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My timeline is about the ages between 1877- 2011. This timeline will show the major event that Occured with in this time and show how time has progressed over the years. -
Spanish American War
the Spanish American War is a time period when a war started because of the Wilson Gorman Tariff of 1894. This tariff badly damaged the cuban economy. revolts started to occur and spain took charge but concerned the Americans because of their choices. years went by and by the time Mckinley entered into office, Cuba became more of an uproar and a U.S maine was sent to cuba. the Maine was destroyed which caused both america and cuba to go to war. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timel -
Sanfrancisco Earthquake
In 1906 a high magnitude earthquake struck San francisco California. It was the worst earthquake at that time in the Unites States. about 70 percent of the city was burned to the ground.
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The Titanic
In 1912 the worlds biggest ship called the Titanic sailed from England to New York. it was known to be the unsinkable ship. on April 1912, the ship hit an ice berg and started to sink. there were not enough life boats on the ship so many people had swim. the ship held roughly around 2,000 passengers, but only about 700 surbived. many of the deaths wer caused due to the freezing wwater other than drowning. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
Archduke Ferdinand Assasinated
two shots were fired on the Sarajevo Street on June of 1914 which caused a serious of events that shaped the world that we live in tofday. World War 1, World war 2, adn the cold war all trace back to the time of the two gun shots which assasinated the Archduke Ferdinand. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
Sinking of the Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat. the Lusitania was a very luxurious bout know to ferry people and transport goods between the Great Britain and the United States. As it was crossing the Atantic during the time of world war 1, which had daangerous waters due to the war, a German U-Boat spotted the Lusitania from about 14 miles away and sunk the boat with a torpedo. http://history1900s.about.com/o Because of this, it forced America to join the war. -
Germans use Gas and Poison
During world war one, the germans introduce different types of gas bombs they killed everything it touches but the top most scariest bombs were poison ga, and acidic smoke bombs. these bombs were used mostly on the western Front in the trench warfare. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
America enter world war 1
During the year of 1917 America joined world war 1 because of various of reasons but on of the main reasons why they jooined was because of the sinking of the Lusitania. Germany attack aAmerica which was a nuetral country during the time but because of the attack, America responded by joining the war. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
Russian Czar and family killed
In the middle of the night on July 16-17, 1918, Nicholas, the Czar, and his family were being moved to another safe location beecause the white army was getting nearer. The white army finally caught up to them and surrounded him and his family in a basement along with a cook, four servents, valet, doctor, and maid. the death sentences were all read aloud and the executioners all raised their guns and shot them. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
first commercial radio
Frank Conrad was assistant Cheif engineer of the Westinghouse electric company. he was alsways interested in radios. One day he had a bet about the accuracy of his watch and so he built a radio reciever to hear the time signals transmitted by the Us Naval Observatory. After making that he and the world realized that he had made the worlds first reciever that went on air then as years went on he invented the transmitter. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
Tomb of King Tut
The tomb of king Tut was finally discovered. After working and searching for five years in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter was on his final sesaon of searching, then on November 4, 1992, one of his workers found a hidden step that was right under Rameses VI. he found the mummy of the boy Pharoah
tutankhamun who was undisturbed for over 3,000 years.http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
First Woman Swims English Channel
on August 1926, 19 year old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim 21 miles across the English ZChannel in 14 hours and 31 minutes which was about 2 hours less than any man.
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Babe Ruth make a homerun record
in 1927 babe Ruth was playing for the New York Yankees. he and Lou Gehrig were on the same team. both men had reached the 45th home run of the season. Lou was unexpectedly slowed down and all that was left was Babe ruth to hit an enormous 60 homeruns. on September 30, 1927, Babe ruth hit his 60th homerun and the crowd and fans allhttp://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm cheered for him he had made the new world record during that time period. -
Very First Mickey mouse Cartoon
In April 1928, walt Disney was depressed because his distibutor stole his popular character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, so on day as he took a long train ride, he drew a new character, Mickey mouse. A few moths later, he created the first ever talking Mickey Mouse and it was shown to the world in a cartoon called Steamboat Willie. Ever since then, Mickey bacme the most know cartoon character in world history.http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia one day recieved a phone call. that phone call would change her life. She was invited to be the first woman to fly accross the atlantic ocean in a plane. on june 17 she and her co-pilots finally landed in Burry Port, South Wales.
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Cheese Burgar Created
In the year 1934, Lionel Sternberger who was at the age of 16, one day decided to slap on a slice of cheese onto a cooking hamburgar at his fathers pasedena. Thus the Cheese Burgar was created. http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timeline.htm
