1859 Emmet composes DIXIE
Tennyson publishes IDYLLS OF KING
Patti debuts in NY as Lucia
1860
Lincoln elected 16th President
Burckhardt's CIVILSATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
Grandma Moses, folk artist, born
Church paints TWILIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS
1861
Opera Garnier opens in Paris
Emancipation of Russian serfs
Frederic Remington born
1868
Grant elected President L.M. Alcott publishes LITTLE WOMEN
Rossini dies
1869
Suez Canal opens
Architect Lloyd Wright born
Kensett paints LAKE GEORGE
1870
Moody & Sankey begin to conduct Revivalist meetings
1871
Verdi premieres AIDA
Darwin publishes DESCENT OF MAN
1872
Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
Brooklyn Bridge opened
1874 Charles Ives born in Danbury
Gertrude Stein born
First Impressionist Exhibit in Paris
1875 Twain publishes TOM SAWYER
Eakins paints The Gross Clinic
1876
Wagner's Bayreuth Festival opens A. Gilchrist visits Whitman in Philadelphia
1877 D.C. French sculpts Emeron portrait
Victoria named Empress of India
H. James publishes THE AMERICAN
Edison invents the phonograph Chadwick goes to Germany to study
Ibsen's play A DOLL'S HOUSE
1893
Ossawa Tanner paints THE BANJO LESSON
Verdi's last opera FALSTAFF
Ford builds first automobile
1894
Beardsley illustrates Wilde's SALOME
Shaw publishes ARMS & THE MAN
1895
Art Nouveau fashionable
Hindemith born
1896
Chekhov completes THE SEA GULL
Die Jugend & Simplicissimus, German Jugendstil art magazines. founded E. Curtis begins photo surveys of Native American life MacDowell composes INDIAN SUITE
1st modern Olympics in Athens
1897
Brahms dies
1898
Curies discover radium
Singer Paul Robeson born
Elisabeth of Autria assasinated
1900
Freud writes INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS Mrs. Beach sets R. Browning poems
1901 Farwell founds Wa-Wan Press
Queen Victoria dies
Picasso's Blue Period
1902
Debussy premieres PELLEAS ET MELISANDE
Caruso makes 1st phonograph record
1949
Mao Tse Tung creates People's Republic of China Bernstein composes THE AGE OF ANXIETY Bowles expatriates to Morocco
1950
McCarthy begins communist hunts
1952
Eisenhower elected President
1953
Elizabeth II crowned Queen of England
A. Miller writes drama,THE CRUCIBLE
1954
V. Thomson resigns as NY HERALD TRIBUNE music critic
1955
Erich Fromm publishes THE SANE SOCIETY
1956
Elvis Presley makes Rock n' roll popular
1957
U..S.S.R. launches SPUTNIK 1 & 2 Bernstein composes West Side Story
Kerouac publishes ON THE ROAD Agee publishes A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
1958
U.S. Marshalls desegregate schools in Little Rock, AK
1959
Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
Hawaii becomes 50th state
1960
Henze composes PRINZ VON HOMBURG
1961
J.F. Kennedy innaugurated
1962
Britten composes WAR REQUIEM Barber's Piano Concerto wins Pulitzer
1963
Warhol's Pop Art in vogue
J. K. Kennedy assasinated
Roethke dies
1964
M.L. King awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1967
6-day Arab-Israeil War
50,000 march on Washington to protest Vietnam War
M.L. King leads Civil Rights
1969
Woodstock Music Festival
1st Concorde flight
1971
Stravinsky dies
1972
Bernstein premieres MASS
1973
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Watergate break-in
Britten premieres DEATH IN VENICE
1974
Nixon resigns
1975
New World Records begins series of American music
Ives Centennial celebrated
Argento composes DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF Rorem composes WOMEN'S VOICES
