Timeline for George Rebbeck, RN 1847 to 1935

1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000 slaves to freedom in US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1847 George Born
1845-1848 James K Polka president of US
1846-1848 The Mexican-US War
1848 1st gold rush in California
1849 Helen Eliza Born
1849 Fizeau measures speed of light
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
1850 World pop. est. at 1.1 billion
1851 Gold rush in Australia
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
1854-1856 Crimean War
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1858 India bill transfers government of India to England
1859 Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
1859 Oil Well
1860 Rifled barrel invented
1860 South Carolina Secedes from the Union
1861 Gold rush in New Zealand
1861 The Apache Declare War on the US
1861 Transcontinental Telegraph completed
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
1861-1865 American Civil War
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
1863 Battle of Gettysburg
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
1865 Ku Klux Klan founded
1865 Lister invents Disinfection
1865 President Lincoln assassinated
1866 Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
1866-1892 Service with Royal Navy
1867 Alaska purchased from Russia
1867 Diamonds discovered in South Africa
1867 Dynamite
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
1869 Son William George Moody born
1869 Cutty Sark built
1869 Suez canal opened
1869 Transcontinental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US f
1870 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870 US black men can vote
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
1871 Great Fire destroys Chicago
1871 George and Helen Eliza marry
1873 Colour Photographs
1876 American Centennial
1876 Little Big Horn - Battle
1876 Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
1877 Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
1878 Son Sydney Francis born
1878 1st commercial telephone exchange in US
1879 Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
1879 Zulu war
188 Son Walter Henry born
1880 Daughter Fanny Eliza born
1881 Daughter Fanny Eliza dies
1881 James A Garfield president of US
1881 President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1883 Son Robert Bertram born and died
1884 Son Frederick Charles born and died
1884 1st subway
1884 Motorcycle
1885 Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
1886 Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
1887 Son Harry born
1887 Son Walter Henry died
1887 X-rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
1888 Son Harry died
1888 70...77 rpm musical records
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 – 400 deaths
1889 Daughter Alice Mabel born
1889 Hollerith invents the punch card
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1891 Son Edgar Ernest born
1893 Daughter Edith Kate born
1893 Movies
1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
1894 Daughter Edith Kate died
1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million
1894 Son William George marries Harriet Coombes
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1904 William McKinley president of US
1898 Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
1900 Boxer rebellion in China
1900 Son Sydney Francis marries Emily Coombes
1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded
1901 First British submarine launched
1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
1901 US President William McKinley assassinated
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
1903 Aeroplane
1904 Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
1905-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
1906 Helen Eliza dies at age of 57
1907  Plastic
1909 Matthew Henson reaches North pole (Robert Peary's expedition)
1909 Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
1911 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
1912 Titanic sinks
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
1914 The Bra
1914-1919 World War I
1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity
1916 Daughter Alice Mabel marries Edgar Brenton
1916 Irish Easter Rebellion
1916 Sonar
1917 Russian revolution
1917 US enters WWI
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
1918-1933 Prohibition in U.S.
1919 League of Nations instituted
1919 Short-wave Radio
1920 Palestine established
1920 Women receive right to vote in USA
1920-1929 Roaring 20's
1921 Son Edgar Ernest marries Adelaide Warne
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
1922 Insulin made available to diabetics
1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
1926 Sound in Movies
1927 1st transatlantic solo flight - Lindbergh
1927 Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)
1928 Geiger Counter
1928 Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
1928 Television
1928 Video Recordings
1929 Stock Market Crash
1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US
1929-1939 Great Depression f
1930 Pluto Discovered
1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2)
1931  Son William George Rebbeck Moody dies aged 63
1933 Armstrong invents FM modulation
1933 Radio Astronomy
1933 Soviet communist party purge
1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US
1935-1936 Abyssinian war from age 88
1935 George Rebbeck dies aged 88

 

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