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Bessie Au

Female 1885 - 1975  (90 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1775-1783 
  • 1775-1783: American Revolution
2 1776 
  • 1776: Thomas Paine writes Common Sense.
3 1786 
  • 1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
4 1787-1788 
  • 1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
5 1789-1797 
  • 1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
6 1790 
  • 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
7 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
8 1797-1801 
  • 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
9 1798-1800 
  • 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
10 1801-1809 
  • 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
11 1807 
  • 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
  • 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
12 1809 
  • 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
13 1809-1817 
  • 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
14 1812-1815 
  • 1812-1815: War of 1812
15 1813-1814 
  • 1813-1814: Creek War
16 1814 
  • 1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
17 1816 
  • 1816: Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
18 1817 
  • 1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
19 1817-1825 
  • 1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
20 1819 
  • 1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
21 1820 
  • 1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
22 1825-1829 
  • 1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
23 1826 
  • 1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
24 1829-1837 
  • 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
25 1836 
  • 1836: War of Texas Independence
26 1837-1841 
  • 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
27 1839 
  • 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
  • 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
28 1841 
  • 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
  • 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
29 1841-1845 
  • 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
30 1845 
  • 1845: Edgar Allen Poe writes The Raven and Other Poems.
  • 1845: Frederick Douglass writes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
31 1845-1849 
  • 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
32 1846-1848 
  • 1846-1848: Mexican War
33 1849-1850 
  • 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
34 1850 
  • 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
35 1850-1853 
  • 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
36 1851 
  • 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
  • 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
37 1852 
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
38 1853-1857 
  • 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
39 1854 
  • 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
40 1855 
  • 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
  • 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
41 1857-1861 
  • 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
42 1861-1865 
  • 1861-1865: American Civil War
  • 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
43 1861 
  • 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
44 1863 
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
45 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.
46 1865-1869 
  • 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
47 1867 
  • 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
48 1868 
  • 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
  • 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
49 1869 
  • 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
  • 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
50 1869-1877 
  • 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
51 1870's 
  • 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
52 1871 
  • 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
53 1874 
  • 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
54 1876 
  • 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
  • 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
55 1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
56 1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
57 1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
58 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.
59 1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
60 1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
61 1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
62 1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
63 1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
64 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
65 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
66 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
67 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
68 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
69 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
70 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
71 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
72 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
73 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
74 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
75 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
76 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
77 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
78 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
79 1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
80 1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
81 1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
82 1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
83 1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
84 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
85 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
86 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
87 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
88 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."
89 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
90 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
91 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
92 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
93 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
94 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
95 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
96 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
97 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
98 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
99 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
100 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.
101 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
102 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
103 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
104 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
105 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
106 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
107 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
108 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
109 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
110 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
111 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
112 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
113 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
114 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
115 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
116 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
117 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
118 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
119 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
120 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
121 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
122 1961-1963 
  • 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
123 1963-1969 
  • 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
124 1964 
  • 1964: First vaccine for measles
125 1965-1975 
  • 1965-1975: Vietnam War
126 1967 
  • 1967: First vaccine for mumps
  • 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
127 1969-1974 
  • 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
128 1973 
  • 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
129 1974 
  • 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
130 1974-1977 
  • 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.

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