First timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 2015

histrory timeline

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Jan 5, 1850

California Exchange opens
Jan 18, 1850

Jan 18th - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
Jan 20, 1850

Jan 20th - Investigator, first ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
Jan 22, 1850

Jan 22nd - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Cali
Feb 12, 1850

Feb 12th - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
Mar 29, 1850

Mar 29th - SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
Sep 28, 1850

Sep 28th - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
Feb 27, 1860

Feb 27th - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
May 22, 1860

May 22nd - Major General George McClellan (33) weds Mary Ellen at Calvary Church in NYC, New York
Jul 1, 1860

Jul 1st - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59
Aug 13, 1860

Aug 13th - Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926)
Sep 6, 1860

Sep 6th - Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)
Jan 10, 1870

Jan 10th - Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp (21) weds Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Texas
Apr 22, 1870

Apr 22nd - Vladimir Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia
Jun 7, 1870

Jun 9th - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58
Jul 3, 1870

Jul 3rd - Richard Bedford Bennett, Hopewell Hill New Brunswick, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35
Aug 14, 1870

Aug 14th - David Farragut, American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69
Aug 31, 1870

Aug 31st - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response), (d. 1952)
Dec 5, 1870

Dec 5th - Alexandre Dumas, French writer ('The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of Monte Cristo') dies at 68
Jan 7, 1880

Jan 7th - Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (19) weds Antonina Korsak
Jan 8, 1880

Jan 8th - Joshua Abraham Norton, [Emperor Norton] Self-proclaimed US Emperor/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60
Jan 26, 1880

Jan 26th - Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, US General (WW II), (d. 1964
Feb 4, 1880

Feb 4th - James Donnelly, patriarch of the "Black Donnellys", murdered in the Black Donnelly massacre at 63
Jun 11, 1880

Jun 11th - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
Jun 27, 1880

Jun 27th - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
Nov 11, 1880

Nov 11th - Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw and bushranger, executed at 25
Jan 2, 1890

Jan 2nd - Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget
Feb 10, 1890

Feb 10th - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
May 19, 1890

May 19th - Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69
Jul 29, 1890

Jul 29th - Vincent van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France
Oct 20, 1890

Oct 20th - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
Dec 15, 1890

Dec 15th - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police aged 58 or 59
May 11, 1900

Jun 5th - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
Jul 1, 1900

Jul 1st - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (36) weds countess Sophie Chotek (32) in Reichstadt, Bohemia
Aug 25, 1900

Aug 25th - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
Nov 30, 1900

Nov 30th - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
Jan 20, 1910

Jan 20th - Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free)
Feb 3, 1910

Feb 3rd - Author James Weldon Johnson (38) weds civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson (24) at her family's home
Feb 13, 1910

Feb 13th - William Shockley, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist, born in London, England
Mar 1, 1910

Mar 1st - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
Apr 21, 1910

Apr 21st - Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
May 31, 1910

May 31st - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
Jan 2, 1920

Jan 2nd - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
Jan 20, 1920

Jan 20th - Federico Fellini, Rimini, Kingdom of Italy, film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita)
Feb 8, 1920

Feb 8th - Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
Mar 28, 1920

Mar 28th - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
Period: Mar 28, 1920 to Mar 2, 1929

Mary Pickford marege

Mar 28th - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
Mar 2nd - Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage
Mar 2, 1929

Mar 2nd - Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage
Jan 4, 1930

Jan 4th - Don Shula, Grand River Ohio, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
Jan 11, 1930

Jan 11th - Rod Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine), born in Sydney, New South Wales
Jan 12, 1930

Jan 12th - [Miles] Tim Horton, Cochrane Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of Tim Hortons
Jan 14, 1930

Jan 14th - Author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning in Los Angeles, California
Jan 20, 1930

Jan 20th - Edwin Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)
Jan 30, 1930

Jan 30th - Gene Hackman, San Bernardino California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
Mar 2, 1930

Mar 2nd - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), English poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
Mar 12, 1930

Mar 12th - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (Victoria Cross recipient), dies in a training accident at 35
May 13, 1930

May 13th - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68
Jul 7, 1930

Jul 7th - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
Sep 4, 1930

Sep 4th - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 3, 1930

Nov 3rd - Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental shift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland (date is approximate)
Nov 5, 1930

Nov 5th - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
Jan 19, 1940

Jan 19th - Mary Mills, Laurel Mississippi, LPGA golfer
Jan 21, 1940

Jan 21st - Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
Feb 3, 1940

Feb 3rd - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
Feb 4, 1940

Feb 4th - George A Romero, actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)
Feb 18, 1940

Feb 18th - Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd
Mar 16, 1940

Mar 16th - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81
May 3, 1940

May 3rd - Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84
Jul 22, 1940

Jul 22nd - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee) divorce
Aug 21, 1940

Aug 21st - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader at 62
Aug 30, 1940

Aug 30th - CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts
Nov 23, 1940

Nov 23rd - RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church
Jan 21, 1950

Jan 21st - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
Feb 17, 1950

Feb 17th - Natural history broadcaster David Attenborough (24) weds Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel
Mar 1, 1950

Mar 1st - Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) divorces dentist Petter Aron Lindström after 12 years of marriage
Apr 1, 1950

Apr 1st - Charles R. Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
Jul 22, 1950

Jul 22nd - Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of pneumonia at 75
Jul 28, 1950

Jul 28th - Actress Bette Davis (42) weds actor Gary Merrill (34) in Mexico
Jan 4, 1960

Jan 4th - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46
Jan 22, 1960

Jan 22nd - Michael Hutchence, Australia, rock vocalist/actor (INXS-Dogs in Space)
Jan 22, 1960

Jan 22nd - Comedic actor Bob Denver (25) weds Maggie Ryan in California
Feb 5, 1960

Feb 5th - Jane Geddes, American LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open), born in Huntington New York
Feb 8, 1960

Feb 8th - Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian NHL right wing (Minnesota North Stars, Washington Capitals), Sarnia Ontario
Feb 29, 1960

Feb 29th - Melvin Purvis, American FBI Agent, dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 56
Mar 4, 1960

Mar 4th - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
May 11, 1960

May 11th - John D. Rockefeller Jr, American financier and philanthropist, dies of pneumonia at 86
Jul 16, 1960

Jul 16th - Actress Vera Miles (30) weds actor Keith Larsen (36)
Mar 11, 1970

Mar 11th - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
Mar 12, 1970

Mar 12th - Actor Phil Hartman (21) weds first wife Gretchen Lewis
Aug 24, 1970

Aug 24th - Actor Peter Sellers (44) weds model Miranda Quarry
Jan 3, 1980

Jan 3rd - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69
Jan 14, 1980

Jan 14th - Actor Samuel L. Jackson (31) weds sports channel producer LaTanya Richardson (30)
Jan 17, 1980

Jan 17th - Zooey Deschanel, American actress (Almost Famous), born in Los Angeles, California
Jul 31, 1980

Jul 31st - Karolyn Englehardt divorces baseball manager Pete Rose (39) after 16 years of marriage
Sep 5, 1980

Sep 5th - Lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage
Jan 7, 1990

Jan 7th - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
Jan 25, 1990

Jan 25th - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
Feb 5, 1990

Feb 5th - Actor Rowan Atkinson (35) weds Sunetra Sastry in New York
Feb 8, 1990

Feb 8th - Bethany Hamilton, Pro-surfer (Soul Surfer), born in Lihue Hawaii
Feb 16, 1990

Feb 16th - Keith Haring, American graffiti artist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDS at 31
Feb 24, 1990

Feb 24th - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
Apr 9, 1990

Apr 9th - Kristen Stewart, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga), born in Los Angeles, California
Apr 15, 1990

Apr 15th - Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
Jun 3, 1990

Jan 3rd - Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (41) divorces singer/dancer Sarah Brightman (29) after almost 7 years of marriage
Jul 17, 1990

Jul 17th - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27)
Aug 15, 1990

Aug 15th - Jennifer Lawrence, Louisville, Kentucky, American actress (Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook )
Sep 20, 1990

Sep 20th - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders), born in Mississauga, Ontario

histrory timeline

California Exchange opens

Jan 18th - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

Jan 20th - Investigator, first ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England

Jan 22nd - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Cali

Feb 12th - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300

Mar 29th - SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die

Sep 28th - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment

Feb 27th - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency

May 22nd - Major General George McClellan (33) weds Mary Ellen at Calvary Church in NYC, New York

Jul 1st - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59

Aug 13th - Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926)

Sep 6th - Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)

Jan 10th - Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp (21) weds Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Texas

Apr 22nd - Vladimir Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia

Jun 9th - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58

Jul 3rd - Richard Bedford Bennett, Hopewell Hill New Brunswick, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35

Aug 14th - David Farragut, American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69

Aug 31st - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response), (d. 1952)

Dec 5th - Alexandre Dumas, French writer ('The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of Monte Cristo') dies at 68

Jan 7th - Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (19) weds Antonina Korsak

Jan 8th - Joshua Abraham Norton, [Emperor Norton] Self-proclaimed US Emperor/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60

Jan 26th - Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, US General (WW II), (d. 1964

Feb 4th - James Donnelly, patriarch of the "Black Donnellys", murdered in the Black Donnelly massacre at 63

Jun 11th - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)

Jun 27th - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

Nov 11th - Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw and bushranger, executed at 25

Jan 2nd - Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget

Feb 10th - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)

May 19th - Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69

Jul 29th - Vincent van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France

Oct 20th - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)

Dec 15th - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police aged 58 or 59

Jun 5th - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28

Jul 1st - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (36) weds countess Sophie Chotek (32) in Reichstadt, Bohemia

Aug 25th - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55

Nov 30th - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46

Jan 20th - Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free)

Feb 3rd - Author James Weldon Johnson (38) weds civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson (24) at her family's home

Feb 13th - William Shockley, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist, born in London, England

Mar 1st - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)

Apr 21st - Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74

May 31st - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89

Jan 2nd - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)

Jan 20th - Federico Fellini, Rimini, Kingdom of Italy, film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita)

Feb 8th - Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)

Mar 28th - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford marege

Mar 2nd - Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage

Jan 4th - Don Shula, Grand River Ohio, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)

Jan 11th - Rod Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine), born in Sydney, New South Wales

Jan 12th - [Miles] Tim Horton, Cochrane Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of Tim Hortons

Jan 14th - Author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning in Los Angeles, California

Jan 20th - Edwin Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)

Jan 30th - Gene Hackman, San Bernardino California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)

Mar 2nd - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), English poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44

Mar 12th - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (Victoria Cross recipient), dies in a training accident at 35

May 13th - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68

Jul 7th - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71

Sep 4th - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nov 3rd - Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental shift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland (date is approximate)

Nov 5th - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)

Jan 19th - Mary Mills, Laurel Mississippi, LPGA golfer

Jan 21st - Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)

Feb 3rd - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings)

Feb 4th - George A Romero, actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)

Feb 18th - Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd

Mar 16th - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81

May 3rd - Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84

Jul 22nd - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee) divorce

Aug 21st - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader at 62

Aug 30th - CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

Nov 23rd - RAF pilot Guy Gibson (22) weds show dancer and actress Eve Moore in Penarth’s Anglican Church

Jan 21st - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

Feb 17th - Natural history broadcaster David Attenborough (24) weds Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel

Mar 1st - Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) divorces dentist Petter Aron Lindström after 12 years of marriage

Apr 1st - Charles R. Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

Jul 22nd - Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of pneumonia at 75

Jul 28th - Actress Bette Davis (42) weds actor Gary Merrill (34) in Mexico

Jan 4th - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46