I started a 1000 years ago to look at the past and pondered how short and how long-ago historical events really happen. I looked at this Trivial Pursuit up until 1749. This retrospective look at history will reminisce about the dawning of America up until 1924 right before a century ago. Today many people celebrate when Columbus opened up the European world to the rest of the world, so what better nostalgic way to remember this day then to look back on the history of the world as it occurred as America was formed as an independent nation.

Some of the dates remembered happen on the 13th of the month just like this post was published on the 13th of the month.

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A Look At Some Of The Highlights Of History Over The Last 1000 Years.

18th Century

275 Years Ago
1750

November 18, 1750- Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy in which we live is a disk-shaped system of stars with the Solar System near the centre.

Westminster Bridge is officially opened in London.

272 Years Ago
1753

The first clock to be built in the New World (North America) was invented by Benjamin Banneker.

261 Years Ago
July 26, 1764

In what is described 250 years later as “The first documented United States school shooting“, a group of four Delaware Indians invade a schoolhouse near what is now Greencastle, Pennsylvania and kill ten schoolchildren and their teacher, Enoch Brown.  The massacre happens in the course of Pontiac’s War, as retaliation against white settlement of Indian lands in central Pennsylvania. One student, Archie McCullough, manages to escape the carnage; a memorial is erected 120 years later on August 4, 1884.

257 Years Ago
1768

The Swing  (French: L’Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing (French: Les Hasards heureux de l’escarpolette, the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard’s best-known work.

254 Years Ago
January 17, 1771

Second voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook in HMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

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251 Years Ago
June 13, 1774

Rhode Island (My Current State I Live In) becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

250 Years Ago

April 19, 1775

The Battles of Lexington and Concord starts the American Revolution

leading to Declaration of Independence the following year on

July 4, 1776

The Minute Man: depicted on a US postage stamp issued in 1925, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord on it’s 150th Anniversary.

Steamboat invented by Claude de Jouffroy.

246 Years Ago
1779

Amazing Grace published by John Newton.

244 Years Ago

1781

March 13, 1781-  Sir William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. Originally he calls it Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), in honour of King George III.

March 16, 1781- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna after being fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg. He would stay there for the rest of his brief life.

242 Years Ago

1783

The War Ends

• February 3, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain acknowledges the independence of the United States of America. At this time, the Spanish government does not grant diplomatic recognition.
• February 4, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States.

237 Years Ago
1788

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It is one of his most celebrated and widely performed works.

236 Years Ago

January 23, 1789 – Georgetown University is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (part of modern-day Washington, D.C.), as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States.

February 4, 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected the first president of the United States, by the United States Electoral College.

233 Years
October 12, 1792

The first Columbus Day celebration in the United States is held in New York City, 300 years after his arrival in the New World.

October 13, 1792 – Foundation of Washington, D.C.: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House after 1818) is laid.

227 Years Ago
1798

• The Pathétique, piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
• The Creation, oratorio by Joseph Haydn first performed.

226 Years Ago

August 29, 1799 – Pope Pius VI, at the time the longest reigning Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, dies as a prisoner of war in the citadel of the French city of Valence, after 24½ years of rule.

November 9, 1799 (Coup of 18 Brumaire) – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory in a coup d’état, which ends the French Revolution.

December 14, 1799 – George Washington, first President of the United States, dies at Mount Vernon, Virginia, aged 67.

July 1799: Rosetta Stone discovered by Napoleon‘s troops

19th Century

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221 Years Ago
May 14, 1804: 4 pm

The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins when these legendary men and 11 others that formed the Corps of Discovery departed departed from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) on the Ohio River. Off they went so they could cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase from the French.

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213 Years Ago
1811

Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen. It was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author’s name might have been.

212 Years Ago
1812

The Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales, volume 1 is published.

211 Years Ago
September 13, 1814

“The Star-Spangled Banner ” is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the “Defence of Fort M’Henry“, a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843)  after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort after the battle.

207 Years Ago
1818

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) is published.

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205 Years Ago
March 26, 1820

Joseph Smith, Mormon Prophet  – Likely date when Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, receives his First Vision in Palmyra, New York (possibly March 26).

201 Years Ago
May 7, 1824

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on . The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. One of the best-known works in common practice music, it stands as one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world.

199 Years Ago
March 13, 1826

Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.

200 Years Ago

• May 29,, 1825 – The Coronation of Charles X takes place at the historic site of Reims Cathedral, the last coronation of a French monarch.
• October 26, 1825 – The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.
• September 27, 1825 – The world’s first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.
• Ellen’s Third Song“, was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Op. 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott‘s 1810 popular narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German. It is one of Schubert’s most popular works. Beyond the song as originally composed by Schubert, it is often performed and recorded by many singers under the title “Ave Maria” (the Latin name of the prayer Hail Mary, and also the opening words and refrain of Ellen’s song, a song which is itself a prayer to the Virgin Mary), in musically simplified arrangements and with various lyrics that commonly differ from the original context of the poem. It was arranged in three versions for piano by Franz Liszt.

196 Years Ago
1829

The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered was the last of Rossini’s 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music). The overture is in four parts, each following without pause.

Mark Twain and the Wellerman Come on a Comet – 1830 – 1839

173 Years Ago
1832

“Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German” is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia‘s Saturday Courier magazine.

190 Years Ago
1835

August 5, 1835 – The director of the Collegio Romano at the Vatican, Father Dominique Dumouchel, is the first person to see the return of Halley’s Comet .

November 30, 1835– The Legendary author of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is born.

All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the church disappeared in 1835 when certain works by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and astronomer Johannes Kepler were finally dropped from the Catholic Church’s Index of forbidden books.

The Longest Pope at La Salette -1840’s

185 Years Ago

January 19, 1840

Captain Charles Wilkes‘ United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States, and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.

April 13, 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

183 Years Ag0
1842

English palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria, hence the Anglicized dinosaur.

182 Years Ago
1843

• August 19 – Edgar Allan Poe‘s Gothic short story “The Black Cat” is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
• December 17 – Publication of Charles Dickens‘ novella A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Chapman & Hall is made at his expense. It introduces the character Ebenezer Scrooge. Released on December 19, the first printing sells out by Christmas Eve.

October 13, 1843 – In New York City, B’nai B’rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.

179 Years Ago

June 16, 1846 – Pope Pius IX succeeds Pope Gregory XVI as the 255th pope. He will reign for 31½ years (the longest definitely confirmed).

September 19, 1846 – Our Lady of La Salette, a Marian apparition, is said to have been seen by two children at La Salette-Fallavaux in France.

September 23, 1846 – Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d’Arrest, as predicted by British astronomer John Couch Adams and French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.

178 Years Ago
1847

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman are the first Europeans to encounter the western gorilla.

Stop and Pray the Angelus between 1850 – 1859

174 Years Ago
November 14, 1851

Herman Melville‘s novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is published in full, in a single volume, for the first time, by Harper & Brothers in New York, having been previously issued on October 18 as The Whale in an abridged three-volume edition by Richard Bentley in London.

171 Years Ago

December 8, 1854

Pope Pius IX defines the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus(Latin for ‘Ineffable God’).

167 Years Ago
February 11, 1858 to July 16, 1858

The Lourdes Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Bernadette Soubirous occur.

The Civil War Years in Wonderland- 1860 – 1869

164 Years Ago
April 12, 1861

Beginning of the American Civil War

163 Years Ago
1862

March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo‘s epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.

162 Years Ago
July 13, 1863

American Civil War: The New York City draft riots begin three days of rioting which will later be regarded as the worst in United States history.

161 Years Ago
1864

Jules Verne – A Journey to the Center of the Earth is published.

160 Years Ago
May 26, 1865

End of the American Civil War

November 1865

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll is published

The Post Civil War Years – 1870 – 1879

154 Years Ago
March 11, 1869

The West first learned of the giant panda on , when the French missionary Armand David received a skin from a hunter. The first Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916.

155 Years Ago
February 3, 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” It was ratified on February 3, 1870  as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

September 20, 1870

Close of the First Vatican Council

150 Years Ago
1875

Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer’s day.

149 Years Ago
February 14, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell applies for a U.S. patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

146 Years Ago
August 21, 1879 

Our Lady of Knock – A group of 15 men, women, and children, ranging in age from 5 to 75, reported seeing an apparition behind their church, against the back wall, of an altar with a lamb on it (understood to represent Jesus), surrounded by a multitude of angels. Off to the side in prayer stood Mary, Joseph, and St. John (with St. John dressed as a bishop). Because Mary was among those seen, the apparition is classified as Marian, although the simultaneous appearance of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, John, and numerous angels makes it unique among this category. A further distinctive characteristic is that this apparition was silent: no verbal messages were given. The apparition lasted for an hour and a half.

1st Electric Circus Garden Outlaws – 1880 – 1888

145 Years Ago

• January 27, 1880 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb.
• February 2, 1880 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia’s successful defence against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.

The overture’s first public performance, conducted by Ippolit Al’tani, took place in Moscow on August 20, 1882, under a tent, near the still unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which also memorialised the 1812 defence of Russia.

144 Years Ago
October 13, 1881

First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

140 Years Ago

While Marty And Doc Traveled Through Time This Also Happened |
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September 2, 1885 – Marty  McFly travels back in time to this date to save Doctor Emmett Brown from being shot by Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen.

Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‘ is published in the U.S. having been published in England the year before.

139 Years Ago
October 14, 1886

January 5 and January 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson‘s horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months.

In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, a non-alcoholic version of Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. It was marketed as “Coca-Cola: The temperance drink”, which appealed to many people as the temperance movement enjoyed wide support during this time. The first sales were at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886, where it initially sold for five cents a glass.

138 Years Ago
October 14, 1887

November – Arthur Conan Doyle‘s first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston).

137 Years Ago
January 13, 1888 

 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

October 14, 1888– Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, two seconds and 18 frames in length (followed by his movie Leeds Bridge and Accordion Player).

The Red Vineyards near Arles is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It depicts workers in a vineyard, and it is the only painting known by name that Van Gogh sold in his lifetime.

136 Years Ago
1889

Notable People Alive In 1889
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1889 is the crossroads where the descendants, living persons and ancestors of previous, current and future influencers meet on the chronological timeline of earth’s history.

It saw the arrival of Saint Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini in New York to begin her mission.

It saw the birth of several interesting people including Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler, J R.R. Tolkien’s wife, Nintendo, the Eiffel Tower and Billy Joel’s grandfather. And M

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132 Years Ago
1894

Edvard Munch – The Scream

130 Years Ago

January–May, 1895 – H. G. Wells‘ first “scientific romance“, the novella The Time Machine, is published serially in The New Review (London). The first book editions are published by the Henry Holt and Company in New York on May 7 and by Heinemann in London on May 29.

March 22, 1895 -Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière make what is probably the first presentation of a projected celluloid film moving picture, the 46-second Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, to members of the Société d’encouragement pour l’industrie nationale in Paris.

129 Years Ago
1896 Summer Olympics

• • The 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Games, takes place in Athens with 13 nations competing, the most competitors coming from Greece, Germany and France.
  • April 16, 1896— American James Connolly wins the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in over 1,500 years.
  • Winners receive a silver medal and a crown of olive branches; Greece wins the most medals (46) and the United States wins the most gold medals (11).

128 Years Ago
October 14, 1897

January 2 – Newspapers in London erroneously report the death of Mark Twain. It is believed the rumors began when Twain’s cousin had become ill. Twain makes his famous statement, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”^[1]

April–December – H. G. Wells‘ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds is serialized in Pearson’s Magazine (London).

May 26 – The theatrical manager Bram Stoker‘s contemporary Gothic horror novel Dracula is published in London by Constable with a late change of title from The Un-Dead. It will influence vampire literature for the following century.^[2] On May 18 he had staged a reading of a dramatised version for copyright purposes before an audience of two at the Lyceum Theatre, London.

September 30 – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux dies.

20th Century

125 Years Ago
May 17, 1900

The publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

124 Years Ago
December 12, 1901

Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to St. John’s, Newfoundland; it is the letter “S” in Morse code.

122 Years Ago
1903

• January 19, 1903 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).
• February 15, 1903 – Toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window, advertising them as Teddy bears.- | HISTORY
• June 27, 1903 – American socialite Aida de Acosta, 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont‘s motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.
• July 23, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car Ford Model A.
• October 1–13, 1903 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.
• December 17, 1903 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine, the Wright Flyer, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight
• The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for five cents. It contains eight colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.

111 Years Ago
1904

J. M. Barrie‘s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up premières at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys, who inspired the story.

117 Years Ago
1908

Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows is published.

Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables is published.

116 Years Ago
1909

• Comet Halley first becomes visible on a photographic plate.
• August 20 – Dwarf planet Pluto is photographed for the first time, at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before being identified.

113 Years Ago
April 15, 1912

 Sinking of the RMS Titanic: RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.

The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators by popular vote is  proposed by the 62nd Congress on May 13, 1912. It becomes an amendment on April 8, 1913

111 Years Ago
June 28,1914

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggering the July Crisis overnight and eventually World War I. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and Zagreb break out.

109 Years Ago
April 24–30, 1916

The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army.

108 Years Ago
May 13–October 13,1917 (at monthly intervals)

10-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto report experiencing a series of Marian apparitions near Fátima, Portugal, which become known as Our Lady of Fátima.

October 13, 1917 -The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.

August 13, 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

107 Years Ago
January 1918

1918 flu pandemic: The “Spanish flu” (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas.

November 11, 1918 – End of WWI: Armistice of 11 November 1918 – Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies, between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM, in the “Compiègne Wagon“, Marshal Foch‘s railroad car, in the Forest of Compiègne in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. At 10:59 U.S. soldier Henry Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) becomes (probably) the last killed in action.

Photograph taken after reaching agreement for the armistice that ended World War I. This is Ferdinand Foch‘s own railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne. Foch’s chief of staff Maxime Weygand is second from left. Third from the left is the senior British representative, Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. Foch is second from the right. On the right is Admiral Sir George Hope.

106 Years Ago
January 16, 1919

The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.  Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol.

December 26, 1919 – American baseball player Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at this time, a deal made public at the beginning of January 1920.