Timeline
1862: David Hilbert is born in Königsberg, Prussia which is now know as Kaliningrad, Russia.
1862: Abraham Lincoln was President
1862: American Civil war had just begun
1863: First U.S draft starts
1865: American Civil war ends
1865: Abraham Lincoln in shot
1869: Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
1869: The transcontinental road is completed
1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporates the Standard Oil Company.
1870: The National Weather Service issues its first weather forecast.
1871: “The Great Chicago Fire,” starts.
1872: Yellowstone becomes the first national park.
1875: First Kentucky Derby is run.
1876: Lt. Colonel George Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry battle the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River
1876 Colorado becomes a state.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph at the offices of the "Scientific American"
1881: President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau
1881: A gunfight breaks out near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday attempt to disarm Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury. When the dust settled, Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury were dead.
1882: Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station in New York City begins generating electricy to supply 400 street lamps and 85 customers with electrical power.
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France
1886: Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, MA 1890: Wyoming and Idaho become states.
1893: Duryea Brothers road-test the first-ever, American-made, gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1895: Ex-slave and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass dies.
1896: The last great North American "Gold Rush" begins when gold is discovered in the Yukon District of Canada.
1898: The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba's harbor.
1898: The United States annexes Hawaii
1901: Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley
1901: Teddy Roosevelt becomes President
1903: The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery,.
1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright are first to fly a controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air airplane.
1908: Henry Ford begins production of the Model T
1909: The U.S. Mint introduces the "Lincoln Head" penny.
1910: W. D. Boyce incorporates the Boy Scouts of America.
1912: Arizona becomes a state.
1912: HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg
1913: Woodrow Wilson becomes President
1917: World War One begins
1918: World War One ends
1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex.
1921: Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926: A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about the character Winnie-the-Pooh.
1927: Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight.
1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
1936: The Boulder Dam (today known as "Hoover Dam") is completed 2 years ahead of schedule.
1936: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner become the first inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
1937: The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
1937: American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
1941: World War Two Starts
1945: Harry Truman becomes President
1945: World War Two ends
1943: David Hilbert dies at the age of 81 in Göttingen, Germany.
1862: Abraham Lincoln was President
1862: American Civil war had just begun
1863: First U.S draft starts
1865: American Civil war ends
1865: Abraham Lincoln in shot
1869: Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
1869: The transcontinental road is completed
1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporates the Standard Oil Company.
1870: The National Weather Service issues its first weather forecast.
1871: “The Great Chicago Fire,” starts.
1872: Yellowstone becomes the first national park.
1875: First Kentucky Derby is run.
1876: Lt. Colonel George Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry battle the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River
1876 Colorado becomes a state.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph at the offices of the "Scientific American"
1881: President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau
1881: A gunfight breaks out near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday attempt to disarm Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury. When the dust settled, Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury were dead.
1882: Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station in New York City begins generating electricy to supply 400 street lamps and 85 customers with electrical power.
1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France
1886: Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, MA 1890: Wyoming and Idaho become states.
1893: Duryea Brothers road-test the first-ever, American-made, gasoline-powered automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1895: Ex-slave and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass dies.
1896: The last great North American "Gold Rush" begins when gold is discovered in the Yukon District of Canada.
1898: The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba's harbor.
1898: The United States annexes Hawaii
1901: Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley
1901: Teddy Roosevelt becomes President
1903: The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery,.
1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright are first to fly a controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air airplane.
1908: Henry Ford begins production of the Model T
1909: The U.S. Mint introduces the "Lincoln Head" penny.
1910: W. D. Boyce incorporates the Boy Scouts of America.
1912: Arizona becomes a state.
1912: HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg
1913: Woodrow Wilson becomes President
1917: World War One begins
1918: World War One ends
1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex.
1921: Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926: A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about the character Winnie-the-Pooh.
1927: Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight.
1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
1936: The Boulder Dam (today known as "Hoover Dam") is completed 2 years ahead of schedule.
1936: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner become the first inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
1937: The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
1937: American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
1941: World War Two Starts
1945: Harry Truman becomes President
1945: World War Two ends
1943: David Hilbert dies at the age of 81 in Göttingen, Germany.