
1895 - 1899 (4 years)
| |
Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1895 | - 1895: Oscar Wilde jailed
- 1895: Wilhelm Conrad R?ntgen, using a Crookes' tube, observed a new form of penetrating radiation, which he named X-rays
- 1895: Guglielmo Marconi sent longwave wireless telegraphic, or radio, signals over a distance of more than a mile
- 1895: Salisbury forms his third Unionist ministry
- 1895: Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale
|
| 2 | 1896 | - 1896: 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: The British conquest of the Sudan begins
- 1896: Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
|
| 3 | 1897 | - 1897: Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
- 1897: Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
|
| 4 | 1898 | - 1898: Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter. His QWERTY keyboard is still with us today.
- 1898: British rule over Sudan fully established. German Naval expansion begins
- 1898: Campbell's soups first appear with red and white labels, colors suggested by Cornell University's football uniforms.
|
| 5 | 1899 | - 1899: British disasters in South Africa
- 1899: Boer War begins in South Africa and lasts three years
|
This site powered by v. 15.0.4, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2026.
Maintained by . | .