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Female 1887 - 1915  (27 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1383 
  • 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
2 1817 
  • 1817—1898: Indian Wars
3 1832 
  • 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
    Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
4 1837 
  • 6 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria
    House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort
5 1850 
  • 6 Sep 1850—3 Jan 1896: Utah Territory Organized
  • 9 Sep 1850—5 Jan 1912: New Mexico Territory Organized
6 1853 
  • 3 Feb 1853—10 Nov 1889: Washington Territory Organized
7 1861 
  • 2 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: North Dakota Territory Organized
  • 3 Feb 1861—1 Nov 1889: South Dakota Territory Organized
8 1863 
  • 3 Mar 1863—2 Jul 1890: Idaho Territory Organized
  • 2 1863—13 Feb 1912: Arizona Territory Organized
9 1864 
  • 5 1864—7 Nov 1889: Montana Territory Organized
10 1868 
  • 7 1868—9 Jul 1890: Wyoming Territory Organized
11 1885 
12 1887 
  • 1887—1887: Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
  • 1887—1887: German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar
  • 1887—1887: Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
  • 1887—1887: Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
  • 1887—1887: F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses
  • 5 Mar 1887—3 May 1887: Coal mine explosion in Nanaimo, BC
    148 killed in mine explosion
13 1888 
  • 1888—1888: First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
  • 1888—1888: Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
  • 1888—1888: County Councils set up in Britain
  • 1888—1888: Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year
  • 1888—1888: Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace
  • 1888—1888: Voting rights extended
    All adult male British subjects except unenfranchised Indians living on reserves are permitted to vote
  • 1888—1888: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire
  • 1888—1888: Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer
  • 1888—1888: Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws
  • 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
14 1889 
  • 1889—1889: Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies
  • 1889—1889: Celluloid film produced
  • 1889—1889: Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act
    Ontario's western boundary extended to west of Lake Superior
  • 1889—1889: Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder
  • 1889—1889: Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook
  • 11 Feb 1889—2 Nov 1889: South Dakota
    40th State
  • 11 Feb 1889—2 Nov 1889: North Dakota
    39th State
  • 4 Mar 1889—4 Mar 1893: Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison U.S. Presidency Benjamin Harrison U.S. Presidency
  • 31 Mar 1889—31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
  • 3 Apr 1889—4 Mar 1893: Benjamin Harrison
  • 14 May 1889—14 May 1889: Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
  • 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
  • 11 Aug 1889—8 Nov 1889: Montana
    41st State
  • 28 Sep 1889—28 Sep 1889: Length of a metre defined
  • 11 Nov 1889—11 Nov 1889: Washington
    42nd State
15 1890 
  • 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Indian Territory Organized
    The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
  • 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Oklahoma Territory Organized
    The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
  • 4 Mar 1890—4 Mar 1890: Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build
  • 7 Mar 1890—3 Jul 1890: Idaho
    43rd State
  • 7 Oct 1890—10 Jul 1890: Wyoming
    44th State
  • 4 Nov 1890—4 Nov 1890: City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
16 1891 
  • 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
  • 1891—1891: First Children's Aid Society is established in Toronto
  • 1891—1891: Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
  • 18 Mar 1891—18 Mar 1891: First telephone link between London & Paris
  • 4 May 1891—4 May 1891: Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
  • 4 Jun 1891—6 Apr 1891: Census of Canada
    counts 4,833,239 individuals
  • 24 Aug 1891—24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
17 1892 
  • 1892—1892: Electric oven invented
  • 1892—1892: Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
  • 1892—1892: Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask
  • 1892—1892: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine
  • 6 Oct 1892—6 Oct 1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
18 1893 
  • 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
  • 1893—1893: Henry Ford's first car
  • 1893—1893: American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper
  • 1893—1893: Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum
  • 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: Grover Cleveland
    Grover Cleveland U.S. Presidency Grover Cleveland U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1893—4 Mar 1897: Grover Cleveland
19 1894 
  • 1894—1894: Picture postcard introduced in Britain
  • 1 Jan 1894—1 Jan 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opens
  • 1 Mar 1894—1 Mar 1894: Blackpool Tower opens
  • 30 Jun 1894—30 Jun 1894: Tower Bridge first opens
  • 2 Aug 1894—2 Aug 1894: Death duties first introduced in Britain
20 1895 
  • 1895—1895: Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London
  • 1895—1895: Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one
  • 1895—1895: Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe
  • 12 Jan 1895—12 Jan 1895: The National Trust founded in England
  • 24 May 1895—24 May 1895: Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted
  • 28 May 1895—28 May 1895: Oscar Wilde sent to prison
  • 12 Jul 1895—12 Jul 1895: First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain
  • 17 Oct 1895—17 Oct 1895: First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey
  • Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
21 1896 
  • 1896—1896: Gold discovered in Yukon
    Gold found in Bonanza Creek, Klondike River, Yukon
  • 1896—1896: American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel
  • 1 Apr 1896—4 Jan 1896: Utah
    45th State
  • 5 Apr 1896—5 Apr 1896: First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
  • 2 Jun 1896—2 Jun 1896: Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
22 1897 
  • 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
  • 4 Mar 1897—14 Sep 1901: William McKinley
    William McKinley U.S. Presidency William McKinley U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1897—14 Sep 1901: William McKinley
    William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY.
23 1898 
  • 1898—1898: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded
  • 1898—1898: Zeppelin builds airship
  • 1898—1898: First photograph using artificial light
  • 1898—1898: Klondike gold rush
    Gold rush along the upper Yukon River
  • 1898—1898: Yukon gold rush
  • 1898—1898: Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine
  • 1898—1898: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
  • 17 Mar 1898—17 Mar 1898: USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine
  • 25 Apr 1898—12 Aug 1898: Spanish-American War
    Spanish-American War Spanish-American War
  • 27 Jun 1898—27 Jun 1898: The first solo circumnavigation of the globe completed at Rhode island by Joshua Slocum in Spray (started from Boston, Mass on Apr 24, 1895)
  • 7 Jul 1898—20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
  • 6 1898—13 Jun 1898: The Yukon joins Canada
    Yukon becomes an entity separate from the North-West Territories
  • 4 1898—10 Dec 1898: Spanish-American War
    United States vs Spain
24 1899 
  • 1899—1899: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
  • 1899—1899: I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
  • 6 Mar 1899—6 Mar 1899: Aspirin first marketed by Bayer
  • 2 Jun 1899—4 Jul 1902: Philippine-American War
    Philippine-American War Philippine-American War
  • 11 Oct 1899—11 Oct 1899: Start of Second Boer War
  • 2 Nov 1899—7 Sep 1901: Boxer Rebellion
    Boxer Rebellion Boxer Rebellion
  • 10 1899—30 Oct 1899: Boer War
    Canadian troops sent overseas for the first time to fight in the Boer War, but this is opposed by Quebec
25 1900 
  • 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
  • 1900—1900: Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified
  • 1900—1900: Escalator shown at Paris exhibition
  • 1900—1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  • 1900—1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
  • 9 Feb 1900—9 Feb 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established
  • 27 Feb 1900—27 Feb 1900: Labour Party formed
26 1901 
27 1902 
  • 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
  • 1902—1902: Cremation Act - cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued
  • 1902—1902: Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education
  • 1902—1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
  • 1902—1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light
  • 1902—1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie
  • 1902—1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear
  • 24 May 1902—24 May 1902: Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated
  • 31 May 1902—31 May 1902: Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
  • 9 Aug 1902—9 Aug 1902: Coronation of Edward VII
28 1903 
  • 1903—1903: Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • 1903—1903: Henry Ford sets up his motor company
  • 1903—1903: Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain
  • 1903—1903: Canada loses the Alaska Boundary Dispute to the USA
  • 1903—1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons
  • 1903—1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens
  • 1903—1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane
  • 1903—1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers
  • 1903—1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs
  • 14 Dec 1903—14 Dec 1903: First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
  • 4 1903—29 Apr 1903: Frank Slide, Alberta
    Turtle Mountain landslide, caused by mining, buries town and population of Frank in Alberta
29 1904 
  • 1904—1904: Leeds University established
  • 1904—1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan
  • 1904—1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
  • 1904—1904: John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
  • 8 Apr 1904—8 Apr 1904: France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale
  • 4 May 1904—4 May 1904: America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)
30 1905 
  • 1905—1905: Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship
  • 1905—1905: Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration
  • 1905—1905: The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time - placed the Prime Minister in order of precedence in Britain immediately after the Archbishop of York
  • 1905—1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2
  • 1905—1905: Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers
  • 9 Jan 1905—1 Sep 1905: Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada
    Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canada's eighth and ninth provinces
  • 11 Apr 1905—11 Apr 1905: Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
31 1906 
  • 1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
  • 1906—1906: Amundsen traverses the North-West Passage
  • 1906—1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes
  • 1906—1906: Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device
  • 1906—1906: Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode)
  • 10 Feb 1906—10 Feb 1906: Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship
  • 15 Mar 1906—15 Mar 1906: Rolls-Royce Ltd registered
  • 26 May 1906—26 May 1906: Vauxhall Bridge opened in London
  • 20 Sep 1906—20 Sep 1906: Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
  • 6 1906—24 Jun 1906: Census of Northwest Provinces
    Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quinquennial censuses instituted
32 1907 
  • 1907—1907: Lumiere develops a process for colour photography
  • 1907—1907: First airship flies over London
  • 1907—1907: New Zealand becomes a Dominion
  • 1907—1907: Imperial College, London, is established
  • 1907—1907: Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite
  • 1907—1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
  • 1907—1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
  • Jul 1907—Jul 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated
  • 1 Aug 1907—1 Aug 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island
  • 9 Nov 1907—9 Nov 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
  • 11 1907—16 Nov 1907: Oklahoma
    46th State. The area that had been Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were united to become one state.
33 1908 
  • 1908—1908: Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement
  • 1908—1908: Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain
  • 1908—1908: Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day
  • 1908—1908: Border Ports established
    Ports of entry established for customs and immigration
  • 1908—1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry
  • 1908—1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger
  • 1908—1908: Model T first sold
  • 1908—1908: J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter
  • 1908—1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates
  • 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
  • 12 Aug 1908—12 Aug 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
34 1909 
35 1910 
  • 1910—1910: Halley's comet reappears
  • 1910—1910: Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe
  • 1910—1910: Madame Curie isolates radium
  • 1910—1910: Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville
  • 1910—1910: Constitutional crisis in Britain
  • 1910—1910: Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain
  • 1910—1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture
  • 1910—1910: Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris
  • 6 May 1910—6 May 1910: Edward VII dies - George V becomes King
  • 5 Jun 1910—20 Jan 1936: George V
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
36 1911 
  • 1911—1911: Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers (1911-1912)
  • 1911—1911: Rutherford: theory of atomic structures
  • 1911—1911: First British Official Secrets Act
  • 1911—1911: British MPs receive a salary
  • 1911—1911: Parliament Act in Britain reduces the power of the House of Lords
  • 1911—1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system
  • 6 Jan 1911—1 Jun 1911: Census of Canada
    Census of 9 Provinces and 2 Territories counts 7,206,643 individuals
  • 2 Apr 1911—2 Apr 1911: Census: Population - England and Wales: 36 Million; Scotland: 4.6 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
  • 22 Jun 1911—22 Jun 1911: Coronation of George V
  • 14 Dec 1911—14 Dec 1911: National Insurance introduced in Britain
37 1912 
  • 1912—1912: Britain nationalises the telephone system
  • 1912—1912: Discovery of the 'Piltdown Man' - hoax, exposed in 1953
  • 1912—1912: Irish Home Rule crisis grows in Britain
  • 1912—1912: Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras
  • 1912—1912: The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole
  • 1912—1912: Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912
  • 18 Jan 1912—18 Jan 1912: Captain Scott's last expedition - he and his team reach the south pole on Jan 18th; all die on the way back, their bodies found in November
  • 14 Apr 1912—14 Apr 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
  • 13 May 1912—13 May 1912: Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) founded in Britain
  • 1 Jun 1912—6 Jan 1912: New Mexico
    47th State
  • 5 1912—13 May 1912: 17th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 2 1912—14 Feb 1912: Arizona
    48th State
  • 8 1912—2 Jan 1959: Alaska Territory Organized
  • 6 1912—30 Jun 1912: Saskatchewan tornado
    The worst tornado in Canadian history claims 28 lives in Regina
38 1913 
  • 1913—1913: Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity
  • 1913—1913: Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield
  • 1913—1913: Trade Union Act in Britain establishes the right to use Union funds for political purposes
  • 1913—1913: Suffragette demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned
  • 1913—1913: Third Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords - threat of civil war in Ireland - formation of Ulster Volunteers to oppose Home Rule
  • 1913—1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne
  • 1913—1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy
  • 1913—1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
  • 1913—1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper
  • 2 Mar 1913—3 Feb 1913: 16th Amendment ratified
  • 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson U.S. Presidency Woodrow Wilson U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1913—3 Mar 1921: Woodrow Wilson
  • 4 Jun 1913—4 Jun 1913: Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby and dies
  • 4 Aug 1913—8 Apr 1913: 17th Amendment ratified
39 1914 
  • 1914—1914: Chaplin and De Mille make their first films
  • 1914—1914: Irish Home Rule Act provides for a separate Parliament in Ireland; the position of Ulster to be decided after the War
  • 1914—1918: World War One
    Canadian forces fight in Europe during World War 1
  • 1914—1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask
  • 6 Jan 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
  • 28 Jun 1914—28 Jun 1914: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
  • 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
  • 5 Aug 1914—5 Aug 1914: British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph links to the outside world
  • 15 Aug 1914—15 Aug 1914: Panama Canal opened, the Canal cement boat 'Ancon' making the first official transit (plans for a grand opening were cancelled due to the start of WW1)
  • Oct 1914—Oct 1914: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
  • 27 Nov 1914—27 Nov 1914: First policewoman goes on duty in Britain
  • 16 Dec 1914—16 Dec 1914: German battleships bombard Hartlepool and Scarborough
  • 6 1914—19 Jun 1914: Alberta coal mine disaster
    The worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history claims 189 lives in Hillcrest
  • 5 1914—30 May 1914: Empress of Ireland sinks
    1,014 lives are lost when ship sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence
40 1915 
  • 1915—1915: Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane
  • 1915—1915: First automatic telephone exchange in Britain
  • 1915—1915: A new constitution establishes a two-chamber parliament elected by universal suffrage
  • 1915—1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City
  • 19 Jan 1915—19 Jan 1915: First Zeppelin air raid on England, over East Anglia - four killed
  • Feb 1915—Feb 1915: Submarine blockade of Britain starts
  • Apr 1915—Apr 1915: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
  • 25 Apr 1915—25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
  • 7 May 1915—7 May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died
  • 16 May 1915—16 May 1915: First meeting of a British WI (Women's Institute) took place in Llanfairpwll (aka Llanfair PG), Anglesey

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