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Got Married
Married Bess Madern -
Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras
The Brownie camera was the first hand-held camera that was cheap enough and simple enough for even children to use, making photography accessible to the masses. -
Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion (1900): Beginning in 1898, groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as I-ho ch'üan ("Righteous and Harmonious Fists"), called the "Boxers" by Western press. Members of the secret society practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals (hence the nickname, the "Boxers") which they believed would make them impervious to bullets. -
Italy's King Assassinated
On the evening of July 30, anarchist Angelo Bresci shot the king of Italy, King Umberto I, three times -
Daughter is Born
Daughter Joan is born -
Queen Victoria Dies
Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch in history, ruling the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 -
U.S. President William McKinley Assassinated
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First Nobel Prizes Awarded
Five years after Alfred Nobel's death, the first five Nobel Prizes were awarded. -
Arrival
arrives in England to research and write a book called, The People of the Abyss -
The First License Plates Issued in the U.S
Although New York was the first state to require automobiles have license plates (1901), these plates were made by individual owners (with the owner's initials) -
First Silent Movie: The Great Train Robbery
the 12-minute-long silent film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was the first narrative movie, one that told a story -
WSPU Founded by Emmeline Pankhurst
As founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst brought militancy to the British suffrage movement in the early twentieth century -
The Wright Brothers Make the First Flight
Orville Wright flew the Flyer for 12 seconds over 120 feet of ground -
Got Divorced
Jack and Bess got divorced -
Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity
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Jack Remarried
London married Charmian Kittredge -
Buy's Hill Ranch
pays $500.00 down on Hill Ranch -
Teddy Roosevelt Simplifies Spelling
In 1906, U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt tried to get the government to simplify the spelling of 300 common English words -
San Francisco Earthquake
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a large earthquake hit San Francisco. -
Honeymoon
returns from honeymoon in Jamaica -
The Tunguska Event
At 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook central Siberia -
SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
After being agreed upon at the 1906 conference, the Morse code signal of three dots, three dashes, and then three dots -
Trip
Jack and Charmian go to Sydney, Australia for medical treatment -
NAACP Is Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -
Trip Back
Leaves Australia by steamship -
New Employee
Jack hires his stepsister Eliza London Shepard as ranch superintendent
