Timeline: Josiah A. Belch: Forney & Clark Genealogy Pages

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Josiah A. Belch

1847 - 1865 (17 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1849-1850	1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
2	1850	1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
3	1850-1853	1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
4	1851	1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick. 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
5	1852	1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
6	1853-1857	1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
7	1854	1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
8	1855	1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass. 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
9	1857-1861	1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
10	1861-1865	1861-1865: American Civil War 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
11	1861	1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
12	1863	1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
13	1865	1865: Mark Twain writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." 1865: Julia C. Collins writes The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride.
14	1865-1869	1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
15	1867	1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
16	1868	1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women. 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
17	1869	1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad. 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
18	1869-1877	1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
19	1870's	1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
20	1871	1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
21	1874	1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
22	1876	1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake. 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
23	1877-1881	1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
24	1878	1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
25	1879	1879: First vaccine for cholera 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
26	1881	1881: First vaccine for anthrax 1881: Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady. 1881: Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor. 1881: James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
27	1881-1885	1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
28	1882	1882: First vaccine for rabies
29	1883	1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York. 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
30	1884	1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
31	1885	1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado. 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
32	1885-1889	1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
33	1888	1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
34	1889	1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
35	1889-1893	1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
36	1890	1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
37	1891	1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
38	1893	1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
39	1893-1897	1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
40	1895	1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
41	1896	1896: Ragtime music is born.
42	1897	1897: First vaccine for plague. 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes. 1897: First vaccine for plague.
43	1897-1901	1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
44	1898	1898: Spanish-American War
45	1899	1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
46	1900	1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
47	1901-1909	1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
48	1903	1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors. 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
49	1904	1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
50	1905	1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
51	1906	1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
52	1909	1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
53	1909-1913	1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
54	1911	1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
55	1912	1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
56	1913	1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs. 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers! 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
57	1913-1921	1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
58	1914-1918	1914-1918: World War I
59	1914	1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
60	1915	1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
61	1918	1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
62	1919	1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
63	1920	1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
64	1921	1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
65	1921-1923	1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
66	1923	1923: First vaccine for diphtheria 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
67	1923-1929	1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
68	1924	1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York. Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
69	1926	1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
70	1927	1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
71	1928	1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
72	1929-1933	1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
73	1932	1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
74	1933-1945	1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
75	1935	1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
76	1936	1936: Electric guitars debut.
77	1937	1937: First vaccine for typhus
78	1939-1945	1939-1945: World War II
79	1941	7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
80	1943	1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
81	1945	1945: First vaccine for influenza
82	1945-1953	1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
83	1948	1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
84	1949	1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
85	1950-1953	1950-1953: Korean War
86	1953-1961	1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
87	1955	1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
88	1956	1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
89	1960	1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
90	1961-1963	1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
91	1963-1969	1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
92	1964	1964: First vaccine for measles
93	1965-1975	1965-1975: Vietnam War
94	1967	1967: First vaccine for mumps 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
95	1969-1974	1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
96	1973	1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.

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