader Eugene V. Debs founds the Industrial Workers of the World.
1905/--/-- 46 - Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen founds the T'ung-meng hui (Alliance Society).
1905/--/-- 46 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner organizes the expressionist painters group Die Brucke.
1905/--/-- 46 - French territorial ambitions spark the first Moroccan crisis.
1905/--/-- 46 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity.
1905/--/-- 46 - German poet Rainer Maria Rilke publishes The Book of Hours.
1905/--/-- 46 - Henri Matisse and Andre Derain form the Fauves (Wild Beasts) art movement.
1905/--/-- 46 - Psychologist Alfred Binet develops intelligence tests for school children.
1905/--/-- 46 - Roosevelt begins his second term as U.S. president; Fairbanks becomes vice-president.
1905/--/-- 46 - The Cullinan diamond is found in South Africa; it weighs 3,106 carats.
1905/--/-- 46 - The Russian fleet is destroyed by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima.
1905/--/-- 46 - The Sinn Fein Irish nationalist movement is founded by Arthur Griffith.
1905/--/-- 46 - The union of Norway and Sweden is dissolved; Haakon VII is elected king of Norway.
1905/--/-- 46 - W.E.B. Du Bois forms the Niagara Movement to demand full civil rights for black Americans.
1905/--/-- 46 - mini-revolution in Russia
1905/10/-- 47 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (1)
1905/10/29 47 *** Ewing, Bessie Forest [Niece] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1905/11/06 47 *** Ewing, Mary (Booher) [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie" Albany, Clinton county, Kentucky
1905/11/06 47 *** Ewing, Robert [Nephew] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1906/--/-- 47 - British author John Galsworthy publishes the first novel of The Forsythe Saga.
1906/--/-- 47 - H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first modern battleship, is launched.
1906/--/-- 47 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traverses the Northwest Passage.
1906/--/-- 47 - The Aga Khan III forms the All-India Moslim League.
1906/--/-- 47 - The Dreyfus affair ends with the pardoning of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.
1906/--/-- 47 - The San Francisco earthquake kills 700.
1906/--/-- 47 - Under the Platt Amendment U.S. troops return to Cuba to quell rebellion and restore order.
1906/--/-- 47 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle leads to the U.S. Pure Foods and Drugs Act.
1906/10/-- 48 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1907/--/-- 48 - A Triple Entente is formed between Britain, France and Russia.
1907/--/-- 48 - Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
1907/--/-- 48 - Irish playwright J.M. Synge writes The Playboy of the Western World.
1907/--/-- 48 - Lee De Forest invents the triode, a key component for amplifying radio signals.
1907/--/-- 48 - Oklahoma is inaugurated as the 46th state of the Union.
1907/--/-- 48 - Rasputin gains influence at the court of Russian emperor Nicholas II.
1907/--/-- 48 - The Panic of 1907 begins with the collapse of the U.S. stock market.
1907/--/-- 48 - The first Ziegfeld Follies are staged in New York City.
1907/10/-- 49 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (0)
1908/--/-- 49 - An earthquake at Messina in Italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- 49 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Hercegovina.
1908/--/-- 49 - Austrian artist Gustav Klimt paints The Kiss.
1908/--/-- 49 - Automaker William Durant founds the General Motors Company.
1908/--/-- 49 - British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1908/--/-- 49 - Filmmakers Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- 49 - GE patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- 49 - Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- 49 - Kenneth Grahame publishes his children's story The Wind in the Willows.
1908/--/-- 49 - King Leopold II of the Belgians establishes the Independent State of Congo in Africa.
1908/--/-- 49 - Liberal leader Herbert Asquith becomes prime minister of Britain.
1908/--/-- 49 - Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Christian Science Monitor.
1908/--/-- 49 - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- 49 - The Ashcan school of painters exhibit in New York City.
1908/--/-- 49 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1908/--/-- 49 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1908/--/-- 49 - The Tunguska fireball explodes in Siberia with the force of a modern H-bomb.
1908/--/-- 49 - The Young Turk Revolution in Turkey leads to political reform.
1908/03/11 49 *** Ewing, Annie (Harlan) [Niece] - Born to Ewing, Robert Matthew and Bagby, Mary (Ewing) "Mollie"
1908/10/-- 50 - World Series NL CHICAGO (4) AL DETROIT (1)
1908/10/10 50 *** Bagby, Henry G. [1st cousin] - Died
1909/--/-- 50 - American architect Frank Lloyd Wright builds the Robie House in Chicago.
1909/--/-- 50 - American artist George Bellows paints the prize fight scene Stag at Sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 50 - American explorer Robert E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909/--/-- 50 - American poet William Carlos Williams publishes Poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 50 - American writer Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives.
1909/--/-- 50 - French aviator Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel.
1909/--/-- 50 - NAACP in NYC
1909/--/-- 50 - Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev presents the Ballet Russe in Paris.
1909/--/-- 50 - Taft is inaugurated as the 27th U.S. president; Sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 50 - William Howard Taft (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1909/10/-- 51 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1910/--/-- 51 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 51 - British author Arnold Bennett publishes Clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 51 - British politician Winston Churchill is appointed first lord of the Admiralty.
1910/--/-- 51 - France groups four African territories together as French Equatorial Africa.
1910/--/-- 51 - French primitive artist Henri Rousseau paints The Dream.
1910/--/-- 51 - French sculptor Auguste Rodin casts the bronze figure The Thinker.
1910/--/-- 51 - Fundamentalism begins with "Five Points"
1910/--/-- 51 - George V succeeds his father Edward VII as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/--/-- 51 - German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich synthesizes Salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 51 - Italian artists led by Umberto Boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 51 - Japanese forces annex Korea.
1910/--/-- 51 - Madero, Villa and Zapata lead a revolution against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz.
1910/--/-- 51 - Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 51 - The Art Deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 51 - The Union of South Africa is formed; Louis Botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 52 - George V succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1910/10/-- 52 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1911/--/-- 52 - American aviator Glen Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 52 - American novelist Edith Wharton publishes Ethan Frome.
1911/--/-- 52 - American songwriter Irving Berlin publishes Alexander's Ragtime Band.
1911/--/-- 52 - Elmer A. Sperry designs the first American gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 52 - English author G.K. Chesterton publishes the first Father Brown story.
1911/--/-- 52 - German-American anthropologist Franz Boas publishes The Mind of Primitive Man.
1911/--/-- 52 - Hans Geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 52 - Italy's attempts to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.
1911/--/-- 52 - Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz is overthrown; Francisco Madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 52 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ahead of Robert Scott.
1911/--/-- 52 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 52 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 52 - Russian artist Marc Chagall paints I and My Village.
1911/--/-- 52 - Sir Ernest Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 52 - The Ch'ing dynasty is deposed in China; a republic is formed under Sun Yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 52 - The first film studio is established at Hollywood in California.
1911/--/-- 52 - Tibet declares its independence from China.
1911/--/-- 52 - Willis Carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 53 - George V crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Randa
1911/10/-- 53 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1912/--/-- 53 - American Indian Jim Thorpe wins the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 53 - American author Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
1912/--/-- 53 - American writer Willa Cather publishes her first novel Alexander's Bridge.
1912/--/-- 53 - Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 53 - Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler publishes The Neurotic Constitution.
1912/--/-- 53 - British explorers under Scott reach the South Pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 53 - French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase.
1912/--/-- 53 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 53 - Morocco is divided between France and Spain after the second Moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 53 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 53 - New Mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; Arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 53 - Piltdown man is discovered in Britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 53 - Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky choreographs and dances in The Afternoon of the Faun.
1912/--/-- 53 - The Balkan League begins the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire.
1912/--/-- 53 - The liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 53 - Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the U.S. presidency under the Bull Moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 54 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL BOSTON (4)
1913/--/-- 54 - American poet Robert Frost publishes A Boy's Will.
1913/--/-- 54 - Bertrand Russell and A.E. Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica.
1913/--/-- 54 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 54 - English novelist D.H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers.
1913/--/-- 54 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913/--/-- 54 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring causes a scandal at the Paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 54 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 54 - King George I of Greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by Constantine I
1913/--/-- 54 - Marcel Proust writes the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
1913/--/-- 54 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer builds a hospital at Lambarene in Africa.
1913/--/-- 54 - Russian revolutionary Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 54 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. De Mille.
1913/--/-- 54 - Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb found the political journal The New Statesman.
1913/--/-- 54 - The constructivism art movement begins in Russia.
1913/--/-- 54 - The island of Crete is united with Greece.
1913/--/-- 54 - The second Balkan War begins with a Bulgarian attack on Serbia.
1913/--/-- 54 - Victoriano Huerta leads a military coup in Mexico; president Francisco Madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 54 - Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president; Marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 54 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1913/10/-- 55 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1913/10/23 55 *** Bagby, Alice (Vincent) - Died Hiseville Cemetery, Barren County KY
In 1858 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
By 1913 Transportation was by:
Balloon
Propeller airplane
in addition.
In 1858 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
By 1913 Communications was by:
Telephone
in addition.
In 1858 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1858 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1858 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1858 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
By 1913 War Making was by:
Machine guns
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
in addition.
By 1913 War Making by:
Calvary
had been discontinued.
In 1858 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:13