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Benjamine LaRoche

Benjamine LaRoche

Male - 1765


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1852 
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
2 1853-1857 
  • 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
3 1854 
  • 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
4 1855 
  • 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
  • 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
5 1857-1861 
  • 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
6 1861-1865 
  • 1861-1865: American Civil War
  • 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
7 1861 
  • 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
8 1863 
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
9 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.
10 1865-1869 
  • 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
11 1867 
  • 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
12 1868 
  • 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
  • 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
13 1869 
  • 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
  • 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
14 1869-1877 
  • 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
15 1870's 
  • 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
16 1871 
  • 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
17 1874 
  • 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
18 1876 
  • 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
  • 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
19 1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
20 1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
21 1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
22 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.
23 1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
24 1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
25 1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
26 1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
27 1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
28 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
29 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
30 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
31 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
32 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
33 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
34 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
35 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
36 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
37 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
38 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
39 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
40 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
41 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
42 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
43 1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
44 1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
45 1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
46 1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
47 1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
48 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
49 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
50 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
51 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
52 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."
53 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
54 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
55 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
56 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
57 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
58 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
59 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
60 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
61 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
62 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
63 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
64 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.
65 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
66 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
67 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
68 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
69 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
70 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
71 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
72 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
73 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
74 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
75 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
76 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
77 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
78 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
79 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
80 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
81 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
82 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
83 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
84 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
85 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
86 1961-1963 
  • 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
87 1963-1969 
  • 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
88 1964 
  • 1964: First vaccine for measles
89 1965-1975 
  • 1965-1975: Vietnam War
90 1967 
  • 1967: First vaccine for mumps
  • 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
91 1969-1974 
  • 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
92 1973 
  • 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
93 1974 
  • 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
94 1974-1977 
  • 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
95 1977 
  • 1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
96 1977-1981 
  • 1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
97 1978 
  • 1978: First vaccine for meningitis
98 1981 
  • 1981: MTV goes on the air running around the clock music videos.
99 1981-1989 
  • 1981-1989: Ronald Wilson Reagan serves as fortieth president of the United States.
100 1988 
  • 1988: CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
101 1989-1993 
  • 1989-1993: George Herbert Walker Bush serves as forty-first president of the United States.
102 1990-1991 
  • 1990-1991: Persian Gulf War
103 1993-2001 
  • 1993-2001: William Jefferson Clinton serves as forty-second president of the United States.
104 2001- 
  • 2001-: George Walker Bush serves as forty-third president of the United States.
105 2003 
  • 2003: Invasion of Iraq

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