CONN0R, William J

CONN0R, William J

Male 1882 - 1935  (52 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1882 
  • 1882: Britain occupies Egypt. A triple alliance is established between Germany, Austria and Italy
  • 1882: Standard Oil controls 95% of the U.S. oil refining capacity
  • 1882: Stillwell invents brown paper bag
1884 
  • 1884: Freud published a paper in which he found cocaine, an alkaloid in coca, effective against fatigue and neurasthenia.
  • 1884: Hilaire de Chardonnet invented the first artificial textile, which was made from cellulose. It was later named rayon
  • 1884: Parliament passes the third Reform Act which further extends the franchise
1885 
  • 1885: Death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Burma is annexed. Salisbury succeeds Gladstone with his first minority Conservative government. Parliament passes the Redistribution Act
1886 
  • 1886: Gladstone's third Liberal government fails to pass its first Irish Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons. Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister. Split in the Liberal Party. Salisbury establishes his second Conservative-Liberal-Unionist government. The Royal Niger Company is chartered. Gold is discovered in the Transvaal
  • 1886: Statue of Liberty erected in New York Harbour
  • 1886: Coca-Cola syrup invented
1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee. The Independent Labour Party is founded. The British East Africa Company is chartered
  • 1887: UK telegraph companies control 107,000 miles of submarine cable
  • 1887: There are estimated to be 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in 1890)
1888 
  • 1888: Celluloid photographic film introduced
  • 1888: The County Councils' Act establishes representative county based authorities
  • 1888: Kodak box camera
  • 1888: Coin-operated public telephone
1889 
  • 1889: London Dockers' Strike. The British South Africa Company is chartered
  • 1889: The Eiffel Tower, designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, is completed for the Paris Exposition.
  • 1889: First Official Secrets Act in UK
1892 
  • 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 1892: Gladstone forms his fourth Liberal government
1893 
  • 1893: Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zip to help a friend with a stiff back who could not bend over to do up his shoes
  • 1893: Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords
  • 1893: New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote
  • 1893: Car number plates introduced in France
10 1894 
  • 1894: Rosebery takes power with his minority Liberal government
11 1895 
  • 1895: Oscar Wilde jailed
  • 1895: Wilhelm Conrad R?ntgen, using a Crookes' tube, observed a new form of penetrating radiation, which he named X-rays
  • 1895: Guglielmo Marconi sent longwave wireless telegraphic, or radio, signals over a distance of more than a mile
  • 1895: Salisbury forms his third Unionist ministry
  • 1895: Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale
12 1896 
  • 1896: Freud suggested analyzing childhood conflicts in the study of neuroses. He also devised a psychoanalytic technique called 'free association' which allows emotionally-charged, repressed material to be consciously recognized
  • 1896: The British conquest of the Sudan begins
  • 1896: Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
13 1897 
  • 1897: Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
  • 1897: Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
14 1898 
  • 1898: Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter. His QWERTY keyboard is still with us today.
  • 1898: British rule over Sudan fully established. German Naval expansion begins
  • 1898: Campbell's soups first appear with red and white labels, colors suggested by Cornell University's football uniforms.
15 1899 
  • 1899: British disasters in South Africa
  • 1899: Boer War begins in South Africa and lasts three years
16 1900 
  • 1900: Salisbury wins the 'Khaki' election. The Labour Representation Committee is formed. Parliament passes the Commonwealth of Australia Act
  • 1900: Max Planck proposes quantum theory
  • 1900: There are reckoned to be 6,000 accountants in England
  • 1900: Australia Becomes a Commonwealth
  • 1900: Boxer Rebellion in China
  • 1900: Italy's King Assassinated
  • 1900: Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras
  • 1900: Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory
  • 1900: Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
17 1901 
  • 1901: Willis H. Carrier invented the industrial air conditioner
  • 1901: Vacuum Cleaner invented by Hubert Cecil Booth
  • 1901: Death of Queen Victoria. She is succeeded by her son, Prince Albert, as King Edward VII
  • 1901: Marconi sends wireless message from Cornwall to Newfoundland
  • 1901: First Nobel Prizes Awarded
  • 1901: First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal
  • 1901: U.S. President McKinley Assassinated
18 1902 
  • 1902: Invention of the Teddy Bear
  • 1902: Boer War Ends
  • 1902: Mount Pel?e Erupts
  • 1902: The Teddy Bear is Introduced
19 1903 
  • 1903: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright achieved flight in a manned, gasoline power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.
  • 1903: First Flight at Kitty Hawk
  • 1903: First Message to Travel Around the World
  • 1903: First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery
  • 1903: Plague in India
20 1904 
  • 1904: First telephone answering machine
  • 1904: Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny' is published
  • 1904: First Popular American Film
  • 1904: Ground Broken on Panama Canal
  • 1904: New York City Subway Opens
  • 1904: Russo-Japanese War Begins
  • 1904: Trans-Siberian Railway Completed
21 1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity.
  • 1905: Aliens Act in Britain tries to control immigration
  • 1905: Bloody Sunday - Russian Revolution of 1905
  • 1905: Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity
  • 1905: Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality
22 1906 
  • 1906: Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote
  • 1906: Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes
  • 1906: San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle
23 1907 
  • 1907: Electric washing machine - The Thor - on sale
  • 1907: Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference
  • 1907: First Electric Washing Machine
  • 1907: Picasso Introduces Cubism
  • 1907: Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time
24 1908 
  • 1908: Henry Ford created the Model T automobile
  • 1908: Electric iron and toaster patented
  • 1908: Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000
  • 1908: Ford Introduces the Model-T
  • 1908: Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China
  • 1908: Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire
25 1909 
  • 1909: French Engineer Louis Bleriot is first to cross the English Channel in an airplane
  • 1909: Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
  • 1909: 800 million postcards sold in England
  • 1909: Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated
  • 1909: Plastic Is Invented
  • 1909: Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
26 1910 
  • 1910: Georges Claude discovered that electricity conducted through a tube of the rare inert gas, neon, gives a bright red glow and that other gases gave off other colors, e.g., argon gives blue, helium gives yellow and white, etc.
  • 1910: First live opera broadcast
  • 1910: Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance
  • 1910: The Tango Catches On
27 1911 
  • 1911: British National Insurance Act lays foundation for health and unemployment insurance
  • 1911: The Chinese Revolution
  • 1911: Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom
  • 1911: Greenwich Mean Time Adopted
  • 1911: The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered
  • 1911: Mona Lisa Is Stolen
  • 1911: Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole
  • 1911: Standard Oil Company Broken Up
  • 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire
28 1912 
  • 1912: The Sinking of the Titanic 1,515 people lose their lives.
  • 1912: Parachutes Invented
  • 1912: Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered (Fraud)
  • 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
  • 1912: The Titanic Sinks
29 1913 
  • 1913: Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as 'formica'.
  • 1913: First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
  • 1913: The "Armory Show," an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City; it arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
  • 1913: First Crossword Puzzle
  • 1913: Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line
  • 1913: Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S.
30 1914 
  • 1914: First World War starts
  • 1914: Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated
  • 1914: Battle of the Marne
  • 1914: Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp
  • 1914: First Traffic Light
  • 1914: Panama Canal Officially Opened
  • 1914: World War I Begins
31 1915 
  • 1915: Armenian Genocide
  • 1915: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released
  • 1915: Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon
  • 1915: Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat
  • 1915: Second Battle of Ypres
32 1916 
  • 1916: Navy employs animal trainer 'Captain' Joseph Woodward's music hall sea lions for U-boat sabotage.
  • 1916: Coca-Cola adopts a distinctive bottle which identifies the company internationally
  • 1916: Battle of the Somme
  • 1916: Battle of Verdun
  • 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland
  • 1916: First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.
33 1917 
  • 1917: Bolshevik revolution in Russia installs a new government headed by V.I. Lennin
  • 1917: French artist Marcel Duchamp submits a porcelain urinal, signed "R. Mutt" and titled "Fountain," to the New York Independents Exhibition; it is rejected.
  • 1917: First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded
  • 1917: Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy
  • 1917: Russian Revolution
  • 1917: U.S. Enters World War I
34 1918 
  • 1918: Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed
35 1919 
  • 1919: Eddington and Frank W. Dyson measured the bending of starlight by the gravitational pull of the sun, thus confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity
  • 1919: Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
  • 1919: Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
36 1920 
  • 1920: Bubonic Plague in India
  • 1920: League of Nations Established
37 1921 
  • 1921: Stage debut of John Gielgud
  • 1921: Extreme Inflation in Germany
  • 1921: Irish Free State Proclaimed
  • 1921: Lie Detector Invented
38 1922 
  • 1922: BBC launched as limited company
  • 1922: Kemal Atat?rk Founds Modern Turkey
  • 1922: Tomb of King Tut Discovered
  • 1922: Michael Collins Killed in Ambush
  • 1922: Mussolini Marches on Rome
  • 1922: The Reader's Digest Published
39 1923 
  • 1923: Electrolux produced the first electric refrigerator
  • 1923: Kodak introduces home movie equipment
  • 1923: Charleston Dance Becomes Popular
  • 1923: Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup
  • 1923: Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces
  • 1923: Talking Movies Invented
  • 1923: Teapot Dome Scandal
40 1924 
  • 1924: First Olympic Winter Games
  • 1924: Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom
  • 1924: V.I. Lenin Dies
41 1925 
  • 1925: Flapper Dresses in Style
  • 1925: Hitler Publishes 'Mein Kampf'
42 1926 
  • 1926: General Strike in UK
  • 1926: The first automatic traffic light was installed in Wolverhampton, England. It remained in service until 1968
  • 1926: A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
  • 1926: Houdini Dies After Being Punched
  • 1926: Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket
  • 1926: A Woman Swims the English Channel
43 1927 
  • 1927: The Jazz Singer - first film talking movie released
  • 1927: Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird demonstrate television
  • 1927: Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record
  • 1927: BBC Founded
  • 1927: The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer
  • 1927: Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic
44 1928 
  • 1928: George Eastman devises a process for color photography; it leads to the first successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers when it appears in 1935 as Kodachrome (for slides) and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942.
  • 1928: First Mickey Mouse cartoon
  • 1928: Bubble Gum Invented
  • 1928: First 'Mickey Mouse' Cartoon
  • 1928: First Oxford English Dictionary Published
  • 1928: Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War
  • 1928: Penicillin Discovered
45 1929 
  • 1929: First UK television broadcast
  • 1929: Frank Whittle, combining the concepts of rocket propulsion and gas turbines, invented jet propulsion. Independently, Hans von Ohain put together the same combination in 1933
  • 1929: Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
  • 1929: Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole
  • 1929: Car Radio Invented
  • 1929: First Academy Awards
  • 1929: New York Stock Market Crashes
  • 1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
46 1930 
  • 1930: Gandhi's Salt March
  • 1930: Pluto Discovered
  • 1930: Sliced Bread Available
  • 1930: Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
47 1931 
  • 1931: Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion
  • 1931: Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere
  • 1931: Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop
  • 1931: Empire State Building Completed
  • 1931: U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem
48 1932 
  • 1932: Air Conditioning Invented
  • 1932: Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
  • 1932: Scientists Split the Atom
  • 1932: Zippo Lighters Introduced
49 1933 
  • 1933: First Mars bar
  • 1933: Singing telegrams introduced
  • 1933: Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • 1933: FDR Launches New Deal
  • 1933: First Nazi Concentration Camp Established
  • 1933: Loch Ness Monster First Spotted
  • 1933: Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
  • 1933: Wiley Post Flies Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
50 1934 
  • 1934: Konrad Zuse built a series of computers, Z1 through Z4, utilizing binary arithmetic and stored programs. Along the way he invented the first programming language and began to analyze methods by which a computer could play chess
  • 1934: The first comic books appear on newsstands, beginning in the United States.
  • 1934: Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police
  • 1934: Cheeseburger Created
  • 1934: The Dust Bowl
  • 1934: Mao Zedong Begins the Long March
  • 1934: Parker Brothers Sells the Game 'Monopoly'
51 1935 
  • 1935: First 'Kit Kat' sold in UK
  • 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
  • 1935: Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws
  • 1935: John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory


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