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Life and career of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is published.
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Walt Whitman dies.
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The X-Ray and it's useful applications in the medical field are discovered.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul Minnesota.
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Ernest Hemingway is born.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright make their first successful airplane flight.
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The United States begins construction on a canal connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in Panama.
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Albert Einstein publishes a paper on the theory of Special Relativity.
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The Ford Model-T is introduced into society through mass production.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded.
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The Titanic sinks April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 AM.
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Scott enrolls at Princeton University.
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World War I begins after Germany declares war on Russia.
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Albert Einstein publishes a paper on his theory of General Relativity.
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Scott drops out of Princeton for the remainder of his junior year.
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Scott returns to college to continue his education.
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Scott is forced to withdraw from Princeton and is later commissioned into the military.
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Scott receives leave from the military and continues his literary career.
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The 18th Amendment is ratified banning the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
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Scott's novel, This Side of Paradise, is published, a rewrite of his failed previous work The Romantic Egoist.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre at the age of 23.
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Scott's masterpiece, The Beautiful and Damned, is published.
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John Scopes is indicted for teaching the theory of evolution to students in his science classrooms.
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Scott's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is published. It receives excellent ratings.
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Mickey Mouse appears in Walt Disney's silent cartoon Plane Crazy.
