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Timeline Of African-American Firsts
African Americans are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group in the United States. The first achievements by African Americans in diverse fields have historically marked footholds, often leading to more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is "breaking the color barrier". One prominent example is Jackie Robinson, who became the Baseball color line, first African American of the modern era to become a Major League Baseball player in 1947, ending 60 years of racial segregation within the Negro leagues. 16th century 1500s 1528 *Estevanico becomes the first black person to explore what would become the continental United States in the Narváez expedition. 1539 *Estevanico becomes the first black person and first non-Native American person to explore New Mexico. 17th century 1600s 1604 *First black person to arrive in what is now Maine: explorer and interpreter Mathieu Da Costa 1650 * First African American to own land in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840s
The 1840s (pronounced "eighteen-forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1840, and ended on December 31, 1849. The decade was noted in Europe for featuring the largely unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848, also known as the ''Springtime of Nations''. Throughout the continent, bourgeois liberals and working-class radicals engaged in a series of revolts in favor of social reform. In the United Kingdom, this notably manifested itself through the Chartist movement, which sought universal suffrage and parliamentary reform. In France, the February Revolution led to the overthrow of the Orléans dynasty by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1848, the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx would help lay the groundwork for the global socialist movement. Arguably the first major event of the decade was the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in the United Tribes (modern-day New Zealand) between Māori rangatira and representatives of the British Crown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s
File:1960s montage.png, Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War; the Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market; a half-a-million people participate in the Woodstock, 1969 Woodstock Festival; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11, walk on the Moon during the Cold War-era Space Race; the Stonewall riots mark the beginning of the Gay liberation movement; China's Mao Zedong initiates the Great Leap Forward plan which fails and brings mass starvation in which Great Chinese Famine, 15 to 55 million people died by 1961, and in 1966, Mao starts the Cultural Revolution, which purged traditional Chinese practices and ideas; John F. Kennedy is Assassination of John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, after serving as Presidency of John F. Kennedy, President for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a crowd of 250,000., 335x335px, right rect 2 2 237 166 Vietnam War rect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s
File:1950s decade montage.png, 370x370px, Top, L-R: U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the Korean War, late September 1950; The first polio vaccine is developed by Jonas Salk.Centre, L-R: US tests its first thermonuclear bomb with code name ''Ivy Mike'' in 1952. A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named ''Castle Romeo''; In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution, which results in the creation of the first and only communist government in the Western Hemisphere; Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of the newly popular music genre of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.Bottom, L-R: Smoke rises from oil tanks on Port Said following the invasion of Egypt by Israel, United Kingdom and France as part of the Suez Crisis in late 1956; The Hungarian Revolution of 1956; The Soviet Union launches ''Sputnik 1'', the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, in October 1957. This starts the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s
File:1940s decade montage.png, Above title bar: events during World War II (1939–1945): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on Normandy landings, D-Day; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France; The Holocaust occurs as Nazi Germany carries out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million History of the Jews in Europe#World War II and the Holocaust, European Jews are killed; The Empire of Japan, Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war; An Royal Observer Corps, Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz; The creation of the Manhattan Project leads to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first uses of nuclear weapons, which kill over a quarter million people and lead to the Surrender of Japan, Japanese surrender; Japanese Foreign Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s
File:1930s decade montage.png, From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Owens Thompson, Florence Thompson shows the effects of the Great Depression; due to extreme drought conditions, farms across the south-central United States become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads; The Empire of Japan Japanese invasion of Manchuria, invades China, which eventually leads to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, Japanese soldiers Nanjing Massacre, massacre civilians in Nanjing; aviator Amelia Earhart becomes an American flight icon; Ethnic Germans, German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to establish a New Order (political system), New Order of German hegemony in Europe, which culminates in 1939 when Germany Invasion of Poland, invades Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II. The Nazis also persecute Jews in Germany, specifically with Kristallnacht in 1938; the ''LZ 129 Hindenburg, Hindenburg'' Hindenburg disaster, explodes over a small Lakehurst, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s
File:1920s decade montage.png, From left, clockwise: Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Seán Hogan during the Irish War of Independence; Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol in accordance to the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 18th amendment, which made Prohibition in the United States, alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States throughout the entire decade; In 1927, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris on the ''Spirit of St. Louis''; A crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 stock market crash, which led to the Great Depression; Benito Mussolini and Fascism, fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome in 1922; the People's Liberation Army attacking government defensive positions in Shandong, during the Chinese Civil War; The women's suffrage campaign leads to Women's suffrage#Women's suffrage by country, numerous countries granting women the right to vote and be elected; Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910s
File:1910s montage.png, From left, clockwise: The Ford Model T is introduced and becomes widespread; The Sinking of the RMS Titanic, sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' causes the deaths of nearly 1,500 people and attracts global and historical attention; CONTEXT: All the events below are part of World War I (1914–1918); French Army lookout at his observation post in 1917; Russian troops awaiting a German attack; A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme; Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd in the midst of the Russian Revolution, beginning in 1917; The Spanish flu, Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 kills tens of millions worldwide., 335px, thumb rect 1 1 199 155 Ford Model T rect 203 1 497 187 Sinking of the Titanic, Sinking of the ''Titanic'' rect 201 188 497 207 World War I rect 1 159 199 297 Spanish flu rect 203 208 341 365 Western Front (World War 1) rect 346 207 497 367 Eastern Front (World War I) rect 1 302 197 488 Russian Revolutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900s
File:1900s decademontage2.png, 335px, From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the Wright Flyer, first manned flight with a motorized airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Kitty Hawk in 1903; A missionary points to the severed hand of a Congolese villager, symbolic of Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State; The 1908 Messina earthquake kills 75,000–82,000 people and becomes the most destructive earthquake ever to strike Europe; America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine–American War; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal; Admiral Heihachiro Togo, Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power, while Russia's defeat eventually led to the 1905 Revolution. rect 2 2 249 161 Wright Flyer rect 253 2 497 161 Atrocities in the Congo Free State rect 250 165 497 334 1908 Messina earthquake rect 250 338 497 488 Philippine–American War re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century
The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). It was the 10th and last century in the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment. Population growth was also unprecedented, as the century started with around 1.6 billion people, and ended with around 6.2 billion. The 20th century was dominated by significant geopolitical events that reshaped the political and social structure of the globe: World War I, the Spanish flu, Spanish flu pandemic, World War II and the Cold War. Unprecedented 20th century in science, advances in science and technology defined the century, including the advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, space exploration, the Digital Revolution, shift from analog to digital computing and the continuing advancement of transportation, including powered f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890s
The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "Gay Nineties, gay nineties" ("''gay"'' meaning carefree or cheerful). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late Victorian era, Victorian period. As European powers continued their colonial expansion, the decade saw the defeat of Edi Expedition, Edi (1890), 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis, Siam (1893), First Melillan campaign, Morocco (1894), Franco-Dahomean Wars (other), Dahomey (1894), Congo Arab war, Arab-Swahili warlords (1894), Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem, Lombork (1894), Pahang Uprising, Pahang (1895), Second Madagascar expedition, Merina (1895), Anglo-Zanzibar War, Zanzibar (1896), Khaua-Mbandjeru rebellion, Khaua and Mbandjeru (1896), Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, 1895–1896, Ashanti (1896), Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880s
The 1880s (pronounced "eighteen-eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889. The period was characterized in general by economic growth and prosperity in many parts of the world, especially Europe and the Americas, with the emergence of modern cities signified by the foundation of many long-lived corporations, franchises, and brands and the introduction of the skyscraper. The decade was a part of the Gilded Age (1874–1907) in the United States, the Victorian Era in the British Empire and the Belle Époque in France. It also occurred at the height of the Second Industrial Revolution and saw numerous developments in science and a sudden proliferation of electrical technologies, particularly in mass transit and telecommunications. The last living person from this decade, María Capovilla, died in 2006. Politics and wars Wars * Aceh War (1873–1904) * War of the Pacific (1879–1884) * First Boer War (1880–1881) * Mahdist War (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
