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Time Line 1891 - 1901

World Events   Lake Madison Chautauqua Events
Wireless Telegraph begins 1891 Grandview Hotel, Auditorium, W.C.T.U. Dining Hall, Boat House and Barns are built.

First Lake Madison Chautauqua is held.

T. DeWitt Talmage attends Chautauqua

Summer School is held

Grover Cleveland becomes 24th President

Internal combustion engine is patented

First canned pineapple is sold

1892 2500 trees are planted along platted streets

Tennis courts are built

"Art Nouveau" appears in Europe

Henry Ford builds his first car

1893 The School of Patriotism, suggested by Major Pickler in 1891, is established

Young Ladies Outlook Club is established

Edison opens a Kinetoscope Parlor in New York

Kipling writes Jungle Book
Disney Video

1894 The first three CLSC students complete their course of study and graduate
1st professional football game is played in U.S.

H.G. Wells writes A Time Machine

Motion-picture camera is invented

X-ray is discovered

1895 Indiana Bicycle Company advertises Waverly bicycles for $75.00
Athens, Greece holds 1st modern Olympics

Alaskan Gold Rush begins

Utah becomes a state

1896 Booker T. Washington is at Chautauqua
William McKinley becomes 25th President 1897 Mother's Congress is established to study child development and parenting
Spanish-American War
U.S. acquires Puerto Rico

U.S. annexes Hawaii

1898 Madison holds first Normal School summer session
1st magnetic sound is recorded 1899 William Jennings Bryant delivers his "Cross of Gold" speech

Eugene V. Debs is at Chautauqua

'Cake Walk' is most fashionable dance
Listen to Golliwog's Cake Walk

1st radio message is transmitted

'Cinderella' is one of the earliest films

L.Frank Baum publishes The Wizard of Oz

1900
The roundtrip by bus to the Chautauqua grounds is 25 cents.
President McKinley is assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President

1st motor driven bicycle is marketed

1901 4th of July crowds are entertained by Edison's projectoscope and moving pictures
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