 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Select > Who • What • When • Where • Which • Widgets |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Timeline |
|
 |
|
Search : 15 of 746 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Keyword >
1887
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 < Previous
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Kiss, Rodin
The Kiss is a marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Like many of Rodin's best-known individual sculptures, including The Thinker, the embracing couple de... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charles I, Last Emperor of Austria
Charles I, Last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Bohemia as Charles III, Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia, and the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. He reigned as Cha... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Le Corbusier, Architect
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp, the painter and mixed media artist, was associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, though he avoided any alliances. Duchamp’s work is characterized b... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Padre Pio
Francesco Forgione, later known as Padre Pio, canonized as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Roman Catholic Capuchin priest who is now venerated as a saint in the... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chiang Kai-shek, Opponent of Mao
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen. He commanded the North... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
General Montgomery, Britain WW2
Montgomery served in India before being sent to France at the beginning of the First World War. He was seriously wounded when he was shot in the chest in October 1914 and... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Film Sound History Timeline
Thomas Edison and the Kinetoscope. Years prior to Thomas Edison's work on moving pictures, people were making crude hand drawn motion pictures, much like how animated car... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vase with 12 sunflowers, Van Gogh
Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
Oil on canvas, 91.0 x 72.0 cm, Arles: August, 1888. In February 1888 van Gogh settled at Arles, where he painted more than 200 ca... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
IBM History
Although IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company (C-T-R), its origins can be traced back to develop... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO, known professionally as T.E. Lawrence and, later, T.E. Shaw, but most famously as "Lawrence of Arabia," gained interna... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lead Belly, Folk and Blues Musician
Huddie William Ledbetter, was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich so... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gerrit Rietveld, Designer/Architect
In 1911, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture. Rietveld designed the 'Red and Blue Chair' in 1918, influenced by the 'De Stijl' movemen... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
T. S. Eliot
American-English poet T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. A leader of the modernist movement in poetry, he is most famous... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jean Monnet, Father of the EC
Jean Monnet, called the Father of the European Community. A brief timeline summarises how and why the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe was established in Lausanne in 197... |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 < Previous
|
| |
|
 |
|
•
: double-click any word
|