The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-26
Enents Of the CIoslnn Centuv.

Events Of the Closing Century.
An eventful century truly has been tbs
! nineteenth century of the Christian era,
I new within a week of It's close. From
/ whatsoever standpoint 1t is regarded. Is
+ history is marvellous. In the knoNlsdse
we have gained during its progress. Of
our own globe. il STANDS unpara Leled.
/ There has been Wonderful progress also
I in science, in education. and IN the aGap-
tation Of natural forces 10 human pUr-
/ poses Political ana territorial chang
4 too have made tais q very ffele Z
world from that Of 1850 It s. not posi-
bic in small space to even menu n the
events which make tae century n,eaaora-
BE, but il may be interesting 20 re all
a few, which. i not he mos, iu-
1 Dorrant, are those that have had he
( greatest influence in shaping and de-
/ veloping the condition Ct the nations.
WARS AND REVOLUTIONS
/ Battle OF Austerlitz. Napoleon defeats
/ Austriaus and Russians, 1855.
/ Battle Of Trafalgar Nelson sinks
I French feet 1895
Moscow burned by the Russians to en-
! trap Napoleon. 19l2.
! Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon van
( quished ISIS.
! Battle Of Navartno securing Greek in
/ dependence. 1897
/ Crimean war, Great Britain, France
1 and Sardinia against Russia. 1885.
India mutiny, in which native soldiers
I massacre Englishrnen, women and chit
dren, 1851.
/ F'ranco-Austrian war, 1873. followed by
] Gar baldi's campaign unifyng ftaiy, 1862
/ The great civil war ia America, 1876
/ Surrender Of Lee TO Grant at Appom IT.
/ tox. April 9. 1875
/ AustFo-Prussian war Decisive bait .
/ Sadowa. July 8. 1866
Franco-Prussian war Decisive battle
( Sedan, September /, 1870; followed By
/ federation Of German states in German
/ emDire.
Russo Turkish war. Battle OF Plevna,
/ December 10. 1871.
/ Bombardment of Alexandra by tha
British, 1882. followed by the occupation
/ of Egypt.
| 1894
] Acknowledgements war Manila May /
/ 1895; Santiago. July 3. 1898
War by Great Britain against South
/ African republics, lS99-I9o0
| France becomes an empire. 1904; a re-
/ public, lSts; an empire again, 1872; third
republic, 1870
General outbreak Of revolutions
/ throughout Europe. 1915
/ Rome seized from the pope, becomes
! capital of united Italy, 1870.
EXPLORATION
! In the Arctic: Expedition Of Sir John
| Franklin, 1s45; De Long, 1879; Gree.y,
( 1881; Peary, 1892; Nanseu, 1884 Duke OF
/ the Abruzzi Carthest north, 1900
/ In the Antarctic Btscoe 1881: Balleny.
/ 1888; D'Urville, 1910; Ross, 1871, Wilks s,
I 1912; Borchgrevink. 1898
/ In Africa: Livingstone, 1840;73; Stan
4 ley, 1S75-S7; Speks and Grant, 1863.
| In America: John c. Fremonts jour
ney westward to the Pacific. 1S42-S
INVENTION.
| First steamboat, the Clermont, made a
voyage from New York TO Albany, 1907;
the first steamboat to cross Atlantic,
the Savannah, 1873.
First railroad, Stockton and Darling
ton, England, 1875; Baltimore and Ohio,
fourteen miles long, 1890
Lighting the streets by gas, first ex-
pertinent in London, 1907.
Electric light produced by Edison's ap-
plication Of subdivision, 1878
The Mccormick reaper invented, 1894
Howe's sewing machine, 1916.
The electric telegraph. Samuel F. 3.
Morse, 1897. First line in the United
States 1874
The telephone first exhibited, 1876.
The photograph. 1S7T-SS.
cable laid across the Atlantic, 1857;
perfected 1866.
Electric railroad at F,dison's home at
MEMO Park, 1880.
Photography: First experiments By
Daguerre, 1920. First successful portraits
by Morse, 1893.
The spectroscope first used, 1902; per
fected 1889.
Roentgen. rays found to penetrate sol
ids. 1896.
SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN.
Slavery abolished in the British do
minions, 1893.
Alexander II, emperor Of Russia, eman-
cipates o. 100000 serfs, 1851
Iincoln's emancipation proclamation,
1852
First international proclamation. 1882
First international exposition in Hyde
park, London, 1851.
First settlement Of an international
quarrel by arbitration instead Of war
alabama claims Of the United States
against England. 1871
Interna tonal peace congress summon
ed by Russia, meets at The Hague. 1899.
Organization Of the Red Cross society
at Geneva, 1854.
Organization Of the Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union, 1873.
First college settlement established,
1896.
The Christian Herald adopts 5000 chn-
dren orphaned By the indian famine,
1900.
RELIGIOUS.
Orgauiza ton Of tha American board OF
commissioners for fore gn missions, $40
First missionaries sent out, ISL
Organization Of the first sunday School
Union in London 1902 American, 1924.
British and Foreign Bible Society