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James Toney

Male 1828 - 1901  (73 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
1797-1801 
  • 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
1798-1800 
  • 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
1801-1809 
  • 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
1807 
  • 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
  • 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
1809 
  • 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
1809-1817 
  • 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
1812-1815 
  • 1812-1815: War of 1812
1813-1814 
  • 1813-1814: Creek War
10 1814 
  • 1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
11 1816 
  • 1816: Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
12 1817 
  • 1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
13 1817-1825 
  • 1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
14 1819 
  • 1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
15 1820 
  • 1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
16 1825-1829 
  • 1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
17 1826 
  • 1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
18 1829-1837 
  • 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
19 1836 
  • 1836: War of Texas Independence
20 1837-1841 
  • 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
21 1839 
  • 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
  • 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
22 1841 
  • 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
  • 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
23 1841-1845 
  • 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
24 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.
25 1845-1849 
  • 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
26 1846-1848 
  • 1846-1848: Mexican War
27 1849-1850 
  • 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
28 1850 
  • 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
29 1850-1853 
  • 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
30 1851 
  • 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
  • 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
31 1852 
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
32 1853-1857 
  • 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
33 1854 
  • 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
34 1855 
  • 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
  • 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
35 1857-1861 
  • 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
36 1861-1865 
  • 1861-1865: American Civil War
  • 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
37 1861 
  • 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
38 1863 
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
39 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.
40 1865-1869 
  • 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
41 1867 
  • 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
42 1868 
  • 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
  • 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
43 1869 
  • 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
  • 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
44 1869-1877 
  • 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
45 1870's 
  • 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
46 1871 
  • 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
47 1874 
  • 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
48 1876 
  • 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
  • 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
49 1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
50 1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
51 1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
52 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.
53 1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
54 1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
55 1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
56 1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
57 1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
58 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
59 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
60 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
61 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
62 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
63 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
64 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
65 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
66 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
67 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
68 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
69 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
70 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
71 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
72 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.


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