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• Olduvai Hand axe found to be at least 1.2 Million years old. (1.2M)
• First fishing hooks found on a Pacific Island.
  Certainly hooks have been around much longer. (42000 BC)
• Swimming Reindeer found to be from 11000 BC. (11000 BC)
• Jade axe found in England which came from Alps.(4000 BC)
• Standard of UR found to be from around 2600 BC.(2600 BC)
• Mold's gold cape found to be from around 1800 BC.(1800 BC)
• Famous Minoan Bull Leaper from Crete dated to 1700 BC.(1700 BC)
• Battle of Kadesh --- Egyptians led by Ramesses the Great against Hittites(1275 BC)
• Crisis under Caligula, proposed as the first open break between Rome and the Jews. (37 - 41)
• Rome attacks and builds fortifications on the British Isles. -- (43 AD - 535)
• Battle of Medway --- which was during the second Roman invasion. - (43 - 44)
• Boadicea Queen of Scotland (Northumbria) defeats
  the Romans / then she is defeated - Over 60,000 murdered by Romans (62 AD - 70 AD)
• Battle of Mons Graupius (Scotland) where Roman General Agricola defeats Scot's -- (83)
• Hadrians Wall built in Scotland -- (120 - 142)
• Rome builds Antoines Wall north of Hadrians Wall between
  the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde -- (142 - 162)
• Emperor Severus forbids Christian conversion.-- (202 )
• Rome retreats behind Hadrians wall -- (162 - 208 )
• Rome's Servius tries to refortify Antoines Wall -- (208 - 210)
• Rome's Servius flee's behind Hadrians wall and into York where he stays for 40 years -- (210 - 250)
• Saxons begin their shore fort system in England(270)
• Constantine the Great or Saint Constantine(272-337)
• Edict of Milan - Constantine claims to accept all religions (313)
• Pelagius born (probably in Scotland or Ireland)(354)
• Augustine of Hippo born the same date as Pelagius.(354)
• Picts (from Alba) attack Romans in Britain (360)
• Theodosius drives Picts and Scots out of Britain (369)
• Magnus Maximus (a Spaniard) proclaims
  himself Emperor of Britain and captures Spain, Gaul and Italy.(383)
• Theodosus now of Eastern Empire defeats Magnus Maximus.(395)
• Stilicho - Roman commander in Britain repels attack of Picts, Irish and Saxons.(397)
• Stilicho returns to Rome to fend off the attack of
  Alaric and the Visigoths -conscripted troops from Britain soon follow(405)
• Pelagius teaches that man can choose to be moral or not
  without divine aid. He claims as they had for years before and
  that his countrymen were not bad because they did not know Jesus. He claims a child is not born into "original sin" and is thus sinless.
  The Roman Church opposed him with most the main opposition coming from Augustine of Hippo.
  The Eastern Orthodox church is still silent on this issue.(405)
• Rome and Britain lose contact when Alans,
  Vandals and Burundians attack Gaul
• Britain's Roman Army mutinies and
  Pics, Scots, and Saxons take over(408)
• Rome becomes almost inconsequential as a power on the British Isles. -- (409)
• Britain's gain their freedom from Rome
  while the Goths under Alaric sack Rome.(409)
• Rome is on the British Isles ............................................................................ ................................................................................ Rome is off the British Isles (43AD - 535)
• Pope Zosimus at the Council of Carthage denies Pelagianism. Carthage is where Pleagius and Augustine have the greatest fight.(417)
• The Birth of Saint Patrick is claimed in 423 and his subsequent capture by Irish tribes.
  Patrick escapes then voluntarily returns to Ireland to spread Christian words...(423-493)
• Vortigern brings Germanic mercenaries to
  the area of Dorchester apon Tyne in Britain.(428)
• Saxon settlement in the British Isles increases. -- (452)
• Battle of Aylesford where Brits try to stand against Saxons -- (456)
• Battle of Wippedsfleet of Richborough - Brits defeat the Saxons -- (465)
• Britain rebuilds (and Arthur is said to be born.) -- (465)
• Rome asks for British help to fight the Visigoths, -- (469)
• Romes British force is wiped out .-- (469)
• The Battle of Mons Badonicus between the Britons and invading Saxons
  as taken from Monks records
  Some think it was Arthur who won the battle in Scotland -- (500)
• At Mons Badonicus or Mount Badon; King Esla and Cedric of Wessex defeated -- (500)
• Saxons return to their enclaves and a generation of peace begins. -- (500)
• British Roman life erodes with corrupt leadership and civil turmoil while the Saxons prepare for their attacks.(500)
• Gothic War of (535–554) begins. The Eastern Roman Empire fights Ostrogothic Italy (535–554)
• Baduila aka Totila became king of the Ostrogoths from (541–552). Totila was once the sword bearer for the Visigoth - Theodoric the Great." (535–554)
• The Lazic War (Colchic War), also known as the Great War of Egrisiought between the Byzantine Empire
  and Sassanid Persia was for the control of the region of Lazica, in what is now
  known as western Georgia. The Lazic War lasted for twenty years, from (541 to 562)
• Justinian the Great, the Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. Justinian sought to
  revive the Empire by reconquering the western half of the classical Roman Empire. Justinian also
  managed to carve out an Imperial domain in Southern Hispania but that too would be conquered
  by Germanic tribes a few decades later. After the Gothic Wars the
  Byzantine Empire entertained no more serious ambitions in the West.
  Rome itself would remain under imperial control until the Exarchate of Ravenna
  was finally abolished by the Lombards in 751.
• Three years after the death of Justinian, the mainland Italian territories fell into the hands of a Germanic tribe, the Lombards. This left only the Exarchate of Ravenna as the last imperial holding.
  Ravenna stretched central Italy from the Tyrrhenian Sea, to just south of Naples, along with parts of southern Italy.
• Narses conquers Italy, 551–554
• Battle at which Aethelfrith of
  Northumbria defeated the Britons at Chester. -- (613 - 616)
• Battle of Nechtansmere - Picts defeated the Northumbrians. -- (685)
• VIKINGS ATTACK Lindasfarne (793) -- Vikings stay in England 'til 1280 -- (793 - 1280)
• -- England against the Danes and marks the start of full time invasion. -- (813 - 814)
• Battle of Aclea - Brian Boru High King of Ireland Killed in fight against the Viking King of Dublin-- This pitted England against the
  Danes and marked the start of full time invasion. -- (around 851)
• King William's attacks against England ended in Hastings on 1066.(1064 - 1068)
• Vikings stay in England 'til 1280 -- (793 - 1280)
• Kingdom of Sicily started by Normans and exists from(1297 to 1816)
• Kingdom of Sicily on the Italian boot often
  known as the Kingdom of Naples lasts 'til 1816.
  After it's called The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.(1297)
• The rebellion of Sicilian Vespers on the island of Sicily in 1282 is against the rule of the French/Angevin king Charles I, who in
  1266 and with Papal complicity, controlled of the entire Kingdom of Sicily. After the Southern part of Italy is more often called Kingdom of Naples(1297)
• Battle of Sterling Bridge --- William Wallace wins this battle against England.(1297)
• 200,000 Jews were coerced to convert in Spain after anti-Semitic riots. ( ((1391)
• Sicilians face the wrath of the Spanish Inquisition from 1493 to 1513.(1493-1513)
• Battle of Flodden where 30000 Scots die in attack on England.(1513)
• The Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573) during the French Wars of Religion, following the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in August
  1572, and occurred at the same time as other sieges of Protestant cities such as the Siege of Sancerre.
  The conflict ended with the 1573 Peace of La Rochelle, which restricted the Protestant worship to the three cities of Montauban, Nîmes and La Rochelle. Pierre Richier a French Calvinist theologian died in La Rochelle in 1580.(1572-1573)
• The Anglo–Spanish War (1585–-1604)
• The Thirty Years' War in present day Germany becomes the worst war in European history. (1618–-1648)
• Harvard University founded(1636)
• Thomas Hooker writes the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"(1639)
• King Philips War - The Colonies versus the Indians (1675)
• King William's War - The Colonies versus France (1689 - 1697)
• Yale University founded.(1701 - 1713)
• Queen Anne's War - Colonies versus France(1702 - 1713)
• Jack Broughton becomes a worldwide sensation as a boxer.(1703 - 1789)
• King George's War - French colonies versus Great Britain(1744 - 1748)
• French Indian War(1754 - 1763)
• Cherokee War(1759 - 1761)
• Napoleon Bonaparte(1760 - 1821)
• American Revolution(1775 - 1783)
• (1778 - 1852)
• French Revolution(1789 - 1799)
• France ranged itself against most of the European states sharing borders with her, along with Portugal and the Ottoman Empire.(1792 - 1798)
• Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier killed by the guilotene.(1794)
• Napoleon captures Malta and gains the support of the Hospitallers (who hate the French - Prussian ruler.) He reaches Egypt and fights the Malamuks.(1798 - 1800)
• British troops go to Damascus and Napoleon follows - Napoleons forces kill men women and children
  for four days in Damascus. (1798 - 1800)
• Franco American Naval War(1798 - 1800)
• Barbary Wars(1801 - 1805)
• Slavery once banned after the French Revolution is re-established by Bonaparte. A slave revolt ensued in which Bonaparte lost Haiti and many troops to Yellow fever.(1802)
• France officially deeds Louisiana to the US. - (1803)
• France defeats the Prussian Army and humiliates all of Prussia. - (1806)
• Jahn sets up Turnplatz for political purpose and for the health of Germans dominated by Napoleon - (1811)
• War of 1812 - (1812 - 1815)
• Jahn helped form the Lützow Free Corps to resist Napoleon. - (1813)
• Creek War - (1813 - 1814)
• Last of Barbary Wars - (1815)
• BISMARK(1815 - 1898)
• Indian Wars(1817 - 1898)
• -
• BISMARK merges German states with
  Prussia. King Wilhelm I becomes Kaiser.(1815 - 1898)
• -
• Germany makes an excuse to outlaw Turners. - (1819)
• Frederick Jahn hides underground for 23 years. - (1819-1842)
• War of Texas - (1836 - 1837)
• Mexican American War - (1846 - 1848)
• -
• Turners are often called the 48'ers for the year of their departure from Germany. Many settle in Texas and Connecticut. Gymnastic shows are performed today in the Turner tradition. -(1848-2011)
• -
• U. S. Civil War - (1861 - 1865)
• Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser, (after his father dies.)(1888)
• THE MAINE - The call "Remember the Maine" hysteria started by Hearsts' newspapers. - (1898 - )
• US invasion of Cuba and Teddy Roosevelt's famous ride (Spain)(1898 - 1902)
• Russo-Japanese War where the Russia ends Russian civil unrest.(1904)
• US Mexican Border War - (1914)
• Prince Ferdinand was murdered in Sarajevo which started explosive events. (Capitulates WW 1) - (1914)
• Austria declares war on Serbia. - (1914)
• Germany declares war on Russia. - (1914)
• Britain declares war on Germany. - (1914)
• Turkey sides with Germany. - (1914)
• Germans control Warsaw. -(1915)
• US declares war on Germany making the beginning of WW-1. - (1917)
• 1918 Flu epidemic. - (1917)
• Kaiser Willhiem abdicates. - (1918)
• US declares war on Austria Hungary. - (1818 - 1921)
• The Forgotten Prisoners - (published 1961)
• Chernobyl radiation spreads around the world.  - (1986)

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• (BC to 1000) - Beavers became extinct in Denmark.
• Great European deforestation. - (1100-1500)
• Catching Sturgeon save settlers lives. - (1607)
• Salmon reported plentiful on the atlantic
  coast from Maine to the Hudson by John Smith. - (1616 to 1824)
• Beavers almost became extinct in America. - (1620 to 1838)
• William Wood claims Merrimack river full of Sturgeon. - (1634)
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Cod fisheries catches reach 300,000 tons. - (1640 - 1700)
• Sturgeon Fisheries finally restricted after severe depletion around 1800. - (1700 - 1800)
• Whaling business in the US prospers. - (1783 - 1840)
• Damming South Hadley falls and Turner Falls
  makes Salmon extinct from all Connecticut Rivers. - (1796 - )
• The last Eastern American Buffalo or Wood Bison is shot near Asheville NC. - (1824)
• John Muir born 1838. - (1838-1914)
• Robert Underwood Johnson born 1853 - (1853-1937)
• Over 10,000 men are employed in U.S. whaling - (1860 )
• The Appalachian Mountain Club is started by Pickering of MIT. - (1876)
• Only 12,500 lbs of Sturgeon are caught on Kennebec Rivers. - (1879-1880)
• The American Ornithologists Union starts. - (1883)
• The National Audubon Society is started by George Grinnell. - (1886 - )
• Joyce Kilmer is born.(1886 - 1918)
• Robert Underwood Johnson's wife befriends Nicolas Tesla and becomes befriends Samuel Clemmons. - (1890 - )
• The Western American Buffalo almost goes extinct late during the 1890's.(BC to 1890's)
• Johnson's Century Magazine helps preserve the forests and helps to kick start the Sierra club. - (1892 - )
• John Muir co-founds Sierra Club with Johnson. (1892 -)
• Gifford Pinchot and John Muir briefly become friends. - (1896 - 1897 )
• Pinchot supports sheep grazing in forests which ends John Muir's friendship. - (1897 - )
• Only 10,875 lbs Sturgeon from Kennebec Rivers. (1897 - 1898 )
• John Muir's desired preservation of Yosemite passed by Congress.(1899 - )
• Muir's of Sequoia National Park. - (1899 - )
• Teddy Roosevelt tours US forests with Muir - (1903 - 1904)
• Only 2,000 lbs Sturgeon caught in Kennebec river.(1913 - 1914)
• Last Passenger Pigeon shot or observed in 1912.(1911 - 1912)
• Joyce Kilmer's Trees published.(1913)
• ONLY 400 lbs Sturgeon caught in Kennebec(1946)
• Greenpoint oil spill into the New Town Creek becomes the largest ever recorded
  in the United States and remains so over a period of decades. (1946)
• The EDF sets out to ban DDT and succeeds in 1972(1967)
• Joyce Kilmer Park opened.(1975 - )
• Three mile Island nuclear core meltdown(1979)
• Ixtoc I oil spill (Mexico) washes up on Padre Island Texas beaches for over three years.(1979)
• Chernobyl radiation spreads around the world (1986)
• Large oil spill on the North Sea and 167 workers from the Occidental Petroleum Piper Alpha platform are killed. (1988)
• Huge lobster kill in Long Island Sound blamed on the chemicals used to kill mosquitoes that may be infected with West Nile Virus.(1999)

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• Olduvai hand axe found to be at least 1.2 Million years old. (1.2M)
• First records of fishing with hooks on Pacific Island.
  Certainly they are much older. (42000 BC)
• Swimming Reindeer found to be from 11000 BC. (11000 BC)
• Jade axe found in England - Jade came from Alps.(4000 BC)
• Standard of UR found to be from around 2600 BC.(2600 BC)
• Mold's gold cape found to be from around 1800 BC.(1800 BC)
• Famous Minoan Bull Leaper from Crete dated to 1700 BC.(1700 BC)
• Vale of York Viking hoard dated to around 950.(950)
• (1150 - 1350 / present)First record of a Blast furnace built in Switzerland(1150 - 1350-present)
• (1150 - 1350 / present)Worshipful Co. of Pewterers started in London.(1348-present)
• (1551 - 1917 - present)The Mystery, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown
  The name became the Muscovy Company which traded in whale and beaver. Later it became the Moscow Company which retained ownership of the famous "Russia house".
  Since 1917 the Moscow Company has been considered a charity.(1551 - 1917-present)
• Record of the first grist mill in New Amsterdam. - (1634)
• Harvard University is founded. - (1636)
• The British Wool Act forbids export of wool from America. - (1699)
• Yale University is founded. - (1701)
• Copper is discovered in Simsbury Ct. - .(1705)
• Copper is discovered in Cheshire Ct. in smaller amounts than Simsbury. - (1709)
• Abraham Darby (1678- 1717) discovers how to make the coke used to smelt steel. - (1709)
• John Allen starts a Silver Shop and brass shop in Waterbury Connecticut. - (approx 1720)
• First medical diploma is granted by Yale University. - (approx 1729)
• The start of the Pre-Industrial Revolution - (1740-1840)
• Pattisons from Ireland (travelers / gypsy / tinkers) make Tin products in Berlin Connecticut and Waterbury Connecticut. - (1740)
• British Law forbids all smelting and slitting in America. - (1750)
• Pattisons hire original Yankee Peddlers to transport and sell their products all the way to New Orleans. - (1760)
• Ethan Allen starts a forge in Litchfield Ct. - (1762)
• John Jacob Astor is born - (1763-1848)
• Eli Whitney born in Westbourogh Massachusetts. - (1765)
• Rothschilds finance England to fight Napoleon and use war intelligence make a fortune. - (1773)
• The submarine Turtle is built by David Bushnell with the help of Benjamin Franklin. Together they experiment with underwater explosives. - (1774)
• James Watt Starts builds the first steam engine. - (1775)
• First dictionary published by Noah Webster. - (1783)
• The first Spinning Jenny / Water Frame combination came out of patent. - (1783)
• The first law school was started in Litchfield Ct. by Tapping Ree - (1784)
• Fitch from Windsor Ct. builds the first steamboat - (1787)
• The Patent Act of 1790 - (1790)
• The Grilly brothers in Waterbury make first commercial pewter buttons. (1790)
• The Grilly brothers in Waterbury make first commercial gilt buttons. - (1790)
• Eli Whitney of New Haven Connecticut patents the Cotton Gin. - (1794)
• A large wood clock industry develops in Waterbury Ct. Yankee traders disperse them far and wide. - (1800)
• Able and Levi Porter make buttons from sheets of brass in Waterbury. - (1802)
• DuPont starts making gunpowder on the Brandywine River in Delaware. - (1802)
• First public town library started in Salisbury Connecticut. - (1803)
• The first factory town is started in Seymour Connecticut. - (1806)
• Gas Lighting starts being used. ('til electrics begin.) - (1807-1880)
• The first insurance company in the US is founded.- The ITT Hartford Group. - (1810)
• Leavenworth, Hayden and Scoville makes tinware in Waterbury. - (1811)
• Samuel Colt is born - (1814-1862)
• Start of the "Industrious Revolution". - (1830-1930)
• The first covering of cloth buttons by machinery started by the Hayden's. - (1830)
• Holmes and Hotchkiss manufacture first hooks and eye's. (Zipper!) - (1836)
• Brass Spinning starts in Waterbury. - (1836)
• Ensign Bickford starts in Simsbury and eventually makes explosives. - (1836)
• Gould is born.(1836-1892)
• Colt Patents his Firearms Manufacturing Company. - (1836-present)
• Chauncery Jerome makes first brass clock which sells for five dollars. - (1837)
• John D. Rockefeller is born. - (1839-1937)
• The Wadsworth Antheneum opens (It's the oldest public arts museum in the US)(1842-present)
• First portable Typewriter made in Waterbury(1843)
• Charles Goodyear creates vulcanized rubber(1843)
• First Anesthesia made - (1844)
• Elias Howe invents first sewing machine. - (1845)
• First US amusement park Lake Compounce Southington Ct. - (1846)
• Chase and Co. make first candy machine. - (1847)
• First ice making machine (1853)
• William Halladay's first successful self-governing windmill in Ellington Ct. - (1854)
• Ezra Warner a Waterbury Ct. resident; patents
  the first can opener in the US. It is used in Civil War.
  Troops were said to be wore out carrying the
  cans and to be killed by the dangerous can openers. - (1854)
• The first cheaper mass produced ferrotypes
  made photography affordable were manufactured
  by William Delius in Waterbury. - (1959)
• The first pocket alarm made by
  a Issac Goodspeed in Connecticut. - (1959)
• First Ph.d offered at Yale (1861)
• HEARST is born. - (1863 1951)
• The first girls club opened is opened in Hartford Connecticut. (1864)
• Rockefeller becomes the richest man from huge petroleum profits. Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler was the predecessor
  of the Standard Oil Company. (1864)
• Gifford Pinchot is born in Simsbury Ct. (1864)
• The first tape measure (1868)
• Gould (1836 1892) becomes involved with Tammany Hall and Tweed ring -
  Gould tried to corner gold market and caused the Black Friday of 1869.(1878)
• First rolling can opener made by William Lyman in Meridan Ct.(1870)
• Gilded era begins. (1870)
• Carniegie Steel Co. starts(1870)
• Chase brass and Co. starts in Waterbury(1876)
• The first pay phone is made in Connecticut.(1877)
• First telephone exchange is started in Bridgeport Connecticut.(1878)
• The Colt Machine Gun replaces the Maxim Gun as the prefered machine gun(1878)
• Hiram Maxim's son starts a light bulb factory - Hiram Maxim created the Maxim machine gun(1878)
• HEARST took control of his fathers San Francisco Examiner - (1887)
• Mutoscope and Biograph Company started for the sole purposes of making movies.(1895-1928 )
• HEARST buys New York Morning Journal. - (1895)
• HEARST starts a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World (1895)
• Colt develops a new machine gun.(1895)
• Pope Manufacturing builds electric cars in Hartford Connecticut.(1897)
• NECCO which is the New England Confectionery Company starts from Chase and Company.(1901)
• Chase Brass & Copper Company starts a brass rolling mill in Waterbury(1901)
• Elkins Act fights corporate greed. It also fights the rebate system.(1903)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkins_Act(1903)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkins_Act
• The first Lollipop produced.(1908)
• The first Corporation ever started is now called Russia House and claims to be a charitable cooperation.(1917)
• UNICO for Unique founded in 1922.(1922)
• Waterbury Clock Co. makes the first Mickey Mouse watch.(1933)
• WDRC-FM one of the first FM radio station broadcasts in Hartford in conjunction with Mt. Washington and a NJ station.(1939)
• The first Helicopter is designed by Igor Sikorsky.(1939)
• The first color TV.(1948)
• The first nuclear Submarine launched in Connecticut.(1954)
• Land invents the Polaroid Land Camera.(1960)
• Reagan branded the Air Controller Strike illegal. He threatened to fire any controller who failed to return to work within 48 hours.
  Federal judges levied fines against striking controllers. Reagan branded the strike illegal. He threatened to fire any controller who failed to return to work within 48 hours. Federal judges levied fines ... (1979)
• Chernobyl radiation spreads around the world.(1986)
• Lobster kill in Long Island Sound blamed on chemicals that were used to kill mosquitoes with West Nile Virus.(1999)

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• (Crassus becomes richest man of all time. Send men to Gladitorial bouts to die and to abscond with their money.)(37 - 43 BC)
• Caligula creates a break between Rome and the Jews(37 - 43)
• Persecution of Christians ends(311)
• Edict of Milan - Constantine and Licinius tolerate Christianity.(312)
• First council of Nicea.(325)
• Constantine destroys then kills Licinius.(313)
• Pelagius is born.(340-440)
• Pelagius teaches that man is capable of choosing between right and wrong without "divine aid."(360-440)
• Theodosius I declares Nicean Christianity the religion of the Roman empire. (380)
• Hippo Regius hosts the Synod of Hippo in North Africa. (393)
• Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah RA born.(570-632)
• The versus of the Quran are compiled.(650)
• The Great schism between Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox churches takes place.(1054)
• The First Crusade - Sigurd I starts the Norwegian Crusade in Spain, the Baleares, and in Palestine(1095-1099)
• When the county of Edessa falls the Second Crusade is started.(1147-1110)
• The blast furnace is first used in Europe( approx 1150)
• Waldensians in Rome, are told they are not allowed to preach by Pope Alexander III.(1179)
• The Third Crusade wages against Saladin(1189-1192)
• Crusaders from the Forth Crusade sack Constantinople(1204)
• The Fifth Crusade is started by the church(1217)
• Worshipful Company of Pewterers is founded.(1348)
• Giovanni di Bicci de Medici founds a family bank and supports the return of the Papacy to Rome.(1410)
• The Medici family becomes the bankers to Rome.(1410)
• Jacob Fugger becomes a banker and his family becomes the lender to Charles the Fifth. Fugger lends the King tons of gold. (1459)
• Niccolo Machiavelli's pens his: Plays, poems, engineering designs, and political / historical / philosophical writings.(1469 - 1527)
• The Mystery, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventures for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown is founded. (1515)
• Martin Luther of the Protestant Reformation is born.(1517)
• Spanish Inquisition spreads Catholicism through Catholic missions and attacks on Moors.(1517)
• First Anglican (Episcopal church) started in the Colonies.(1607)
• The Virginia Colony starts the first temperance law.(1620)
• The Catholic church starts first in Marland where it is led by Lord Baltimore and Leonard Calvert.(1634)
• Harvard is started by the Puritans.(1636)
• Increase Mather is born.(1639)
• Thomas Hooker writes the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.(1639)
• Mr. Whiting is given exclusive rights to whale the Connecticut river.(1647)
• The Toleration Act protects Roman Catholics in Maryland.(1649)
• Maine chooses religious freedom for it's citizens.(1659)
• Settlers come from Farmington begin to settle in Matecoke.(1674)
• Matecoke becomes Waterbury Ct.(1686)
• A Survey begins for a highway between Norwich and New London Connecticut.(1670)
• James Figg is born.(1684 - 1734)
• During the Salem Witch Trials, Bridgit Bishop becomes first of twenty to be executed.(1692)
• Massachusetts residents repent over their Witch Trial role. (Seven years after the trial).(1697)
• The Wool Act forbids export of wool from America(1699)
• William Penn begins meetings advocating emancipation.(1700)
• Jack Broughton the boxer is born.(1703 - 1789)
• Connecticut - Slaves owners made responsible for the slaves they free.(1717)
• Figg's boxing school is founded.(1719)
• The first Roman Catholic Mass is held in Philladelphia. (1732)
• Robert Burns Scotland's poet is born.(1759 - 1796)
• Indian and Negro Slave importation is banned in Connecticut - half of the lawyers and public officials own slaves along with many doctors.(1774)
• Chaplains Corp started in the American Army. (second one created after the infantry)(1775)
• Gradual Emancipation Act frees children of slaves of 25 years.(1784)
• First congress under Americans new Constitution.(1789)
• Connecticut Africans slaves = 2700 (1790)
• Connecticut Africans free = 2800 (1790)
• Amistad Trial - Free Africans held in Connecticut prisons until Supreme Court sets them free.(1839-1841)
• Minstrel shows become popular.(1840 - 1910)
• Oliver R. and Silas Edwin Chase patent first candy machine(1847)
• Connecticut outlaws slavery.(1848)
• Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is written and published from the NOOK in Hartford Connecticut.(1852)
• Diamond Jim Brady is born. (1856 - 1917)
• In God We Trust is first used on U.S. coins.(1864)
• Eugen Sandow is born(1867 - 1925)
• Sir Harry Lauder - the greatest comedian - is born. (1870 - 1950)
• J.H. Haverly's Black-faced Minstrels is started.(1870 - 1880)
• The Cake Walk is first conducted. / (some say it is from prize walk) (historical records record show the walks are imitations of Irish Jigs.) (1876)
• Primrose and West Breaks from Haverly(1877 - 1910)
• Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels is formed.(1878 - 1884)
• Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin(1889 - 1977)
• Charles Atlas is born.(1892 - 1972)
• Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels become famous.(1893)
• Chicago Exhibition starts.(1893)
• Eadward Muybridge displays his movement series.(1893)
• Chicago Exhibition(1893)
• The first Ferris Wheel(1893)
• The first commercial movie theater is opened by Eadward Muybridge>(1893 - 1894)
• The Little Egypt Belly Dance called hootchy gootchy is first displayed.(1893 - 1894)
• Louis Tiffany becomes famous for his displays.(1893 - 1894)
• Cream of Wheat is first demonstrated.(1893 - 1894)
• Shredded Wheat is displayed publicly. em>(1893 - 1894)
• Hamburger is first served.(1893 - 1894)
• Hershey's Chocolate is a hit.(1893 - 1894)
• Scott Joplin and Rag Time are first shown.(1893 - 1894)
• The first Zipper is displayed.(1893 - 1894)
• The first Juicy Fruit Gum is introduced.(1893 - 1894)
• The first public tasting of the Tootsie Roll(1893 - 1894)
• So many new things at the Chicago Exhibition(1893 - 1894)
• Eugen Sandow performs Alpert Hall in compromising positions. (1901)
• NECCO wafers first produced by New England Confectionery Company.(1901)
• Mary Jane candy originally made by Charles Miller Co then by Stark and now by NECCO(1914)
• WDRC-FM one of the first FM radio station broadcasts in Hartford in conjunction with Mt. Washington and a NJ station(1939)
• Capt. Kangaroo begins.(1955 - 1986)
• Holy Land USA opened in Waterbury by
  Attorney John Greco explains that he was instructed by god to build the site.
  With fellow Italian and other Waterburians he built this inspirational copy of the Holy Land (1956 - 1984)

• (8000 - BC / 0 2000 BOXING HISTORY)
• Boxing / Pugilism in India - Record found by Speiser in 1923(4000 BC - AD)
• Boxing / Pugilism --- -- Greece and Rome ---- Gladiator fights.(800 BC - 450 AD)
• Christian emperor Theodosius ends the Olympic Games.(393)
• Boxing, Pugilism is ended by Roman Empire(495-505)
• Johannes Liechtenauer fencing / fight master is documented in Germany (between 1250-1350)
• The codex Nürnberger Handschrift mentions Johannes Liechtenaure - first treatise on fighting known to date.(between 1389-1390)
• Hans Talhoffer a fight trainer is born(1420-1490)
• Hans Talhoffer publishes a series of six fighting books.(1450-1470)
• Hans Talhoffer book records women and men fighting to settle disputes or for judical proceedings.(1450-1470)
• Paulus Kal mentioned as a 15th century German fencing master(1450-1470)
• James Figg is born(1684 - 1734)
• Jack Broughton is born.(1703 - 1789)
• Figg's school - teaches fencing, boxing and the use of cudgles.(1680 - 1710)
• Broughton's Rules are invented.(1743 - 1848)
• Big Ben Brains is born.(1753 - 1794)
• Daniel Mendoza the famous Jewish Spanish boxer is born. (1764 - 1836)
• John Jackson is born.(1764 - 1836)
• Henry Pierce is born.(1777 - 1809)
• Jem Belcher is born.(1781 - 1811)
• Tom Cribb is born.(1781 - 1848)
• John Gully who was imprisoned for debt and who fought future King of England is born.(1783 - 1863)
• Jem Ward is born.(1800 - 1884)
• Jacob Hyer who may of been the first pro boxer in the U.S. is born.(1800 - 1838)
• Simon Byrne is born.(1806 - 1833)
• James Burke is born.(1809 - 1835)
• Thomas Sayers is born.(1826 - 1865)
• Jem Mace known as a pot bellied Gypsy boxer, is born.(1831 - 1910)
• Jacob Hyer - may be the first pro boxer in U.S.(1834 - 1873)
• London Prize Ring Rules are invented.(1838 - 1853)
• YMCA is founded.(1844 - present)
• Father McGivney is born.(1852 - 1890)
• Revised London Prize Ring Rules invented.(1853 - 1861)
• John Sullivan is born.(1858 - 1918)
• Jake Killrain is born.(1859 - 1937)
• Marquis of Queensbury Rules are invented.(1861 - present)
• Bob Fitzimons is born.(1863 - 1917)
• James J Corbett is born.(1866 - 1933)
• Jack Johnson is born.(1878 - 1946)
• Jess Willard is born. (1881 - 1968)
• KOC, Knights of Columbus is started by Father McGivney.(1882)
• Abel Attel is born. He was to become well known for the Black Socks Conspiracy.(1884 - 1970)
• Last World Heavy Weight Championship Prize Fight (bare knuckled) is held where Sullivan defeats Kilrain(1889)
• The U.S. starts officially using the Queensbury Rules.(1890)
• Corbett vs Peter Jackson ends in a draw.(1891)
• First Heavy Weight Gloved Match Corbett / Sullivan(1891)
• Johnny Dundee (Giuseppe Curreri aka SCOTCH WOP becomes feather weight cha(1893-1965)
• Jack Dempsy(1895 - 1983)
• Jack Johnson fought first prizefight(1897)
• Corbett loses to Robert Fitzsimmons(1897)
• American Wop who is Young Rocco(1898 - 1986)
• Louis Kaplan(1901 - 1970)
• Canada Lee - Boxer Jockey Actor(1907 - 1952)
• Jack Johnson is the first black Heavyweight Boxing Champion by knocking out Tommy Burns. Does not get trophy or title and it continues to be held from him. (1908)
• Jack Johnson beats Jem Jeffries. All coon look alike is played when Jack enters the ring. Jack London calls him the Great White Hope and states that Johnson Johnson must rescue the white man.(1910)
• Jack Johnson leaves US after charged with violating the Mann act - transporting a white girl over state lines. (1913)
• Joseph Louis Barrow the Brown Bomber.(1914-1981)
• Jack Johnson returns to US and is incarcerated at Leavenworth and also made its athletic director.(1920 - 2006)
• Willie Pep (Willie the Wop) is considered the best boxer of known history.(1922 - 2006)
• Cassius Clay (1941 - )
• Canada Lee acts in famous boxing movie depicting the corruption in boxing(1947)
• Clay reveals he was a member of the nation of Islam.(1964)
• Mohammed Ali goes to Supreme Court for refusing the draft.(1970)
• Joe Lewis dies with massive tax debt.(1981)