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Martha "Mattie" Thompson

Martha "Mattie" Thompson

Female 1874 - 1955  (81 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1836 
  • 1836: War of Texas Independence
2 1837-1841 
  • 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
3 1839 
  • 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
  • 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
4 1841 
  • 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
  • 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
5 1841-1845 
  • 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
6 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.
7 1845-1849 
  • 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
8 1846-1848 
  • 1846-1848: Mexican War
9 1849-1850 
  • 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
10 1850 
  • 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
11 1850-1853 
  • 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
12 1851 
  • 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
  • 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
13 1852 
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
14 1853-1857 
  • 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
15 1854 
  • 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
16 1855 
  • 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
  • 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
17 1857-1861 
  • 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
18 1861-1865 
  • 1861-1865: American Civil War
  • 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
19 1861 
  • 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
20 1863 
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
21 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.
22 1865-1869 
  • 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
23 1867 
  • 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
24 1868 
  • 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
  • 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
25 1869 
  • 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
  • 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
26 1869-1877 
  • 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
27 1870's 
  • 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
28 1871 
  • 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
29 1874 
  • 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
30 1876 
  • 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
  • 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
31 1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
32 1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
33 1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
34 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.
35 1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
36 1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
37 1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
38 1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
39 1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
40 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
41 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
42 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
43 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
44 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
45 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
46 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
47 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
48 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
49 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.

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