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Ellis island is designated as a station for immigrants
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Naturalist John Muir pushed congress to conserve the Sequoia Forests
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was given his lengthy name due to his fathers pride in ancestry.
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Alfred Nobel, inventer of dynamite, didn't want to be known for his deadly invention so in his will he left his fortune to five prizes. Five years after his death the first Nobel Prizes were given
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The Wright Bros. made their fisrt leap of faith on Kill Devil Hill outside of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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At age 26 Einstein came out with his most famous theories one of them being the theory of relativity that states the speed of light is constant and space and time are absolute
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During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. Here he met Father Sigourney Fay who encouraged him in his writing
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The "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. 1,517 lives were lost that day
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Fitzgerald attends Princeton university
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The First World War saw a massive lose in lives from soilders and civilians alike. One of the sparks of the war was the assassination of Austria's Archduke and Dutchess
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Neglecting studies Scott goes off on his own to write scripts and lyrics for college musicals and magazines
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On education probation and deemed unlikely to graduate Fitzgerald joins the army and makes first attempt at novel: The Romantic Egotist
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At Camp Sherridan near Montgomery Fiztgerald met Zelda and fell in love with her.
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Fitzgerald goes to New York to win Zelda's hand in marriage and to gain fortune, but sadly he does neither seeing as how Zelda did not wish to be with a man who could not provide.
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The year the war ended with the Treaty of versailes that pretty much the blame on Germany
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After the war bright joyful colors were used to express freedom and the weight lifted off everyones shoulders
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Women finally get to have their say in politics and are given the right to vote in the U.S.
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When This Side of Paradise was published gained fortune and Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage in one night.
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The nazi party is formed; originaly the Germans Working Party with 100 members the club grew into the Nazi party with nearly 3,000 members.
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Prohibition began with the 18th ammendment, but it did more harm than good with the rise of violence, gangs, and societal chaos
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The first silent film is released and made by Charlie Chaplin of the First National Film Company
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After his drinking and using short stories to get out of debt Fitzgerald goes to France to write The Great Gatsby.
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The trend of dressing somewhat like a boy by flattening your midsection with ribbon or cutting your hair short as well as wearing dresses the fell just below the knee
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The Great Gatsby is released five years later and although the critics rave the books sales were rather dissapointing
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While playing for the New York Yankees, Babe and Lou Gehrig both competed to see who would have the longest home run record. Babe Ruth won by 60 home runs
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Chewing gum is part of history but Walter Diemer managed to rewrite history with his special gum that could actually make bubbles
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The Fitzgeralds return back to France were Zelda tries ballet,, but it ruins her marriage and health
