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Frederik Carel ZUURDEEG

Male 1873 - 1936  (63 years)


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1 1873 
  • 1873: UK - William Gladstone's government resigns after the defeat of their Irish Universities Bill. Benjamin Disraeli declines to take up office instead
  • 1873: UK - Parmalee invents automatic fire sprinklers
  • 1873: UK - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
  • 1873: UK - The Great Depression lasts until 1896
  • 1873: NL - Atjeh oorlog. Op 8 april landt het Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger op de kust van Sumatra.
  • 1 Apr 1873: CA - The SS Atlantic is wrecked off Peggys Cove
  • 23 May 1873: CA - North-West Mounted Police are founded to police the Northwest Territories, which then included the region today of Alberta and Saskatchewan
  • 1 Jul 1873: CA - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
  • 25 Aug 1873: CA - A cyclone hits Cape Breton Island killing 500 and causing much damage
  • 8 Nov 1873: CA - Winnipeg incorporated as a city
2 1874 
  • 1874: UK - Benjamin Disraeli becomes Conservative Prime Minister for the second time
  • 1874: USA - American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
  • 1874: CA - Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.
  • 1874: NL - Kinderwet van Samuel van Houten. Arbeid door kinderen onder de 12 jaar wordt verboden.
  • 26 Jul 1874: CA - Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
  • 1 Oct 1874: CA - The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is founded
3 1875 
  • 1875: UK - Benjamin Disraeli purchases a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez Canal.
  • 1875: UK - Parliament passes R.A. Cross's Conservative social reforms
  • 1875: UK - Collapse of British agriculture due to cheap grain from US, wheat acreage falls by nearly a million acres
  • 1875: CA - Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence in Toronto since 1867
  • 1875: CA - Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.
  • 1875: CA - Hospital for Sick Children founded.
  • 14 Jan 1875: CA - The Halifax Herald is first published
  • 5 Apr 1875: CA - The Supreme Court of Canada is created
  • 1 Jun 1875: CA - Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway
4 1876 
  • 1876: USA - Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
  • 1876: Germany - Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
  • 1876: UK - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India.
  • 1876: Bulgaria - The massacre of Christians in Turkish Bulgaria leads to anti-Turkish campaigns in Britain, led by William Gladstone
  • 1876: UK - Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
  • 1876: CA - The Indian Act defines the special status and land regulations of Aboriginal peoples in Canada who live on reserves; they have no vote in Canadian elections and are exempt from taxes
  • 1876: CA - The Toronto Women's Literary Club is founded as a front for the suffrage movement
  • 1876: NL - Mata Hari wordt op 7 augustus in Leeuwarden geboren als Margaretha Geertruida Zelle.
  • 1 Jul 1876: CA - The Intercolonial Railway connecting central Canada to the Maritimes is completed
  • 10 Aug 1876: CA - The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.
5 1877 
  • 1877: South Africa - Confederation of British and Boer states established
  • 1877: USA - Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
  • 1877: USA - Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
  • 1877: UK - Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
  • 1877: CA - Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier appointed Minister of Agriculture and called to the Senate of Canada
  • 1877: CA - Manzo Nagano was the first official Japanese immigrant into Canada
  • 1877: CA - Refugee Lakota enter Canada near the end of the Great Sioux War
  • 28 Feb 1877: CA - University of Manitoba founded
6 1878 
  • 1878: Berlin, Germany - The Congress of Berlin is held. Benjamin Disraeli announces peace with honour
  • 1878: CA - Anti-Chinese sentiment in British Columbia reaches a high point as the government bans Chinese workers from public works.
  • 7 Mar 1878: CA - Both the Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario are incorporated
7 1879 
8 1880 
  • 1880: UK - William Gladstone establishes his second Liberal government
  • 1880: South Africa - The first Anglo-Boer War begins
  • 1880: UK - British forests now decimated except for bits of the New Forest and the Forest of Dean.
  • 1880: UK - Number of agricultural labourers reduced by about 100,000 in last 10 years
  • 1880: UK - Englishman John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: UK - The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
  • 1880: NL - Geboorte van prinses Wilhelmina.
  • 1880: NL - Grote veenbranden teisteren de Zuidoost hoek van Drenthe. Vooral Nieuw Weerdinge wordt zwaar getroffen.
9 1881 
  • 1881: London, UK - Savoy Theatre introduces electric lighting
  • 1881: London, UK - Parliament passes the Irish Land Act and the Coercion Act
  • 1881: USA - Death of Billy the Kid
  • 1881: USA - James Garfield president of the USA 1881. Garfield was wounded by an assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
  • 1881: UK - David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
  • 1881: USA - Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
  • 1881: UK - Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
  • 1881: CA - Manitoba's boundaries are extended north, east and west. Ontario disputes the eastward extension.
  • 1881: NL - Assen wordt aangewezen als garnizoensstad.
  • 17 Jan 1881: CA - The Interprovincial Bridge connecting Ottawa to Hull, Quebec, opens
  • 16 Feb 1881: CA - The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated
  • 4 Apr 1881: CA - The 1881 census finds Canada's population to be 4,324,810
  • 24 May 1881: CA - The overloaded Victoria steamer capsizes on the Thames River near London, Ontario, killing 182 people.
  • 19 Sep 1881: USA - Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Vice president under James Garfield, he is sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
10 1882 
  • 1882: Europe - A triple alliance is established between Germany, Austria and Italy
  • 1882: USA - Standard Oil controls 95% of oil refining capacity
  • 1882: UK - Stillwell invents brown paper bag
  • 1882: Egypt - Revolt leading to British occupation
  • 1882: CA - John Ware, a Texas cowboy, moves to Alberta. He introduces longhorn cattle into Canada and pioneers the development of rodeo.
  • 17 May 1882: CA - Provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established between Manitoba and British Columbia: the districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabaska
11 1883 
  • 1883: CA - Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman to graduate from the Toronto Medical School.
  • 1883: CA - The Toronto Women's Suffrage Association replaces the Literary Club of 1876.
  • 1883: CA - Nickel-copper ore is discovered at Murray Mine in Sudbury during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway
  • 1883: NL - Vissersramp op 6 maart in Paesens-Moddergat. 17 aken met 83 opvarenden vergaan.
  • 1883: NL - Van Gogh schildert in Drenthe.
  • 31 Aug 1883: CA - The Calgary Herald publishes its first issue
  • 19 Nov 1883: CA - Canada adopts Standard Time
  • 1 Dec 1883: CA - Regina officially declared a town.
12 1884 
  • 1884: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud published a paper in which he found cocaine, an alkaloid in coca, effective against fatigue and neurasthenia.
  • 1884: UK - Hilaire de Chardonnet invented the first artificial textile, which was made from cellulose. It was later named rayon
  • 1884: UK - Parliament passes the third Reform Act which further extends the franchise
  • 1884: UK - Fabian Society forms, rejects Marxian theory, embraces Ricardian theory (socialist)
  • 1884: One-third of world's shipping is British, including 4/5 of world's steamships
  • 1884: Burma - Britain annexes Upper Burma
  • 1884: Africa - Britain and Germany partition East Africa
  • 1884: UK - Excess of births over deaths in England is 13.3, in Germany 10.8, and France 1.4.
  • 1884: USA - James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
  • 1884: UK - Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
  • 1884: USA - Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
  • 1884: USA - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
  • 1884: CA - Canadian Parliament passes the Indian Advancement Act, encouraging democratic elections of chiefs. Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.
  • 1884: NL - Er wordt een klinkerweg aangelegd tussen Emmen en Sleen.
  • 1884: NL - Stieltjeskanaal bevaarbaar.
  • 1884: NL - Opening spoorweg Groningen-Delfzijl.
  • 2 Jan 1884: CA - "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head on collision of a of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train #42C near Toronto, Ontario. Most of the dead were workers being transported on the freight train to the Ontario Bolt Works in Swansea.
  • 15 Oct 1884: CA - The La Presse newspaper is founded
13 1885 
  • 1885: Mesopotamia - Death of General Gordon at Khartoum.
  • 1885: USA - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
  • 1885: Germany - Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine.
  • 1885: USA - Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
  • 1885: Germany - Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
  • 1885: CA - Banff National Park, the first national park in Canada is established
  • 1885: CA - A head tax on Chinese immigrants is imposed by the federal government
  • 26 Mar 1885: CA - Louis Riel and the Métis battle the North West Mounted Police at Duck Lake
  • 9 May 1885: CA - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Batoche the Métis are defeated in 3 day battle
  • 3 Jun 1885: CA - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Loon Lake. The last Cree resistance is shattered.
  • 2 Jul 1885: CA - Big Bear captured. Big Bear or Mistahimaskwa (c.1825 – 17 January 1888) was born in the Canadian Northwest, and became Chief of the Plains Cree First Nation during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is most notable for his resistance against the Canadian government.
  • 7 Nov 1885: CA - The transcontinental railway is completed
14 1886 
  • 1886: UK - Gladstone's third Liberal government fails to pass its first Irish Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons. Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister. Split in the Liberal Party. Salisbury establishes his second Conservative-Liberal-Unionist government.
  • 1886: UK - The Royal Niger Company is chartered
  • 1886: South Africa - Gold is discovered in the Transvaal
  • 1886: New York, NY, USA - Statue of Liberty erected in New York Harbour
  • 1886: UK - Local Government Act establishes County Councils as administrative organs of country life, replace Justices of Peace who are preserved as magistrates, creates London County Council (does not cover City); women are included with men in electorate of newly- established County Councils
  • 1886: UK - British South Africa Company, formed by Yorkshireman Cecil Rhodes, colonization of Rhodesia begins
  • 1886: UK - Great Dock Strike of London dockers, led by John Burns and Tom Mann
  • 1886: USA - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
  • 1886: USA - Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
  • 1886: UK - 3,992,880 migrants leave UK for US, 2,235,671 leave UK for British North America during period to 1927
  • 1886: CA - Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
  • 1886: CA - Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
  • 25 Mar 1886: CA - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
  • 6 Apr 1886: CA - Vancouver incorporated as a city
  • 6 Jun 1886: CA - The Parliament buildings open in Ottawa
  • 7 Jun 1886: CA - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
  • 14 Dec 1886: CA - Yoho National Park established
15 1887 
  • 1887: Germany - Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: UK - Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee
  • 1887: UK - The Independent Labour Party is founded
  • 1887: UK - The British East Africa Company is chartered
  • 1887: UK - Telegraph companies control 107,000 miles of submarine cable
  • 1887: USA - There are estimated to be 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in 1890)
  • 1887: Germany - Heinrich Hertz discovers radio waves.
  • 1887: UK - F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
  • 1887: NL - In Oostzaan neemt Albert Heijn de winkel van zijn vader over.
  • 3 Mar 1887: CA/US - The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
  • 23 Apr 1887: CA - McMaster University founded
  • 3 May 1887: CA - 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
  • 3 Dec 1887: CA - Saturday Night is a Canadian general interest magazine. It was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1887. The publication was first established as a weekly broadsheet newspaper about public affairs and the arts, which was later expanded into a general interest magazine.
16 1888 
  • 1888: UK - Celluloid photographic film introduced
  • 1888: UK - The County Councils' Act establishes representative county based authorities
  • 1888: USA - Kodak box camera
  • 1888: UK - Coin-operated public telephone invented
  • 1888: UK - John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tyre.
  • 1888: USA - Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
  • 1888: USA - Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
  • 1888: CA/US - Boundary survey started by Dr. William H. Dall of the United States and Dr. George M. Dawson of Canada.
  • 30 Jun 1888: CA - The Northwest Territories holds its first general election; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected. All are independents; there are no party politics in the territories
17 1889 
  • 1889: UK - The British South Africa Company is chartered
  • 1889: Paris, France - The Eiffel Tower, designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, is completed for the Paris Exposition.
  • 1889: UK - First Official Secrets Act in UK
  • 1889: USA - Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
  • 1889: UK - Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
  • 1889: UK - Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
  • 1889: CA - The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
  • 1889: NL - Er wordt een klinkerweg aangelegd tussen Emmen, Zuidbarge, Erica naar Nieuw Amsterdam
  • 1889: NL - Jan Fabricius wordt geldloper en krantenbezorger bij de Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant.
  • 1889: NL - Jonkheer Van Holthe tot Echten koopt als eerste Drent een auto: hij toert trots met zijn Benz door Assen.
  • 19 Sep 1889: CA - A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
18 1890 
  • 1890: UK - Starting this decade, women's clothing becomes less voluminous, lawn tennis takes place of croquet as means of meeting opposite sex, bicycle becomes fashionable
  • 1890: NL - Koning Willem III overlijdt. Koningin Emma wordt regentes.
  • 31 Mar 1890: CA - Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
19 1891 
  • 1891: UK - University of Wales founded; Act permits women to enter medical or other faculty on same terms as men
  • 1891: USA - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
  • 1891: UK - Agricultural depression to 1899 as cheaper frozen meat from Australia, New Zealand and South America floods into Britain, cheaper grain comes in from North America
  • 1891: CA - The Legislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished
  • 1891: NL - Gerard en Anton Philips richten een gloeilampenfabriek op.
  • 21 Feb 1891: CA - The first Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
  • 10 Dec 1891: CA - The Canadian Pacific Railway is extended to Edmonton
20 1892 
  • 1892: France - Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 1892: UK - William Gladstone forms his fourth Liberal government
  • 1892: UK - Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
  • 1892: Germany - Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
  • 1892: CA - First documented women's hockey game in takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on a outdoor ice surface
  • 1892: CA - The Toronto Star founded
  • 1892: CA - Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
  • 1892: NL - Verschijning van het eerste dagblad de Telegraaf.
  • 1892: NL - Industrieel Willem Albert Scholten komt te overlijden. Hij was de man die veel gedaan heeft voor de veenkoloniale ontwikkeling. Hij was sociaal erg meelevend. Het Scholtenskanaal dankt haar naam aan hem zoals Klazienaveen haar naam ontleend aan zijn vrouw Klaziena van der Sluis.
  • 8 Jul 1892: CA - Two-thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland, destroyed in a fire
  • 5 Dec 1892: CA - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson becomes PM. One of his first acts is to establish the Criminal Code of Canada, which is the codification of most of the criminal offences and procedure in Canada. Section 91(27) of the Canadian constitution
21 1893 
  • 1893: USA - Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zip to help a friend with a stiff back who could not bend over to do up his shoes
  • 1893: UK - Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords
  • 1893: New Zealand - First nation to grant women the right to vote
  • 1893: France - Car number plates introduced
  • 1893: USA - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
  • 1893: The Canada Evidence Act is an Act of the Parliament of Canada that regulates the rules of evidence. The Act only applies to law within the jurisdiction of the federal government. Thus the Act applies only to federally enacted courts.
  • 1893: NL - Vissersramp op 1 december in Wierum. 22 vissers komen om.
  • 27 May 1893: CA - Algonquin Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
  • 16 Sep 1893: CA - Calgary incorporated as a city
  • 27 Oct 1893: CA - The National Council of Women meets for the first time
22 1894 
  • 1894: UK - Rosebery takes power with his minority Liberal government
  • 22 Mar 1894: CA - Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.
  • 14 Jun 1894: Massey Hall opens in Toronto. The hall was the site of the legendary Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie concert recorded as Jazz at Massey Hall in May 1953. Accompanying Gillespie and Parker in this acoustically sound hall were Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus.
  • 3 Sep 1894: CA - Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
23 1895 
  • 1895: UK - Oscar Wilde jailed for homosexuality
  • 1895: UK - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, using a Crookes' tube, observed a new form of penetrating radiation, which he named X-rays
  • 1895: Italy - Guglielmo Marconi sent longwave wireless telegraphic, or radio, signals over a distance of more than a mile
  • 1895: UK - Salisbury forms his third Unionist ministry
  • 1895: USA - Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale
  • 1895: France - Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
  • 1895: CA - The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
  • 1895: NL - Koningin Wilhelmina en Koningin-regentes Emma bezoeken Drenthe
  • 2 Oct 1895: CA - Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
24 1896 
  • 1896: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud suggested analyzing childhood conflicts in the study of neuroses. He also devised a psychoanalytic technique called free association which allows emotionally-charged, repressed material to be consciously recognized
  • 1896: Sudan - British conquest of the Sudan begins
  • 1896: USA - Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
  • 1896: UK - Items considered luxuries in 1837 are now common comforts; food, clothing, bedding, furniture, are all far more abundant; gas and oil lighting being replaced by electricity; seaside holidays no longer rare
  • 1896: UK - Howard publishes Garden Cities of Tomorrow, forerunner of modern city planning
  • 1896: York, UK - Seebohm Rowntree (of chocolate fame) studies poor, determines poverty due to inadequate wages, not shiftlessness
  • 1896: USA - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
  • 1896: CA - A plan to populate the western prairies with immigration from eastern Europe is unveiled
  • 1896: CA - The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario
  • 1896: NL - NL - Notaris Baccx rijdt als eerste in Nederland met een eigen auto.
  • 26 May 1896: CA - a bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people
  • 17 Aug 1896: CA - Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush
25 1897 
  • 1897: UK - Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
  • 1897: USA - Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
  • 1897: USA - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
  • 1897: NL - Coevorden aangesloten op het Overijsselse tramnet.
  • 29 Jan 1897: CA - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa and created as a gift for Queen Victoria for the purposes of home care and social services.
  • 2 Feb 1897: CA - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman allowed to practice law in Ontario
  • 19 Feb 1897: CA - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario
26 1898 
  • 1898: UK - Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter. His QWERTY keyboard is still with us today.
  • 1898: Sudan - British rule over Sudan fully established
  • 1898: USA - Campbell's soups first appear with red and white labels, colors suggested by Cornell University's football uniforms.
  • 1898: USA - Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
  • 1898: UK - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
  • 1898: CA - The Parliament of Canada passed the Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
  • 1898: CA - White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
  • 1898: CA - Kit Coleman covers the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent
  • 1898: NL - Inhuldiging van koningin Wilhelmina te Amsterdam.
  • 1898: NL - De Motor Tram Omnibus van Meijer gaat rijden.
27 1899 
  • 1899: Germany - German Naval expansion begins
  • 1899: South Africa - Boer War begins and lasts three years, sparked when Englishman dies in Boer police custody. Scandalous British concentration camps cause many deaths of woman and children
  • 1899: Australia - Unification of Australia as Commonwealth
  • 1899: UK - Judges again declare trade unions illegal
  • 1899: UK - J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
  • 1899: UK - I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
  • 1899: UK - Education is now compulsory to age 12. 1 in 8 receives education after age 14
  • 1899: NL - De Transvaalse Oorlog breekt uit in Zuid-Afrika
  • 20 Jan 1899: About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They are a Christian group of Russian origin who continue to live today in south-eastern British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
  • 21 Jun 1899: CA - Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the federal government
  • 18 Sep 1899: CA - The new City Hall building opens in Toronto.
  • 4 Oct 1899: CA - First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War)
28 1900 
  • 1900: UK - Salisbury wins the Khaki election. The Labour Representation Committee is formed
  • 1900: UK - Max Planck proposes quantum theory
  • 1900: UK - There are reckoned to be 6,000 accountants in England
  • 1900: China - Boxer Rebellion
  • 1900: Italy - King Assassinated
  • 1900: USA - Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras
  • 1900: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
  • 1900: UK - Birmingham University founded
  • 1900: Germany - The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • 1900: USA - Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
  • 1900: CA - The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
  • 1900: CA - The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time
  • 18 Feb 1900: CA - Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeburg over a span of 9 days.
  • 26 Apr 1900: CA - Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
  • 6 Dec 1900: CA - Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.
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37 1909 
  • 1909: UK - Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
  • 1909: UK - 800 million postcards sold in England
  • 1909: Japan - Prince Ito is Assassinated
  • 1909: UK - Plastic Is Invented
  • 1909: Arctic - Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
  • 1909: USA - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
  • 1909: UK - Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
  • 1909: NL - Prinses Juliana geboren.
  • 1909: NL - Opening N.O.L.S. spoorlijn Delfzijl-Zuidbroek.
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40 1912 
  • 1912: North Sea - The Sinking of the Titanic: 1,515 people lose their lives.
  • 1912: UK - Parachutes Invented
  • 1912: UK - Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered but later revealed as a fraud
  • 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
  • 1912: UK - Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • 1912: UK - The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • 1912: USA - Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy
  • 1912: NL - De ondergang van de Titanic.
  • 1912: NL - De eerste officiële Elfstedentocht wordt gewonnen door Coen de Koning.
41 1913 
  • 1913: USA - Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as Formica
  • 1913: Detroit, MI, USA - First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
  • 1913: New York, NY, USA - The Armory Show, an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory. It arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
  • 1913: USA - Personal Income Tax introduced
  • 1913: Washington, DC, USA - Woodrow Wilson president 1913-1921.
  • 1913: UK - The crossword puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: USA - The Merck Chemical Company patented what is now known as ecstasy.
  • 1913: USA - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
  • 1913: USA - Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
  • 1913: NL - Gasselternijveen vierde havenstad van Nederland na Amsterdam,Rotterdam en Groningen.
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46 1918 
  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 1918: NL - NL - De Spaanse griep veroorzaakt wereldwijd meer dan 20 miljoen doden.
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
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  • 1935: USA - First successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers as Kodachrome, for slides, this year, and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942.
  • 1935: UK - First Kit Kat sold
  • 1935: USA - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
  • 1935: Germany - Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws issued
  • 1935: UK - John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
  • 1935: USA - Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invent nylon
  • 1935: USA - The first canned beer made.
  • 1935: NL - Behalve het bekende Noorder Dierenpark dat op 1 mei wordt geopend, wordt tevens de oudheidskamer in gebruik genomen
  • 1935: NL - Noorder Sanatorium wordt gebouwd in Zuidlaren
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