Timeline: Counter History of Late 19th C/Early 20th C

Period: 1492 BCE to 1965 BCE

Free Enterprise

Jul 30, 1492

Spanish Inquisition/Expulsion of Jews from Spain (p. 58-65)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/expulsion.html

Oct 12, 1492

Auto da fé part of Spanish Inquisition (p. 184)

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2155-auto-da-fe

Period: Oct 12, 1492 to Dec 31, 1920

Counter Histories of the Americas

Oct 10, 1740

Fort Mose Fugitive Slave Colony (p. 109)

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/fort-mose-florida

Oct 10, 1750

Spanish race categories/Las Castas paintings (p. 7)

https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/06/15/las-castas-spanish-racial-classifications/

Oct 10, 1776

American Revolution (Age of Reason/Englightenment, p. 137)

Feb 14, 1779

Death of Captain James Cook (p. 45-58)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hhl/hhl15.htm

Oct 10, 1781

The Zong Massacre (p. 72-80)

http://abolition.nypl.org/images/abolition/6/128

Oct 10, 1789

French Revolution (Enlightenment/Age of Reason, p. 137)

Oct 10, 1791

Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouverture 1791-1804 (p. 6, 52, 55, 147)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2015/08/the_most_successful_slave_rebellion_in_history_created_an_independent_haiti.html

Aug 30, 1800

Gabriel Prosser-led slave revolt (p. 64)

Oct 10, 1800

Quasheba Folktales of Black Female Resistance (p. 126-131)

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/sheller-quasheba-mother-queen.pdf

Oct 12, 1810

Daedalus Ship irreparably damaged in hurricane in Jamaica (p. 109

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Daedalus_(1780)

Oct 12, 1820

Minstrelsy popularized (Ethiopian Delineator, p. 152-154)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy_2.html

Jul 2, 1822

Denmark Vessey-led slave revolt (p. 64)

Aug 21, 1831

Nat Turner Rebellion (p. 64, 109)

Oct 10, 1840

Turner's painting of the Zong (p. 69-80)

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/4c/turner.004.htm

May 8, 1858

Chatham Convention (page 16)

http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/chathamconventionmason.html

Oct 16, 1859

"their war of independence" (i.e. Harpers Ferry Raid) (p. 16, 69, 100, 105, 137, 143, 197)

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/harpers-ferry-raid-1859

Nov 2, 1859

November 2, 1859/"Right" day for Harpers Ferry Raid (p. 100, 196)

Oct 10, 1865

U.S. Civil War 1862-1865 (109,

Jun 25, 1876

Battle of Little Bighorn (p. 84-85, 104-105,

Oct 10, 1877

Radical Reconstruction ends (1865-1877)

Oct 12, 1894

La Terre de Lépreux opens in Carville, LA (p. 3, 35-65)

http://www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/museum/

Oct 10, 1897

Augustus Saint-Gardens Sculptures of Civil War (p. 157-180)

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/the-sculptor-who-brought-dead-civil-war-heroes-to-life/257651/

Oct 10, 1898

Spanish American War (p. 38-43, 206-213)

https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html

Oct 11, 1898

U.S. on-again-off-again military occupation of Cuba 1898-1934

Oct 10, 1906

San Francisco Earthquake (p. 204)

Oct 11, 1912

U.S. Military Occupation of Nicaragua (1912-1933)

Oct 10, 1913

National Women's Party is Founded (Suffragettes, p. 22)

http://nationalwomansparty.org/the-national-womans-party-and-the-meaning-behind-their-purple-white-and-gold-textiles/

Mar 21, 1915

The Birth of a Nation screened at the White House with President Woodrow Wilson (p. 40-41)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_birth.html

Oct 11, 1915

U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)