Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-01-03
Hundred Years Growth
Record Without q PaITB|G|.
In Every Field Of Human
Activity. Progress Has
Been Made.


been eventful century. ITS histoi.
is marvellous, from whatever stand
point it Is viewed. The record Of svel
the very most important events is
lengthy one. Here are some OF them
WARS AND REvpGUrtoNs
Battle OF Austerlitx, Napoieen dc
fcats Austrisns and Russlsns, 1905.
Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson sink
French tleet 1906.
Moscow burned by the Russians t
entrap Napoleon, 1872,
Battle Of Waterloo, Napoleon van
quished, 1915.
Battle Of Navarino, securing Greei
Independence, 1927.
crimeans war, Great Britain, Frene'
aud Sardinia against Russia, i85g-j5
India mutiny, in which native sol
liers massacre English men, wotnel
aud children, 1857.
Franco-Austrian war. 1863, followed
by Garidald's campaign unifying II
ally. 1850.
The Great civil war In America, 1891
IS. Surrender of Lee to Grant at Ap
pomatox April 8, 1865.
Austro-Prnssia war noeisive bat
lie, Sadowa, July B, 1866.
f'ranco-prussian War. Decisive tat
lie, Sedan, September |, 1870; FOLLOWED
by federation Of German stntess b,
German empire,
Russo-rurkisb war. Battle of i'ies
ma, December TO-. 1877.
Bombardment ef Alexandria by tn,
British, 1852, followed by the oenupa
ton of Egypt.
War between Chinese aud japanese
1894.
American-Spsnish wpr, Manila, Ma,
/, 1898: Santiago, July ,, BDs.
War by Great Britain against souti
African republics, ls99-i900.
France becomes all empirs, 1904; 9
republic ls4s;lsn empire again. 1852
third republic. 1870,
General outbreak " eevoiution,
throughout Europe, isIs,
Rome, seized from tho pope. bs
,oine- capital of United Itaty.
EXPLORATION.
In the Artic. Expedition VI Sir
John Franklin, 1876; DE Long, 1870;
Greely. 1881; penry. 1909; Nanscn,
1903; duke OF the Abrasai tfurthest
north 1900.
Ia the Antartic: Bissoe, 1891; Hal
leny, 1889; D'urvIlie. 1910; Ross. is+l;
Wilkes, 1872; BorchgrcvInk, 1895.
In Africa; Livingstone, l5l0-73;
Stanley, is75-s7; Spoke and Grant,
1903.
In America: John G. Fremont's
Journey westward 10 the Pacific, 1872
10.
INVENTIONS.
First steamboat, the Clermont, made
d voyage from New York TO ALBANY,
1876; the first steamboat To cross the
Atlantic, the Savannah, 1919.
First railroad, Stockton d Darling
ton, England, 1875; Baltimore & Ohio,
fourteen miles long, 1880.
Lighting the street by gss, first ev-
pertinent in London, 1897.
Electric light produced by Edison's s
OF sup-divisiop, 1878.
The Mccormick reaper, invented
1884. -
iowe's sewing machine, lS+6.
The electric telegraph, samuel Y. II.
Morse, 1873. First line IN the United
states, lsiI.
The first telephone exhibited, 1876.
The phonograph, is77-ss.
Cable laid across the Atlantic, 1857;
perfected, ls06.
Electric railroad at Edison's home
in MEMO Park, 1850.
photography, first experiments hy
Daeuerre, 1879. First successful por-
traits by Morse, 1880.
The speetrocope first used, iS02
projected, 1859.
Roentgen rays found 60 penetrate
solids, 1896.
SOCIAL AMP RoMANtrAntAN.
Slavery abolished ia the Bri.ish do
ninions, 1893.
Alexander H., emperor Of hussia
emanoipates 23,ooo serfs, 1901.
Llncoln's emancipation prorlatantior
1862.
First International exposition II
Hydesspark, London, 1851.
First settlement Of an internatiena
quarrel by arbitration instead Of wa
Alabama claims of the United state
against England, 1871.
international Peace congress sun,
moned by Russia m~etr at The Hague
1900.
Organization of the He'd CroSs a.
oiety At Geneva, 1864.
Organization of the Wonisn's Chrii
tain Temperance union, 1873.