Century-Long Timeline of Global Events and Figures
Readable fragments place John D. Rockefeller giving funds to the University of Chicago, Andrew Carnegie proposing a day school tied to Cooper Union, major political upheavals in Russia and the Philippines, labor strikes, elections, and notable deaths. Names span Goebel, Taft, McKinley, Roosevelt, and many European and Asian figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
Cooper Union
New York
Tiflis
Russia
Chicago
Archbishop Chapelle
Manila
French Senate
Deroulede, Guerin
Buffet
Italy
United States
China
Gilmore
Philippines
American Steel & Wire Company
Robert B. Bingham
Boston
Borneo
Senate
Michigan Telephone Company
America
Frankfort
Colson
Ethelbert Scott
United Mine Workers of America
Knights of Labor
North Brookfield
Mass
Martin Bergen
von Wittek
House
Sewer Pipe Trust
Organo
Olga Nethersole
Taft Philippine Commission
Red Ash
W. Va
Theater Francais
Paris
Newark
N. J A
Charles M. Sheldon
Capital
Jesus
Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Armour Packing Company
Stephanie
Austro-Hungary
Count Lonjay
Third Avenue Street Railway
Metropolitan Company
D. Appleton & Co
Tom Jones
Garners
New York Rapid Transit
Cotton
Grady
Emporium
C. W. Massey
The
Merchants’ National Bank of Rutland Vt
Delagoa Bay
Portugal
France
Great Britain
National Legislative League
Chicago University
Rockefeller
Notable Obituary and Memorials Named Leaders and Figures
Necrology notes several prominent figures: George W. Metzel founder of the Improved Order of Heptasophs. Maj. Gen. Zenas R. Bliss of Providence. Stount de Benomar Spanish ambassador to Rome. Freeman D. Somerby supreme president of Iron Hall Philadelphia. Dr. William A. Hammond former U.S. surgeon general. Ernest J. Lehman originator of the department store idea White Plains. Judge John B. Stallo ex U S minister to Italy in Florence. Rev Dr Edward McGlynn memorials referenced.
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George W. Metzel
Improved Order of Heptasophs
Zenas R. Bliss
Providence
R. St‘ount de Benomar
Rome
Freeman D. Somerby
Iron Hall
Philadelphia
Willam A. Hammond
Washington
Ernest J. Lehman
White Plains
N. Y
John B. Stallo
United States
Italy
Florence
Edward McGlynn
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General
Philippine Commission
United States Church Army
Protestant Episcopal
J. C. W. Beckham
Kentucky
Goebel
Louisville
William H. Taft
William F. Miller
Franklin Syndicate
Canada
Molineux
Kate Adams
Anti-Trust League
Chapman Cott
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Macrum
State Department
Durban
Kimberley
United States Milling Company
Flour Trust
Depauw
Plate Glass Trust
General Cronje
Ladysmith
Association of the American Universities
Third Avenue Street Railway Company
Castro
Venezuela
Boerchgrevink
Tion
Wellington
N. Z
South Magnetic Pole
Webster Davis
Arbuckles
Woolson Spice Company
Sugar Trust
Newell D. Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Presbyterian
Inter-Oceanic Canal Company Incorporated
Isthmian Canal Commission
New
Queen Victoria
Ireland
Prince of Wales
In Brussia S
Jean Baptiste Sipide
Kansas City
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Beckham
Huntington
Colorado River
Austin
Tex
Texas
San Francisco
Phoebe A. Hearst
Museum of
Art and Archaeology
University of California
King Leopold
Belgium Kingdom
Georges’ Creek
Maryland
J. B. Kellogg
KE. S. Dean Company
John A. Porter
George RB. Cortelyou
Windber
Louisiana
Kumeysi
Jessup
Siberia
Mississippi
Chili
Ecumenical Missionary Conference
Clifton
Ont
Welland Canal
Hull
Ottawa
American Linseed Oil Company
Catable Church
Scofield
Utah
United Christian Party
Dr. Swallow
Woolley
Otssalle
MacArthur
F. W. Neely
Rochester
Cuba
St. Louis
Bryan
Towne
Barker
Donnelly
John W. Gates
M—Kboer
Clark
Montana
Thompson
Havana
Nordland
Mafeking
Bogota
Columbia
Taku
United States Supreme Court
Price, McCormick & Co
Si--Tae
Queen Min
Korea
Lord Roberts
Orange River
Professor Howe
Denver
Feros
Pekin
Johannesburg
Taylor
Taft Commission
Metropolitan Medical College
b—Roberts
Pretoria
Congress
S—Miles
Pio del Pilar
Admiral Seymour
Tientsin
Askey and
Russ
Biloxi
Miss
Baron von Kettelur
Bloomington
Til
Varna
Bulgaria
MccKinney
Roosevelt
McKinley
Southern Railroad
McDonough
Chicago & Northwestern
Depere
Wis
Rathbone
Knights of St. John
Hospitalar Brotherhood
Caolic
Archduke Ferdinand
Metcalf
Hoboken Wharves
New York City
Main
Saale
Bremen
National
Stevenson
Paotingfu
Diaz
Mexico
Germany
American Red Crees Society
Liscum
Alliew
Kumassie
Coleman
Trans-Atlantic Society of America
Mount Azuma
Japan
Rurelane
Blagovestchensk
Cardinal Satolli
W. Rockhill
Wu Ting Fang
Conger
Legations
States Treasury
Brooks
Geneva
Draper
Democratic Conference
New Orleans
Peary
Windward
Saile
Newfoundland
Hubert Charles
Hathbone
la Paz
King Humbert
Victor Emmanuel
Pekini
General Chaffee
Maritime Canal Company
Roger Wolcott
Alexander Jester
New London
Gilbert Gate
Tivoli Gardens
North Carolina
London
Azores
Alexander of
Servia
Mme
Draga Meschin
Deep Run
Peoples’ Party
S—Count von Waldersee
Professor Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Constantinople
Nippur
Babylon
Li Hung Chang
Goodland
Kan
Columbus
Charles H. Ferrell
Brennus
Framce
Cape St. Vincent
Slatington
American Army of the Philippines
Reilly
Forbidden City
Caleb Powers
Georgetown
Goeb
Transvaal Republic
Hatfield
National Party
Caffery
Howe
Gulf
Galveston
Kruger
Loureneco Marques
Great Lakes
Lyon
Conneaut
Ohio
Negro National Party
Field Marshal
von Waldersee
Hongkong
Co. W. Powers
Clarkson
Andrus Island
Pontchatoutla
Shenandoah
Cook's Relands
New Zealand
James Howard
Howard
Sandy Hook
Plymouth
Bellinzaght
Mukden
Manchuria
Vatican
Winfield Townsend
Electric
Ala
Alaska
Burlington
Andrup
Copenhagen
Albert T Patrick
Charles F. Jones
Marsh Rice
William J. McCaully
Pearl Newman
Pike's Inn
Minnesota
St. Nikander
German-American Central Association
Chesapeake Bay
George F. Bailey
Lynn
John C. Best
Union Pacific Railroad
Holland
Great Voritain
Youtsey
First National Bank of New York
Teller Alvord
Paterson
Jennie Roachieter
Vanderbilts
Southern Pacific Railroad
Tarrant
Caracas
Guerenas
Alvord
Lord Salisbury
Marquis of Lansdowne
Scotland
Free Church
United Presbyterian Church
Wilkesbarre
Tourane
Annam
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad
Spain
the Redeemer
Valet Jones
Berrysburg
MecKinley
Idaho
United Metal Trades Union
Monitor Arkansas
City of
Monticello
Nashville
Conner & Brady
T. P. Brady
Pittsburg
Flood
Kimbra
Tennessee
Marseilles
Madrid
Phillips
Turkey
Federation of Catholic Societies
George R. Griffiths
Cincinnati Board of Education
General Kitchener
South Africa
Nicaragua
Southern Pacific
Bulsun
Williamson
John W. Wohl Ie
Davis Stokes
Presbyterian General Assembly
Santa Fe Telegraphers
American Federation of Labor
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Seville
West River
Hokau
Shanesrville
Nooitgedaecht
Order of Chosen Friends
Gneizenau
Malaga
Fredonia
Ind
Rockport
Felipe Berriozbal
Dabney H. Maury
Elizabeth J. French
Spotted Tail
J. H. Wood
Hot Springs
Ark
Joseph Radembacher
Fort Wayne
James Martineau
Felix Morris
Prince Alfieri
Papal Guard of Nobles
Jay B. Burrows
Omaha
S. M. Henry
Battle Creek
Mich
Marquis of Lothian
Henry Twells
John Ruskin
T. H. Stanton
Anastasius
Sisters of Mary
United
Lockport
Schleswig- Holstein
General Correa
Marquis of
Queensbury
England
Albert K. Fulton
Baltimore
M. Jacobini
Annie Wittemeyer
Saratoga
William Goebel
Wiliam S. Hazeltine
William H. Gilder
Morristown
N. J
John Kennedy
Adolphe Rothschilds
Charles F. Felu
Creneral
John McNulta
Harry Miner
Daniel McLaren
Dan the
Long Branch
Edward Lorenz
German
United Brethren Publications
Dayton
H. H. Comer
Central Railroad of Georgia
Savannah
Richard Hovey
William Butterfield
William Stott
Sydney Eppes
Virginia
John Hennessey
Dubuque
Alfred C. Harmer
Solon Humphreys
Herr Daimler
Edward J. Phelps
Kinegland
New Haven
M. Hartman
Cardinal L. di Canossa
Verona
Mary
Lucinda H. Smith
Kalamazoo
James 8. Smith
Herr von Puttkamer
Frederick W. Burton
Sir William
A. Lockhart
India
F. L. Nagler
Haus Und Herd
Cincinnati
Andrew Bolter
George B. Sennett
Youngstown
Herman E.taubeneck
People's Party
Seattle
Wash
Volney W. Ashford
Oakland
Cal
Mahlon H. Dickinson
Chevalier de Souza Corres
Isaac M. Wise
Camillo Mazello
Congregation of Sacred Rites
J. M. Stone
Holly Springs
Donald M. Stewart
Pietrus J. Joubert
Transvaal
William J. Rainey
Mereland
O. Harvey L. Goodale, Publisher Chicago Drovers’ Journal
W. H. Stanton
Greenback Labor Party
Scranton
Archibald Forbes
Philetus Sawyer
Oshkosh
Charles H. Gibson
St. George Mivart
John Scott
Methodist Recorder
Eldersville
Gustav Akerijiehn
Sweden
Osman Pasha
Plevna
George Bidwell
Chico
Alfred Young
David W. Caruth
James Seeley
Emily Coghlan
Stamford
Conn
Frank H. Cushing
Philip Zell
Peoria
George H. Scripps
San Diego
William Eoheken
Jacksonville
Dankmar Adler
Jennie O. Potter
Robert A. M. Stevenson
Jean -A. L. Falguiere
Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Alexander T. McGill
New Jersey
Tobias Mullen
Erie
the Duke of Argyll
James Engle
Bulawayo
George KE. Frothingham
Detroit
Mother M.annunciata
Sisters of the Holy Cross
South Bend
Francis G. Atwood
Munkacsy
Michael Painter
Waitman T. Willey
West Virginia
Morgantown
Charles P. Haughian
William C. Endicott
James A. Robinson
Richard Storrs Willis
Ahmed Ben Mussa
Morocco
Hermann Leir
Albert F. Judd
Hawaii
Nathaniel P. Hill
Francis _. Carpenter
Prince William of Hesse
Robert Viziarde
St. Joseph
Sig
Guiseppe del Puente
Timothy B. Blackstone
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Arthur Rehan
John P. Rea
Mineapolis
David Ward
Pontiac
Clarence
William
Gladstone
Wales
Richard H. Wilmer
Episcopal
Medile
Francis of Orleans
Prince
Frank McLean
Max Korner
John IL. Pennington
Dakota Territory
Oxford
John H. Gear
Iowa
Elias Carr
Raleigh
Lee Platt
Blasdell
Nevada
O. H. R. St. John
Cleveland
Herman Dyer
Richard Yelland
Duke of Saxe
Jacob D. Cox
Magnolia
Luke Pryor
Athens
Augustine Healy
Maine
Liebknecht
William Clark
Dennis Coughlin
Toledo
S.walter R. Johnston
Baron Russell
Edward Marble
Edgar E. Duryea
Glen Cove
L. I
Samuel L. Clark
Keokuk
Djevad Pasha
Erand
B. A. F. Mamrow
John J. Ingalls
Kansas
Henry Green
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Andreza Palacio
Carl Smith
Gustave P. Cluseret
Ji K. S. Washburn
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad
Rye Beach
John B. Laws
L. D. Liewelling
Arkansas City
Arthur Sewall
Bath
Thomas Kingsford
Ogwego
Mer
Francois X. Gouthe-Soulard
Aix
Montgomery Sicard
Prince Henry
Hesse
Prince Albert
Saxony
S. Newton Pettus
Meadeville
Belle Archer
Warren
John A. McClernand
Springfield
Lewis A. Sayre
Arsenio Martinez de Campos
John M. Palmer
Premier Marchand
Quebec
John Fef. Hudson
American Bell Telephone Company
Beverly
Prince Bernhard Heinrich of
Saxe-Weimar-Hisenbach
George FE. Blanchard
Joint Traffic Association
the Marquis of