Events, Verisoph

1895 Jameson Raid investigated by the Select Committee (31 Dec 1895) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley discusses the failed Jameson Raid into the Transvaal and its cover-up. He frames it as an example of the machinations of Rhodes's secret society, investigated by a Parliamentary Select Committee. ●●

1895 NEA calls for teaching evolution as fact ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1895 the National Education Association announced that school science courses should teach evolution as fact rather than theory. He links the shift to how schooling sorted students by supposed fitness. ●●

1895 France invades Madagascar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story France invaded Madagascar, removed Queen Ranavalona III from power, and declared the island a French colony. The conquest opened the way to heavy taxation of the Malagasy population. ●●

1895 Rockefeller pledges $3 million to University of Chicago ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In October 1895, Gates went to Chicago armed with a letter from Rockefeller pledging another three million dollars for the school’s endowment—possibly the largest such sum ever given at one time by... ●●

1895 Jameson Raid fails in the Transvaal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cecil Rhodes's private military invasion of the Transvaal fails to overthrow Kruger's government. Natty Rothschild immediately seeks to rebuild Anglo-Boer relations. ●●

1895 Paul Warburg marries Nina Loeb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paul Warburg married Nina Loeb in October 1895 at her family's New Jersey summer home. Their romance revived when they reunited as best man and maid of honor at Felix's wedding in March. ●●

1895 Rontgen discovers X-rays ai_extracted 1 cit. no story one month after Rutherford arrived at Cambridge, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X rays radiating from the fluorescing glass wall of a cathode-ray tube. ●●

1895 Japan defeats China in Sino-Japanese War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japan defeated China in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War, which led to the loss of Taiwan, and of Korea as a vassal state. ●●

1895 France conquers Madagascar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The colonial power which overthrew the monarchy, late in the colonial process in 1895, was not Britain but France, and for decades a further paradox afflicted Madagascar, as anticlerical French republican governments allowed Catholic clergy a free ha ●●

1895 Anti-Saloon League founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Yet as the cleavage grew between liberal Protestants and conservative Evangelicals, the Anti- Saloon League established in 1895, eventual victors in the campaign for the Amendment, seemed more and more the voice of angry small-town Evangelical Americ ●●

1896 to 1898 Philippine Revolution wikidata 1 cit. no story 1896-1898 conflict against Spanish colonial authorities ●●●

November 1896 to October 1897 War of Canudos 0 cit. no story The Brazilian army destroys the millenarian settlement of Canudos after three failed expeditions. Tens of thousands die in one of Brazil's deadliest internal conflicts. religion / society / war ●●

1896 Omens of imperial decline: Adowa and the Boer War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley points to early signs of European weakness: the Italians massacred by the Ethiopians at Adowa in 1896 and Britain held in check by the Boer republics in 1899-1902. ●●

1896 Rhodes tells Brett he still wants his secret society ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues Rhodes never abandoned the secret society idea. As evidence he cites a February 1896 remark to R. B. Brett, years after the sixth will. ●●

1896 Rhodes ready to confess over the raid (Feb 1896) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley recounts Lord Esher (Brett) meeting Rhodes on his return from South Africa. He says Rhodes was prepared to confess everything but was dissuaded to protect Joseph Chamberlain. ●●

1896 Steam airplane reportedly flies along the Potomac ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto claims that heavier-than-air flight was achieved by 1896, before the Wright brothers, when a pilotless steam airplane with a 40-foot wingspan made trips along the Potomac River near Washington. ●●

1896 Bryan's 'Cross of Gold' speech ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the 1896 Democratic convention William Jennings Bryan attacked the gold standard on behalf of farmers and debtors, demanding silver be added as a reserve metal. His 'cross of gold' oration became one of the most famous in American politics. ●●

1896 Morgan helps the Ochs family buy the New York Times ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He not only assisted other banks (for a price); in 1896, he had helped the Ochs family buy the New York Times. What the papers didn’t report at the time was that Morgan had not... ●●

1896 McKinley wins the realigning 1896 election ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first was the election of 1896 that brought William McKinley to the presidency and gave the Republican Party a dominating majority in Congress. ●●

January 1897 to October 1898 Cretan Revolt of 1897-1898 wikidata 0 cit. no story revolution ●●●

1897 Indian famine of 1897 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1897 the monsoon rains failed in India, causing a loss of 18 million tons of food crops and one million lives from famine, a disaster repeated in 1899-1900. ●●

1897 Reflation from rising gold output after 1897 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Prices had been rising slowly from about 1897 because of increased gold output from South Africa and Alaska, easing the agricultural distress that had prevailed since 1873. ●●

1897 Milner appointed High Commissioner to South Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Through Goschen's patronage Milner rose through a series of posts. In 1897 he became High Commissioner to South Africa, the turning point Quigley builds his account around. ●●

1897 John Dewey's Pedagogic Creed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Dewey's 1897 Pedagogic Creed, in which Dewey wrote that the teacher is a social servant set apart to maintain the proper social order. ●●

1897 The Banque de France's gold arms race with Germany ai_extracted 1 cit. no story From 1897 governor Georges Pallain had the Banque de France steadily accumulate gold to prepare for a war of revenge against Germany. By July 1914 it held over $800 million in bullion, the largest hoard in the world. ●●

1897 Karl Lueger becomes mayor of Vienna ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Karl Lueger allowed to become mayor of Vienna ●●

1897 Felix Warburg becomes Kuhn, Loeb partner ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Felix was admitted as a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Jacob Schiff's firm. His charm and ebullience made him quickly Americanized despite being the first Warburg to leave Europe in 14 generations. ●●

1897 Thomson identifies the electron ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in his identification of what he called the “negative corpuscle”—the electron, the first atomic particle to be identified. ●●

1897 Bell System hires mathematician George Campbell ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ate substrate of meaning, perhaps best left to philosophers. The Bell System had none of those, but the company had hired its first mathematician in 1897: George Campbell, a Minnesotan who had studied ●●

1897 American Association of Public Accountants founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1897 members of these firms helped to form the American Association of Public Accountants, which included railroad comptrollers as well as executives from accounting firms ●●

12 June 1898 Independence of the Philippines 0 cit. no story Emilio Aguinaldo proclaims Philippine independence from Spain; after decades of US rule, full sovereignty came on 4 July 1946. politics / war ●●●

21 April 1898 to 13 August 1898 Spanish-American War 0 cit. no story The United States defeats Spain in a short war fought in Cuba and the Philippines. Spain loses the remnants of its empire and the United States emerges as an overseas colonial power. politics / war ●●●●

1898 Sinking of the Maine and the Spanish-American War, 1898 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The battleship Maine's mysterious explosion in Havana harbor in February 1898 gave interventionists the pretext to bring the United States into war with Spain over Cuba. ●●

1898 Battle of Omdurman, 1898 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1898 a British force under Kitchener fought south against the Sudanese and won a decisive victory at Omdurman, reestablishing Anglo-Egyptian control of the Sudan. ●●

1898 Spanish defeat by the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues the compromise with the West in Spain was undermined by the Restoration Monarchy of 1875-1931 and by Spain's defeat at the hands of the United States in 1898, which widened the gap between progressives and reactionaries. ●●

1898 Rhodes pledges to support Milner without reserve ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues Rhodes saw Milner as his heir in leading the society. He quotes an 1898 conversation with Stead in which Rhodes said he would support Milner absolutely, peace or war. ●●

1898 United States adopts a bankruptcy law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Although the 1787 Constitution charged the new US government with creating a bankruptcy law, attempts were repeatedly rejected on moral grounds. A lasting law was not adopted until 1898. ●●

1898 US defeats Spanish forces at Manila ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American military's quick defeat of Spanish forces in Manila in 1898 quickly proved deceptive. ●●

1898 US troops sent to Cuba against Spanish rule ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President William McKinley dispatches American troops to Cuba to help local rebels overthrow Spanish colonial authority. The rebellion succeeds, beginning US domination of Cuba. ●●

1898 Archbold puts Senator Foraker on Standard Oil's payroll ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first documented instance of Archbold suborning an official occurred in 1898, during Frank Monnett’s suit against Standard of Ohio, when Archbold placed Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio on the payroll. ●●

1898 Olga Warburg marries Paul Kohn-Speyer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Olga Warburg married Paul Kohn-Speyer in a Hamburg wedding. The marriage to the stern, humorless metal trader would prove deeply unhappy. ●●

1899 to 1923 Sixth cholera pandemic wikidata 0 cit. no story historically sixth cholera pandemic ●●●

4 February 1899 to 2 July 1902 Philippine-American War 0 cit. no story Filipino forces that had fought Spain resist American annexation of the islands. The war and its accompanying famine and disease kill hundreds of thousands of Filipinos. war ●●●

1899 The Boer War, 1899-1902 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley calls the Boer War of 1899-1902 one of the most important events in British imperial history; the Boers' resistance shook faith in British power. ●●

1899 Smuts drafts the ultimatum that begins the Boer War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the 1899 Bloemfontein Conference Smuts urged Kruger toward concessions to Milner. Yet Quigley notes it was Smuts who drafted the 9 October ultimatum that led to the outbreak of war. ●●

1899 William James addresses Harvard's new teachers on Chautauqua ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1899 William James spoke to a new brigade of teachers recruited by Harvard, telling them of the dream that the whole planet might be turned into a vast Chautauqua. ●●

1899 William Z. Ripley publishes The Races of Europe, 1899 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto describes William Z. Ripley's 1899 MIT book The Races of Europe, which divided Europeans into three races and armed the racial-suicide movement. ●●

1899 William H. Baldwin's speech at Capon Springs ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes railroad president William H. Baldwin, who in 1899 told the Capon Springs Conference on Southern Education that it was a crime to educate a Negro for positions not open to him. Gatto presents it as a blunt statement of schooling's political use. ●●

1899 John Hay declares the Open Door Policy in China ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay had declared an “open door” policy toward China that was supposed to guarantee unrestricted foreign access. Under Taft, however, the open door was converted into a... ●●

1899 Courts rule Ida Alice Flagler insane ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the courts ruled Ida Alice Flagler insane in 1899, Henry set up a trust fund for her, stocked with $2 million in Standard Oil shares, which would appreciate to more than $15 million by her de... ●●

1899 Chamberlain proposes a Teutonic alliance ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In a major speech in November 1899, Chamberlain called for a “Teutonic” alliance, consisting of Great Britain, Germany, and the United ●●

1899 Harry Sharp performs first coerced vasectomy on a prisoner ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In October 1899, Dr. Harry Sharp of the Indiana Reformatory became the first person in the world to impose vasectomy on a person in custody, operating on a nineteen-year-old prisoner. This marked the beginning of forced sterilization in America. ●●

1899 Standard Oil of New Jersey holding company formed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The holding company, the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), that legally took its place was not formed until 1899 ●●

1899 Fiat founded in Turin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Italian motor company Fiat was founded in Turin and grew within sixty-three years into the second-largest motor manufacturer in Europe, part of the financial web Nkrumah traces into African investment. ●●

1900 Yamagata excludes Ito, forms second cabinet (1900) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1900 Yamagata won a decisive victory over Ito and formed a second Cabinet from which the Ito group was completely excluded, and he made the army and navy ministries require active officers. ●●

1900 Eastern Establishment dominates both U.S. parties since 1900 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts that a semi-aristocratic Eastern Establishment had been the dominant element in both American parties since 1900, practicing the political techniques of William C. Whitney and J. P. Morgan. ●●

1900 Rhodes urges Milner to keep their intimacy hidden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says Milner needed an intermediary because he thought it politic to hide his closeness to Rhodes. He quotes Rhodes recalling on 10 April 1900 Milner's line that the less they were seen together the better. ●●

1900 Federation of the Australian colonies takes effect ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Brand's father, as Governor of New South Wales, was among the instigators of Australian federation. The federation of the Australian colonies came into effect in 1900. ●●

1900 Bionomics taught at Indiana University ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by 1900 Indiana University offered a course called Bionomics, created and taught by president David Starr Jordan, dealing with producing a new evolutionary ruling class. ●●

1900 Thomas Davidson publishes 'History of Education' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto highlights Thomas Davidson's 1900 History of Education, the most talked-about education book of its year. He notes Davidson was also the first president of the Fabian Society and presented education as the highest form of evolution. ●●

1900 Japan joins the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japan was conciliatory to ward its rival empires and j oined them in 1900 in putting down the Boxer Rebellion in China. ●●

1900 Rockefellers rebuild the Spelman Seminary campus ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1900, the Rockefeller family had virtually made over the Spelman campus, paying for a new hospital, two dormitories, a dining hall and kitchen, a power plant, and a residence for the school president. ●●

1900 Eight-Nation Alliance invades China ai_extracted 1 cit. no story International military force loots Beijing and other Chinese cities, further cementing sense of national victimhood. ●●

1900 Rutherford discovers thorium radioactive emanation ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rutherford reported the discovery of a radioactive gas emanating from the radioactive element thorium. ●●

1900 Weber refuses to hire Einstein at Zurich Polytechnic ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein attempted to get a position as assistant to a professor at the Zurich Polytechnic in August 1900, but Professor Weber refused to hire him due to his impudence. He remained unemployed. ●●

1 January 1901 Federation of Australia 0 cit. no story Six British colonies unite as the Commonwealth of Australia, creating a self-governing federation under the Crown. politics ●●●●

1901 Taff Vale decision drives labor into politics ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Taff Vale case of 1901 the courts held labor unions liable for damages from their economic actions. To overturn this, the working classes turned to political action and founded their own party. ●●

1901 D'Arcy oil concession in Iran ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1901 the shah granted William Knox D'Arcy an exclusive concession to exploit petroleum across Iran except the five provinces bordering Russia. This concession later passed to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and became a focus of Iranian nationalist grievance. ●●

1901 Gallieni imposes a head tax in Madagascar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After completing the conquest of Madagascar in 1901, the French general Gallieni imposed a head tax payable only in newly issued Malagasy francs. The aim was to force Malagasy into the money economy and wage labor. ●●

1901 Northern Securities railroad trust formed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Northern Securities, one of the nation’s largest railroad trusts, had been formed by Morgan, Harriman, and Hill in 1901. The president’s power play might have been avoided if... ●●

1901 Czech-language officials appointed in Bohemia and Moravia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Czech language officials appointed in Bohemia and Moravia ●●

1901 Northern Pacific corner triggers Wall Street panic ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The New York Herald banner headline of May 9, 1901, summed up the popular view: “GIANTS OF WALL STREET, IN FIERCE BATTLE FOR MASTERY, PRECIPITATE CRASH THAT BRINGS RUIN TO HORDE OF PYGMIES.”63 The de... ●●

1901 Florida enacts the Flagler divorce law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On April 9, 1901, a special law was enacted permitting divorce on grounds of incurable insanity—a law known as the Flagler divorce law. Within two weeks, Flagler married Mary Lily Kenan. ●●

1901 Manly P. Hall born in Peterborough, Canada ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Manly Palmer Hall, future esoteric philosopher and author, was born in Peterborough, Canada, outside Toronto, to his mother Louise Palmer Hall, a chiropractor and progressive woman. ●●

1901 Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley's assassination ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Roosevelt came into office initially in 1901 on McKinley’s assassination, but he and his party won a decisive majority in the 1904 election, a mandate that he used to great effect. ●●

1901 American Can formed by merger ai_extracted 2 cit. no story American Can, whose first president was Edward Norton, the inventor of the “automatic-line” process, resulted from a merger in 1901 ●●

1901 US Steel founded by J. P. Morgan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story United States Steel was founded by financier J. Pierpont Morgan as a holding company controlling more than half of the American steel industry, one of the monopolies Nkrumah traces into African raw-material supply. ●●

20 May 1902 Independence of Cuba 0 cit. no story The Republic of Cuba is proclaimed as US occupation ends, following decades of independence wars against Spain. politics / war ●●●

1902 Trans-Siberian line draws Russia toward war with Japan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By letting Russia press into the Far East, the Trans-Siberian railway drove Britain into alliance with Japan in 1902 and Russia into war with Japan in 1904-1905. ●●

1902 Foreign-controlled iron and steel cartel in Russia, 1902 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1902 a cartel of a dozen firms handled nearly three-quarters of Russian iron and steel sales and was controlled by four foreign banking groups, marking the rise of monopoly capitalism in Russia. ●●

1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1902 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Shaken by the Boer War, Britain in 1902 made a treaty with Japan pledging mutual aid if either faced two enemies in the Far East, which later allowed Japan to attack Russia in 1904. ●●

1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance to isolate Russia (1902) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To isolate the coming conflict with Russia, Japan signed a treaty with Britain in 1902 under which each could expect the other's support if fighting more than one enemy in the Far East. ●●

1902 Salisbury hands the premiership to Balfour ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On retiring in 1902, Lord Salisbury handed the party leadership and premiership to his nephew and hand-picked successor, Arthur James Balfour. Quigley uses the Cecil family's dominance to illustrate concentrated party control. ●●

1902 Education Act of 1902 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Education Act of 1902 extended secondary education by shifting control from school boards to local government and funding church schools from rates. Nonconformists denounced it as forcing them to support Anglican education. ●●

1902 Rhodes's death leaves a board of seven trustees ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rhodes changed his trustees across seven wills. At his death in 1902 the estate was left to a board of seven, the body the world looked to for the Rhodes Scholarships. ●●

1902 Flora Shaw leaves The Times (1902) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Flora Shaw, a key Times correspondent tied to the Jameson Raid telegrams, gave up her post after marrying in 1902. Quigley notes the publicity around the raid had reduced her value to the paper. ●●

1902 Carnegie publishes 'The Empire of Business' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Andrew Carnegie's 1902 book The Empire of Business, in which Carnegie attacked teachings that gave children false ideas. Gatto identifies Carnegie as the businessman behind the Homestead strike. ●●

1902 Stiles finds hookworm endemic across the South ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1902, outfitted with just a microscope, Dr. Stiles journeyed through the South examining human feces, and, sure enough, he found hookworm eggs everywhere. It was an exhilarating discovery, since hookworm could be cured with fifty cents’ worth of salts and thymol. ●●

1902 Shen Jiaben commission revises the Qing Code ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Responding to Western criticisms of traditional Chinese law, particularly with respect to the cruelty of punishments, a commission led by Shen Jiaben was established in 1902 to recommend revisions to the Qing Code. ●●

1902 Andrew Carnegie endows the Carnegie Institution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 28, 1902, Andrew Carnegie endowed the Carnegie Institution with $10 million in bonds followed by additional endowments of $12 million. This institution would become the primary funding source and legitimizing entity for American eugenics research. ●●

1902 First harvester industry merger initiated by Gary ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Significantly, the initiative for the first successful merger in the harvester industry in 1902 came from Judge Elbert Gary, chairman of the board of ●●

1902 Hobson publishes Imperialism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story J. A. Hobson's study Imperialism, published by the English Liberal economist, was one of the two works Nkrumah says Lenin drew on for his own analysis of finance capital. ●●

3 November 1903 Independence of Panama 0 cit. no story Panama separates from Colombia with US backing, clearing the way for construction of the Panama Canal. politics ●●●

1903 Death of Lord Salisbury and decline of the Cecil Bloc ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Lord Salisbury died in 1903. Quigley says the Cecil Bloc survived under Balfour but grew looser, and was gradually replaced by the more disciplined Milner Group. ●●

1903 Atlantic Monthly calls for business organization of schools ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1903 The Atlantic Monthly called for schools to adopt business organization, and William C. Bagley described the ideal teacher as one who would rigidly hew to the line. ●●

1903 Rockefeller's General Education Board chartered by Congress, 1903 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that Rockefeller's General Education Board obtained a congressional incorporating act in 1903 and began organizing schooling in the South. ●●

1903 USS Nashville blocks Colombia during Panama revolt ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American gunboat Nashville received orders to prevent Colombia from sending military reinforcements to Panama during the secessionist uprising. This intervention on November 2, 1903, ensured the rebellion's success and U.S. control of the canal zone. ●●

1903 Steichen photographs J.P. Morgan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1903, Pierpont sat for two minutes as Edward Steichen snapped the famous photograph of him: from deep shadow and gripping the blade-like chair, Pierpont stares out, a tense crease between his brows... ●●

1903 Davison founds Bankers Trust Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story While there, he organized Bankers Trust in 1903, assisted in the 1907 panic negotiations, and represented Wall Street on Senator Aldrich’s National Monetary Commission. These exploits won the attentio... ●●

1903 Elkins Act forbids railroad rebates ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When rebates were again forbidden by the Elkins Act of 1903 and the Hepburn Act of 1906, the public naively assumed they had ended. ●●