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William H. Cottingham 8 [m]
8th Generation

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[1116] - Lillian Augusta (Steele) Cottingham 8

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Personalized History Timeline, 1854 to 1954
1830-1860:
Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 6
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 47
1848-1856:
1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 2
1852-1859:
3rd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 5
1853-1856:
Franklin Pierce president of US from before birth until age 2
1854:
Nebraska organized as a territory at age 0
1854:
Kansas organized as a territory at age 0
1854-1856:
Crimean War from age 0 to age 2
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from age 3 to age 12
1857:
Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 3
1857-1860:
James Buchanan president of US from age 3 to age 6
1858:
India bill transfers government of India to England at age 4
1858:
Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 4
1859:
Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 5
1859:
Oil Well at age 5
1859:
Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 5
1860:
South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 6
1860:
Rifled barrel invented at age 6
1861-1865:
Civil War from age 7 to age 11
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from age 7 to age 11
1861:
The Apache Declare War on the US at age 7
1861:
Gold rush in New Zealand at age 7
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 7 to age 11
1861:
Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 7
1861:
Colorado organized as a territory at age 7
1861:
Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 7
1861:
Nevada organized as a territory at age 7
1861:
North Dakota organized as a territory at age 7
1861:
South Dakota organized as a territory at age 7
1862:
US Homestead act at age 8
1863:
Battle of Gettysburg at age 9
1863:
West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 9
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 9
1863:
Idaho organized as a territory at age 9
1863:
Arizona organized as a territory at age 9
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from age 9 to age 25
1864:
Louisiana organized as a territory at age 10
1864:
Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 10
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 11
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 11
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 11
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 12
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 12 to age 14
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 13
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 13
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 13
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 13
1867:
Dynamite at age 13
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 14 to age 24
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 15 to age 22
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 15
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 15
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 15
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 15
1870:
US black men can vote at age 16
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 16 to age 17
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 16
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 17
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 19 to age 24
1873:
Color Photographs at age 19
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 22
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 22
1876:
American Centennial at age 22
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 22
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 23 to age 26
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 23
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 24
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 25
1879:
Zulu war at age 25
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 27 to age 31
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 27 to age 42
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 27
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 27
1884:
Motorcycle at age 30
1884:
1st subway at age 30
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 31 to age 34
1885:
Automobile at age 31
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 32
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 33
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 34
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 34
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 35
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 35
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 35 to age 38
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 35
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 35
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 35
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 36
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 36
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 36
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 36
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 37
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 39
1893:
Movies at age 39
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 39
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 39 to age 43
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 39 to age 42
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 40
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 40 to age 41
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 42
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 42
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 43 to age 47
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 44
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 45 to age 69
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 45 to age 48
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 46
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 46
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 46
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 47 to age 54
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 47 to age 56
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 47
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 47
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 47
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 47
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 47
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 47
1903:
Airplane at age 49
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 49
1904:
Radar at age 50
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 50 to age 51
1907:
Plastic at age 53
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 53
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 54
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 55
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 55 to age 58
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 55
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 56
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 56 to age 82
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 56
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 57
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 58
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 58
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 58
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 58
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 59 to age 66
1914-1919:
World War I from age 60 to age 65
1914:
The Bra at age 60
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 61
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 62
1916:
Sonar at age 62
1917:
US enters WWI at age 63
1917:
Russian revolution at age 63
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 64 to age 79
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 64 to age 66
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 65
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 65
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 66
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 66 to age 75
1920:
Palestine established at age 66
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 67 to age 70
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 68
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 71 to age 74
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 71
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 72
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 73
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 73
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 74
1928:
Television at age 74
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 74
1928:
Video Recordings at age 74
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 75
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 75 to age 85
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 75 to age 78
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 76
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 77 to age 79
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 79
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 79
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 79
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 79 to age 91
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 80
1935:
Dustbowl at age 81
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 81 to age 82
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 82
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 82
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 82 to age 98
1936:
Helicopter at age 82
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 83 to age 91
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 83
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 84
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 85
1939-1945:
World War II from age 85 to age 91
1939:
Digital Computer at age 85
1940:
Color Television at age 86
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 86
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 87 to age 91
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 88
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 88
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 91
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 91 to age 98
1945:
Hypertext at age 91
1945:
United Nations formed at age 91
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 92 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 92
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 93
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 93
1947:
Transistor at age 93
1948:
NATO formed at age 94
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 94
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 94
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 94
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 95
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 95
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 95
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 96
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 96 to age 100
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 96
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 96 to age 99
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 97
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 98 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 98
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 99 until after line end
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 100

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