Timeline Of Books

Darwin’s The Origin of the Species (1859) 1850

Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan (1852)

First computer, by Charles Babbage (1837)

Simon Bolivar liberates Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador (1819) Death of General “Mad” Anthony Wayne (1815) 1800 1799

Rosetta Stone found (1799)

Evgenii Onegin (1833)

1825 First photograph taken by Joseph Nicephone Niepce (1826)

An Incomplete Education (1987) Judy Jones, born 1949

From the Teeth of Angels (1993) Jonathan Carroll, born 1948

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (1976) Jim Miller, born 1946

The Woman Warrior (1976) Maxine Hong Kingston, born 1940

Strange Stories, Amazing Facts (1979)

The Classic Fairy Tales (1973) Iona Opie, born 1923

Peter Opie, 1918-1982

Matilda (1988)

Atlas Shrugged (1959)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born 1928

Meiji Restoration established (1868) American Civil War (1861-1865)

Reader’s Digest, founded 1922

Thomas Edison invents electrical light bulb (1878)

Roald Dahl, 1916-1990

1875

Aleksandr Pushkin, 1799-1837

Boxer Rebellion (1898) First sound recording by an African American (1890)

Ayn Rand, 1905-1982

Ice cream cone invented (1904)

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849

1900

The Little Prince (1943)

19th amendment passed. granting women’s suffrage (1920) Bolshevik Revolution (1917) World War I (1914-1918)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944

Detroit Red Wings founded (1926)

The Importance of Understanding (1960)

1925

The Beatles founded (1956) Birth of rock and roll (1950) Chinese Communist government established (1949) World War II (1939-1945)

Lin Yutang, 1895-1976

1950

The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 (1964)

Sesame Street debuts on television (1969) American Civil Rights Act passed (1964)

TS Eliot, 1888-1965

AIDS virus discovered (1981) KT Lowe born (1977)

The Book of Tea (1905)

1975

Okakura Kakuzo (Okakura Tenshin), 1862-1913

Dolly, a sheep, first cloned animal (1997)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

US invades Iraq and Afghanistan (2002) The Complete Tales and Poems (1932)

2009 2000

Barack Obama first African-American US President (2009)