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This took place in South Dakota when U.S. Cavalry troopers fired on Lakota people who had gathered. The killing of hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children essentially marked the end of Native American resistance to white rule in the West. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Grover Cleveland won the U.S. presidential election, becoming the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
A decline in the New York stock market triggered the Panic of 1893, which led to an economic depression second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
The United States declared war on Spain. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, was held in Athens, Greece. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then.
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World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S. His failure to see foreign combat will forever be one of Fitzgerald's greatest regrets. https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline -
U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He never graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for military duty, he begins a novel entitled The Romantic Egoist. https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline -
Armistice ending World War I is signed. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor. It is later repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
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Following the publication of his first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers, the Fitzgeralds move into an apartment on West 59th Street in New York City. https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline -
The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France, and Italy before returning to the U.S. https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/biography/f-scott-fitzgerald/timeline -
The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The next month the family moves to St. Paul and lives there until June.
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald first published The Great Gatsby. https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Gatsby -
Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment. He is buried in Rockville, Maryland, where his father was born.
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Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. reciprocated by declaring war on both countries. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
The Philippines, which had been ceded to the U.S. by Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, becomes an independent republic. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949 -
Soviets begin the blockade of Berlin in the first major crisis of the cold war. https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949