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Grace Estelle Sorrell

Grace Estelle Sorrell

Female 1913 - 1998  (85 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1700 
  • 1700: Judge Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, an anti-slavery tract.
2 1702-1713 
  • 1702-1713: Queen Anne's War
3 1702 
  • 1702: Cotton Mather writes Magnalia Christi Americana.
4 1722 
  • 1722: Benjamin Franklin writes the "Dogood Papers."
5 1725 
  • 1725: Vivaldi writes The Four Seasons.
6 1729 
  • 1729: Franklin purchases and publishes the Pennsylvania Gazette, which later becomes The Saturday Evening Post.
7 1732 
  • 1732: Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
8 1741 
  • 1741: Jonathan Edwards writes the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
9 1742 
  • 1742: Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland
10 1744-1748 
  • 1744-1748: King George's War
11 1750 
  • 1750: Bach dies, ending the Baroque period in music.
12 1751 
  • 1751: Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity.
13 1756-1763 
  • 1756-1763: French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
14 1758 
  • 1758: Benjamin Franklin writes "The Way to Wealth."
15 1759-1761 
  • 1759-1761: Cherokee War
16 1768 
  • 1768: John Dickinson writes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
  • 1768: Milcah Martha Moore writes "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768."
17 1775-1783 
  • 1775-1783: American Revolution
18 1776 
  • 1776: Thomas Paine writes Common Sense.
19 1786 
  • 1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
20 1787-1788 
  • 1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
21 1789-1797 
  • 1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
22 1790 
  • 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
23 1796 
  • 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
24 1797-1801 
  • 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
25 1798-1800 
  • 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
26 1801-1809 
  • 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
27 1807 
  • 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
  • 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
28 1809 
  • 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
29 1809-1817 
  • 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
30 1812-1815 
  • 1812-1815: War of 1812
31 1813-1814 
  • 1813-1814: Creek War
32 1814 
  • 1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
33 1816 
  • 1816: Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
34 1817 
  • 1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
35 1817-1825 
  • 1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
36 1819 
  • 1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
37 1820 
  • 1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
38 1825-1829 
  • 1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
39 1826 
  • 1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
40 1829-1837 
  • 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
41 1836 
  • 1836: War of Texas Independence
42 1837-1841 
  • 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
43 1839 
  • 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
  • 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
44 1841 
  • 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
  • 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
45 1841-1845 
  • 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
46 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.
47 1845-1849 
  • 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
48 1846-1848 
  • 1846-1848: Mexican War
49 1849-1850 
  • 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
50 1850 
  • 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
51 1850-1853 
  • 1850-1853: Millard Filmore serves as the thirteenth president of the United States of America.
52 1851 
  • 1851: Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.
  • 1851: Hawthorne writes The House of the Seven Gables.
53 1852 
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
54 1853-1857 
  • 1853-1857: Franklin Pierce serves as the fourteenth president of the United States of America.
55 1854 
  • 1854: Henry David Thoreau writes Walden.
56 1855 
  • 1855: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
  • 1855: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes Hiawatha.
57 1857-1861 
  • 1857-1861: James Buchanan serves as the fifteenth president of the United States of America.
58 1861-1865 
  • 1861-1865: American Civil War
  • 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln serves as the sixteenth president of the United States of America.
59 1861 
  • 1861: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride."
60 1863 
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address."
61 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.
62 1865-1869 
  • 1865-1869: Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
63 1867 
  • 1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
64 1868 
  • 1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women.
  • 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
65 1869 
  • 1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad.
  • 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
66 1869-1877 
  • 1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
67 1870's 
  • 1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
68 1871 
  • 1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
69 1874 
  • 1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
70 1876 
  • 1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake.
  • 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
71 1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
72 1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
73 1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
74 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.
75 1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
76 1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
77 1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
78 1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
79 1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
80 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
81 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
82 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
83 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
84 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
85 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
86 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
87 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
88 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
89 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
90 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
91 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
92 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
93 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
94 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.

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