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Construct a timeline of events from 1890-1930 Fitzgerald’s life. Your timeline should contain a total of 25 events, 15 reflecting life and times from 1890-1930 and 10 relating to Fitzgerald’s life. Make sure to include when the Great Gatsby novel was first published.
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Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
The Wounded Knee Massacre 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 -
The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, is held in Athens, Greece. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
Newsboys in New York City went on strike for several weeks in a significant action related to child labor. https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-from-1890-to-1900-1774042 -
Primitive assembly line production was first used in 1901 by Ransome Eli Olds (1864-1950), an early car-maker (he manufactured the Oldsmobile, the first commercially successful American car). This type of production greatly reduced the amount of time taken to put each car together (93 minutes for a Model T) from its parts, reducing production costs. Link text -
The first working airplane was invented, designed, made, and flown by the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948). Their “Wright Flyer” was a fabric-covered biplane with a wooden frame. Link text -
Binney and Smith invented the modern-day crayon by combining paraffin wax with pigments (colorants). These inexpensive art supplies were an instant success since they were first marketed as Crayola crayons in 1903. Link text -
The windshield wiper was invented by Mary Anderson in 1903 to help streetcars operate safely in the rain. Windshield wipers became standard equipment on cars a decade later. Link text -
Fitzgerald attends St. Paul Academy, and it is there that he publishes his first piece of writing, at the age of 13. The piece is a detective story published in the school newspaper. -
Cellophane is a thin, transparent, waterproof, protective film that is used in many types of packaging. It was invented in 1908 by Jacques Edwin Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist. Link text -
From 1911 to 1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1869 – they opposed the 15th amendment because it excluded women.
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The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony – they opposed the 15th amendment because it excluded women. When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift in favor of the vote for women. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/ -
While on academic probation at Princeton, Fitzgerald enlisted in the army in 1917. In June 1918, he was assigned to a camp near Montgomery, Alabama, where he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre. He was discharged from the army in late 1919. https://library.missouri.edu/news/special-collections/f-scott-fitzgerald-and-the-great-gatsby -
The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933, and was an attempt to legislate morality. It took a Constitutional amendment to enact it, and another one to repeal it. The attempt to decrease the "evils" of alcohol actually created more - and new - types of crime.
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Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise. It was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners in September. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
Dickson perfected the BAND-AID® in 1920, making a small, sterile adhesive bandage for home use. Dickson invented the BAND-AID® for his wife, who had many kitchen accidents and needed an easy-to-use wound dressing. Link text -
Fitzgerald achieved fame almost overnight with the 1920 publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise. https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-24/#:~:text=Scott%20Fitzgerald%2C%20The%20Great%20Gatsby,novel%2C%20This%20Side%20of%20Paradise. -
Fitzgerald headed for New York determined to achieve instant success and marry Zelda. Zelda broke their engagement, and, after an epic drunk, Fitzgerald retired to St. Paul, Minnesota, to rewrite for the second time a novel he had begun at Princeton. In the spring of 1920, it was published, and he married Zelda. https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald#:~:text=Scott%20Fitzgerald%20married%20Zelda%20Sayre%20on%20April%203%2C%201920. -
When Zelda Fitzgerald became pregnant they took their first trip to Europe in 1921 and then settled in St. Paul for the birth of their only child, Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald, who was born in October 1921. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
Drew’s first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923. Drew made an improved tape called Scotch (TM) Brand Cellulose Tape in 1930. Link text -
The Great Gatsby, the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Great-Gatsby#:~:text=The%20Great%20Gatsby%2C%20third%20novel,he%20loved%20in%20his%20youth. -
The automatic commercial bread slicer was invented in 1927 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Iowa, USA (Rohwedder had worked on his machine since 1912). His machine both sliced and wrapped a loaf of bread. Link text -
In 1927 the Fitzgeralds rented the 27 bedroom mansion Ellerslie, near Wilmington, Delaware and drunken parties ensued. Fitzgerald was increasingly turning to alcohol, sometimes becoming abusive. Zelda often acted out impetuously, embarrassing herself in front of friends and strangers. http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/ -
Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chips (and chocolate chip cookies) in 1930. Wakefield ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. Her original cookies used broken-up bars of semi-sweet chocolate. Link text