YEAR: 1795

MARYVILLE HISTORY:On July 11, Territorial Governor William Blount signs legislative act

establishing both Maryville and Blount County*Six commissioners choose 50 acres adjacent to

John Craig's fort for the new town. They divide acreage into 120 lots with necessary streets

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Third French constitution enacted following French Revolution of

1789*Napoleon appointed commander-in-chief, Italy*Freedom of worship in France*Treaty

between U.S. and Spain settles boundary with Florida; gives U.S. right to navigate Mississippi

River*Milwaukee established as trading post on Lake Michigan*General Anthony Wayne signs

Treaty of Greenville, Ohio with chiefs of Wyandotte, Delaware, Miami, Shawnee, Chippewa,

Ottawa, Sac and Fox, and Potawatami Indians, first treaty in which Indian title to lands overtly

recognized*University of North Carolina becomes first state university

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: John Keats b.(d.1821)*Art: The Duchess of Alba

(Francisco de Goya)*Joseph Haydn completes the 12 London symphonies*Ludwig van

Beethoven debuts as composer and virtuoso*Hydraulic press invented*Preserving jar for foods

designed*First horse-drawn railroad in England*Theory of the Earth by Scottish geologist James

Hutton pioneers scientific geology*Metric system adopted in France*Josiah Wedgwood

(porcelain) d.(b.1730)

PRESIDENT: George Washington

YEAR: 1796

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Commissioners begin sale of lots to public*Five men elected to

represent Maryville and Blount County at Constitutional Convention in Knoxville where State

Constitution is adopted*First county courthouse constructed on Lot 83*Permits issued to John

Wallace to operate tavern; to John Wood and Josiah Danforth to open inns

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: On June 1, Tennessee becomes 16th state*Napoleon marries

Josephine*Freedom of press in France*Spain declares war on Britain*George Washington

refuses third term; delivers farewell address*John Adams defeats Jefferson in presidential

election; Jefferson elected vice president*Population: China - 275 million*Peking Edict forbids

import of opium into China*Jim Bowie b.(d.1836 at the Alamo)*First permanent white

settlement in Oklahoma Territory

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: My love is like a red, red rose and Auld

Lang Syne (Robert Burns); Joan of Arc (Robert Southey)*Robert Burns d.(b.1759)*Art: George

Washington (Athenaeum Head) (Gilbert Charles Stuart)*Opera: The Archers of Switzerland

(William Tell), produced in New York*Science of comparative zoology founded*Smallpox

vaccination introduced* Pure ethyl alcohol prepared

YEAR: 1797

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville's first school opened on Lot 120*First jail constructed by

Daniel Boterite. Public stocks are built on the city square*Louis Phillipe (future King of France)

stops at Woods Tavern en route to Tellico*Daniel Taylor opens tan yard on Lot 112*Josiah

Danforth opens powder, grist and saw mill on Pistol Creek at foot of Cusick Street

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Napoleon appointed to command forces for invasion of England*British

Admiral John Jervis, with 15 ships and Horatio Nelson, defeats Spanish fleet of 27 ships at Cape

St. Vincent*British Spithead naval mutiny*U.S. frigate United States launched at Philadelphia;

Constellation at Baltimore; and Constitution ("Old Ironsides") at Boston*U.S. enters world spice

trade

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Ethics

(Immanuel Kant); Practical View of the Religious System (William Wilberforce); The Italian

(Ann Radcliffe); Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)*Music: Emperor's Hymn

(Haydn)*(Franz Schubert b.(d.1828)*Carriage lathe invented*Method of calculating orbit of

comets is published* Chromium isolated*Cerium, titanium and zirconium discovered and

identified*Cuban cigarmakers make first "cigarettes"

PRESIDENT: John Adams

YEAR: 1798

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Committee appointed to repair two year old courthouse. Building

deemed inadequate for growing community and decision made to construct a new building

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: French capture Rome, seize Malta, occupy Alexandria; Napoleon master

of Egypt after victory at Battle of the Pyramids*Horatio Nelson destroys Napoleon's escort fleet

at mouth of Nile River in Egypt*Giovanni Giacomo Casanova d.(b.1725)*Income tax introduced

in Britain as wartime measure*War with France threatened over French raids on U.S. shipping.

U.S. navy (45 ships) and 365 privateers capture 84 French ships*Georgia forbids further

importation of slaves

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Essay on the Principles of Population (T.R.

Malthus); Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge)*Auguste Compte b.(d.1857)*Theater:

Speed the Plow (Thomas Morton)*Opera: Leonore* Music: The Creation Mass, Mass in D minor

(Joseph Haydn)*Lithography invented*Swiss inventor patents new method of making optical

glass*Eli Whitney pioneers mass production with jigs

YEAR: 1799

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Town of Maryville, 4 years old, now contains public buildings,

taverns, businesses, a church and 20 homes*Contract signed with Josiah Danforth for

construction of new courthouse at corner of Cusick Street and Broadway

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Napoleon advances into Syria; defeats Turks at Abukir; returns to France

and overthrows the Directory (ruling body); appoints Talleyrand Foreign Minister and Joseph

Fouche Minister of Police; Bonaparte elevated to first consul of France; established as dictator of

France*Austria declares war on France*Britain joins Russo-Turkish alliance*First British

income tax introduced*Russia-American Co. granted monopoly of trade in Alaska by

Russia*George Washington dies at Mount Vernon on December 14 (b.1732)*Church Missionary

Society founded in London

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Lucinde (Schlegel)*Honore de Balzac

b.(d.1850)*Pope Pius VI d.(b.1717)*Art: Rape of the Sabine Women (J.L. David)*Ferdinand de

la Croix b.(d.1863)*Music: Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven); The Creation (Haydn)*Rosetta Stone

found near Rosetta, Egypt; enables deciphering of hieroglyphics*Perfectly preserved mammal

found in Siberia*Gas lighting pioneered*Nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") produced and suggested

for use as an anesthetic in minor surgery

YEAR: 1800

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First post office established October 6, John Montgomery, Postmaster

Prison bounds established along the length of Main Street totalling 15 acres.

Most prisoners restricted to travel only within this area

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: French army defeats Turks at Heliopolis; defeats Austrians at Biberach

and Marengo; conquers Italy

Napoleon appoints jurists to draw up civil code

British capture Malta

Spain returns Louisiana Territory to France

U.S. federal offices moved from Philadelphia to new capital city of Washington, D.C.; free

inhabitants - 2,464, slaves - 623

Library of Congress established

Population: Paris - c. 550,000; New York - c. 60,000

Bill Richmond (1763-1829), former Negro slave, becomes one of first popular boxers

Church of United Brethren in Christ founded in U.S.

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Life and Memorable Actions of George

Washington (Mason L. Weems), includes fabricated stories, including one about young George

chopping down his father's cherry tree

Art: Portrait of a Woman (Goya)

Theater: Speed the Plough (Thomas Morton)

F. J. Gall (1758-1928) founds practice of phrenology

William Herschel discovers infrared solar rays

Alessendro Volta produces first battery of zinc and copper plates

Eli Whitney makes muskets with interchangeable parts

High-pressure steam engine constructed

Industrial Revolution spreads to Europe

YEAR: 1801

MARYVILLE HISTORY: A poor tax is levied to assist in care for indigent citizens

David and Miles Cunningham open Cunningham Tavern House on Lot 63. Establishment of new

inns provides travelers with choice of lodging

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland

Treaty of Luneville marks end of Holy Roman Empire

Horatio Nelson defeats Danes off Copenhagen

English enter Cairo; French troops leave Egypt, which Turks recover

Tripoli declares war on U. S. for refusal to pay tribute to commerce raiding Arab pirates

Secretary of State John Marshall named chief justice of the U.S.

Population: London, 864,000; Paris, 547,000; Vienna, 231,000; Berlin, 183,000

"Johnny Appleseed" arrives in Ohio Valley

John Henry Cardinal Newman b.(d.1890)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Theater: The Maid of Orleans (Johann von Schiller)

Ballet: Creatures of Prometheus (Salvatore Vigano)

Music: The Seasons (Joseph Haydn)

Violin prodigy Nicolao Paganini completes dazzling concert tour

Robert Fulton (1765-1815) produces Nautilus, the first submarine

Lalande catalogs 47,390 stars

First iron trolley tracks, England

PRESIDENT: Thomas Jefferson

YEAR: 1802

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Woods Tavern, oldest place of lodging in Maryville, purchased by

David Russell and operated for 15 years as Russell's Inn

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Napoleon becomes president of Italian Republic

Peace of Amiens between Britain and France

France suppresses Negro rebellion in Santo Domingo led by Toussaint-l'Ouverture

Horse racing introduced in England

Madame Tussaud's wax museum opens in London

Health and Morals of Apprentices Act in Britain (protection of labor in factories)

U.S. Military Academy founded at Westpoint, N.Y.

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Delphine (Mme. de Stael); Lochiel's

Warning (Thomas Campbell)

Alexandre Dumas b.(d.1870)

Victor Hugo b.(d.1885)

Art: Madame Recamier (Gerard); Napoleon Bonaparte (Canova)

Music: Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)

Babylonian cuneiform deciphered

John Dalton (1766-1884) introduces atomic theory into chemistry

William Herschel discovers binary stars

The term "biology" is coined

Guano recognized as a source of nitrogen for fertilizer and explosives by Alexander Humboldt

The New American Practical Navigator (Nathaniel Bowditch) becomes a second bible for sea

captains

Thomas Wedgewood produces first photograph

YEAR: 1803

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Six merchants required to pay $25 state license tax to conduct

business

Jail bounds increased to 20 acres, allowing prisoners more access to taverns and other public

houses

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Ohio becomes 17th state

Louisiana Purchase doubles size of U.S.

France and Britain renew war

Arthur Wellesley defeats Sindhia of Gwalior in second Mahratha War

Caledonian Canal begun in Scotland

Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison case overturns a U.S. law for the first time; establishes

Supreme Court as ultimate interpreter of Constitution

Cotton surpasses tobacco as leading U.S. export crop

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Ralph Waldo Emerson b.(d.1882)

A. G. Decamps b.(d.1860)

Art: Christ Healing the Sick (Benjamin West); The McNab (Henry Raeburn)

Music: Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)

Hector Berlioz b. (d.1869)

Cerium discovered

Table of atomic weights represents clear statement of atomic theory

Robert Fulton propels boat by steam power

Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) invents shell

Morphine isolated

YEAR: 1804

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Second Blount County courthouse completed after 4 years of

construction

Near present site of Maryville Greenbelt Lake, Methodist circuit rider Lorenzo Dow preachers to

crowd of 1,500 people

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Napoleon proclaimed emperor; crowned in presence of Pope Pius VII in

Paris

The Code Napoleon, a code of civil laws, goes into force and will influence the legal codes of

most European countries

Spain declares war on Britain

Benjamin Disraeli b.(d.1881)

East India Co. wars with Indore (central India)

Twelfth Amendment adopted (manner of choosing president and vice president)

Alexander Hamilton killed in duel with Aaron Burr

First dahlias in England (from Mexico)

Hobart, Tasmania, founded

British and Foreign Bible Society founded

Lewis and Clark expedition ordered by President Jefferson with Sacajawea, an Indian woman,

serving as guide

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Nathaniel Hawthorne b.(d.1864)

George Sand b.(d.1876)

Immanuel Kant d.(b.1724)

Art: The Pesthouse at Jaffa (Antoine Gros)

Theater: Wilhelm Tell (Johann von Schiller)

Music: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) (Beethoven)

Johann Strauss b.(d.1849)

Joseph Priestley d.(b.1733)

Palladium found in platinum

Iridium discovered

YEAR: 1805

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville merchants assessed $5 per year county tax, the first

privilege tax for Blount County.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, resigns in India

Treaty by Russia and Britain against France joined by Austria

Napoleon crowned king of Italy

Napoleon defeats Austro-Russian forces

Britain and U.S. break over trade with West Indies

Establishment of modern Egypt

Lewis and Clark arrive at mouth of Columbia River in October

Zebulon Pike travels up Mississippi River in search of its source

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Madoc (Robert Southey); The Lay of the

Last Minstrel (Walter Scott)

Hans Christian Anderson b.(d.1875)

Alexis de Tocqueville b.(d.1859)

Art: Shipwreck (J.M.W. Turner)

Opera: Fidelio (Beethoven)

Violin virtuoso Paganini begins second European tour

Beaufort Scale aids navigation by measuring wind velocities

Rockets reintroduced as weapons in British army

Rhodium discovered

YEAR: 1806

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Porter Academy is chartered in Maryville by authority of the state

After approval by Congress, residents obtain legal title to their lands mostly acquired by simple

occupancy

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Joseph and Louis Bonaparte, brothers of Napoleon, named kings of

Naples and Holland, respectively

Britain blockades French coast

Holy Roman Empire ends in Confederation of the Rhine; Prussia declares war on France

Napoleon enters Berlin; French Army enters Warsaw

On September 23, Lewis and Clark return from 28-month exploration of northwest

British cotton industry employs 90,000 factory workers and 184,000 handloom weavers

Napoleon establishes consistorial organization for Jews in France

Congress authorizes construction of the Natchez Trace from Nashville to Natchez on the

Mississippi River

Zebulon Pike expedition into upper Arkansas and New Mexico, Pike's Peak in Rocky Mountains

John Stuart Mill b.(d.1873)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Simonidea (Walter Landor); Rhymes for the

Nursery (Jane and Ann Taylor)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning b.(d.1861)

Noah Webster: The Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, first Webster's dictionary

Music: Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)

Opera: Demetrio a Polibio (Rossini)

Architecture: Arc de Triomphe, Paris (Jean Chalgrin), construction begins

Davy discovers electrolytic method for preparation of potassium and soda

YEAR: 1807

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Legislature appoints Maryville's first Board of Commissioners: John

Montgomery, John Wilkinson, John Lowery, Andrew Thompson, Samuel Love, and David

Russell

Commission is ordered to have town re-surveyed according to original plan established in 1795

Cedar Springs (now Hannum Springs) held for public use in perpetuity

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: French victory at Friedland, Czechoslovakia

Jerome Bonaparte, third brother of Napoleon, becomes king of Westfalia

France invades Portugal

The Chesapeake Incident (British fire on U.S. frigate)

U.S. Embargo Act against Britain and France

Robert E. Lee b.(d.1870)

England prohibits slave trade

Sierra Leone and Gambia become British crown colonies

Fur trappers throng to Rockies via upper Missouri River

Jacob Albright's U.S. Evangelical Association holds first convention

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Hours of Idleness (Lord Byron); Poems in

Two Volumes (William Wordsworth)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow b.(d.1882)

Art: Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (David); Sun Rising in a Mist (Turner)

Art: Sonata in F Minor (Appassionata) (Beethoven)

Fulton's first commercially successful paddle steamer Clermont navigates Hudson River

Gas street lights in London

YEAR: 1808

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Porter Academy opens to public, taught by Rev. Mark Moore, former

Methodist circuit rider

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. prohibits importation of slaves from Africa (c. 250,000 slaves

legally imported from 1808-1860)

France invades Spain, occupies Rome, and Joseph Bonaparte becomes king of Spain

Napoleon abolishes the Inquisition in Spain and Italy

Goethe and Napoleon meet

Henry Crabb Robinson, first war correspondent, sent to Peninsula War in Spain by The Times of

London

Pigtails disappear in men's fashion

Fur trader Andrew Henry builds first trading post on Pacific waters, the Snake River

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Marmion (Walter Scott)

Art: Execution of the Citizens of Madrid (Goya)

Theater: Faust, Part I (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Theatre St. Philippe opens in New Orleans

Music: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 (Pastorale) (Beethoven)

Humphrey Davy isolates barium, boron, calcium and strontium

Ships' iron anchor-chains patented

Extensive excavations begin at Pompeii

YEAR: 1809

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On October 18, Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preaches to crowd

Capt. John Craig, now of Mississippi, makes deed to Maryville Commissioners for original 50

acre town site

State Legislature decrees Maryville town commissioners shall be elected each July 4 on

courthouse steps

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: War between France and Austria

Arthur Wellesley defeats French at Oporto and Tallavera; is created Duke of Wellington

Napoleon annexes Papal States; Pope Pious VII taken prisoner

Napoleon divorces Josephine

William Gladstone b.(d.1898)

Treaty of Friendship between Britain and Sikhs

Abraham Lincoln b.(d.1865)

Christopher "Kit" Carson b.(d.1868)

Elizabeth Seton founds Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph in U.S.

Thomas Paine d.(b.1737)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Knickerbocker's History of New York

(Washington Irving); Les Martyrs (Chateaubriand)

Edward Fitzgerald b.(d.1883)

Edgar Alan Poe b.(d.1849)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson b.(d.1892)

Josef Haydn d.(b.1732)

Felix Mendelssohn b.(d.1847)

First ocean voyage by steamboat Phoenix

Charles Darwin b.(d.1882)

Water voltameter telegraph invented

Louis Braille b.(d.1852)

PRESIDENT: James Madison

YEAR: 1810

MARYVILLE HISTORY: James Trimble organizes Blount's first Circuit Court. Robert Houston

appointed clerk

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Year of Napoleon's zenith; marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria

Venezuela breaks away from Spain

Simon Bolivar emerges as major figure in South American politics

British seize Guadaloupe, last French colony in West Indies

Yellow fever epidemics in Barcelona and Cadiz

First public billiard rooms in England

Miner strike in Durham, England

Tobacco sales made government monopoly in France

U.S. population: 7,239,881

New York passes Philadelphia in population to become largest U.S. city

Cumberland Presbytery of Kentucky excluded from Presbyterian Church

Phineas T. Barnum b.(d.1891)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Lady of the Lake (Scott)

Fredrick Chopin b.(d.1849)

Robert Schumann b.(d.1856)

Appert develops techniques for canning food

Nicotine identified as the active principle in tobacco

Differential gear, steering mechanism, allows carriages to turn sharp corners

Henry Cavendish d.(b.1731)

YEAR: 1811

MARYVILLE HISTORY: New Providence Presbyterian Church, celebrating 25 years of

organization, has 217 members

Unrest develops as war with Great Britain seems inevitable

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russia seizes Belgrade

Massacre of Mamelukes at Cairo by Mohammed Ali

Duke of Wellington's victories at Fuentes de Onoro and Albuera

Paraguay declares independence from Spain

William Henry Harrison defeats Indians under Tecumseh at Tippecanoe, Indiana

Slave revolt in New Orleans

John Jacob Astor's ship, the Tonquin, arrives at mouth of Columbia River; commence

construction of Astoria

Andrew Henry and his trappers abandon high country to the Crows and Blackfeet

"Luddites" destroy industrial machines in England

Earthquakes cause Mississippi River to run upstream for several hours; Reelfoot Lake created

Berblinger fails in attempt to fly

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Harriet Beecher Stowe b.(d.1896)

W. M. Thackeray b.(d.1863)

Opera: Abu Hassan (Carl Maria von Weber)

Franz Liszt b.(d.1886)

Architecture: Regent's Park, London (John Nash)

Avogadro's hypothesis of molecular composition of gases

Iodine isolated; will be used as an antiseptic and to purify drinking water

Robert Bunsen b.(d.1899)

YEAR: 1812

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Isaac Anderson becomes pastor of New Providence Presbyterian

Church

David Russell sells Russell Inn to John Norwood, who renames it the General Jackson in honor

of Andrew Jackson

David Cunningham sells his inn to Jesse Wallace, who renames it the General Washington. A

spirited rivalry will exist with Norwood's General Jackson

Countless Maryvillians and Blount Countians respond to the call to defend their country in the

War of 1812

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: War of 1812: U.S. declares war on Britain

Napoleon retreats from Russia (only 20,000 of army of 550,000 survive)

Duke of Wellington enters Madrid

Baptist Union of Great Britain formed

Jews in Prussia emancipated

Louisiana becomes 18th state

Missouri Territory established west of the Mississippi

Term "gerrymander" introduced to describe redistricting for political purposes

South Pass (future Oregon Trail route) discovered October 22 by Robert Stuart and 5 Astorians

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Fairy Tales (The Brothers Grimm); Childe

Harold's Pilgrimage (Lord Byron); Science of Logic (Hegel)

Robert Browning b.(d.1889)

Charles Dickens b.(d.1870)

Art: Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya); Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard

(Gericault)

War of 1812 encourages development of industry and manufacturing in U.S.

Girard invents machine for spinning flax

Science of paleontology founded

YEAR: 1813

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Sam Houston enlists in the regular army March 24 at courthouse

square in Maryville

Act is passed to establish a female academy in Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Prussia and Austria declare war on France

Napoleon defeated at Leipzig; French expelled from Holland

Wellington defeats French at Votoria and enters France

Americans capture York (Toronto) and Fort St. George

Detroit reoccupied by U.S.; U.S. forces defeated at Chrysler's farms near Montreal; burn Newark

(Niagara on the Lake); British forces take Fort Niagara and burn Buffalo

Oliver H. Perry defeats British fleet at Battle of Lake Eerie; Battle of the Thames reestablishes

U.S. supremacy in the Northwest; Shawnee Tecumseh killed

Simon Bolivar becomes dictator of Venezuela

Mexico declares independence from Spain

Grand Freemason Lodge founded

"Uncle Sam" used in reference to the United States

Astor's partners sell Astoria to British Northwest Company

The waltz conquers European ballrooms

Soren Kierkegaard b.(d.1855)

Methodist Missionary Society founded

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen); The

Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Rudolf Wyss); Life of Nelson (Robert Southey); Queen Mab

(Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Opera: Tancredi (Rossini)

Royal Philharmonic founded in London

Giuseppe Verdi b.(d. 1901)

Richard Wagner b.(d. 1883)

David Livingston b.(d. 1873)

YEAR: 1814

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Convicted of stealing slaves, a Brice man is executed on July 20 as

the first legal hanging in Maryville

Samuel Love builds two-story Love's Tavern on Lot 31

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Joachim Murat deserts Napoleon and joins Allies

Allied Armies defeat French and enter Paris

Napoleon abdicates; banished to Elba

Louis XVIII returns to Paris

U.S. forces defeat British at Chippewa. British forces burn Washington, D.C. British flotilla

captured on Lake Champlain

Treaty of Ghent ends British-American War on December 24

Lord Hastings declares war on Gurkhas (Nepal)

Pope Pious VII returns to Rome and restores Inquisition

Holland abandons slave trade

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Waverly (Scott), Mansfield Park (Jane

Austen); The Corsair (Lord Byron)

Francis Scott Key writes poem to become "The Star Spangled Banner"

Library of Congress suffers extensive damage in fire as British troops burn Capitol; Thomas

Jefferson offers his private library as nucleus of new library

Art: The Third of May 1808 (Goya)

Architect James Hoban rebuilds executive mansion and paints it white, thus establishing the

building as the White House

First practical steam locomotive constructed

London Times printed by steam operated press

YEAR: 1815

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Four companies of Blount County men, including many Maryville

volunteers, fight in Battle of New Orleans, final battle of War of 1812. Gunpowder for battle was

made by Andrew Kennedy of Maryville and shipped by water from Blount County to New

Orleans

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Battle of New Orleans (unaware of peace treaty, 5,300 British attack

U.S. entrenchments). Casualties: British, over 2,000; Americans, 71

U.S. flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli

Napoleon returns to France; Louis XVIII flees

Battle of Waterloo in Belgium ends Napoleon's career as he is defeated by Wellington and

Blucher

Napoleon banished to St. Helena

Louis XVIII returns again to Paris

Michael Ney executed for aiding Napoleon at Waterloo

Switzerland established as an independent confederation

Joachim Murat executed after attempting to regain Naples

Otto von Bismarck b.(d.1898)

Apothecaries Act forbids unqualified doctors to practice in Britain

British income tax ended (resumed 1842)

First steam warship: U.S.S. Fulton (38 tons)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Devil's Elixir (Ernst Hoffman)

Anthony Trollope b.(d.1882)

John Singleton Copley d.(b.1738)

John Nash completes Brighton Pavilion

Humphrey Davy invents miners' safety lamp

Franz Mesmer d.(b. 1733)

Hypothesis on relation between specific gravity and atomic weight

Macadam paving technique developed

YEAR: 1816

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville Female Academy is opened on Lot 42 with Isaac

Anderson, pastor of New Providence Presbyterian Church, as the teacher

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Argentina declares independence

Indiana becomes the 19th state

English economic crisis stimulates large scale immigration to Canada and U.S.; U.S. institutes

protective tariff

Philadelphia Saving Fund Society opens as first U.S. savings bank to actually accept deposits

Philadelphia is social capital of America

American Bible Society founded

Fallout from last year's eruption of East Indian volcano Tambora causes cold weather throughout

summer in temperate zones, including snow in northeast U.S. in July

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Emma (Jane Austen); Kubla Khan (Samuel

Taylor Coleridge) (written 1797); The Seige of Corinth (Lord Byron); Alastor (Shelley)

Charlotte Bronte b.(d. 1855)

Opera: The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini); Othello (Rossini); Faust (Spohr)

Music: Erl King and 5th Symphony in B flat (Franz Schubert)

Kaleidoscope invented

Stethoscope invented

Celeripede, primitive two-wheeled bicycle

Steamboat Washington sets pattern for U.S. riverboats; known as the "floating wedding cake"

YEAR: 1817

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville's first bank, a branch of a Knoxville firm

A new jail is authorized in the center of Maryville away from the public square

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Construction begun on Erie Canal between Buffalo and Albany

Mississippi becomes 20th state

Simon Bolivar establishes independent government of Venezuela

Hegel: Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences

David Ricardo: Principles of Political Economy

Riots in Derbyshire, England against low wages

Ohio Indians cede their remaining 4 million acres of land to U.S.

John Jacob Astor gains monopoly in Mississippi Valley fur trade

Seminole War begins in Georgia

Construction begins on Eerie Canal

Hereford cattle imported to U.S. from England

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Rob Roy (Walter Scott); Poems (John

Keats); Thanatopsis (William Cullen Bryant); Manfred (Byron)

Henry David Thoreau b.(d. 1862)

Art: Flatford Mill (John Constable)

Opera: Cinderella (Rossini)

Berzelius discovers selenium

Cadmium and lithium discovered

Parkinson's disease described

PRESIDENT: James Monroe

YEAR: 1818

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Second Blount County jail is built on Lot 111 in the immediate

vicinity of this memorial

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Act suspending habeus corpus is repealed

Chile proclaims independence

Allies evacuate troops from France

U.S. and Canada agree on 49th parallel as border

Illinois becomes 21st state

Congress adopts flag with 13 alternating red and white stripes and a white star for each state of

the union

Seminole War ends; Spain cedes Florida to U.S.

First professional horse racing in U.S.

Savannah, first steamship to cross Atlantic (26 days)

Karl Marx b.(d. 1883)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley);

Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott); Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe

Shelley); Don Juan (Byron); Endymion (Keats); Childe Harold (Lord Byron)

Theater: Sappho (Franz Grillparzer)

Franz Huber writes music to words of Joseph Moore's "Silent Night"

Ludwig van Beethoven becomes totally deaf but continues to compose

Berzelius publishes molecular weight of 2,000 chemical compounds

Chubb invents detector lock

Angostura bitters invented; first used as a stomach tonic and later as a cocktail ingredient

Tin can introduced in America

First successful human blood transfusion using a syringe

YEAR: 1819

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Southern and Western Seminary, the future Maryville College, is

started by Dr. Isaac Anderson on Lot 42. Enrollment: 5 students

Enoch Parsons, Maryville resident, runs unsuccessfully for governor of Tennessee

Calhoun's Treaty ends all claims of Cherokee Indians in Blount County

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Florida purchased by U.S. from Spain

The future Queen Victoria b.(d. 1901)

Alabama becomes 22nd state

Maine separates from Massachusetts

Simon Bolivar liberates New Grenada from Spain; becomes president of Great Colombia

Freedom of the press in France

Maximum 12-hour working day for juveniles in England

Unitarianism founded in Boston

Memphis laid out on Mississippi River at Fort Adams

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats); Odes

(Victor Hugo)

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) b.(d.1880)

Julia Ward Howe b.(d.1910)

James Russell Lowell b.(d.1891)

Herman Melville b.(d.1891)

Walt Whitman b.(d.1892)

Art: The Raft of the Medusa (Gericault)

Clara Schumann b.(d.1896)

Isomorphism discovered

Flat-bed cylinder press constructed for printing

Electromagnetism discovered

James Watt d.(b. 1736)

Savannah makes first transatlantic crossing assisted by steam propulsion

YEAR: 1820

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Due to financial difficulties and the opening of Southern and Western

Theological Seminary, properties of Porter Academy and Maryville Female Academy are sold

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Revolution in Spain; Constitution of 1812 restored; Spanish Inquisition

ended by Ferdinand VII

Revolution in Portugal; demand for constitution

Jesuits driven out of Rome

Russian prospectors discover rich platinum deposits in Urals

Missouri Compromise: Maine enters union as a free (23rd) state, with Missouri to be a slave

state

U.S. land law fixes minimum land price at $1.25 per acre

Washington Colonization Society founds Liberia for repatriation of Negroes to Africa

U.S. population reaches 9.6 million; 83% of employed Americans engaged in agriculture

Daniel Boone d.(b.1820)

Herbert Spencer b.(d.1903)

Florence Nightingale b.(d.1910)

Friedrich Engels b.(d.1895)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Ivanhoe (Walter Scott); Prometheus

Unbound (Shelley)

Art: Belshazzar's Feast (John Martin); The Lion of Lucerne (Bertel Thorvaldsen)

Discovery of the Venus de Milo

Ballet: The Elementary Treatise (Carlo Blasis)

Architect Ithiel Town patents truss bridge

Quinine sulfate isolated; effective against malaria

Antarctic continent discovered

YEAR: 1821

MARYVILLE HISTORY: John Norwood sells the General Jackson Inn, formerly Wood's

Tavern

Charter is requested for road to be constructed from Maryville to Tuckaseegee, North Carolina

(near Sylva). Road never fully completed

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Napoleon d.(b.1769)

Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama declare independence

from Spain

Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish Army at Carabobo; named president of Venezuela

Missouri becomes 24th state, a slave state

Sequoyah's alphabet adopted by Cherokee tribal elders

Saturday Evening Post begins publication

Population (in millions): France, 30.4; Great Britain, 20.8; Italy, 18.0; Austria, 12.0; Germany,

26.0; U.S., 9.6

Mary Baker Eddy b.(d.1910)

Emma Willard founds Troy Female Seminary, first U.S. women's college

First tuition-free public high school in U.S. opens in Boston

Santa Fe Trail reopened by William Becknell initiative

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Spy (James Fenimore Cooper); Poems

(Heinrich Heine)

Charles Baudelaire b.(d.1867)

Feodor Dostoevsky b.(d.1881)

Gustav Flaubert b.(d.1880)

Theater: The Golden Fleece (Franz Grillparzer)

"Hail to the Chief" is played at 2nd inaugural of President James Monroe

Mouth organ invented in Germany

Faraday discovers fundamentals of electromagnetic rotation

Seebeck discovers thermoelectricity

Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) demonstrates sound reproduction

YEAR: 1822

MARYVILLE HISTORY: James Berry becomes Postmaster of Maryville

New building is constructed for Porter Academy, which has been closed for two years

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Greeks adopt liberal republican constitution and proclaim independence

Turkish fleet captures island of Chios and massacres inhabitants; as reprisal, Greeks set fire to

Turkish admiral's vessel; Turks invade Greece

Brazil becomes independent of Portugal

Haiti conquers Santo Domingo from Spain

Ulysses S. Grant b.(d.1885)

Boston streets lit by gas lights

London's Sunday Times founded

Major Andrew Henry advertises need for 100 "mountain men" to trap in Rockies

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Poemes (Alfred de Vigny)

E. T. A. Hoffmann d.(b.1776)

Percy Bysshe Shelley d.(b.1792)

Art: Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx (Delacroix)

Music: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Schubert)

Franz Liszt, age 11, makes piano debut in Vienna

Accordion invented in Germany

Popular songs: "The Old Oaken Bucket"

Rosetta Stone is deciphered

Diorama invented

Lenses for light houses perfected

Sir William Herschel d.(b. 1738)

Gregor Mendel b.(d. 1884)

Louis Pasteur b.(d. 1895)

World's first iron railroad bridge

First iron steamship

YEAR: 1823

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville is the site of mass meeting which will influence method of

choosing electors for the U.S. President. Previously, electors were named by the Legislature.

After this meeting, popular vote will elect the electors, and this will be critical to the 1828

election of Andrew Jackson.

Southern and Western Theological Seminary increases in size with the purchase of additional

property and buildings to be used as dormitories

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: France invades Spain to suppress revolution

Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica form confederation

Monroe Doctrine closes American continent to European settlement

Death penalty for over 100 crimes abolished in Britain

Petroleum industry has its start with primitive drilling for oil at port of Baku in Caspian Sea

Rugby football originated

Texas Rangers formed

Missouri Fur Company suffers heavy losses from Arikara and Blood Indian attacks

U.S. forces defeat Sac and Fox Indians; Illinois opened to corn farmers

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Pioneers (James Fenimore Cooper, first

of his Leatherstocking Tales); Don Juan completed (Lord Byron)

Charlotte M. Yonge b.(d.1901)

P. P. Prudhon d.(b.1758)

Opera: Clari, or the Maid of Milan (Henry R. Bishop)

Construction begins on the cathedral of Notre Dame

Babbage attempts construction of calculating machine

Faraday succeeds in liquefying chlorine

Charles Macintosh invents waterproof fabric

Electric telegraph developed but rejected in favor of semaphore

YEAR: 1824

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mount Gilead Methodist Episcopal Church is built on Methodist Hill

near Greenbelt Lake and delegates are sent to Holston Conference in Knoxville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: First Burmese war; British take Rangoon

Russia and U.S. sign Frontier Treaty

Egyptians capture Crete; Turks seize Greek island of Ispara; Greeks defeat Turks at Mitylene

Simon Bolivar proclaimed emperor of Peru

U.S. House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president when four candidates fail to

win majority in national election

Beginning of German emigration to Brazil

British workers allowed to unionize

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded at London

Sunday School Union formed in U.S.

Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden frees U.S. rivers from monopoly control

Pawtucket, Rhode Island weavers strike in first such action by women

Jedediah Smith and companions are first white men to cross South Pass since Robert Stuart in

1812

Tension grows between whites and Indians on the frontier after Indiana settlers attack Indian

village and massacre women and children

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Redgauntlet (Walter Scott)

Lord Byron d.(b.1788), in Turko-Greek War

Alexandre Dumas b.(d.1895)

Art: Massacre at Chios (Delacroix)

Music: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Chorale) (Beethoven)

French physicist Carnot presents principle that will be expressed as the second law of

thermodynamics

Portland Cement developed by Aspdin (1779-1855)

Erie Canal finished

Prevost and Dumas prove sperm essential to fertilization

YEAR: 1825

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Thomas J. Brown is appointed first pastor of Mount Gilead

Church

Rev. William Eagleton is appointed professor of languages and sciences at Southern and Western

Theological Seminary

The Seminary graduates its first class of students

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Anglo-Russian Treaty over British territory in northwest North America

French law compensates aristocrats for losses in 1779 revolution

Bolivia becomes independent of Peru, Uruguay of Brazil

New York Stock Exchange opens, trading shares primarily in canal, turnpike, mining and

gaslighting companies

Boston carpenters strike to demand a 10-hour work day

Trappers arrive in vicinity of Great Salt Lake

William H. Ashley first annual fur trade rendezvous

Baseball club organized at Rochester, New York

Horse-drawn buses in London

Chinese tea roses introduced in Europe

Erie Canal opening of Great Lakes makes New York City chief Atlantic port

French law makes sacrilege a capital offense

Stockton-Darlington Railroad first line to carry passengers

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Boris Gudunov (Aleksander Pushkin)

Art: The Leaping Horse (John Constable); General Lafayette (Samuel Morse); The Peaceable

Kingdom (Edward Hicks)

Jacques Louis David d.(b.1748)

Johann Strauss b.(d.1899)

Architecture: Buckingham Palace, London (John Nash)

Faraday isolates benzene

Gurney invents oxygen-hydrogen limelight

PRESIDENT: John Quincy Adams

YEAR: 1826

MARYVILLE HISTORY: 200 acres of farm land south of present courthouse is bought by

seminary for manual labor of students

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Burmese War ended

Russian ultimatum to Turkey over Serbia; Russia declares war on Persia

Pan-American Congress in Panama

Thomas Jefferson d.(b.1743)

John Adams d.(b.1736)

Daniel Webster's speech on deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Berlin streets lit by gas light

First railroad tunnel in England

Yellowstone geysers discovered by trappers

Young Kit Carson (1809-1868) moves to Taos, New Mexico

Jedediah Strong Smith leads first overland journey to Southern California from Great Salt Lake

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore

Cooper); Vivian Grey (Benjamin Disraeli)

Nguan Nguan (1764-1849) edits writings of Confucius

Stephen Foster b.(d. 1864)

Opera: Oberon (Carl Maria von Weber)

Music: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)

Gustav Moreau b.(d. 1898)

Architecture: Cumberland Terrace, London (John Nash)

Andre Ampere: Electrodynamics

Lobachevsky develops system of non-Euclidean geometry

Nobili invents galvanometer

Unverdorben obtains aniline from indigo

YEAR: 1827

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Size of membership at New Providence Presbyterian Church ranks

13th in U.S.

Campbell Wallace purchases General Washington Inn from his father and renames it Village

Hotel

Seminary has enrollment of 44 students

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russia, France and Britain urge Turkey to end war with Greece but

rejected by sultan; Turks enter Athens

By Treaty of London, Allies agree to force truce on sultan; Turk and Egyptian fleets destroyed

by Allies at Battle of Navarino; Sultan Mohammed II rejects right of Allies to mediate in war

Russia defeats Persia; takes Armenia

Jedediah Smith, William L. Sublette, and David E. Jackson dominant in mountain fur trade;

Smith blazes first trail from Southern California north to Columbia River

The Freeman's Journal, first U.S. black newspaper

Baedeker begins publishing travel guides

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Art: Death of Sardanapalus (Delacroix); The Cornfield

(John Constable)

William Blake d.(b.1757)

Theater: Cromwell (Victor Hugo)

Beethoven d.(b.1770)

J. J. Audubon (1785-1851): Birds of North America

Dr. Richard Bright describes Bright's Disease

Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace d.(b.1749)

Joseph Lister b.(d.1912)

Niepce produces photographs on metal plate

George S. Ohm (1787-1854) formulates Ohm's Law

Joseph Ressel (1793-1857) invents ship's screw propeller

Sand filter constructed for purification of London's water supply

Alessandro Volta d.(b.1745)

Wohler obtains metallic aluminum from clay

Herschel invents contact lenses

YEAR:1828

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Samuel Pride opens medical office and 22 years later becomes

first mayor of Maryville

The Berry & Hoffar partnership opens tailor shop offering fine clothing

Henry Lunsford is second person legally hung for crime of murder

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) becomes prime minister of Great

Britain

Russia declares war on Turkey

Uruguay proclaims independence

British law denying Catholics and Non-conformists the right to hold public office is repealed

Tariff of Abominations passed by U.S. Congress, curtailing imports and thus raising prices of

raw materials and manufactured goods

Reciprocity Act allows lower duties on imports from countries that reciprocate

Charles Carroll, richest American of his time, inaugurates construction of Baltimore and Ohio

(B&O) Railroad, first U.S. railroad for general transportation of freight and passengers

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)

Jules Verne b.(d.1905)

Henrik Ibsen b.(d.1906)

Leo Tolstoy b.(d.1910)

Noah Webster: An American Dictionary of the English Language

Gilbert Stuart d.(b. 1755)

Mathematician Niels Abel begins study of elliptic functions

John Franklin publishes account of arctic explorations

Wohlers's synthesis of urea begins organic chemistry

Von Baer founds modern science of embryology

Jean Henri Dunant b.(d.1910), founder of Red Cross

Dutch chocolate-maker Van Houten produces world's first chocolate candy

YEAR: 1829

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Log church building housing New Providence Presbyterian since

about 1793 is replaced by fine stone building at corner of Broadway and Cate Street

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: President Andy Jackson attacks Second Bank of the U.S., controlled by

Nicholas Biddle

End of Russo-Turkish War; Turkey acknowledges independence of Greece from Ottoman

Empire

Romania gains autonomy from Ottoman Empire under Russian occupation; Serbia gains

autonomy with guarantees of religious liberty

Slavery abolished in Mexico

Suttee, Indian custom of immolating a widow along with her dead husband, abolished in British

India

Catholic Emancipation Act allows Roman Catholics in Great Britain to vote, to sit in Parliament,

and to hold office

John Jay d.(b.1745)

Walker's Appeal, pamphlet against slavery

Steam-powered bus appears in London, met with opposition from stagecoach interests

"Siamese twins" Chang and Eng arrive at Boston, then sail for England; will be exhibited by P.T.

Barnum and eventually settle in North Carolina

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Les Chouans (Honore Balzac)

Opera: William Tell (Gioacchino Rossini)

Chopin's debut in Vienna

Concertina patented by Charles Wheatstone

John Henry constructs early version of electromatic motor

James Smithson, British chemist, d.(b. 1765), bequeaths 100,000 pounds to found Smithsonian

Institution, Washington, D.C.

William Booth b.(d. 1912), founder of Salvation Army

Horse-drawn omnibus becomes part of London public transport

First U.S. typewriter patent granted to William B. Burt

First practical sewing machine developed

PRESIDENT: Andrew Jackson

YEAR: 1830

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Daniel Foute obtains charter to build road from Maryville to

Chilhowee via Montvale. Road used for approximately 50 years

Physicians Samuel Pride and John Temple represent Blount County at Medical Society of

Tennessee meeting in Nashville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne debate states' rights doctrine

France captures Algeria

Louis Philippe (1773-1850), a 1797 visitor in Blount County, crowned king of France

Belgium declares independence from the Netherlands

Simon Bolivar, the "Great Liberator" d.(b.1783)

Asiatic cholera spreads through Russia, killing 900,000

Joseph Smith founds religious society of Mormons, or Latter Day Saints

Indian Removal Act provides for general removal of Indians to lands west of the Mississippi

Red Jacket d.(b.1758), American Indian leader

First covered wagon train from Missouri River to Rockies

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Red and the Black (Stendhal); Richelieu

(G.P.R. James)

Emily Dickinson b.(d. 1886)

Art: Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)

Camille Pisarro b.(d. 1903)

Music: Symphonie Fantastique (Hector Berlioz)

Discovery of cell nucleus in plants

Proof of possibility of 37 different kinds of symmetry in crystals

Geological system divided into Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene

Paraffin discovered

Ladies skirts shorter; sleeves enormous; hats extremely large, ornamented with flowers and

ribbons; stiff collars for men

YEAR: 1831

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Knoxville and Southern Railroad chartered. Will eventually serve

Maryville

Three professors required for instruction at Southern & Western Theological Seminary due to

increased enrollment

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: James Abraham Garfield b.(assassinated 1881)

Former president John Quincy Adams becomes Congressman from Massachusetts

Syria conquered by Egyptians

French Foreign Legion created

U.S. copyright law amended: 28 years, renewable for 14 years

Virginia slave revolt led by Nat Turner (1800-1831); 55 whites die; Turner and 16 other slaves

hanged

The Liberator begins publication; advocates emancipation of slaves, who account for nearly one-

third of U.S. population

Population: Great Britain - 13.9 million; America - 12.8 million

Cholera pandemic which started in India in 1826 spreads from Russia into Central Europe

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo);

Poems (Edgar Allen Poe)

Theater: Hero and Leander (Franz Grillparzer); The Gladiator (Robert Montgomery Bird)

Opera: Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)

Sir Francis Smith (1809-1895) writes the words to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," a national

anthem until 1931

Friedrich Hegel d.(b. 1770)

Chloroform invented

Naturalist Charles Darwin sails on H.M.S. Beagle to South America, New Zealand and Australia

Faraday demonstrates electromagnetic induction

Position of magnetic north pole determined

Horse-drawn buses appear in New York

McCormick horse-drawn reaper demonstrated

YEAR: 1832

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville Religious and Literary Intelligencer, edited by Darius

Hoyt, becomes Maryville's first newspaper

Proposed lottery to raise funds for Porter Academy and Maryville Female Academy declared

illegal. All payments refunded

Maryvillians flock to newly opened Montvale Springs Resort Hotel operated by Daniel Foute

Maryville's first woman innkeeper, Jane Owens, assumes management of Village Hotel

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Britain occupies Falkland Islands

Word "socialism" used in England and France

Cholera pandemic reaches Scotland; appears in New York

Democratic-Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party; renominates Andrew Jackson for

2nd term

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) resigns vice-presidency after election to Senate

New England Anti-Slavery Society founded in Boston

Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of Declaration of Independence d.(b. 1737)

Black Hawk War (Illinois-Wisconsin); militia pushes Sac and Fox Indians west across

Mississippi

ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Alhambra (Washington Irving); Lady

of Shalot (Tennyson); Faust, Part II (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Louisa May Alcott b.(d.1888)

Horatio Alger b.(d.1899)

Lewis Carroll b.(d.1898)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe d.(b.1749)

Sir Walter Scott d.(b.1771)

Edouard Manet b.(d.1883)

Ballet: La Sylphide

Minstrel show Jim Crow

First horse-drawn trolleys in New York

Hodgkin's disease, disorder of the lymph glands, first described

YEAR: 1833

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. William Spillman begins publication of Thompsonian Defender, a

paper defending system of medicine advocated by Dr. Samuel Thompson

Second instructional building for Southern & Western Theological Seminary constructed on Lot

Four cabinetmakers supply the furniture needs of Maryvillians

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Benjamin Harrison b.(d.1901)

General Antonio de Santa Ana becomes president of Mexico

Abolition of slavery in British colonies

Beginning of Whig Party in America

President Jackson withdraws government deposits from Bank of U.S.

Alfred Nobel b.(d. 1896)

New York Sun, first successful penny daily, founded

Oberlin College, first in U.S. to adopt coeducation; refuses to bar students on account of race

ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Last Essays of Elia (Charles Lamb);

Pauline (Robert Browning)

Art: Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido (Ando Hiroshige)

Edwin Booth b.(d.1893)

Music: Symphony No. 4 in a major (Mendelssohn); Twelve Etudes (Chopin)

Johannes Brahms b.(d.1897)

Electromagnetic telegraph devised to function over distance of 9,000 feet

Muller: The Handbook of Human Physiology

Wheatstone Bridge (compares electric resistance, inductants, and capacitants) devised. First used

by Wheatstone in 1847

Charles Babbage (1792-1871) invents principle of modern computer

YEAR: 1834

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville population has increased to 600 inhabitants served by three

churches, five stores, two taverns, three blacksmiths, three wagonmakers, and six bricklayers

Seminary has an enrollment of 22 students

Name of Maryville Religious and Literary Intelligencer changed to Millennial Trumpeter

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: General Lafayette, hero of American Revolution d.(b. 1757)

President Jackson censured by Senate for removing deposits from Bank of U.S.

Abraham Lincoln, age 25, enters politics as assemblyman in Illinois legislature

Department of Indian Affairs established to set up Indian Territory west of Mississippi

British Poor Law Amendment Act decrees no able-bodied man shall receive assistance unless he

enters a workhouse

Spanish Inquisition abolished

Hansom cabs introduced in London

Thomas Robert Malthus d.(b.1766)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Last Days of Pompeii (Edward Bulwer-

Lytton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge d.(b.1772)

James Whistler b.(d. 1903)

Edgar Degas b.(d.1917)

Popular song: "Turkey in the Straw"

Fanny Elssler (1810-1884), ballerina, makes sensational debut at Paris opera

Aleksander Borodin b.(d.1887)

Braille system of raised point writing devised

Faraday: "Law of Electrolysis"

Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) patents reaping machine

Phenol (carbolic acid) discovered

Wheatstone measures speed of electric charge in conductor

Walter Hunt constructs first modern sewing machine

YEAR: 1835

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Feldon Augustus Parham begins publication of Intelligencer

newspaper. Maryville now has two printed sources of news

A female Academy is opened and meets in unused room at Theological Seminary

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Second Seminole War (until 1842)

Texas declares its right to secede from Mexico. Sam Houston put in command of Texas army

Gold discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia; Indians forced to cede lands and to cross

Mississippi

Phinneas T. Barnum (1810-1891) begins career with exhibition of Joice Heth, black woman,

alleged to be George Washington's nurse and over 160 years old

James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) publishes four-page penny paper, New York Herald

Alexis de Toqueville: Democracy in America

Andrew Carnegie b.(d.1919)

Marshall Field b.(d.1906)

First passenger railroad on European Continent

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson, first

of his 168 tales for children); Paracelsus (Robert Browning)

Emile Gaboriau, detective fiction writer, b.(d. 1873)

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemons) b.(d. 1910)

Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)

Popular songs: "Long, Long Ago;" "Kathleen Mavoureen"

Halley's Comet reappears

Effort to propel railroad vehicles by electric batteries

Burglar-proof safe patented

Samuel Colt (1814-1865) patents single-barrel pistol and rifle

1,098 miles of railroad in use in America

Earliest negative photograph taken in England

Pepsin, the powerful ferment in gastric juice, recognized

YEAR: 1836

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Justices of the Peace, previously appointed by Legislature, are elected

for first time by citizens

F. A. Parham, newspaper publisher, prints a music book for William Caldwell, Sr.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Davy Crockett killed March 6 at the fall of Alamo (b. 1786)

Texas wins independence from Mexico

General Sam Houston first president of Texas Republic

First white women cross plains and reach Fort Walla Walla on Columbia River

Seminole Indians in Florida under Osceola began attacks protesting forest removal

Arkansas becomes 25th state

Aaron Burr d.(b.1756)

First cricket match played in London

Betsy Ross d.(b.1752)

McGuffey's First and Second Readers published

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens); Mr.

Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): "Nature"

Bret Harte b.(d.1902)

A. D. Julliard b.(d.1919)

James Mill d.(b.1773)

Schopenhauer: On the Will in Nature

Art: Juliet and Her Nurse (J.M.W. Turner)

Winslow Homer b.(d. 1910)

Theater: The Government Inspector (Revizor) (Nikolai Gogol)

Edmond Davey discovers acetylene

Screw propeller is patented

Patent arms manufacturing company formed to manufacture and sell revolvers and rifles

Botanical research into Pleistocene epoch

YEAR: 1837

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On December 16, town of Maryville is incorporated, with 7 aldermen

to be elected each year

Temperance Banner, monthly magazine devoted to cause of Prohibition, published by Rev.

Darius Hoyt

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Michigan becomes 26th state

Grover Cleveland b.(d.1908)

Victoria (1819-1901) becomes queen of Great Britain

Benjamin Disraeli delivers maiden speech in House of Commons

Seminole leader Osceola arrested; Indians defeated at Okeechobee Swamp

Sitting Bull b.(killed 1890)

Wild Bill Hickock b.(killed 1876)

England introduces official birth registration

Gag law passed by U.S. Congress to suppress debate on slavery issue

Economic depression in U.S.; over 800 banks fail, 39,000 Americans go bankrupt, thousands

reduced to starvation

J. Pierpont Morgan b.(d. 1913)

American Presbyterians split into old and new schools

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts is first U.S. college for women

Smallpox epidemic kills 15,000 Indians along Missouri River

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Twice-Told Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, mortally wounded in duel, d.(b. 1799)

Wheatstone and Cooke patent electric telegraph

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) exhibits magnetic telegraph

John Deere builds self-polishing steel plow

Poisson establishes rules of probability

Persian cuneiform inscriptions deciphered

PRESIDENT: Martin Van Buren

YEAR: 1838

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Committee appointed to develop plans for construction of new

courthouse

American Journal of Productive Industry, bi-monthly magazine dedicated to domestic economy

and agriculture, published by Montgomery McTeer

Stagecoaches from Knoxville and Hot Springs, North Carolina arrive and depart Maryville on a

regular schedule

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Osceola d.(b. 1804)

Cherokee Indians deported to Oklahoma, the "Trail of Tears"

Battle of Blood River, Natal: Boers defeat Zulus

Steamers Sirius and Great Western sail from England to New York

Navy statistics: Great Britain, 90 ships; Russia, 50; France, 49; America, 15

"Underground railway" formed by U.S. abolitionists transports slaves to freedom in Canada

New York Herald first U.S. paper to employ European correspondents

Victoria Woodhull b.(d.1927)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens); ; The Lady

of Lyons (Edward Bulwer-Lytton); The Seraphim and Other Poems (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Art: Medea (Delacroix); Christ and the Twelve Apostles (Bertel Thorvaldsen)

Music: Romeo and Juliet (Hector Berlioz)

Jenny Lind makes debut in Stockholm

Popular songs: "Annie Laurie;" "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton"

Henry Hobson Richardson b.(d. 1886)

Schleiden formulates cell theory of physiology

First definite parallax measurement for a fixed star

William Clark d.(b. 1770)

John Muir b.(d. 1914)

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin b.(d. 1917)

YEAR: 1839

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Tax levied on all citizens and businesses to pay for construction of

new courthouse

Blount County court meets in Gillespie Tavern (former General Washington Inn) while new

courthouse is under construction

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: First Opium War between Britain and China

Boers found independent republic of Natal

Abner Doubleday lays out first baseball field and conducts first baseball game ever played,

Cooperstown, New York

Louis Blanc (1811-1882) writes, "To each according to his needs, from each according to his

abilities," promoting his socialist doctrines

George Armstrong Custer b.(d. 1876)

John. D. Rockefeller b.(d. 1937)

Francis Elizabeth Willard b.(d. 1898)

John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) discovers ancient Mayan ruins

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens); "The

Fall of the House of Usher" (Edgar Allan Poe); Voices of the Night (Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow)

Ouida (Louise de la Ramee) b.(d.1908)

R. F. Armand Sully-Prudhomme b.(d.1907)

Paul Cezanne b.(d.1906)

British ships Arabis and Terror to Antarctic commanded by James C. Ross and F. R. M. Crozier

Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) discovers process of vulcanization; makes possible commercial

use of rubber

Schwann develops cell growth theory

Process of electrotyping

Lanthanum discovered

Ozone discovered and named

First electric clock built

First bicycle constructed

YEAR: 1840

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Contract signed with Thomas Crutchfield for construction of new

courthouse

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Germany

Beau Brummel (George Byron Brummel) d.(b.1778)

Father Damien (J. de Veuster) b.(d.1889)

World's Anti-Slavery Convention opens at London, but excludes women

Kew Botanical Gardens open

Transport of criminals from England to Australia ended

Game of ninepins reaches peak popularity in America

Polka introduced in U.S. by Viennese ballet dancer Fanny Elssler, who begins U.S. tour

Operating railroad: U.S., 2,816 miles; England, 1,331 miles

Washington Temperance Society formed

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: The Pathfinder (James Fenimore Cooper); Tales of the

Grotesque and Arabesque (Edgar Allan Poe), "Sordello" (Robert Browning)

Thomas Hardy b.(d.1928)

Emile Zola b.(d.1902)

Art: Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (Delacroix)

Claude Monet b.(d.1926)

Pierre Auguste Renoir b.(d.1919)

Auguste Rodin b.(d.1917)

Nicolo Paganini d.(b.1782)

Adolphe Sax (1814-1894) invents brass saxophone

Debain constructs first harmonium

Publication on movements and effects of glaciers

James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) describes efforts to measure electric current

Exophthalmic toxic goiters (Graves Disease) described

Fundamentals of artificial fertilizer discovered

YEAR: 1841

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Alexander McGhee, prominent Maryville physician, businessman

and minister, dies

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Chinese cede Hong Kong to Britain

William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia one month after inauguration (b. 1773)

John Tyler's Cabinet resigns; Daniel Webster remains Secretary of State

Slaves seize U.S.S. Creole en route from Virginia to Louisiana and sail into Nassau and freedom

Barnum opens American Museum, exhibition of freaks and curios

Travel agent Thomas Cook (1808-1892) arranges first excursion (to temperance meeting in

Leicestershire)

American boxer Tom Hyer becomes first recognized champion

Population (in millions): Great Britain, 18.5; America, 17; Ireland, 7

New York Tribune appears

First university degrees granted to women in America

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. b.(d.1935)

First wagon train bound for Pacific travels through northwestern Montana Territory to Walla

Walla

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens);

The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper); "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Edgar Allan Poe);

"Self-Reliance" and "Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ballet: Giselle

Music: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (Spring) Robert Schumann); Stabat Mater (Rossini)

Anton Dvorak b.(d. 1904)

Dr. James Baird discovers hypnosis

Indigo treated with potassium hydroxide to yield an oil (aniline)

Spermatozoa described

Speed f/3.6 photographic portrait lens produced

PRESIDENT: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

YEAR: 1842

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Southern and Western Theological Seminary is incorporated as

Maryville College

William McTeer constructs College Inn, fine hotel on Main Street

Maryville's third courthouse constructed on Lot 61

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War between Britain and China;

confirms cession of Hong Kong to Britain and opens China to Western exploitation; opium

traffic continues

Webster-Ashburton Treaty (Great Britain/U.S.) defines Canadian frontier; boundary of Oregon

Territory remains in dispute

Boston and Albany connected by railroad

"Tom Thumb" exhibited By P.T. Barnum

John Fiske b.(d.1901)

William James b.(d.1910)

Oregon Trail mapped by John Fremont, guided by Kit Carson; opens settlement of Oregon

Territory and thousands migrate west by wagon train

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol); Poems (Alfred

Tennyson); Ballads and Other Poems (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

American author Washington Irving appointed ambassador to Spain

Opera: Ruslan and Ludmilla (Mikhail Glinka); Nebuchadnazzar (Giuseppe Verdi)

C. J. Doppler (1803-1853): "On the Colored Light of the Binary Stars" (Doppler Effect)

Oscillatory character of electrical discharge discovered

Dr. Crawford W. Long (1815-1878) performs first recorded operation under general anesthesia

Maury begins research in oceanography

Robert von Mayer: "On the Forces of Inanimate Nature" (beginnings of thermodynamics)

John Gorrie pioneers air conditioning and mechanical refrigeration

YEAR: 1843

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Fielding Pope elected president of Porter Academy

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: William McKinley b.(d.1901)

Maori revolts against British in New Zealand

Hawaii gains independence; seeks closer U.S. relations

Andrew Johnson elected to Congress

Jefferson Davis enters politics

Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) reveals shocking conditions in Massachusetts prisons and asylums

S.S. Great Britain, first propeller-driven ship to cross Atlantic

Congress grants S. F. B. Morse $30,000 to build first telegraph line (Washington to Baltimore)

World's first nightclub opens in Paris

Sequoia d.(b. c.1770)

Ulysses S. Grant graduates from West Point.

Noah Webster d.(b.1758)

Snow skiing for sport introduced in Norway

Japanese control population by infanticide

Yellow fever kills 13,000 in Mississippi Valley

John C. Freemont crosses Rocky Mountains to California

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Literature: History of the Conquest of Mexico (W.H.

Prescott); A Christmas Carol (Dickens); "The Pit and the Pendulum" (Poe)

Henry James b.(d.1916)

Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner)

D. D. Emmett (1815-1904) produces first full-scale minstrel show, starring the Virginia

Minstrels

Edward Grieg b.(d. 1907)

Popular songs: "Stop Dat Knockin' at My Door"

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard: Either-Or, introduces existentialism

Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever"

YEAR: 1844

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Yellow fever epidemic sweeps through Maryville. Problem relieved

by tearing out dam on Pistol Creek to drain stagnant water

Drs. James Gillespie, Robert Hodsden and Samuel Pride are appointed directors of Porter

Academy

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. and China sign first treaty of peace, amity and commerce

Texas annexation plan rejected by U.S. Senate

Democrats nominate first "dark horse" presidential candidate, James Knox Polk, who wins the

election

Karl Marx meets Friedrich Engels in Paris

First public bath and wash houses opened in England

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded

Mormon leader Joseph Smith killed by angry mob, succeeded by Brigham Young

Anthony Comstock b.(d. 1915)

Friedrich Nietzsche b.(d. 1900)

ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

Literature: The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas); Coningsby (Benjamin Disraeli); Poems

(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Sarah Bernhardt b.(d. 1923)

Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) b.(d. 1924)

Art: Rain, Steam and Speed (J.M.W. Turner)

Thomas Eakins b.(d. 1916)

Henri Rousseau b.(d. 1844)

Popular songs: "Buffalo Girls (Won't You Come Out Tonight?);" "The Blue Juniata"

Charles Bullfinch d.(b. 1763)

Morse's telegraph used for the first time

Dentist Horace Wells pioneers anesthesiology, using nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") to deaden

pain while extracting his own tooth

Great auk becomes extinct due to over-hunting

YEAR: 1845

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Barbecue held in honor of Sam Houston at old fairgrounds

(intersection of Harper and Aluminum Avenues). Houston en route to Washington to serve as

senator from Texas

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Anglo-Sikh War begins

Elihu Root b.(d. 1937)

Mexico severs relations with U.S. following Senate ratification of treaty to annex Texas

Florida becomes 27th state; Texas becomes 28th state

Andrew Jackson d.(b. 1767)

Richard W. "Deadwood Dick" Clarke b.(d. 1930)

Rules of baseball codified

U.S. Naval Academy opened

Methodist Episcopal Church in U.S. splits over slavery issue

Adventist Church founded by U.S. evangelist William Miller

Friedrich Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England

Potato famine kills 2.5 million in Ireland, Britain and throughout Europe as crops fail

Archaeological excavations begun in Nineveh

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas); Sybil (Disraeli);

The Raven and Other Poems (Poe)

? Mary Cassat b.(d. 1926)

Opera: Tannhauser (Richard Wagner); Leonora (W.H. Fry)

First artistic photo portraits

Hydraulic crane patented

E. B. Bigelow (1814-1879) constructs power loom for manufacturing carpets

Machine patented for combing cotton and wool

First submarine cable laid across English Channel

Compound steam engine developed

PRESIDENT: James Knox Polk

YEAR: 1846

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Samuel T. Cox, practicing physician, is appointed Maryville

Postmaster

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: East India Co. forces defeat Sikhs; end of first Sikh war

Revolt breaks out in Poland; Austria annexes Krakow

U.S.-Mexican negotiations for purchase of New Mexico and California fail; American troops

under command of Gen. Zachary Taylor defeat Mexicans near Rio Grande; war declared; U.S.

annexes New Mexico

Oregon Treaty with Britain establishes U.S.-Canadian border in northwest at 49th parallel

Iowa becomes 29th state

Britain and U.S. both benefit from reduced or suspended duties on imports

Potato famine sweeps Ireland again,; spurs emigration

Daily News, first cheap English newspaper appears; Charles Dickens, editor

John Horseley designs first painted Christmas card

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody b.(d. 1917)

Brigham Young leads Mormons from Nauvoo City, Illinois to the Great Salt Lake Valley

Smithsonian Institution founded

Karl Zeiss founds optical factory

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Typee (Herman Melville); Cousin Bette (Honore de Balzac); Poor

Folk (Dostoevsky); The Haunted Pool (George Sand); A Book of Nonsense (Edward Lear)

Theater: Maria Magdalena (Friedrich Hebbel)

Music: Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn)

Popular song: "Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly"

John Deere constructs plow with steel moldbore

Richard Hoe patents rotary "lightning press"

Elias Howe patents sewing machine

H. von Mohl identifies propyoplasm

W. H. Morton, D.D.S. uses ether as anesthetic

Ascanio Sobrero prepares nitroglycerin

YEAR: 1847

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Capt. Julius Caesar Fagg musters company of Maryville volunteers to

fight war with Mexico

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Liberia proclaimed independent republic

U.S. forces capture Mexico City

Paul von Hindenburg b.(d. 1934)

Sonderbund War in Switzerland

British Factory Act restricts working day of women and 13-18 year children to 10 hours

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Millicent Garrett Fawcett b.(d. 1929)

Immigrants to U.S. from Ireland, the Netherlands (to U.S. Middle West), and China (first

Chinese immigrants begin Chinatown in New York)

First adhesive U.S. postage stamps: Benjamin Franklin, 5 cents; Washington, 10 cents

Jesse James b.(d. 1882)

Donner Party rescued in Sierra Nevada

"Mormon battalion" establishes Santa Fe Trail, wagon road to San Diego

The Mormons found Salt Lake City

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte); Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte);

Children of the New Forest (Frederick Marryat); Evangeline (Longfellow)

Mendelssohn d.(b. 1809)

Popular song: Liebestraum" ("Dreams of Love")

Thomas Alva Edison b.(d. 1931)

Charles McKim b.(d. 1909)

Evaporated milk made

First Swiss railroad opens

Alexander Graham Bell b.(d. 1922)

Meat extract produced

Horticulturist Lewelling plants first fruit orchards in Willamette Valley

YEAR: 1848

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville allowed to extend corporate limits by act of State

Legislature, but no immediate extensions

Maryville Polymathic Society incorporated by State Legislature for period of 500 years;

composed of towns more learned citizens; believed to have been early literary society

New jail constructed on Jail Street (now McCammon Avenue)

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: End of Mexican-U.S. War. By treaty ending Mexican War, U.S. gets

Texas, New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and parts of Colorado and Wyoming

California Gold Rush launched by January 24 discovery at Sutters Mill

Wyatt Earp b.(d. 1929)

Wisconsin becomes 30th state

Second Sikh War begins

Paris students and workers seize city in response to Communist Manifesto, revolution spreads

throughout Europe

First Public Health Act in Britain

First settlers arrive in New Zealand

Belle Starr b.(d. 1889)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton leads first Women's Rights Convention

J. S. Mill: Principles of Political Economy

Spiritualism becomes popular in U.S.

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Vanity Fair (William Thackeray); Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

(Chateaubriand); Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell); The Bigelow Papers (J.R. Lowell)

Art: Ophelia (Millais); The Winnower (Millet)

Paul Gauguin b.(d. 1903)

Popular song: "Oh! Susanna!" (Stephen Foster)

First safety matches

Simon establishes science of epidemiology

First appendectomy by Hancock

Mormon farmers introduce irrigation to U.S. agriculture

YEAR: 1849

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On October 18, brass band leads procession to laying of cornerstone

for new Female Academy, present site of Mcammon-Ammons Funeral Home

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: British defeat Sikhs; Britain annexes Punjab

Disraeli leader of English Conservative Party

Austrian victory at Noverra, Italy; Venice submits to Austria; Peace of Milan ends war

Hungary capitulates to Austria

Parliament abolishes Britain's Navigation Acts, ending restrictions on foreign shipping

Henry David Thoreau: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Bowler hat (derby) introduced by London hatmakers

First prefabricated buildings erected in New York

Who's Who begins publication

Maryland slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins career as "conductor" on the Underground

Railway

7,000 "Forty-Niners" rush to gold fields in California

Railroad construction begins across Isthmus of Panama to facilitate passage to California

David Livingston crosses Kalahari; discovers Lake Ngami

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: David Copperfield (Charles Dickens); The Strayed Reveller

(Matthew Arnold)

Art: Isabella (Millais)

Opera: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Carl Nikolai)

Popular songs: "Nelly Was a Lady;" "Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

John Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Ivan Pavlov b.(d. 1936)

Aletta Jacobs b.(d. 1929)

Luther Burbank b.(d. 1926)

Speed of light measured

Safety pin patented

PRESIDENT: Zachary Taylor

YEAR: 1850

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville census: 513 residents

State Legislature dissolves 1837 incorporation of Maryville and authorizes new incorporation

New incorporation completed; Dr. Samuel Pride elected first mayor of Town of Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Henry Clay's compromise slavery resolution is laid before U.S. Senate

California becomes the 31st state

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty regulates interests of U.S. and Britain in Central America

Chinese Tai Ping Rebellion

Old age insurance in France

Samuel Gompers b.(d. 1924)

Population: U.S., 323 million (3.2 million black slaves)

Levi Strauss introduces "bibless overalls"

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne); Sonnets from the

Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Guy de Maupassant b.(d. 1893)

Robert Louis Stevenson b.(d. 1894)

Art: The Stonebreakers (Courbet); The Sower (Millet)

Opera: Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)

Jenny Lind, "the Swedish nightingale," tours U.S. under management of P.T. Barnum

Popular song: "Camptown Races" (Stephen Foster)

Architecture: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York (James Renwick)

Era of neogothic architectural style

Glycogenic function of liver demonstrated

Bunsen produces gas burner

Clausius formulates Second Law of Thermodynamics and kinetic theory of gases

Isaac Singer invents continuous stitch sewing machine

PRESIDENT: Millard Fillmore

YEAR: 1851

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Board of Aldermen authorizes John S. Craig and Isaac Wear to re-

survey town limits

Dr. Samuel Pride's relocation of residence beyond corporate limits necessitates his resignation as

mayor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Cuba declares independence

Mary Carpenter: Reformatory Schools for Juvenile Offenders

Double decker bus introduced

Gold found in Victoria, New South Wales leads to Australian gold rush

America's Cup, most coveted trophy in world ocean racing, won by U.S. schooner America

Social reformer Amelia Bloomer (1818-1884) begins women's dress reform

New York Times appears

Maine and Illinois begin enforcement of Prohibition

Population (in millions): China, 430; Germany, 34; France, 33; Great Britain, 20.8; U.S., 23

Sioux Indians cede all lands in Iowa to federal government

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe); Moby Dick (Herman

Melville); The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Art: Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Leutze); The Greek Slave (Hiram Powers)

Opera: Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)

Popular song: "Old Folks at Home" (Stephen Foster)

Architecture: Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London (Joseph Paxton)

Louis Daguerre d.(b. 1879)

Ophthalmoscope invented

Law of Electromagnetic Induction

High tension induction coil invented

YEAR: 1852

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On May 13, circus comes to Maryville. Elegant 30-horse chariot is

part of procession. Admission: .50 for adults

Samuel Bicknell elected second mayor to fulfill unexpired term of Dr. Pride; succeeded in 5

months by John Toole

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: South African Republic (Transvaal) established

New French constitution gives president monarchial powers

Louis Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor Napoleon III

Outbreak of second Burmese War

U.S. Whig party begins to dissolve over slavery issue

F. W. Woolworth b.(d. 1919)

U.S. imports sparrows from Germany as defense against caterpillars

Saltwater aquarium in London

World's first true department store opens in Paris

Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Canary b.(d. 1903)

Wells Fargo and Co. founded

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

Peter Mark Roget: Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Art: Christ Washing Peter's Feet (F.M. Brown)

Theater: Masks and Faces (Charles Reade)

Music: Manfred (Robert Shumann)

Dutch army surgeon Mathysen impregnates bandages with plaster

Kerosene distilled from coal tar

Bright tobacco discovered by North Carolina farmers

Otis invents safety elevator, which will lead to development of high-rise buildings

Hydraulic mining begins in California; labor-saving device devastates hillsides

Herbert Spencer: The Development Hypothesis (first use of the word "evolution")

YEAR: 1853

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Aldermen hold meeting to address problem of Irish potatoes rotting

on a town lot and causing a health risk

Much time and money spent on street improvements

William D. McGinley elected 4th Mayor of Maryville

Blount County Advocate founded by W. P. Collins

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Crimean War (Russia v. Turkey) begins

Cecil John Rhodes b.(d. 1902)

Gadsden Purchase treaty between U.S. and Mexico

First international statistical congress

First railroad through Alps

Queen Victoria allows chloroform during birth of her 7th child

Compulsory smallpox vaccination in Britain

World's largest tree discovered in California

Less than 50% of Americans engaged in agriculture, down from 83% in 1820

First U.S. world's fair opens in New York

World's first hotel with private baths opens in New Jersey

Potato chips invented

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Tanglewood Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Vincent van Gogh b.(d. 1890)

Opera: Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) and La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)

Henry Steinway (1797-1871) begins piano manufacturing

Popular song: "My Old Kentucky Home" (Stephen Foster)

Samuel Colt revolutionizes manufacture of small arms

Alexander Wood uses hypodermic syringe for subcutaneous injections

PRESIDENT: Franklin Pierce

YEAR: 1854

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Responding to cholera scare, Board of Aldermen orders 130 bushels

of lime purchased and distributed over town

Board of Aldermen appoint delegation of 10 men to attend Commercial Convention in

Charleston

On May 30, Andrew McClain elected mayor. On July 5, mayor and 2 aldermen resign for

unexplained reasons. Julius Fagg then appointed as 6th mayor of Maryville

East Tennessean begins publication under editorial direction of J. Z. Swan

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Britain and France enter Crimean War as Turkish allies and win victory

at Balaclava

Commodore M. C. Perry negotiates first American-Japanese treaty; Japanese ports opened to

U.S. trade

Republican Party organized in U.S. by former Whigs and disaffected Democrats

Wakarusa Indian War (War of Bleeding Kansas)

Yakima Indian War (Washington)

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) organizes barracks hospital during Crimean War: introduces

sanitary measures which reduce toll of cholera, dysentery and typhus

John Philip Sousa b.(d. 1932)

Henri Poincare b.(d. 1912)

George Eastman b.(d. 1932)

Pope Pious XI declares dogma of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be an

article of faith; implies "papal infallibility"

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Walden (Henry David Thoreau); Westward Ho! (Charles

Kingsley); "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Alfred Tennyson)

Art: The Reaper (Millet); Monsieur Courbet (Courbet)

Music: The Infant Christ (Hector Berlioz); Les Preludes (Franz Liszt)

Engelbert Humperdinck b.(d. 1921)

Popular song: "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster)

Laryngoscope invented

Goebel invents first form of electric lightbulb

YEAR: 1855

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Corporate limits extended easterly to present day Washington Street

On September 6, I. N. Hare elected mayor by Board of Aldermen

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russians capitulate; Allies enter Sevastopol

First iron Cunard steamer crosses Atlantic (9-1/2 days)

The Daily Telegraph founded in London

Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) granted concession by France to construct Suez Canal

London modernizes its sewer system following new cholera outbreak

Andrew Mellon b.(d. 1937)

Paris World's Fair hails French technology

Herbert Spencer: Principles of Psychology

David Livingston discovers Victoria Falls on Zambezi River

Sault St. Marie Canal opens to make Great Lakes a huge inland waterway navigable by large

ships

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Age of Fable (Thomas Bullfinch); The Warden (Anthony

Trollope); Men and Women (Robert Browning); Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman); "Song of

Hiawatha" (Longfellow)

Art: The Studio of the Painter (Courbet)

Opera: The Sicilian Vespers (Hector Berlioz)

Popular songs: "Listen to the Mockingbird;" "Star of the Evening;" "Come Where My Love Lies

Dreaming"

Patent for production of rayon

Printing telegraph invented

Tungsten steel developed

Turret lathe constructed

Celluloid patented

Percival Lowell b.(d. 1916)

Matthew Maury: Physical Geography of the Sea

YEAR: 1856

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Review shows certain ordinances passed in 1850 were enacted "to

deter the country people from visiting town", and should be abolished

On May 20, William Cummings elected 8th mayor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Queen Victoria institutes Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military

decoration

Crimean War ends; Christian rights guaranteed in Ottoman Empire

Anglo-Chinese War begins; British fleet bombards Canton

Outbreak of Anglo-Persian War

Woodrow Wilson b.(d. 1924)

Massacre of Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, led by John Brown

First railroad to span Mississippi River opens

Black Forest Railroad with 40 tunnels opens

Cigarettes introduced from Russia to London; first British cigarette factory opens

Longest bare-knuckle boxing fight in history: James Kelly v. Jack Smith, 186 rounds, 6 hours, 15

minutes.

Neanderthal skull found in cave near Dusseldorf

Casting of Big Ben (13.5 ton bell)

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Madame Bovary (Gustav Flaubert)

U.S. playwrights get first legal copyright protection

George Bernard Shaw b.(d. 1950)

Oscar Wilde b.(d. 1900)

Popular songs: "Darling Nelly Gray;" "Gentle Annie"

Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) introduces converter in steel-making process

Pure cocaine extract from cocoa beans

Sigmund Freud b.(d. 1939)

Preparation of first aniline dye

First ductile steel for boilerplating

Ether compressor allows mechanical ice-making

YEAR: 1857

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Isaac Anderson, founder of Maryville College and pastor of

New Providence Presbyterian Church d.(b. ).

On May 14, no votes cast in regular election for aldermen; existing board continued to act;

elected James Houston mayor. A month later it was discovered that town constable had failed to

hold election as directed. Election held and current office holders reelected. However, Houston

replaced by William McGinley as 10th mayor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Indian mutiny against British rule

Royal Navy destroys Chinese fleet; Britain and France take Canton

William Howard Taft b.(d. 1930)

Czar Alexander II begins emancipation of serfs in Russia

Dred Scott Decision

Loss of steamship S.S. Central America, carrying 3 tons of gold from California contributes to

financial panic in New York; severe depression follows in which nearly 5,000 businesses fail

Tuberculosis leading cause of death in U.S. cities

E.G. Otis installs first commercial passenger elevator

Transatlantic cable laid

California grape and wine industries begin production

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens); Romany Rye (George Borrow); The

Virginians (Thackeray)

First Currier and Ives prints issued

Music: A Faust Symphony (Franz Liszt)

Hans von Bulow marries Cosima Liszt

Popular song: "Jingle Bells"

Architecture: Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire (Joseph Paxton), pioneers use of large plate-

glass windows

Frederick Law Olmsted appointed superintendent of construction of new Central Park in New

York

"Pneumatic" steelmaking process patented

Pasteur proves fermentation caused by living organisms

PRESIDENT: James Buchanan

YEAR: 1858

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Ordinance passed prohibiting running or galloping horses over town

bridges as it was "an injury to the bridges". Penalty is fine of 50 cents; slaves committing same

offense subject to 10 lashes

On June 8, William McGinley re-elected mayor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Minnesota becomes 32nd state

Theodore Roosevelt b.(d. 1919)

Anglo-Chinese War ended

Suez Canal Co. formed

National Association of Baseball Players organized

New York's Central Park opens to the public

Lighthouse lit by electricity

The Blessed Virgin Mary reputed to have appeared at Lourdes

Lionel de Rothschild, first Jewish member of British Parliament

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Gold strike at Pike's Peak in Colorado Rockies

English dressmaker opens first house of haute couture in Paris

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Defence of Guenevere (William Morris)

Art: Derby Day (William P. Frith)

Opera: Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach); introduces a new dance, the cancan

First public concert of New York Symphony Orchestra

Popular songs: "The Yellow Rose of Texas;" "The Old Grey Mare"

T. H. Huxley: The Theory of the Vertebrate Skulls

Henry Gray: Anatomy of the Human Body

Joseph Lister studies coagulation of blood

Mirror galvonometer invented

First mechanical refrigerator uses liquid ammonia

Mason jar patented

YEAR: 1859

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Town well, located on Main Street (now Broadway), ordered capped

off in interest of public safety

William McGinley re-elected to 4th and final term as mayor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Oregon becomes 33rd state

Work begins on Suez Canal between Mediterranean and Red seas

Abolitionist John Brown and 21 men seize U.S. armory at Harper's Ferry; Brown hanged for

treason

Comstock Lode, vast deposit of silver and gold, discovered in Washoe, Nevada

First intercollegiate baseball game (26 innings)

Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope

Leotard performs first flying trapeze circus act, using mattresses to cushion possible falls

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens); Adam Bede (George Eliot);

Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov); The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald)

Art: At the Piano (James Whistler)

Opera: Faust (Charles Gounod)

Charles Gounod composes "Ave Maria"

Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904) composes "Dixie".

Steinway Piano developed

Architecture: Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville (William Strickland)

Charles Darwin: On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection; creates uproar by

contradicting fundamentalist religious beliefs

Experiments begun with spectrum analysis

Louis Pasteur disproves theory of spontaneous generation

First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania

First practical electric storage battery

Steam roller invented

Cocaine isolated from coca leaves

YEAR: 1860

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Three gristmills operate along banks of Pistol Creek

Frank Henry elected to represent Blount County and Maryville at first State Secession

Convention. Blount County votes against secession

Recommendation is made by Board of Aldermen to begin macadamizing (paving) all streets

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Garibaldi and 1,000 Red Shirts take Palermo and Naples; proclaim

Victor Immanuel King of Italy

Initiation of Pony Express (10-1/2 day service from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento,

CA/stagecoach time - 23 days)

Cochise and Chiricahua Apache on warpath in southern Arizona

Lincoln elected President; South Carolina secedes in protest

Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee) b.(d. 1926)

Food and Drugs Act enacted in Britain

British Open Golf Championship started

First world heavyweight boxing championship bout pits John Heenan against Tom Sayers (42

rounds)

Primitive typewriter devised

First horse-drawn tram

Seventh Day Adventist Church founded

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody opens first U.S. English-speaking kindergarten

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Woman in White (William Wilkie Collins); On the Eve (Ivan

Turgenev)

Art: The Guitarist (Edouard Manet)

Popular song: "Old Black Joe" (Stephen Foster)

Cesium and rubidium are discovered

Winchester repeating rifle produced

Lenoir constructs first practical internal combustion engine

Cork linoleum invented

YEAR: 1861

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On April 22, Dr. John Joseph Robinson, Maryville College president,

closes the college due to "armed hostilities"

Maryville population declines as young men eagerly rush to join federal army or new

Confederate Army. Town divided on question of secession

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Kansas becomes the 34th state

Confederate States of America formed (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida

and Louisiana)

Outbreak of Civil War April 12 as Confederates take Fort Sumter at Charleston; Confederate

victory at Bull Run

Congress levies first U.S. income tax to raise funds for Union Army and Navy

King of Naples surrenders to Garibaldi; united Kingdom of Italy proclaimed

Daily weather forecasts begun in Great Britain

Krupp begins arms production in Germany

U. S. introduces passport system

William Wrigley b.(d. 1932)

Population (in millions): Russia, 76; U.S., 32; Great Britain, 23; Italy, 25

ART., SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Great Expectations (Charles Dickens); Silas Marner (George

Eliot); The House of the Dead (Dostoevsky)

Music: Mephisto Waltz (Franz Liszt); Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (Johannes Brahms)

Popular songs: "Aura Lee"

Archeopteryx (skeletal reptile-bird link) discovered

Velocipede, first true bicycle, developed

Otis patents steam-powered elevator

Thallium discovered

Pasteur uses heat to sterilize milk

Louis Pasteur: "Germ Theory of Fermentation"

PRESIDENT: Abraham Lincoln

YEAR: 1862

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Samuel Pride, former mayor, travels to Virginia for Maryville

and Blount County to obtain highly prized salt, scarce as a result of war

W. Y. C. Hannum elected captain in 48th Tennessee Infantry serving under Thomas "Stonewall"

Jackson

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Union forces capture Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Jacksonville, and New

Orleans, but are defeated at Second Battle of Bull Run and Fredricksburg

Emancipation Proclamation

Homestead Act

Land Grant Act provides funds to start U.S. colleges

Jean Henri Dunant proposes foundation of Red Cross

James Bryce: The Holy Roman Empire

Herbert Spencer: First Principles

Congress prohibits distillation of alcohol without a license, but "moonshiners" continue to make

whiskey

World's largest department store erected in New York

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Les Miserables (Victor Hugo); Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

Theater: East Lynne, or The Elopement (Ellen Price Wood)

Sarah Bernhardt debuts

Opera: La Forza del Destino (Giuseppe Verdi)

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" written

Popular songs: "The Bonnie Blue Flag" (becomes Confederacy's national anthem)

"Taps" is composed, bugle call to be played at lights out and at funerals

Lion Foucault (1819-1868) successfully measures the speed of light

ER. J. Gatling (1818-1903) constructs 10-barrel gun

Lamont discovers earth currents

Production of starch by photosynthesis demonstrated by Sachs

Open hearth steel furnace developed

YEAR: 1863

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On February 23, aldermen suspend all operations of town and turn

over all authority to Blount County court

In September, regiment from Woolford's Kentucky cavalry becomes first Federal troops ordered

into Maryville; followed in November by Confederate troops of Gen. Joe Wheeler

Former mayor Samuel Pride travels to Macon, Georgia to treat wounded Confederates after

Battle of Chickamauga, contracts fever and dies on October 25

On December 5, large Union force under command of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

occupies Maryville en route to relieve Gen. Ambrose Burnside at Knoxville. Gen. Sherman's

headquarters were in Pride Mansion, present location of Maryville Municipal Building

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: West Virginia becomes 35th state

Confederate victory at Chancellorsville; defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg; surrender at Fort

Hudson; further defeat at Chattanooga; victory at Chickamauga

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Draft riots in Northern cities to protest money payments in place of service; 1,200 killed in New

York City riot

President Lincoln proclaims first national Thanksgiving Day

U.S. Congress establishes free city mail delivery

Kit Carson and federal troops resettle Navajo and Apache Indians on reservation at For Sumner,

New Mexico

Beginning of construction of London subway

Roller skating introduced in America

First major U.S. racetrack opens at Saratoga Springs

First stolen base in baseball

Joe Coburn wins American boxing championship in 63-round match

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: "The Man Without a Country" (Edward Everett Hale)

Art: Olympia (Manet); The White Girl (Whistler)

Popular songs: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home;" "Clementine;" "The Battle Cry of

Freedom"

Development of first paper dress patterns

YEAR: 1864

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Much of Maryville destroyed by fire set by Confederates attempting

to dislodge Federal soldiers barricaded in courthouse. Federal soldiers surrender to cannon fire

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Gen. Halleck as commander-in-chief of

Union armies

Gen. Sherman marches through Georgia, occupies Savannah

Confederate agents set Barnum Museum and Astor House afire in attempt to burn New York

City

Adm. Farragut, at Mobile Bay, says, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

Kit Carson defeats Kiowa and Comanche at Adobe Walls, Texas

Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapahoe at Sand Creek, Colorado

Nevada becomes 36th state

Geneva Convention establishes neutrality of battlefield medical facilities

Europeans immigrate to U.S. in record numbers to take up free land under the Homestead Act

and fill factory jobs vacated by Union draftees

Knights of Pythias founded

"In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. coins

First salmon cannery on west coast

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Crown Pretenders (Henrik Ibsen)

Popular songs: "Beautiful Dreamer;" "Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"

George Perkins Marsh: Man and Nature

Joseph Bertrand: "Treatise on Differential and Integral Calculus"

Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization for wine

Pullman patents railway sleeping car

First barbiturate drug synthesized

YEAR: 1865

MARYVILLE HISTORY: By end or war, most businesses and public buildings in Maryville are

destroyed

Many pro-Southern families move from Maryville to Middle Tennessee and other points in the

South to escape animosity of Populists loyal to the Union

Capt. James M. Greer opens dry goods store on Main Street, first new business to open after

close of war and spark for others to rebuild and return the area to prosperity

A referendum results in tax levied on establishments selling "spirituous liquors." Taxes are

designated for funding of common schools

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: End of Civil War: Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox on April 9

On April 14, Abraham Lincoln assassinated

Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution abolishes slavery

Warren G. Harding b.(d. 1923)

Wartime inflation; Confederate money becomes worthless

William Booth organizes Christian Revival Association (the Salvation Army) in London mission

Ku Klux Klan founded at Pulaski, Tennessee

First train holdup at North Bend, Ohio

1,600 die in explosion of Sultana on Mississippi River

Stetson "10-gallon" hat created by Philadelphia hat maker

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll [C. L. Dodgson]);

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Mary Dodge); "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras

County" (Mark Twain); Drum Taps (Walt Whitman)

Opera: Tristan and Isolde (Richard Wagner)

Architecture: The Capitol, Washington completed (Thomas U. Walter)

Lister initiates antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid on compound wound

Ice machine invented

Gregor Mendel enunciates Law of Heredity

PRESIDENT: Andrew Johnson

YEAR: 1866

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On September 5, Maryville College reopens under leadership of Rev.

Thomas J. Lamar, enrollment: 13 students

Smallpox epidemic rages in Maryville. In effort to combat disease, a "pest house" is set up at

edge of town

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Italy declares war on Austria; Austrians destroy Italian fleet at Lissa;

Treaty of Vienna ends Austrian-Italian War

U.S. demands removal of French forces from Mexico

Congress passes Civil Rights Act to secure all rights of citizenship for former slaves

Reconstruction begins in the South

Postwar economic depression in U.S.

National Labor Union formed

First home for destitute children in London

First cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (ASPCA) founded

Indian Wars in Montana; Fetterman Massacre

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy); Crime and Punishment

(Dostoevsky); "O Captain! My Captain!" (walt Whitman)

Art: Camille (Monet)

Theater: Brand (Henrik Ibsen)

First true Broadway musical, The Black Crook, includes a cast of 100 dancing girls in pink

tights; denounced by clergymen

Opera: La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)

Popular songs: "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"

Ernst Haeckel: General Morphology

Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

Robert Whitehead invents underwater torpedo

Crude internal combustion engine patented

YEAR: 1867

MARYVILLE HISTORY: W. B. Scott and son, founders of first newspaper published by blacks

in Tennessee, move their press to Maryville and begin publication of Maryville Republican

Local blacks and Friends begin operation of school in log building at site of current AME Zion

Church in effort to educate freed blacks

Four women enroll for instruction at Maryville College, establishing coeducational opportunities

for all citizens

SOCIAL/POLITICAL Nebraska becomes the 37th state

France withdraws support and troops from Maximilian in Mexico; Maximilian executed

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Russia sells Alaska to U.S. for $7.2 million

The Grange founded in upper Mississippi Valley as educational and social organization

Indian Wars continue in Kansas and Montana

Gold discovered in Wyoming

First U.S. elevated railway begins operation in New York

Alpine railroad completed through Brenner Pass

Baseball's curve pitch invented

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Under Two Flags (Ouida); Ragged Dick (Horatio Alger)

Reclams Universal Bibliothek pioneers paperback books

Art: Rape (Paul Cezanne); The Execution of Maximilian (Manet)

Theater: Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen)

Music: "The Blue Danube Waltz" (Johann Strauss)

Popular songs: "Little Brown Jug"

Naturalist John Muir begins 1,000-mile walk through Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida

Reinforced concrete process is patented

Formaldehyde discovered

Barbed wire patented

Discovery of South African diamond field

YEAR: 1868

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Through strong efforts of Union League, four black men elected to 7-

man Maryville Board of Aldermen

Knoxville and Charleston Railroad comes to Maryville, increasing opportunities for commerce

and bringing new influence to the town

Freedman's Bureau gives Maryville College grant of $3,000, first federal grant ever received in

Maryville

Maryville Republican endorses Gen. U.S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax for president and Vice

president of the U.S.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: President Andrew Johnson impeached but acquitted by Senate

Congress authorizes readmission of 7 Confederate states on condition of retention of black

suffrage

14th Amendment ratified; prohibits voting discrimination, denies government office to certain

Civil War rebels, and repudiates Confederate war debts

Americans observe first Memorial Day to commemorate Union dead of the Civil War

Disraeli resigns; William E. Gladstone becomes Prime Minister of Britain

Navajo reservation established in Four Corners region

P. D. Armour opens meat packing factory in Chicago

The Cincinnati Red Stockings founded, first professional baseball club; introduce baseball

uniforms

Badminton invented in England

World Almanac published

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)

Music: Symphony No. 1 in G minor (Tchaikovsky); Tales of the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss);

Piano Concerto in A minor (Edward Grieg)

Brahms Lullaby published

Popular songs: "Sweet By and By"

Tungsten steel invented

Cro-Magnon skeleton (38,000 B.C.) found in France

YEAR: 1869

MARYVILLE HISTORY: W. B. Scott, local newspaper publisher, becomes Maryville's first

black mayor

Dr. Peter Bartlett becomes new president of Maryville College

Soldier's Gazette newspaper begins publication with M. Lamar McConnell as publisher

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Suez Canal opened

Trans-continental railroad completed; golden spike driven at Promontory, Utah

New York's "Boss Tweed" caricatured in Harper's Weekly by cartoonist Thomas Nash

British abolishes debtors' prisons

Buffalo Bill fights Cheyenne at Summit Springs

First postcards introduced in Austria

Princeton and Rutgers originate inter-collegiate football

First "Black Friday" on Wall Street

Henry Morton Stanley commissioned to lead African expedition to locate Scottish missionary

David Livingstone

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Idiot (Dostoevsky); Phineas Finn (Anthony Trollope); Lorna

Doone (R.D. Blackmore); Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain); "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (Bret

Harte); Little Women (Louisa May Alcott); The Ring and the Book (Robert Browning)

Ballet: Don Quixote (Marius Petipa)

Popular songs: "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me"

Abbe Cleveland, first U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist, inaugurates daily weather bulletins

Celluloid invented

Mendeleyev formulates periodic law for classification of elements

PRESIDENT: Ulysses Simpson Grant

YEAR: 1870

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Anderson Hall, focal point of Maryville College campus, is

completed and named in honor of Isaac Anderson, the college founder

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Franco-Prussian War: Napoleon III capitulates; Prussians begin seige of

Paris

Spain's Isabella II abdicates

First black U.S. legislators

Ratification of 15th Amendment guarantees blacks' right to vote

Cartoonist Nast creates donkey symbol to identify the Democratic Party in the U.S.

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) founds Standard Oil Co.

First Vatican Council promulgates papal infallibility

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Lothair (Disraeli); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules

Verne)

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art chartered

Ballet: Coppelia (Leo Delibes)

Opera: Die Walkure (Richard Wagner)

T. H. Huxley: Theory of Biogenesis

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev: The Principles of Chemistry

DNA discovered

Schliemann begins archaeological excavations of Troy

Interior of Greenland explored

YEAR: 1871

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First Baptist Church of Maryville and Maryville Presbyterian Church

both organized

Maryville College graduating class of 1871 consists of 5 males

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: United German Empire proclaimed; Second Reich inaugurated with

Wilhelm I of Prussia, emperor and Count von Bismarck, first chancellor

Labor unions legalized in Britain

Britain annexes Kimberly diamond fields

Bank holidays introduced in England

P. T. Barnum opens circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth"

National Rifle Association founded

The Great Fire of Chicago

Stanley meets Livingstone at Ujiji

Population (in millions): Germany, 41; U.S., 39; France, 36; Japan 33; Great Britain, 26; Ireland,

55.4; Italy, 26.8

Mormon leader Brigham Young arrested on charges of polygamy

Jehovah's Witnesses founded

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Opera: Aida (Giuseppe Verdi)

Popular songs: "Chopsticks"

First U.S. paleontologist, O.C. Marsh, identifies prehistoric pterodactyl skeleton

Ingersoll invents pneumatic rock drill

Hansen discovers leprosy bacillus

YEAR: 1872

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville Monitor printed "in the interest of the freed man's

education and religion"

Maryville Friends meetinghouse, now St. Andrews Episcopal Church, is completed

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Ballot Act in Britain, voting by secret ballot

Germany expels Jesuits

Compulsory military service introduced in Japan

Radical Republicans renominate President Grant despite the corruption of his administration;

Grant reelected

Congress passes law guaranteeing equal pay for equal work for federal employees after lobbying

by feminist Belva Lockwood

Susan B. Anthony and other women's rights advocates arrested for trying to vote in presidential

election

Congress ends federal income tax imposed during Civil War

Amnesty Act restores civil rights to South, except for 500 Confederate leaders

5th Cavalry attacks Tonto Apache at Salt River Canyon

Jesse James gang robs its first passenger train

Calvin Coolidge b.(d. 1933)

Brooklyn Bridge opens

First international soccer game

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Middlemarch (George Eliot); Under the Greenwood Tree (Thomas

Hardy); Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

Art: The Artist's Mother (James McNeill Whistler); La Foyer de la Danse (Edgar Degas)

Sarah Bernhardt begins career with the Comedie-Francaise at Paris

First gum to be made from chicle and sold in stick form

Machine patented to make flat-bottomed paper bags

Machine invented for ships to takes accurate soundings at sea

George Westinghouse perfects automatic railroad air brake

System of automatic electric railroad signals patented

YEAR: 1873

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Freedmen's Institute constructed at current site of Maryville High

School with financial help of New England Friends. School to provide training for black men

and women to become teachers

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Financial panic in Vienna in May spreads across Europe; European

investors withdraw capital from U.S.; Black Friday in New York in September as banks fail;

Depression will last 5 years

Abolition of slave markets in Zanzibar

Hungarian cities of Buda and Pest unite to form capital

Evidence of corruption in Grant's administration emerges

"Boss" William Tweed convicted of stealing New York public funds

Treasury Department formed; assumes all mint activities

Mark adopted as unit of German currency

Canadian "Mounties" established to stop trade in liquor and arms with Indians

World's first streetcar in service in San Francisco

Bellevue Hospital starts first school of nursing

Modoc Indian leaders captured and hanged in Oregon

American football clubs adopt uniform rules

Introduction of lawn tennis as a game

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Gilded Age; (Mark Twain); Around the World in Eighty Days

(Jules Verne)

Art: Oarsman on the Schuylkil (Thomas Eakins); The Straw Hat and The House of the Hanged

Man (Cezanne)

Opera: Ivan the Terrible (Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov)

Music: Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Camille Saint-Saens); The Tempest (Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky)

Popular songs: "Home on the Range"

Color photographs first developed

E. Remington Gunsmith Firm begins production of typewriter

Machines to produce barbed wire developed

DDT prepared

YEAR: 1874

MARYVILLE HISTORY: J. T. Hanna and W. M. Watkins begin operation of Maryville woolen

mills on Pistol Creek; mill remains in business until 1901, providing jobs for many residents

Maryville College tuition: $20.00 per term

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Disraeli becomes Prime Minister, England

Herbert Hoover b.(d. 1964)

Winston Churchill b.(d. 1965)

Race riots at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Silver discovered at Oro City (Leadville), Colorado

First bridge to span the Mississippi at St. Louis, "Eads Folly," opens to traffic

Bat Masterson and Buffalo hunters repel Comanches at Adobe Walls

First American zoo established in Philadelphia

Tennis introduced from Bermuda to U.S. by Mary Outerbridge

First real football game at Boston

Ice cream soda invented

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom (Josh Billings); Far From the

Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)

Art: Impression: Sunrise (Claude Monet)

First Impressionist exhibition, Paris includes works by Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Pisarro

and Renoir

Opera: Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss)

Music: Requiem (Verdi)

New York's Madison Square Garden opened by P.T. Barnum

Billroth discovers streptococci and staphylococci

Hansen discovers leprosy bacillus

Pressure cooking methods introduced for canning foods

YEAR: 1875

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Kennedy Mill on Little River which provided gunpowder to Andy

Jackson army for Battle of New Orleans is washed away by flood

Mary T. Wilson receives Bachelor of Arts degree at Maryville College, first B.A. degree

awarded to a female in Tennessee

H.L. McNutt becomes first county tax assessor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Risings in Bosnia and Herzegovina against Turkish rule

Disraeli purchases shares to gain British control of strategic Suez Canal

President Grant opens Oregon Territory to white settlement

Civil Rights Act giving equal rights to blacks in public accommodations and jury duty

Tennessee enacts first "Jim Crow" law

Wyatt Earp becomes Wichita, Kansas policeman

Judge Isaac Charles Parker assumes duties at Ft. Smith, Arkansas

First Kentucky Derby

First roller skating rink opens in London

First swim across English Channel completed

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Art: Boating at Argenteuil (Monet); The Agnew Clinic (Thomas Eakins)

Great Chac-Mool reclining limestone figure from Maya-Toltec civilization discovered at

Chichen-Itza in Yucatan

Opera: Carmen (Georges Bizet); Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Alexander Graham Bell pioneers electric telephone

First milk chocolate for eating invented by Nestle

Electric dental drill patented

Practice of osteopathy founded

Gallium discovered

London Medical School for Women founded

YEAR: 1876

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Limited financially, First Baptist Church and Maryville Presbyterian

Church sign agreement whereby the Baptists will provide church building and Presbyterians will

furnish it; arrangement last for two years

"Reckless Baseball Club" of Maryville College is formed, beginning a tradition of organized

collegiate sports

Jesse Richardson opens photographic studio in Austen Hotel

Levied dog tax (males - $1.00, females - $5.00) proved unsatisfactory when citizens claim their

dogs have died

Independent and Indicator newspapers appear briefly in Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Samuel J. Tildon receives 184 electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes'

165 votes; 22 electoral votes in dispute

Japan recognizes Korean independence from China

Colorado becomes 38th state

Sioux Indian Wars; Col. George A. Custer and 264 soldiers killed in Battle of Little Big Horn at

hands of Sitting Bull

Chiricahua Apaches moved to reservation; Geronimo begins 10-year reign of terror against white

settlers in the Southwest

Race wars in South Carolina result in massacre of black militiamen

First tennis tournament in U.S.

National Baseball league founded

World Exhibition at Philadelphia

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)

Art: The Spirit of '76 (Archibald Willard); Breezing Up (Winslow Homer)

Music: Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Johannes Brahms)

Popular songs: "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"

Player piano demonstrated

Dewey decimal system originated

Robert Koch discovers anthrax bacillus

J. J. R. Macleod discovers insulin

Schliemann excavates Mycenea

YEAR: 1877

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Reunion of former Federal and Confederate soldiers held September

12 in Maryville; all parties "well behaved" and no disturbances are recorded

Blount County Standard established; lasts only a few issues

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Congressionally appointed electoral commission decides election for

Hayes (Republican)

Hayes orders Federal troops to quell railroad strike

Hanging of 11 leaders for murder breaks up "Molly McGuires" (Irish-American terrorists) in

Scranton, Pennsylvania

U.S. railroads announce wage cuts; worker strikes shut down service for a week; strike ended by

federal troops

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce tribespeople surrender to U.S. troops; "I will fight no more forever"

First Wimbledon tournament

First public telephones

First low-rent U.S. housing "project" in New York

Frozen meats shipped from Argentina to Europe

Kellogg introduces granula, a cold cereal breakfast food

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy); The American (Henry James); Black

Beauty (Anna Sewell)

Art: The Cotton Pickers (Winslow Homer); Age of Bronze (Rodin)

Ballet: Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

Cakewalk introduced in U.S. minstrel shows

Opera: Samson and Delilah (Camille Saint-Saens)

Popular songs: "In the Gloaming"

Oxygen, nitrogen and other gases liquified

Edison invents hand-cranked phonograph

Pfeffer discovers osmosis

Koch develops technique whereby bacteria are stained and identified

PRESIDENT: Rutherford Birchard Hayes

YEAR: 1878

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Several newspapers, including Maryville Index and Blount County

Democrat appear in Maryville

Maryville Friends Normal and Preparatory School moves to former home of Mayor Samuel

Pride, affording more space for increased enrollment

Blount County Medical Society organized in office of Dr. Ben A. Morton

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Economic depression continues in U.S.; nearly 10,500 businesses fail

Bat Masterson becomes U.S. marshal

President Hayes begins annual Easter-egg roll on White House lawn

First commercial telephone exchange; first directory

New Scotland Yard established

Electric street lighting introduced in London

First European crematorium established

Jehovah's Witnesses has its beginning in Pittsburgh

Tiffany Diamond from South Africa is largest and finest yellow diamond ever discovered

Drought in Asia kills at least 10 million Chinese

Yellow fever epidemic kills 14,000 along Gulf Coast and in Tennessee

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)

Art: Mme. Charpentier and Her Children (Pierre Auguste Renoir); Sierra Nevada (Albert

Bierstadt)

Opera: H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Popular songs: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"

Thomas Edison devises method to cheaply produce and transmit electrical currents

David Hughes invents microphone

Repeater rifle produced

First bicycles manufactured in America

German builds motorized tricycle (speed: 7 mph)

YEAR: 1879

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Citizens petition State General Assembly to dissolve town

corporation to regain control of sale of liquor; petition granted March 24; Maryville

unincorporated

On February 8, fire destroys third Blount County courthouse located on present site of First

Tennessee Bank

Name of Knoxville and Charleston Railroad changed to Knoxville and Augusta

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: British-Zulu War: Zulus massacre British soldiers

War of the Pacific between Chile and Bolivia

Anti-Jesuit laws introduced in France

Exodus of Southern blacks to Kansas

Last stand of Cheyenne in Nebraska

Buffalo hunters kill last of Southern bison herd

F. W. Woolworth opens first 5 & 10 store

Australian frozen meat on sale in London

Leadville, Colorado becomes world's largest silver camp

Mary Baker Eddy becomes pastor of Church of Christian Scientists, Boston

Herbert Spencer: Principles of Ethics

Collapse of Tay Bridge, Scotland

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Egoist (George Meredith); Daisy Miller (Henry James); "The

Tar Baby" (Uncle Remus)

Theater: A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)

Opera: The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Architecture: Frederick Law Olmsted completes Boston park system

Pavlov shows concept of acquired, or conditioned, reflex with studies on dogs

Edison demonstrates incandescent bulb

First electric tram exhibited at Berlin Trade Exhibition

Saccharin discovered

Scandium discovered

YEAR: 1880

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First locally chartered bank, The Farmers Bank; R. N. Hood,

President; Joe Berger, cashier

New businesses opened: Anchor Woolen Mills, Eagle Button Factory and Maryville Broom

Factory

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Disraeli resigns as British Prime Minister; succeeded by W. E. Gladstone

Capt. C. C. Boycott is "boycotted" for refusing to accept rents fixed by his tenants

British Parliament passes first act granting compensation to workers for injuries

Federal circuit court pronounces Tennessee's "Jim Crow" law unconstitutional

"Chattanooga Choo-Choo" gets its name

New York streets lit by electricity

Water shortages limit growth of Los Angeles

Canned fruits and meats first appear in stores

Cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail reach their peak

Roy Bean appointed Justice of the Peace in Langtry, Texas

Railroad mileage in operation: U.S., 87,800; Great Britain, 17,900; France, 16,400; Russia,

12,200

Tenant farmers work 25% of U.S. farms

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Tramp Abroad (Mark Twain); The Brothers Karamazov (Fedor

Dostoevsky); Nana (Emile Zola); Ben Hur (Lewis Wallace)

Art: The Thinker, Gate of Hell (Rodin)

Popular songs: "Sailing, Sailing Over the Bounding Main"

Eastman perfects process for making dry photographic plates

Carnegie develops first large steel furnace

Malarial parasite discovered

Typhoid fever bacillus identified

Pasteur discovers chicken cholera vaccine

Vaccine against anthrax discovered

Electrostatic generator

YEAR: 1881

MARYVILLE HISTORY: By State law, unincorporated town of Maryville established as special

taxing district allowing normal operations of local government. Three commissioners are

appointed by chairman of County Court

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: James A. Garfield assassinated in September

Transvaal Boers defeat British at Majuba Hill; Britain recognizes independent Transvaal

Republic

Persecution of Jews in Russia

Political parties founded in Japan

Flogging abolished in British army and navy

Population (in millions): London, 3.3; Paris, 2.2; New York, 1.2; Berlin, 1.1; Vienna, 1.0;

Tokyo, 0.8; St. Petersburg, 0.6

Emigration of Eastern European Jews to U.S. adds news diversity to population

Sheriff Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid

The Gunfight at OK Corral, Tombstone, Arizona

Helen Hunt Jackson: A Century of Dishonor

Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute for Blacks

American Association of the Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James); The Crime of Sylvester

Barnard (Anatole France); Heidi (Johann Heusser Spyri)

Art: Cobbler's Shop (Max Liebermann); Luncheon of the Boating Party (Renoir); Sunshine and

Snow (Monet); Admiral Farragut (Augustus Saint-Gaudens)

Construction of Savoy Theater, London

Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)

Lillian Russell achieves stardom at age 19

John Philip Souza, bandmaster of the U.S. Marine Corps, writes march, "Semper Fidelis"

Architect Solon Spenser Beman designs first all-brick U.S. city at Pullman, Illinois

PRESIDENT: James Abram Garfield, Chester Alan Arthur

YEAR: 1882

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Fourth county courthouse constructed on Main Street (now

Broadway) to replace building lost in 1879 fire. Cost of new building: $12,779

The newspaper Maryville Watchman appears, edited by Will A. McTeer, Union veteran and

Maryville businessman

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Triple Alliance between Italy, Austria and Germany

Hague Convention establishes three-mile limit for territorial waters

Germany leads European industry

Franklin D. Roosevelt b.(d. 1945)

U.S. bans Chinese immigration for 10 years; first U.S. act to restrict general immigration;

immigration from Germany reaches its peak

Strikes for higher wages in U.S.

Electricity illuminates parts of London and New York

American Baseball Association founded

John L. Sullivan (1858-1918) defeats Paddy Ryan for heavyweight boxing crown

Hatfield-McCoy feud erupts in southern Appalachians of West Virginia

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain); Pinocchio (Carlo

Collodi)

Theater: La Belle Russe (David Belasco); Ghosts (Ibsen)

Lillie Langtry ("Jersey Lilly") makes U.S. debut

Opera: The Snow Maiden (Rimski-Korsakov)

Music: 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)

Jumbo, largest elephant in captivity, appears in Barnum and Bailey's circus at Madison Square

Gardens

Breuer uses hypnosis to treat hysteria (beginnings of psychoanalysis)

Koch discovers tuberculosis bacillus

Edison designs first hydroelectric plant

Daimler patents internal combustion engine powered by gasoline

Maxim patents recoil-operated machine gun

YEAR: 1883

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville Times established by A. J. Neff and son George as weekly

until 1921 and semi-weekly until 1944, when it becomes Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times

On December 31, Maryville College achieves fund raising goal of $100,000

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. agents actively promote emigration from Europe; peak immigration

from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and China

Bismarck introduces sickness insurance in Germany

Home Insurance Co. building first skyscraper, Chicago, 10 stories

Orient Express, first transcontinental train (Paris to Istanbul), makes first run

Krakatoa erupts in greatest volcanic explosion since 1470 B.C., kills 36,000

Worldwide cholera pandemic begins

U.S. railroads adopt standard time zones

W. F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) organizes "Wild West Show" at Omaha, Nebraska

Brooklyn Bridge opened to pedestrians

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain); Treasure Island (Robert

Louis Stevenson); Beyond Human Endurance (Bjorstjerne Bjornson)

Theater: An Enemy of the People (Ibsen)

Metropolitan Opera House opened

Joseph Swann produces synthetic fiber

Robert Koch describes method of preventative inoculation against anthrax

Fully automatic machine gun invented

YEAR: 1884

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville's only local bank, Farmer's Bank, suspends operations

Smallpox epidemic strikes Maryville and Blount County

Maryville Times sells for .03 a copy and is published on Saturday

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: War of Pacific ends

Harry Truman b.(d. 1972)

Geronimo surrenders at Arizona-Mexican border, escapes again

First deep tube (underground railroad) operational, London

Divorce reestablished in France

Oxford English Dictionary begins publication

"Louisville Slugger" bat introduced

First roller coaster opens at Coney Island, New York

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain); The Death of Ivan Ilyich

(Tolstoy)

Art: Bathers at Asnieres (Georges Seurat); The Burghers of Calais (Rodin)

Music: Symphony No. 7 in F (Brahms)

Popular songs: "Love's Old Sweet Song;" "Rock-a-bye Baby"

Arthur Nicolaier (1862-1934) discovers tetanus bacillus

Cocaine introduced as a general anesthetic

First operation for removal of a brain tumor

First practical steam turbine engine invented

Electrical precipitation discovered

YEAR: 1885

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bank of Maryville chartered; Rev. Peter Bartlett, President; Joe

Berger, cashier

Local chapter of Women's Christian Temperance Union organized

Today's News appears as new paper in Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: John M. Fox learns about golf in Scotland and introduces game to

America

Mormons split into polygamous and monogamous sections

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Germinal (Emile Zola); Diana of the Crossways (George

Meredith); King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard); A Child's Garden of Verses (R.L.

Stevenson)

Art: The Potato Eaters (Vincent van Gogh)

Opera: The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Sir Francis Galton devises identification system based on individuality of fingerprints

First successful U.S. appendectomy

Pasteur administers first anti-rabies vaccine to cure hydrophobia

Mechnikov discovers phagocytosis

Browning single-shot rifle introduced

Karl Benz builds first successful gasoline-driven motor

Eastman manufactures coated photographic paper

Incandescent gas mantle invented

PRESIDENT: Grover Cleveland

YEAR: 1886

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Brick three-story Jackson House Hotel built on Lot 34 by George C.

Jackson

Timothy Wilson appointed principal of Maryville Normal and Preparatory School

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Gladstone introduces bill for home rule in Ireland

Gold rush to South Africa's Transvaal; Johannesburg founded as world's largest gold mines begin

operation

American Federation of Labor (AF of L) founded by Samuel Gompers

Haymarket Massacre and bombing in Chicago; 8 anarchists found guilty of inciting violence; 4

hanged and 3 later pardoned on grounds of unjust trial

U.S. workers strike for 8-hour workday and better working conditions

Last major Indian wars in U.S., Geronimo recaptured and sent to Florida as prisoner of war

Decade of U.S. drought begins Great Plains; blizzards and lack of grass kill almost 60% of U.S.

range livestock

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Coca Cola goes on sale as headache and hangover remedy

Amateur golf championship first played

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Bostonians (Henry James); Indian Summer (William Dean

Howells); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped (R.L. Stevenson); Little Lord Fauntleroy

(Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Art: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat); The Kiss (Rodin)

Popular songs: "Hatikva"

Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Bartholdi, dedicated in New York Harbor

Germanium discovered

Henri Moissan produces florin

Steam used to sterilize surgical instruments

Aluminum produced by electrolysis

Hydroelectric installations begun at Niagara Falls

YEAR: 1887

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Thomas J. Lamar dies after 30 years service to Maryville

College

Rev. Peter Bartlett resigns as president of Maryville College; replaced by Prof. Edgar Elmore

Three flour mills (Rhea's, Pedigo's and Hackney's) in operation

Maryville and Little Tennessee Railroad granted charter, but never built

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee

Triple Alliance renewed

Britain annexes Zululand to block Transvaal from establishing link to sea

"Jim Crow" law in Florida requires segregation of blacks and whites on railroads

At the request of Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Mansfield Sullivan of the Perkins Institution

begins to teach 6-year old Helen Keller

Esperanto invented as a universal language

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (first Sherlock Holmes

story)

Art: Lincoln Memorial (Seated Lincoln) (Augustus Saint-Gaudens)

Theater: La Tosca (Victorien Sardou)

Opera: Otello (Giuseppe Verdi)

Ignace Paderewski gives first recital in Vienna

Edison invents first motor-driven phonograph

Berliner patents gramophone

H. W. Goodwin invents celluloid film

YEAR: 1888

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Anchor Woolen Mills and Maryville Woolen Mills, two largest

employers in operation with 44 looms, 908 spindles, and 60 employees

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: President Cleveland receives majority of popular vote but Harrison is

elected president with majority electoral vote

Great Blizzard (March 11-14) in Eastern U.S.; 400 deaths

"Jack the Ripper" murders 6 women in London

Total emancipation in Brazil

Briton Cecil Rhodes acquires exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland and Mashonaland;

amalgamates Kimberly Diamond Cos.

First successful electric trolley cars in service at Richmond, Virginia

First beauty contests held in Spain and Belgium

James Bryce: The American Commonwealth

National Geographic begins publication

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Looking Backwards, 2000-1887 (Edward Bellamy); The Arabian

Nights (translated by Richard Burton); "Casey at the Bat" (E.L. Thayer)

Art: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Paul Gauguin); Sunflowers (Van Gogh); Place Clichy

(Henri Toulouse-Lautrec); The Thinker (Rodin)

Theater: Miss Julie (August Strindberg); Sweet Lavender (Arthur Pinero)

Washington Monument, under construction sporadically for 40 years, completed

"L'Internationale" published, becomes Communist anthem

Nikola A. Telsa constructs alternating current (ac) electric motor

Eastman perfects "Kodak" box camera

Dunlop invents pneumatic tire

World's first revolving door installed

Radio waves identified as belonging to same family as light waves

YEAR: 1889

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Group of local businessmen organize Maryville Improvement Co.,

forerunner of Chamber of Commerce

Rev. Samuel Boardman named 4th president of Maryville College upon resignation of Rev. Peter

Bartlett

New poorhouse built to serve indigent in Maryville and Blount County

Maryville College announces museum for top floor of library

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana and Washington become states 39, 40,

41 and 42

Oklahoma opened to non-Indian settlement; "Sooners" race to stake land claims

First Pan-American Conference at Washington, D.C. between Western Hemisphere nations

French company goes bankrupt in effort to build Panama Canal; $287 million and 20,000 lives

have been lost

Electric lights installed at White House

Worldwide influenza pandemic

Wall Street Journal begins publication

Texas outlaw Belle Starr (Myra Belle Shirley) killed (b. 1848)

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain); In

God's Way (Bjornson); The Ballad of East and West (Rudyard Kipling)

Art: The Starry Night, Landscape with Cypress Tree and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

(Vincent van Gogh)

Theater: Before Dawn (Gerhart Hauptmann); Honor (Hermann Sudermann)

Music: Symphony No. 5 in E minor (Tchaikovsky)

Oscar Hammerstein opens New York's Harlem Opera House

Opera: The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Andre Gustave Eiffel designs 1,056-foot Eiffel Tower

Synchronous rotations of Mercury and Venus discovered

Pancreas proved to secrete insulin, preventing diabetes

PRESIDENT: Benjamin Harrison

YEAR: 1890

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First electric plant used exclusively by Maryville Woolen Mills

Maryville College adopts orange and garnet as official colors

Andrew Goddard purchases Daily Times from Neff family

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Idaho and Wyoming become states 43 and 44

Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed by Congress to curtail powers of U.S. business monopolies

Mississippi and other southern states restrict voting by blacks by instituting poll tax and literacy

tests

Sioux lands in South Dakota opened to white settlement by presidential proclamation; Sioux

chief Sitting Bull arrested and killed as Sioux warriors attempt his rescue

"Battle" of Wounded Knee ends Indian resistance to white settlement; over 300 Sioux men,

women and children massacred by U.S. Cavalry

Daughters of the American Revolution founded

Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks created

First entirely steel-framed building erected in Chicago

William James: The Principles of Psychology

First execution by electrocution

Ellis Island opens as immigration depot

Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Hunger (Knut Hamsun); Poems by Emily Dickinson

Art: Poplars (Claude Monet); The Cardplayers (Paul Cezanne); Breaking Home Ties (Thomas

Hovenden)

Theater: Hedda Gabler (Ibsen); Beau Brummel (Clyde Fitch)

Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky, Petipa)

Opera: Prince Igor (Aleksandr Borodin); Cavalleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni)

First moving-picture shows appear in New York

First use of rubber gloves in surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Discovery of anti-toxins announced

YEAR: 1891

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Chilhowee Club, organized by 6 faculty wives of Maryville College

for "mental improvement and the improvement of humanity"

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Earthquake in Japan kills c. 10,000 people

World's first old age pension plan goes into effect in Germany

U.S. workers strike for higher wages and shorter hours

Jim Crow laws enacted in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee

First interracial hospital opens in Chicago

New Colorado gold rush at Cripple creek; mines will become 5th largest producer in world

history

Construction begins on Trans-Siberian Railway

John Joseph McGraw begins 41-year career in major league baseball as he joins the Baltimore

Orioles

Walter Camp writes first rule book for football; invents scrimmage line, 11-man team, signals

and quarterback position

Basketball invented to occupy students between football and baseball seasons

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy); The Light That Failed

(Rudyard Kipling); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde); Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

(Ambrose Bierce)

Art: Toilers of the Sea (Albert Pinkham Ryder), The Bath (Mary Cassat)

First music hall posters by Toulouse-Lautrec

Theater: The Duchess of Padua (Oscar Wilde)

Music: Symphony No. 1 (Gustav Mahler); Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor (Sergei

Rachmaninoff)

Carnegie Hall opens in New York

Pithecanthropus erectus (Java man) discovered

Beginnings of wireless telegraphy

Banker Andrew Mellon invests in new plant at New Kensington, Pennsylvania for company that

will become Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)

W.L. Judson invents zipper

YEAR: 1892

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville Electric Light and Power Co. receives charter to provide

both hydro and steam generated power

New Providence Presbyterian Church moves into beautiful new building at corner of Main Street

(Broadway) and College; former church building at corner of Main and Cemetery (Cates Street)

becomes known as Columbian Hall, community gathering place

Three-story annex added to Anderson Hall at Maryville College

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. iron and steelworkers strike

Australian miners' strike closes down ports, mines, and sheep-shearing stations

Severe famine kills millions in Russia as crops fail; U.S. sends relief in form of 3 million barrels

of flour

Presidential proclamation opens 3 million acres to settlement in Oklahoma

"Pledge of Allegiance" written for U.S. schoolchildren

Economic depression begins in U.S.

First Hawaiian pineapple cannery opens

"Gentleman Jim" Corbett defeats John L. Sullivan for heavyweight boxing title

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle);

Children of the Ghetto (Israel Zangwill); Barrack-Room Ballads (Rudyard Kipling)

Art: At the Moulin Rouge (Toulouse-Lautrec)

Theater: Widowers' Houses (George Bernard Shaw); Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)

Ballet: The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)

Opera: Pagliacci (Ruggiero Leoncavallo)

Popular songs: "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two"

Sierra Club founded by naturalist John Muir and others to protect America's natural environment

Ivanovski pioneers science of virology

Manufacture of rayon (viscose)

Reno Inclined Elevator is world's first escalator

First automatic telephone switchboard

YEAR: 1893

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bank of Blount County chartered; S. T. Post, President

Buildings on Maryville College campus lighted by electricity for first time

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Anti-Semitism mounts in France; Jews blamed for bankruptcy of Panama

Canal Co.

Labour Party formed in England

Hawaiian annexationists overthrow monarchy; Hawaii proclaimed a republic

Economic depression continues, European investors withdraw funds from U.S. banks; Wall

Street stock prices plunge; over 15,000 businesses fail

World Exhibition in Chicago

World's first Ferris wheel erected at Chicago fair

Northern section of Oklahoma Territory opens to settlement; "Boomers" rush in at signal from

federal marshals to stake claims

Longest record boxing match in New Orleans; 110 rounds, 7 hours and 40 minutes

Lizzie Borden goes to trial for the murder of her father and stepmother

W. T. Stead: If Christ Came to Chicago

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane)

Art: The Cry (Edvard Munch); The Boating Party (Mary Cassat); Rouen Cathedral (Monet)

"Art Nouveau" appears in Europe

Theater: The Weavers (Gerhart Hauptmann)

Music: Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) (Anton Dvorak)

Florenz Ziegfeld begins show business career

Opera: Falstaff (Verdi); Hansel and Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck)

Popular songs: "Happy Birthday to You"

Henry Ford builds his first car

Karl Benz constructs 4-wheel car

World's first open-heart surgery performed

YEAR: 1894

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Tuesday Club is founded "to stimulate intellectual and moral

growth"; becomes nucleus of City Public Library

Maryville Butter and Cheese Manufacturing Co. begins operation near Cedar Spring (Hannum

Springs)

Hiram Gay, black barber, opens Gay Fire Co., keeping his equipment near rear of courthouse

Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic", visits Maryville College

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Japanese troops in Seoul; Korea and Japan declare war on China; defeat

Chinese at Port Arthur

French Army Capt. Alfred Dreyfus arrested on treason charge; convicted "in camera"; deported

to Devil's Island

Inheritance tax introduced in Britain

J.B. Coxey's Army demonstrates against unemployment in Washington

Strikes cripple U.S. railroads

Oil discovered at Corsicana, Texas

Hershey founds chocolate company

Committee founded to organize modern Olympic Games

First U.S. Open golf tournament

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain); Trilby (George du Maurier);

The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope); The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)

Art: Woman at Her Toilet (Edgar Degas)

Theater: Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw)

Ballet: Afternoon of a Faun (Claude Debussy)

Plague bacillus discovered

Argon discovered

Flagstaff Observatory erected in Arizona

YEAR: 1895

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bartlett Gymnasium and YMCA Hall constructed on college campus

through efforts of Japanese student, Kin Takahashi; approximately 300,000 bricks made at site

by students

Miss Anna Lord operates Sam Houston Inn, catering to "Knights of the Grip" (traveling men)

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russian Marxist Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov distributes illegal literature and

anti-government leaflets, organizes strikes; arrested and exiled to Siberia; will later adopt

pseudonym Lenin

Columbia River salmon canning reaches peak

First U.S. pizzeria opens in New York

First professional football game played at Latrobe, PA

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy); The Time Machine (H.G.

Wells); The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)

Theater: The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

Music: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Gustav Mahler)

Popular songs: "The Band Played On"

"America the Beautiful" becomes unofficial national anthem

Biltmore House at Asheville, North Carolina, world's largest private house, completed after 5

years

Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays

Marconi invents radio telegraphy

Motion picture camera invented

King C. Gillette invents disposable safety razor

Diesel develops engine powered by petroleum

Michelin brothers produce their first pneumatic tires for motorcars

Principle of rocket reaction propulsion formulated

Machine for liquefaction of air constructed

YEAR: 1896

MARYVILLE HISTORY: People's telephone company granted right-of-way to bring phone

lines from Knoxville to Maryville

Electric lights installed along Bartlett Avenue on Maryville College campus

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Utah becomes 45th state after Mormons agree to give up polygamous

marriage

New evidence for innocence of Alfred Dreyfus suppressed in France

Supreme Court case upholds segregation; requires "separate but equal" facilities for blacks

First modern Olympics held in Athens

Beginning of Klondike gold rush in Canada

Five annual Nobel Prizes established

Cracker Jack candy introduced

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)

Theater: The Sea Gull (Anton Chekov); Salome (Oscar Wilde)

Musicals: El Capitan; The Geisha

Music: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)

Opera: La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini)

Brazil's $5 million Manaus Opera House opens for rubber barons, 700 miles up the Amazon

Popular songs: "Sweet Rosie O'Grady;" "A Hot Time in the Old Town;" "When the Saints Go

Marching In"

Steam-powered model airplane makes 3,000-foot flight, first flight of a mechanically propelled

flying machine

Helium discovered

Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant opens

Radioactivity discovered

YEAR: 1897

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Citizens petition county court to increase tax rate to provide better

schools; request refused

Daniel Griffin house on Cunningham Street purchased for use as County Industrial Home, house

of refuge and correction for women and destitute children

Seven hundred dollars given to Poor Commission for use with indigent citizens

Pleading financial hardships, six men released from working on roads and paying poll taxes

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Letter convicting Dreyfus discovered to be a forgery, written by Major

Esterhazy

Germany occupies northern China

Russia occupies Port Arthur, China

Cuba rejects offer of self-government from Spain; insists on total independence

Severe famine in India

U.S. annexes Hawaiian Islands; Japan files formal protest

Gold from Klondike helps to end 4-year depression in U.S.

Argonaut is first submarine to operate successfully in open waters

First Boston marathon

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Fruits of the Earth (Andre Gide); The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells);

Captains Courageous (Rudyard Kipling); Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Art: The Sleeping Gypsy (Henri Rousseau); Boulevard Montmartre (Camille Pissaro)

Theater: Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)

John Philip Sousa writes "Stars and Stripes Forever"

Malaria discovered to be carried by Anopheles mosquito

Cathode-ray tube invented by Brown pioneers development of television and other electronic

communication

Thomson shows atomic structure of elements based on number of electrons orbiting the nuclei

PRESIDENT: William McKinley

YEAR: 1898

MARYVILLE HISTORY: On May 7, Maryville Times announces "Biggest Naval Battle in

Modern Times" has taken place in Manila Harbor and Philippines taken by Americans

Maryville College Monthly founded by Professor Elmer Waller and serves as school newspaper

Special taxing district established encompassing all of Maryville in effort to obtain funds for

public school

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Col. Henry admits document forgery in Dreyfus case

U.S. declares war on Spain over Cuba after battleship Maine explodes; destroys Spanish fleet at

Manila; Teddy Roosevelt and "Rough Riders" charge San Juan Hill; Spain cedes Cuba, Puerto

Rico, Guam and Philippines for $20 million in Treaty of Paris

The Boxers formed in China

Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather" clause that prohibits most blacks from

voting; race riots and lynchings throughout the South

U.S. motorcar production: 1,000 (up from 100 last year)

Atlantic City amusement park opens

Slocum makes first one-man circumnavigation of the world

First photographs using artificial light

Last fight with Indians (Chippewa) where soldiers killed at Leech Lake, Minnesota

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)

Stanislavski opens Moscow Art Theater; introduces "method" acting

Popular songs: "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"

Heroin introduced as a cough suppressant

Atmospheric gases xenon, krypton and neon discovered

Dysentery bacillus discovered

Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium, the first radioactive element

Zeppelin builds airship

YEAR: 1899

MARYVILLE HISTORY: In August, 36 Blount Countians join 47th Volunteer Infantry; 2 are

killed and 8 wounded in the Philippines

J. L. Porter, proprietor of Sam Houston Inn, advertises hacks (horse-drawn, 2 or 3 seated

carriages); meeting all trains

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Philippines demand independence from U.S.; war between U.S. troops

and Filipino national forces

Boer War begins in South Africa against British

Captain Dreyfus pardoned by presidential decree

Widespread Russian emigration, especially to Siberia along route of new Trans-Siberia Railway

"Open Door" policy in China

Cholera pandemic

John Dewey: The School and Society

Mt. Rainier National Park created in Washington State

Boll weevil crosses Rio Grande from Mexico and moves north and east through U.S. cotton

fields

Coca Cola bottled for first time

"Hamburg" used by Americans to identify chopped beefsteak

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Awakening (Kate Chopin); McTeague (Frank Norris)

Art: Two Tahitian Women (Paul Gauguin)

Theater: Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)

Music: "Enigma" Variations (Edward Elgar)

Scott Joplin publishes first ragtime pieces ("Original Rag" and "Maple Leaf Rag") in sheet music

form

Popular songs: "My Wild Irish Rose"

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" written; will become black national anthem

First magnetic recording of sound

Alpha and beta rays discovered in radioactive atoms

YEAR: 1900

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Knoxville and Augusta Railroad extended from Maryville to Walland

First motion picture shown in Columbian Hall, former site of New Providence Presbyterian

Church

Maryville Normal and Preparatory School property purchased by town for use as public school

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Boxer Rebellion in China; Russia seizes Manchuria

Boer War continues; Johannesburg and Pretoria fall to British; 20,000 Boer women and children

will die in concentration camps

Kansas prohibitionist Carry Nation begins campaign against saloons

Hurricane in Galveston, Texas kills 6,000-8,000

First U.S. bubonic plague epidemic begins in San Francisco

Average age at death in U.S.: 47

1 in 7 U.S. homes has a bathtub

Cakewalk most fashionable dance

Ray C. Ewry wins 8 Olympic gold medals for U.S.

William Muldoon first professional wrestling champion

ART, SCIENCE AND Literature: Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser); Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad);

Claudine at School (first Claudine novel) (Colette Colette); The Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank

Baum); Little Black Sambo (Helen Bannerman)

Opera: Tosca (Puccini)

"Great Houdini" gains publicity with escape from London's Scotland Yard; begins tour of

Continent

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams

Radon discovered

Gregor Mendel's genetic laws made public

Quantum theory formulated

First Browning revolver manufactured

Human speech transmitted via radio waves

First trial flight of zeppelin

YEAR: 1901

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Professor Charles W. Henry opens Maryville Business College in

upstairs room of Gambel and Waller building on Main Street

Rev. Samuel T. Wilson becomes 5th president of Maryville College upon resignation of Samuel

Boardman

Freedman's Institute, in operation since 1867, closes

New jail constructed at corner of Cusick and Austin (Harper) Streets

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Boxer Rebellion ends with Peace of Beijing

Cuba becomes protectorate of U.S.

President McKinley assassinated

J. P. Morgan organizes U. S. Steel Corporation

Spindletop gusher at Beaumont oil field discovered; contains more oil than rest of U.S. combined

U.S. is world's major petroleum supplier

Oil drilling begins in Persia

First college SAT entrance exams

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann); The Octopus (Frank Norris)

Theater: The Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)

Music: Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Musicals: The Governor's Son (George M. Cohan)

Popular songs: "I Love You Truly;" "Boola Boola"

First Nobel prizes awarded

Hormone adrenalin first isolated

Marconi transmits telegraph message from Cornwall to Newfoundland

First motor driven bicycles

First Mercedes car constructed

Third Law of Thermodynamics postulated

PRESIDENT: Theodore Roosevelt

YEAR: 1902

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Worst smallpox epidemic in Maryville history forces establishment

of detention houses in former Freeman's Institute building and in Home Avenue area

Schlosser Leather Co. begins operations at Walland, employing many workers from Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Boer War ends; casualties: British, 5,774; Boers, 4,000; British

sovereignty in South Africa recognized

Anglo-Japanese Alliance

Cuba gains independence and establishes republic; U.S. troops withdraw

Eyclydes da Cunha: Rebellion in the Backlands

Leon Trotsky escapes from Siberian prison and settles in London

John Atkinson Hobson: Imperialism: A Study

United Mine Worker's strike cripples U.S.; President Roosevelt negotiates settlement after 5

months

U.S. pursues purchase of French interests in Panama Canal

Record immigration to U.S., especially from Italy, Austro-Hungary and Russia

Aswan Dam opens

First Teddy Bear

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Immoralist (Andre Gide); The Virginian (Owen Wister); The

Hound of Baskervilles (A. Conan Doyle); "To Build a Fire" (Jack London); The Tale of Peter

Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)

Art: Waterloo Bridge (Monet); Riders by the Sea (Gauguin); Comin' Through the Rye (Frederick

Remington)

Enrico Caruso makes first phonograph recording

Popular songs: "In the Gold Old Summertime;" "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home;"

"In the Sweet Bye and Bye"

First Studebaker produced

Hormone secretin discovered

Anaphylaxis discovered

YEAR: 1903

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rev. Samuel T. Wilson, Maryville College President, returns $26,000

given to assist in educating black youth; attendance of whites and blacks at the same school

made illegal by 1901 vote of Tennessee Legislature

Margaret Henry establishes self-help scholarship fund to help needy young people acquire

education at Maryville College

Old jail ordered renovated for use as an industrial school for indigent children

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Alaskan frontier settled

Russian Social Democratic Party splits into Bolsheviks (led by Lenin and Trotsky) and

Mensheviks

Panama declares independence; signs treaty with U.S. granting perpetual control over Panama

Canal

Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company

First coast-to-coast crossing of American continent by car: 65 days from San Francisco to New

York

Harley-Davidson motorcycle introduced

First Tour de France bicycle race

First World Series baseball championship

"Typhoid Mary" Mallon spreads typhoid fever to over 1,300 New Yorkers

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Riddle of the Sands (Robert Erskine Childers); The Call of the

Wild (Jack London); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

First Pulitzer prizes awarded

Art: The Old Guitarist (Picasso)

Film: The Great Train Robbery

Cantata: "Hiawatha" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Musicals: The Wizard of Oz; Babette; Babes in Toyland

Popular songs: "Sweet Adeline;" "Waltzing Mathilda"

Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly gasoline-powered airplane

Electrocardiograph invented

YEAR: 1904

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Professor Charles Henry moves his private school to vacant

Freedman's Institute (site of present Maryville High School); his school renamed Blount County

High School

Southern Coffin and Casket Co. moves to Maryville, employing 59 men

Golden Rule Stove Co. begins operation with 20 employees near Sevierville Road

Maryville Record, a "dyed in the wool Republican" paper, published by William Koehler

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russo-Japanese War begins; first war to employ armored battleships,

land mines, trenches, self-propelled torpedoes and modern machine guns

Broadway subway opened in New York

First American Olympics and World Exhibition at St. Louis

Woman arrested in New York for smoking cigarette in public

Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College

Cy Young pitches first "perfect" major league game

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Cabbages and Kings (O. Henry)

Art: The Wedding (Henri Rousseau); The Hand of God (Rodin); General Sherman Memorial

(Saint-Gaudens)

Christ of the Andes, 26-foot tall bronze sculpture, dedicated at Chilean-Argentine border

Theater: The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov); Candida (George Bernard Shaw); Peter Pan (James

Barrie)

Musicals: Little Johnny Jones (George M. Cohan)

Opera: Madama Butterfly (Puccini)

Ruins of Chichen Itza discovered in Mexican Yucatan

First practical photoelectric cell devised

First ultraviolet lamps

First telegraphic transmission of photographs

Silicone discovered

YEAR: 1905

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bell Telephone System comes to Maryville; Harper's Store first

subscriber; calls to Knoxville are free

L & N Railroad granted right-of-way to build branch line into Maryville

Maryville Enterprise founded by George C. Jackson

Blount County High School, privately owned by Professor Charles Henry, reaches enrollment of

151, staff of 9 teachers

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russians surrender to Japanese at Port Arthur; St. Petersburg

demonstrations crushed in "Bloody Sunday" massacre; Russo-Japanese War ends

Russian revolution; Lenin returns from exile

International Workers of the World founded

Oil strike at "Tulsey Town," later to be named Tulsa

Upton Sinclair exposes U.S. meat-packing conditions in The Jungle

Ty Cobb begins baseball career with Detroit Tigers

World's largest gem-quality diamond, the Cullinan Diamond, discovered in South Africa

First motor buses in London

First neon signs

Rotary Club founded

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton); Where Angels Fear to Tread

(E.M. Forster); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orezy); The Book of Hours (Rainer Maria

Rilke)

Theater: Man and Superman (George Bernard Shaw)

First regular cinema established at Pittsburg, PA

Opera: Salome (Richard Strauss)

Popular songs: "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"

Albert Einstein publishes paper on special theory of relativity

Procaine (novocaine) introduced as a local anesthetic

YEAR: 1906

MARYVILLE HISTORY: July 28, summer thunderstorm sparks fire which destroys courthouse

on Main Street, last courthouse to occupy Courthouse Square in downtown Maryville

Maryville College defeats University of Tennessee in football by score of 11-0

Lisabeth Voorhees Chapel built on Maryville College campus to accommodate the 600 students

of the college

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Ottoman Turks forced to cede Sinai Peninsula to Egypt

Mahandas Gandhi launches campaign of nonviolent resistance in South Africa to protest

discrimination against Indians

U.S. War Department begins excavation of Panama Canal

Night shift work for women internationally forbidden

Pure Food and Drugs Act

First Grand Prix motorcar race

San Francisco earthquake kills 2,500, leaves 250,000 homeless; $400 million property loss

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The City of the Yellow Devil (Maksim Gorki); The Man of Property

(John Galsworthy); White Fang (Jack London); "The Gift of the Magi" (O. Henry)

Theater: Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw); The Silver Box (John Galsworthy)

Ruth St. Denis introduces modern dance

Musicals: Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (Cohan)

First radio program of voice and music broadcast

Carl Jung: Psychology of Dementia Praecox

The term "allergy" introduced to medicine

Rocky Mountain spotted fever discovered to be transmitted by ticks

Nernst formulates third law of thermodynamics

Amundsen determines position of magnetic north pole

YEAR: 1907

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Town of Maryville incorporated on March 18; Andrew K. Harper

elected mayor

Jesse R. James elected Town Marshal

Construction begins on new courthouse at site of Dr. John W. Cates home on Crooked Creek

Road (now Court Street)

Dixie Mantel and Manufacturing Co. chartered

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Teddy Roosevelt bars Japanese from immigrating to U.S.

Oklahoma becomes the 46th state

New York Stock Exchange collapses; J. P. Morgan stops run on banks by importing $100

million in gold from Europe

Baden-Powell founds Boy Scout movement

Record 1.29 million immigrants enter U.S.; immigration to restricted by law

S.S. Lusitania launched; breaks transatlantic record; 5 days, 45 minutes, Ireland to New York

Mother's Day established

First comic strip, "Mister Mutt" (later "Mutt and Jeff")

United Methodist Church established in Britain

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad); Mother (Maksim Gorki)

Art: The Snake Charmer (Henri Rousseau); Peasant Women (Marc Chagall); Forty-Two Kids

(George Wesley Bellows)

First cubists exhibition in Paris

The North American Indian by U.S. photographer Edward S. Curtis

Ballet: The Dying Swan (Camille Saint-Saens), danced by Anna Pavlova

Music: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) (Gustav Mahler)

First "Ziegfeld Follies" staged

Pavlov studies conditioned reflexes

Tissue culture techniques developed

YEAR: 1908

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Professor Charles Henry changes name of Blount County High

School to Polytechnic High School and Commercial College in effort to distinguish his private

school from state-funded schools; enrollment reaches 385 students

Goal of $200,000 set by Maryville College. Reached and surpassed with total of $227,000

raised; funds to be used for more instructors, dormitories, and general equipment

Women's Christian Temperance Union, in effort to curb drinking of liquor, receives permission

to erect water fountain at Cusick and Main (Broadway) Streets

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Union of South Africa established

Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzogovinia against objections of Russia, Turkey and the Balkan

nations

President Roosevelt visits Panama in first visit to a foreign country by a sitting U.S. president

Lyndon B. Johnson b.(d. 1973)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established

Petroleum production begins in Middle East

Model T Ford introduced

Jack Johnson becomes first black heavyweight boxing champion

Spitball ruled illegal in baseball

Fountain pens become popular

Wilbur Wright flies 77 miles in 2 hours, 20 minutes

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Penguin Island (Anatole France); A Room with a View (E.M.

Forster); The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterson); The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth

Grahame); Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

Isadora Duncan becomes popular interpreter of dance

Popular songs: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game;" "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"

First steel and glass building

Geiger introduces first electrical device for counting individual alpha rays

Cellophane patented

YEAR: 1909

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First motion picture theater opened with 3-reel feature; admission, 5

cents

Polytechnic High School and Commercial College renamed Maryville Polytechnic School;

enrollment continues to increase

Roll H. Hanna elected mayor

Bonds ($30,000) ordered and sold for the purpose of erecting school buildings in Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Constantinople recognizes Austria's annexation of Bosnia and

Herzogovinia; recognizes Bulgaria's independence

First Kibbutz started at Jordan Valley village in Palestine

Jewish population (in millions): Russia, 5.2; Austria-Hungary, 2.0; U.S., 1.7; Germany, .6;

Turkey, .4; Great Britain, .2; France, .1

16th Amendment, providing for unapportioned income tax, submitted to the 46 states for

ratification

First international air races at Reims, France

First flight across English Channel

Sigmund Freud lectures in U.S.

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Exultations (Ezra Pound); Casper Hauser (Jakob Wasserman)

Art: The Kiss (Gustav Klimt); The Dance (Henri Matisse)

Theater: Liliom (Ferenc Molnar)

Ballet: Prince Igor (Rimsky-Korsakov, Diaghilev)

Popular songs: "Casey Jones"

Architecture: Robie House, Chicago (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Salvarsan prepared as cure for syphilis

Existence of different blood types established

Robert E. Peary reaches North Pole

Beginning of plastic age with invention and commercial manufacture of Bakelite

PRESIDENT: William Howard Taft

YEAR: 1910

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Pearson Hall constructed on Maryville College campus

Discussions held regarding proposed building of two schools, primary and high school

Maryville population: 2,381 per U.S. census

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Japan formally annexes Korea

China abolishes slavery

Bubonic plague epidemic in Manchuria and China

Mexican social revolution begins; large landholdings are redistributed to Indian and mestizo

population

Average U.S. employee works 54-60 hours per week, earning less than $15.00 per week

Mann Act prohibits transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes

First bank to grant personal loans opens

NAACP founded at New York

"Great migration" of over 2 million blacks to North U.S.

Report shows that U.S. medical schools are inferior to those in Europe; spurs $600 million

reform program

"Weekend" becomes popular in U.S.

Boy Scouts of America founded

First Father's Day observed

Barney Oldfield drives Benz at 133 mph at Daytona Beach

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Howard's End (E.M. Forster); Clayhanger (Arnold Bennett); The

Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Mary Pickford, 17, appears in Ramona

Musicals: Naughty Marietta (Victor Herbert)

Bray creates first cartoons to use "cel" system

First diagnosis of sickle cell anemia

Safety glass patented

First deep sea research expedition undertaken

Halley's Comet observed

First .30-06 rifle manufactured

YEAR: 1911

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Construction completed on West Side School building, built on site

of former Pride Mansion and East Side School building, built on Washington Avenue property

purchased from Charles Litterer

Town forced to establish first speed limit with growing popularity of automobiles

Town Marshall J. H. Clemons shot and killed August 25 by Norman Wear; $200 reward offered

for capture of Wear

Maryville Water Commission founded; J. C. Bittle, Chairman

Andrew K. Harper re-elected mayor

Carnegie Hall dedicated on Maryville College campus

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: National health insurance bill introduced in British Parliament

First use of aircraft for offense (Turkish-Italian War)

Revolution in central China; pigtails abolished; Sun Yat-sen appoints Chiang Kai-shek military

advisor

Women's liberation movement begins in Tokyo

Winston S. Churchill appointed first Lord of the Admiralty

New York's Triangle Factory fire kills 146 employees trapped in building; brings new demands

for better working conditions

Aircraft reaches record height of 12,800 feet

Roosevelt Dam completed

First Indianapolis 500 held

Robert T. Jones wins junior golf championship at age 9

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Death in Venice (Thomas Mann); Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton);

The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux); Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (Hugh Walpole)

Art: I and the Village (Marc Chagall); Large Blue Horses (Franz Marc)

Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre

Ballet: Petrouchka (Igor Stravinsky)

Popular songs: "Alexander's Ragtime Band; "Memphis Blues;" "Roamin' in the Gloamin'; "A

Wee Dochan-Doris;" "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad;" "Oh, You

Beautiful Doll"

U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Inca city of Macchu-Pichu in Peruvian Andes

Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole

Electric self-starter for motorcar and truck engines invented

Word "vitamines" introduced

YEAR: 1912

MARYVILLE HISTORY: James Hedge purchases Maryville Enterprise from W. D. Williams

Madison Hosiery Mill moves to Maryville; employs 150 workers

Due to need for additional female housing at Maryville College, roof of Pearson Hall is lifted

and a third floor constructed beneath, adding 25 more rooms

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: New Mexico and Arizona become 47th and 48th states

China becomes a republic; Sun Yat-sen, provisional president, founds Chinese Nationalist Party

Lenin establishes relationship with Stalin; takes over editorship of Pravda

U.S. marines land in Honduras, Cuba and Nicaragua to protect U.S. interests

Royal Flying Corps (later RAF) established in Britain

S.S. Titanic sinks on maiden voyage; 1,513 drown

Olympic Games held in Stockholm; Jim Thorpe wins pentathlon and decathlon; stripped of

trophies for semi-professional status in baseball

Henry Vardon wins British PGA

First successful parachute jump

Hadassah founded

Girl Scouts of America founded

S. W. Woolworth Co. founded

Oreo Biscuits introduced

C. G. Jung: The Theory of Psychoanalysis

Wild boars introduced into North Carolina Appalachians from Germany

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Unbearable Bassington (Saki); Riders of the Purple Sage

(Zane Grey); Ripostes (Ezra Pound)

Art: The Violin (Picasso); The Lemon Gatherers (Duncan Grant)

Ballet: Daphnis and Cloe (Maurice Ravel)

Films: Queen Elizabeth with Sarah Bernhart, first feature-length motion picture seen in U.S.)

Music: Pierre Lunaire song-cycle (Arnold Schonberg)

Piltdown man hoax deceives world paleontologists

Vitamin A discovered as nutrient in butter and egg yolks

First diagnosis of a heart attack

Cloud-chamber photographs lead to detection of protons and electrons

Cosmic radiation discovered

YEAR: 1913

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Samuel M. Everett elected mayor

Through efforts of Mayor Everett, land purchased in north Maryville (now Alcoa) for location of

Aluminum Company of America. Many resident opposed to such rapid community growth;

Mayor Everett threatened with bodily harm, including tar and feathers

Maryville High School begun in East Side School with one-year curriculum requirement

Mill race constructed along Pistol Creek to serve Willard Mill

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Federal income tax introduced in U.S. through 16th Amendment

17th Amendment provides for direct election of U.S. senators

Mahatma Gandhi arrested

Suffragette demonstrations in London and Washington

U.S. Federal Reserve system established

Richard M. Nixon b.(d. 1994)

Anti-Defamation League founded to fight anti-Semitism

Albert Schweitzer opens hospital in French Congo

Zippers become popular

Foxtrot becomes popular dance

Miami Beach, Florida becomes winter resort

Henry Ford pioneers mass production on assembly lines

Rockefeller Institute founded

Grand Central Terminal completed in New York

Notre Dame's Knute Rockne revolutionizes football when he receives 17 out of 21 passes to beat

Army

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Swann's Way (Marcel Proust, Part I of Remembrance of Things

Past); Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence); O Pioneers (Willa Cather); Polyanna (Ellen Glasgow);

Dr. Fu Manchu (Sax Rohmer); "Trees" (Joyce Kilmer)

Art: The Little Mermaid (Edvard Eriksen)

First showing of cubist art in U.S.

Theater: Androcles and the Lion (George Bernard Shaw)

Ballet: The Rites of Spring (Stravinsky)

Films: The Count of Monte Cristo; The Perils of Pauline; The Squaw Man (Cecil B. DeMille)

Charlie Chaplin discovered

Popular songs: "Peg O' My Heart;" "The Old Rugged Cross"

Neils Bohr formulates Theory of Atomic Structure

Term "isotope" coined

Diphtheria immunity test discovered

Composition of chlorophyll discovered

H. N. Russell formulates Theory of Stellar Evolution

Coal dust converted into oil

Concept of chemical chain reaction formulated

Basic ideas of jet propulsion stated

PRESIDENT: Woodrow Wilson

YEAR: 1914

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Construction of first two pot rooms at Alcoa Plant promises

numerous jobs for Maryvillians

First Baptist Church moves into beautiful brick building on Ellis Avenue

Town's third bank, First National Bank, organized with Thomas N. Brown, president

Maryville Ice and Coal Co. established by Hunter family, with daily ice output of 25 tons

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Great War (WWI) begins in Europe: Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and

wife assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28; Austro-Hungarian forces declare war on Serbia;

Germany declares war on France and Russia and invades Belgium; Britain declares war on

Germany; France and Britain declare war on Turkey and Austria; Japan declares war on

Germany and Austria

Mohandas Gandhi returns to India; conducts fast as political demonstration

U.S. marines detained by Mexico; marines occupy Veracruz to protect U.S. interests

Panama Canal opens

Federal Trade Commission established to police interstate commerce

Jack Dempsey fights under name of "Kid Blackie"

Walter Hagan wins U.S. Golf Open

Passenger pigeon becomes extinct

"Folk hero" Paul Bunyan created for lumber advertisements

National 4-H Club founded

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Dubliners (James Joyce); Mist (Niebla) Miguel de Unamuno; The

Titan (Theodore Dreiser); Penrod (Booth Tarkington); Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice

Burroughs)

Theater: Pygmalion (Shaw); On Trial (Elmer Rice)

Music: London Symphony (Vaughan Williams)

Bacon designs Lincoln Memorial

Goddard begins rocketry experiments

Pure thyroxin prepared to treat thyroid deficiencies

YEAR: 1915

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Water Works Commission created and $55,000 of municipal bonds

sold to construct, manage and operate badly needed water system

Bank of Blount County constructs new building at corner of Main (Broadway and Cusick

Streets), old courthouse square site

Maryville Fire Department organized, alderman John H. Mitchell, chief, plus 32 volunteers, 4

hand-drawn hose reels and 2,000 feet of fire hose

Maryville College Highlanders football team undefeated and un-scored upon

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI intensifies: German submarine blockade of Britain; Anglo-French

landings at Gallipoli; German's are first to use poison gas (chlorine) in war at Ypres; German U-

boats sink S.S. Lusitania; Italy declares war on Austria and Turkey; first zeppelin attack on

London; 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th battles of Isonzo; tetanus epidemics in trenches

U.S. Coast Guard established

New KKK inaugurated, dedicated to "white supremacy"

Rocky Mountain National Park created

Margaret Sanger jailed for writing first book on birth control

Rogers Hornsby makes major league debut

Motorized taxis appear

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka); Of Human Bondage (W.

Sommerset Maugham); The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan); The "Genius" (Theodore Dreiser);

The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence); Chicago Poems (Carl Sandburg); A Spoon River Anthology

(Edgar Lee Masters)

Art: Harlequin (Picasso)

Theater: He Who Gets Slapped (Leonid Andreyev)

Films: "Birth of a Nation"; "Carmen" (Cecil B. DeMille); "The Lamb" (Douglas Fairbanks)

Popular songs: "M-O-T-H-E-R;" "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag;" "Paper Doll"

Classic New Orleans jazz in bloom

Albert Einstein postulates General Theory of Relativity (e = mc squared)

Dysentery bacillus isolated

Junkers constructs first fighter airplane

Thompson submachine gun (Tommy gun) introduced

Henry Ford develops farm tractor

Pyrex glass developed

First transcontinental telephone call, New York to San Francisco

YEAR: 1916

MARYVILLE HISTORY: City's first water system completed, including 85-foot tall water

storage tower adjacent to Fort Craig Elementary School

Maryville College Carnegie Hall men's dorm destroyed by April 12 fire as firefighters hindered

by distance required to move handdrawn hose reels; public spirited citizens quickly raise funds

for replacement building

Construction of federal post office building on Lot 54, corner of Main (Broadway) and Court

Streets; Toole family moved from Lot 54 to nearby Lot 91

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: U.S. remains neutral; first zeppelin raid on Paris; Battle of

Verdun; Battle of the Somme (bloodiest battle in history, over 1 million casualties; first use of

tanks in warfare); Germany and Austria declare war on Portugal; Italy declares war on Germany;

Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria declare war on Romania

Arab revolt against Ottoman Turks; T.E. "Lawrence of Arabia" appointed political liaison officer

to Faisal's army

Gen. Pershing leads expedition into Mexico to capture Francisco "Pancho" Villa

U.S. Marines occupy Santo Domingo

U.S. purchases Virgin Islands

German saboteurs blow up munitions arsenal in New Jersey

Widespread labor strikes in U.S.

Montana elects first U.S. congresswoman, Jeanette Rankin

National Park Service established

First birth control clinic outside of Holland opened in Brooklyn by Margaret Sanger

First Rosebowl Game

Professional Golf Association formed

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Man Against the Sky (Edward Arlington Robinson), Men,

Women and Ghosts (Amy Lowell)

Art: The Three Sisters (Matisse)

Norman Rockwell sells first illustration to Saturday Evening Post

Theater: Our Mrs. McChesney (Edna Ferber); Magical City (Zoe Akins)

Jazz sweeps U.S.

Frank Lloyd Wright designs Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

Term "I.Q" introduced; first widely used test for measuring intelligence developed

Vitamin B isolated

Sympathectomy first performed to relieve angina pectoris

Iodine used to treat goiter

Heparin discovered to be an anti-coagulant

Blood for transfusion is refrigerated

Theory of Shell Shock suggested

First SONAR constructed

YEAR: 1917

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryvillians called into WWI service, many never to return

Parades and appearance of Blount County National Guard remind citizens of patriotism and price

of freedom

Blount County Chapter of American Red Cross organized as link between soldiers and their

families

City issues $70,000 in bonds for construction of badly needed sewer system

Alderman John Mitchell offers pet bear to City if bear zoo publicly funded. No action taken

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare; Russian

troops mutiny; U.S. declares war on Germany; Gen. Pershing arrives in Paris to head American

forces; French troops mutiny; German aircraft attack London; Balfour Declaration on Palestine;

Turks surrender Jerusalem

Mata Hari, French dancer, executed as German spy

Bolshevik revolution begins at Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg), led by V.I. Lenin; Lenin

takes office with Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin as commissars; secret police organization (KGB)

formed

U.S. immigration bill requires immigrants to pass literacy tests

John Fitzgerald Kennedy b.(assassinated 1963)

Puerto Rico becomes U.S. territory

Suffragettes picket White House

Sigmund Freud: Introduction to Psychoanalysis

U.S. auto production: 1,745,792 (up from 543,679 in 1914); 42.4% are Model T Fords

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Growth of the Soil (Knute Hamsun)

Art: Seated Nude (Amadeo Modigliani)

Theater: The Long Voyage Home (Eugene O'Neill)

Films: The Little Princess (Mary Pickford)

Popular songs: "For Me and My Gal;" "Over There;" "You're in the Army Now"

100-inch telescope installed at Mt. Wilson, California

YEAR: 1918

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Forty Blount County officers and enlisted men killed as heavy losses

sustained in Belgium and France

November 11, end of WWI greeted with ringing of bells and parade on Main Street

Town purchases first motorized fire equipment, 1918 Ford Model T truck equipped to carry fire

hose

High school at East Side (now Fort Craig) location increases curriculum to full four year

program, the first four year high school in county

Spanish influenza epidemic causes temporary closure of Maryville Polytechnic School and

quarantine of Maryville College. Movie theaters and billiard parlors also ordered closed

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: Armistice signed; war casualty statistics: c. 8.5 million killed, 21

million wounded, 7.5 million prisoners and missing

Russian ex-czar Nicolas II and family executed

Serbo-Croatian-Slovene kingdom of Yugoslavia proclaimed; Czechoslovakia declares

independence; Hungarian and Polish republics proclaimed

Food rationing in Britain, France and U.S.

"Spanish" influenza sweeps through Europe, America and the Orient, killing 21.64 million

Women over 30 get vote in Britain

Daylight Saving Time introduced

First publication of Stars and Stripes, U.S. Army newspaper

Knute Rockne (1888-1931) named head coach at University of Notre Dame

Exterminator wins Kentucky Derby

Population: USA, 103.5 million

United Lutheran Church established

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Vicente Blasco-Ibanez);

Man of Straw (Heinrich Mann); My Antonia (Willa Cather); Eminent Victorians (Lytton

Strachey); The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington); The Dark Messengers (Cesar

Vallejo); Cornhuskers (Carl Sandburg)

Art: Gartenplan (Paul Klee); Odalisques (Matisse)

Music; Classical Symphony (Serge Prokofiev)

Opera: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Bela Bartok)

Popular songs: "K-K-K-Katy;" "Till We Meet Again"

Staatliches Bauhaus founded at Weimar by German Architect Walter Gropius

Harlot Shapley discovers true dimensions of Milky Way

YEAR: 1919

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mayor David Young declares name of Austin Street changed to

Harper Street honoring Lt. Milton Harper, killed in WWI; Cemetery Street changed to Cates

Street in memory of prominent attorney Charles Cates, Sr.

First public library opens in room over Service Barber Shop, Miss A. Belle Smith, librarian

Town of Maryville officially changed to City of Maryville

First airplane to visit Maryville arrives August 8 for farmers' picnic

City of Alcoa organized in area formerly known as "North Maryville"

Maryville-Alcoa Kiwanis Club formed

Dr. K. A. Bryant forms Blount County Health Department, first local health department in

Tennessee

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Peace Conference at Versailles

President Wilson presides over first League of Nations meeting in Paris

War between Finland and USSR

Massive relocations of ethnic minorities begins in Europe

Race riots erupt in 26 U.S. cities

International labor conference in Washington endorses 8-hour work day

Labor unrest in U.S.; 4 million workers strike

Alcock and Brown make first non-stop flight across Atlantic

Jack Dempsey wins World Heavyweight Boxing Championship

Babe Ruth hits 587-foot home run

Sir Barton is first Triple Crown winner

Development of mechanical rabbit marks origin of modern greyhound racing

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The American Language (H.L. Mencken); Ten Days That Shook

the World (John Reed); Epistle to the Romans (Karl Barth); Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood

Anderson); My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse); La Symphonie pastorale (Andre Gide); The

Moon and Sixpence (W.S. Maugham)

Art: Dream Birds (Paul Klee)

Musicals: Apple Blossoms (Fritz Kreisler)

Julliard School of Music endowed

Observations of total eclipse of sun bear out Albert Einstein's "Theory of Relativity"

First experiments with shortwave radio

Dial telephones introduced

YEAR: 1920

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville-Alcoa Chamber of Commerce organizational meeting held.

Earlier efforts focused strictly on Maryville

First sheet aluminum rolled at Alcoa West Plant

College Maid Shop opens, allowing female students to earn school funds by stitching uniforms

sold throughout area

Bank of Blount County becomes first local bank to exceed $1 million in capital

Maryville population reaches 3,739, increase of approximately 1,300 in 10 years

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Bolshevik Red Army captures Odessa; end of Russian Civil War; Baltic

states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania gain recognition as independent nations

Lebanon created with capital at Beirut

Gandhi (1869-1948) emerges as India's leader in struggle for independence

League of Nations holds first meeting; U.S. Senate votes against joining

American Civil Liberties Union founded

19th Amendment gives women right to vote

Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and charged with robbery and murder at Massachusetts factory;

prosecuted as "Reds" after anti-government leaflets are found in their car

Babe Ruth begins 14-year career as "Sultan of Swat" for New York

"Black Sox" scandal threatens prestige and popularity of baseball

National Football League (NFL) organized

Man 'o War retires after winning Preakness and Belmont Stakes

Sport of water skiing pioneered in France

First Miss America crowned

Population (in millions): U.S., 117.8; New York, 5.6; Los Angeles, .576; World population: 1.86

billion

Joan of Arc (1412-1431) canonized

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Outline of History (H.G. Wells); This Side of Paradise (F. Scott

Fitzgerald); The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton); Main Street (Sinclair Lewis); Cheri

(Colette), Poor White (Sherwood Anderson)

Theater: Beyond the Horizon (Eugene O'Neill); The Skin Game (John Galsworthy)

Popular songs: "Avalon"

Rorschach devises "ink blot" tests

True structure of Milky Way shown for first time

YEAR: 1921

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mayor J. A. Tobe Cox announces City of Maryville will enforce

Sunday closing of business establishments

Circle Drive Hospital and Nurses' Training School opened by a group of local physicians to

administer to medical needs of city

Work begins on five-story First National Bank building on Main Street, tallest structure in

downtown for many years

City purchases REO Speedwagon fire truck, second fire vehicle to be purchased in 5 years

N. L. Brewer named first chief of police

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Britain and Ireland sign peace treaty

Acute shortages of food, fuel and transportation in Russia as agricultural and industrial

production decline; famine kills 3 million; U.S. organizes American Relief Administration and

raises $60 million to aid Russians

Bolsheviks open first concentration camps since Boer War

Former president William Howard Taft named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis; will be crippled for life

Teapot Dome scandal; naval oil reserves are secretly leased to private oil operators

Cigarettes illegal in 14 states, but U.S. consumption reaches 43 billion (up from 10 billion in

1910)

Boll weevils cut Georgia and South Carolina cotton harvest in half

First radio broadcast of baseball game

Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine proposed

Autobahn opens in Berlin, first highway designed exclusively for motorcars

Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder

Population (in millions): USSR, 136; U.S. 107; Japan, 78; Germany, 60; Great Britain, 42.5

Ku Klux Klan activities become violent throughout southern U.S.

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Chrome Yellow (Aldous Huxley); Heloise and Abelard (George

Moore); Three Soldiers (John Dos Passos); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)

Art: Still Life with Guitar (Georges Braque); The Kiss (Edvard Munch); Three Musicians

(Picasso)

Theater: Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill)

Musicals: Blossom Time (Sigmund Romberg)

Films: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; The Kid; Peck's Bad Boy

Clown Emmett Kelly appears as "Weary Willy"

Heart disease replaces tuberculosis as leading cause of death in U.S.

Coal successfully hydrogenated to oil

Isotopes successfully separated

B-C-G tuberculosis vaccine developed

Chromosome theory of heredity postulated

PRESIDENT: Warren Gamaliel Harding

YEAR: 1922

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Thaw Hall dedicated at Maryville College to house expanding

college library

To ease rat problem in city, local businessmen sponsor rat killing contest, resulting in

extermination of 1,377 rodents

Maryville Hosiery Mill reorganized as Ideal Hosiery Mill

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Benito Mussolini forms fascist government in Italy

Irish Free State officially proclaimed; Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed

Kingdom of Egypt proclaimed

Washington Conference closes; provides naval armaments treaty that limits production of

warships and restricts submarine warfare and use of poison gas

Oil discovered at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

U.S. Government revenues: $4.9 billion; expenditures, $4.1 billion

Federal Narcotics Control Board established

U.S. marriages: 1,126,000; divorces, 148,000

Georgia appoints first woman, Mrs. W. H. Felton, U.S. Senator; term is one day

Reader's Digest founded

Charles Atlas wins "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man"

Gene Sarazen, age 20, wins U.S. Golf Open Championship

Mah-Jongg introduced in U.S.; begins nationwide craze

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Ulysses (James Joyce); Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse); The Beautiful

and the Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald); Babbit (Sinclair Lewis); Jigsaw (Barbara Cartland); The

Voyages of Dr. Doolittle (Hugh Lofting)

Theater: Abie's Irish Rose (Anne Nichols)

Louis Armstrong arrives in Chicago from New Orleans

German architect Mies Van Der Rohe designs first building with "ribbon windows"

King Tut's tomb discovered

Self-winding wristwatch invented/patented

Insulin first administered to diabetic patients

Vitamin D isolated; used successfully to treat rickets

White corpuscles discovered

YEAR: 1923

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mentor Cannery moves to Maryville, producing 30,000 cans of goods

per day under "Pride of Blount" label

Planning begins for permanent road between Maryville and Knoxville; street commissioner

empowered to purchase rights-of-way within corporate limits

Evangelist Billy Sunday preaches message to large crowds

Financial restraints require securing of loans to pay teachers for services

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Adolph Hitler founds Nazi party

German economy collapses; inflation soars

USSR established

Siberian gold rush begins

Centers of Tokyo and Yokahama destroyed by earthquakes; 120,000 dead

200,000 members attend tri-state conclave of Ku Klux Klan in Indiana; Oklahoma declares

marshal law to protect people and property from attacks by KKK

First birth control clinic opens in New York

Planned obsolescence becomes major part of automobile marketing; manufacturers inaugurate

annual model style changes

Time magazine founded

Yankee Stadium opens

Charleston becomes international dance craze

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran); The Harp Weaver (Edna St. Vincent

Millay)

Theater: Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)

Films: Anna Christie; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Ten Commandments

Popular songs: "Yes, We Have No Bananas;" "Mexicali Rose;" "Down Hearted Blues"

Joseph "King" Oliver and "Jellyroll" Morton record New Orleans style jazz

Le Corbusier: Towards a New Architecture

Earth's magnetic field analyzed

Theory of acids and bases postulated

Principle of autogyro developed

Process for sound motion picture demonstrated

Jacob Schick patents electric razor

Hafium discovered

Hubble discovers distance-hyphenating cephid star in Andromeda nebula

Ultra centrifuge developed

Continuous hot-strip rolling of steel invented

PRESIDENT: Calvin Coolidge

YEAR: 1924

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Construction begins on Main Street viaduct connecting Main Street

with Washington Street

Drake's Mill on Pistol Creek severely damaged by fire in July

National Guard 178th field artillery organized By. Lt. Col. J. G. Sims and Maj. M. B. Crum,

consisting of 50 men, a headquarters company, and a combat train of 20 men

Maryville College Highlander's football team defeats Union College 103-0

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Hitler sentenced to five years imprisonment for seizing government of

Munich; released after 8 months

Lenin dies; Petrograd renamed Leningrad; power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky

U.S. bill limits immigrants; excludes all Japanese

J. Edgar Hoover appointed director of FBI

First Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

"Four Horsemen" star as Notre Dame upsets Army

First Winter Olympics

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnap slaying

2.5 million radios in U.S.

"Little Orphan Annie" cartoon appears

Karl Barth: The Word of God and the Word of Man

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Passage to India (E.M. Forster); Billy Budd (Herman Melville);

Bambi (Felix Salter)

Theater: Desire Under the Elms (Eugene O'Neill); The Vortex (Noel Coward); What Price

Glory? (Anderson and Stallings); They Knew What They Wanted (Sidney Howard)

Films: Beau Brummel

Music: Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin)

Popular songs: "Does the Spearmint Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night;" "It Had to be

You;" "The Man I Love;" "Tea for Two;" "What'll I Do?"

Mesozoic dinosaur bones discovered in Gobe Desert

Study concerning wave theory of matter published

First use of chemical insecticides

Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) completes dogsled journey across Arctic

YEAR: 1925

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Main Street viaduct completed in May; total cost, $86,087

Building of new pot-room at Alcoa produces more jobs

Fire consumes G. N. Mize and Son Lumber Co. and Southern Coffin and Casket during hot, dry

summer

Maryville College abolishes Preparatory Department as public schools offer similar curriculum

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Chiang Kai-shek becomes commander-in-chief of China after Sun Yat-

sen's death

Adolph Hitler: Mein Kampf

Syria is created, demands independence; French bombard Damascus

Mrs. Nelle Taylor Ross becomes Wyoming's and America's first woman governor

Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee; Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan

Tennessee forbids sex education in schools

Tornado kills 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana

Al Capone becomes boss of Chicago's bootlegging

Crossword puzzles beome popular

Ford Motor Company's German subsidiary begins operations

Grantland Rice begins selection of all-American team in Collier's Weekly

Lou Gehrig joins New York Yankees

Trinity College becomes Duke University after $40 million grant from James B. Duke, tobacco

magnate

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Trial (Franz Kafka); The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald);

An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser); Manhattan Transfer (John Dos Passos)

Films: The Gold Rush

Music: Symphony No. 1 (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Musicals: No, No, Nanette

Popular songs: "Five Feet Two, Eyes of Blue;" "Sweet Georgia Brown;" "Yes, Sir, That's My

Baby"

Grand Ole Opry first airs in Nashville as WSM Barn Dance

Architecture: Le Pavillon de l'Esprit, Paris (Le Corbusier)

Recognizable human features transmitted by television

Carl Menninger opens clinic to treat mentally ill

Process for preparing commercial hydrogen invented

First Leica camera built

Presence of cosmic rays in upper atmosphere discovered

Rhenium discovered

Solar eclipse in New York first in 300 years

YEAR: 1926

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Professor Charles W. Henry sells contents and grounds of Maryville

Polytechnic School to City of Maryville for $70,000

Public Library Board of Directors incorporated; purchases Toole home (Lot 91) for new library

site

Greer Garage fire destroys 100 cars and 6 buses, including city fire trucks stored in the building

Maryville College enrollment: 706 students

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

Stalin becomes virtual dictator of Soviet Union

Turkey abolishes polygamy; female attire modernized; fez prohibited; Latin alphabet adopted

W. L. "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed

Population (in millions): USSR, 148; U.S., 115; Japan, 85; Germany, 64; Britain, 45

Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey as heavyweight boxing champion

Gertrude Ederle (U.S.) first woman to swim English Channel

Miniature golf invented in Tennessee

"Permanent" wave becomes fashionable

Sarah Lawrence College founded

Great Smoky Mountains National Park opened

ART, SCIENCE and

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway); The Castle (Franz

Kafka); The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T.E. Lawrence); Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Book-of-the-Month-Club founded

Art: Black Iris (Georgia O'Keefe)

Theater: The Silver Cord (Sidney Howard); In Abraham's Bosom (Paul Green)

Harry Houdini make headlines by remaining underwater for 91 minutes in an airtight case; will

die later in the year from peritonitis

Films: Beau Geste; Don Juan; The Scarlet Letter

Musicals: The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg)

Popular songs: "Baby Face;" "Bye Bye Blackbird"

Duke Ellington's and "Jellyroll" Morton's first records appear

Admiral Byrd circles North Pole in plane

Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid-fuel rocket

Vitamin B isolated in pure form

Kodak produces first 16mm movie film

YEAR: 1927

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville High School moves from east side to Polytechnic School

site

New American-LaFrance fire truck purchased for $12,500 to replace loss of equipment; fire

station constructed on Church Street; water sprayed to top of New Providence Church steeple to

test new engine equipment

Public library moves to new quarters in January

Senator Kenneth D. McKellar commencement speaker for Maryville High 47-member

graduating class

Blount County Medical Society membership: 32 locally practicing doctors

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: China's Chiang Kai-shek overthrows leftist government; establishes

rightist National Revolutionary Government; expels Russians from Shanghai after attempted

coup

Allied military control of Germany ends

Petroleum prospectors strike oil in northern Iraq

Sacco and Vanzetti executed in electric chair despite pressure to drop charges for lack of

evidence

Charles Lindbergh completes first nonstop solo transatlantic flight in The Spirit of St. Louis, New

York to Paris, 33 hours, 29 minutes

Harlem Globetrotters organized

First Golden Gloves boxing tournament

Sonja Henie, ice skating champion

Babe Ruth sets record with 60 home runs

Johnny Weismuller swims 100 yards in 51 seconds

Slow foxtrot fashionable dance

ART, SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Der Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse); Amerika (Franz Kafka); The

Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder); Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis); The Treasure of the

Sierra Madre (B. Traven); Tristram (E.A. Robinson)

Al Jolson makes film debut in The Jazz Singer, first full length talking picture to achieve success

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences founded; first Academy Awards presented

Musicals: A Connecticut Yankee (Rodgers and Hart); Funny Face (George and Ira Gershwin);

Show Boat (Kern and Hammerstein)

Popular songs: "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover;" "Me and My Shadow;" "My Blue

Heaven;" "Strike Up the Band"

Architecture: Dymaxion House (Buckminster Fuller)

Fossil remains of Peking man (400,000-300,000 B.C.) found near Beijing

"Iron lung" developed

Mechanical cotton picker perfected

Holland Tunnel opened in New York

YEAR: 1928

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. George Washington Carver, Tuskeegee Institute, addresses large

crowd at Maryville College on April 24

Dr. J. E. Carson buys Samuel George residence on original Fort Craig site and opens Fort Craig

Hospital

East Side School renamed Fort Craig School, housing only primary grades

Headquarters building, 178th Field Artillery, constructed on Ellis Avenue

DAR officially marks site of John Craig's fort on Washington Street

People's Telephone Exchange sold to Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war, signed in Paris by 63 world

powers

Beginning of first Five-Year Plan in USSR; Stalin orders collectivization of Soviet agriculture

Chiang Kai-shek elected president of China

Sonja Henie Olympic ice skating champion (three times until 1936, 10 time world champion)

Gene Tunney retires; Jack Sharkey world heavyweight boxing champ

First scheduled television broadcasts

Amelia Earhart first woman to fly Atlantic

Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in Samoa

Plymouth motorcars introduced by Chrysler to compete with Ford and Chevrolet

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Lady Chatterly's Lover (D.H. Lawrence); Point Counter Point

(Aldous Huxley); Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh); Gypsy Ballads (Federico Garcia Lorca);

John Brown's Body (Steven Vincent Benet)

Theater: Strange Interlude (Eugene O'Neill)

Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie introduces Mickey Mouse

Amos 'n' Andy radio comedy debuts

Musicals: The New Moon (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein); Paris (Cole Porter)

Opera: The Three-Penny Opera (Kurt Weill)

Music: An American in Paris (George Gershwin); Bolero (Maurice Ravel)

Rudy Vallee forms band in New York

Lawrence Welk launches career

Popular songs: "I'll Get By;" "Puttin' On the Ritz"

Color TV demonstrated

Anthropology and Modern Life confutes fascist theory of "master race"

Penicillin found to have antibacterial properties

Capsicums (peppers) discovered to be a rich source of Vitamin C

YEAR: 1929

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Stock market crash forces reduction of work hours; Alcoa institutes

30-hour week; Ideal Hosiery Mill institutes 2 shifts with fewer hours per shift

A. R. McCammon elected mayor

First showing of talking motion pictures at Palace Theater

Direct dialing replaces central telephone exchange

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Stalin expels Trotsky from the Soviet Union and the Communist Party

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes becomes Yugoslavia

Arabs attack Jews in Palestine following dispute over Jerusalem's Wailing Wall

Hitler appoints Himmler SS chief

Term "apartheid" used for first time

U.S. Stock Exchange collapses on October 29, "Black Tuesday"

St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago among rival gangs

U.S. auto production tops 5 million

Graf Zeppelin airship flies around the world

"Popeye" cartoon appears

Yo-yo introduced in U.S.

First pinball machines

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Time of Indifference (Alberto Moravia); Les Enfants Terribles

(Jean Cocteau); All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque); Look Homeward,

Angel (Thomas Wolfe); The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner); A Farewell to Arms (Ernest

Hemingway)

Art: Sailing Boats (Lyonel Feininger); Reclining Figure (Henry Moore)

New York's Museum of Modern Art opens

Theater: Street Scene (Elmer Rice)

"Talkies" kill silent films

Musicals: Show Girl; Sweet Adeline

Popular songs: "Ain't Misbehavin';" "Am I Blue?;" "Honeysuckle Rose;" "Singing in the Rain;"

"Stardust;" "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"

LeCorbusier: The City of Tomorrow

Quartz crystal clock introduced

Link observed between hypertension and heart disease

First clinical use of penicillin

Hormone estrone isolated

Army monoplane completes 150-hour flight with in-flight refueling

Lt. James Doolittle performs instrument flight

Richard E. Byrd flies over South Pole

Crease-resisting cotton fabric developed

PRESIDENT: Herbert Clark Hoover

YEAR: 1930

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Utilities Gas and Electric Co. constructs first natural gas system in

Maryville

Dr. Samuel T. Wilson, 5th president of Maryville College, resigns after serving college since

1884, 29 years as president; Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd appointed president

Maryville becomes desirable route to Great Smoky Mountains National Park

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Name of Constantinople changed to Istanbul

Nazi party wins 107 seats in new Reichstag

Mahatma Gandhi leads civil disobedience campaign against British in India

U.S. tariff levels raised to highest level in history; Most Favored Nations policy grants tariff

concessions to certain nations

Emigration from U.S. surpasses immigration for first time in history

Stock prices continue to decline in U.S.; unemployment passes 4 million; over 1,300 banks close

Gross National Product (GNP) index of national wealth formulated

Congress creates Veterans Administration

Federal Bureau of Narcotics organized

Huge oil field opens in eastern Texas; world oil prices collapse

First airline stewardesses

Briton Amy Johnson makes first solo flight by a woman

"Blondie" comic strip popular in U.S.

Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey in world championship bout in New York City

Bobby Jones wins Grand Slam golf title

Wonder Bread introduces sliced bread

Technocracy (absolute domination of technology) conceived as phenomenon

J. M. Keynes: Treatise on Money

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: "A Room of One's Own" (Virginia Woolf); As I Lay Dying

(William Faulkner); Cimarron (Edna Ferber); The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett);

Laughing Boy (Oliver La Farge); Collected Poems (Robert Frost)

Sinclair Lewis, first American Nobel laureate in literature

Boston bans all works by Leon Trotsky

Art: American Gothic (Grant Wood)

Theater: The Green Pastures (Marc Connelly); Private Lives (Noel Coward)

The Lone Ranger radio drama debuts

Films: All Quiet on the Western Front; Anna Christie; Blue Angel; Lightnin'; Murder

Musicals: Girl Crazy and Strike Up the Band (George and Ira Gershwin)

Popular songs: "Dream a Little Dream of Me;" "Embraceable You;" "Georgia on My Mind;" "I

Got Rhythm;" "I've Got a Crush on You;" "Three Little Words"

Carl Menninger: The Human Mind

Human egg cell seen for first time through microscope

Photo flashbulbs patented

Plexiglass invented

First analog computer

Molecular structure investigated by x-ray

Development of cyclotron pioneered

Vitamin D isolated; used to fortify milk and butter

Pepsin and trypsin made in crystallized form

Planet Pluto discovered

Yellow fever vaccine developed

YEAR: 1931

MARYVILLE HISTORY: A. K. Harper Memorial Library dedicated in memory of A. K.

Harper, former mayor, and sons Lt. L. Harper, killed in WWI, and Fred K. Harper

William J. Hale School opened to serve black community; Mrs. Octavia B. Hoard, principal

Schlosser Tannery in Walland burns, creating unemployment for many; fire truck responds to no

avail

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Worldwide financial panic and economic depression; U.S.

unemployment tops 8 million; over 20,000 suicides in U.S.

Depression era prices: New home, less than $3,000; man's suit, about $10; pair of shoes, $4;

pound of steak, 29 cents; loaf of bread, 5 cents; movie, 10 cents

Hattie T. Carroway first woman elected to U.S. Senate

Alphonse "Scarface" Capone jailed for income tax evasion

Wiley Post makes first solo flight around the world

International Bible Students' Association becomes the Jehovah's Witnesses

Black Muslims founded

Population (in millions): China, 410; India, 338; USSR, 168; U.S., 122; Japan, 75; Germany, 64;

Great Britain, 46

"Dick Tracy" and "Felix the Cat" comic strips appear

Nevada State Legislature legalizes gambling; first casino opens in Reno

John Dewey: Philosophy and Civilization

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller); The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

Art: The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)

Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer dedicated atop Corcovado (Hunchback Mountain)

Theater: Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O'Neill)

Films: City Lights; Frankenstein; Public Enemy

Clark Gable begins Hollywood career

"The Star Spangled Banner" becomes U.S. national anthem

Kate Smith makes radio debut

Popular songs: "Dancing in the Dark;" "Goodnight, Sweetheart;" "I Love a Parade;" "Mood

Indigo"

"Singing cowboy" Gene Autrey has hit with "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine"

Empire State Building completed

Vitamin A isolated

Male sex hormone androgen isolated

Radio interference from Milky Way discovered

Process devised for producing neoprene, synthetic rubber

Heavy hydrogen (deuterium) discovered

YEAR: 1932

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Due to Depression, Bank of Maryville and Bank of Blount County

vote to merge

Depression losses force First National Bank to close after 18 years; City loses $982 of invested

funds

J. A. (Tobe) Cox, president of Maryville Bank, former mayor and school board member dies

October 4

Morningside, palatial residence of Mrs. John Walker, completed in Maryville College woods

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Japan occupies Manchuria; bombs Shanghai

First Communist revolt in Latin America

Nazi leader Herman Goering elected president of German Reichstag

Famine kills millions in Ukraine as Stalin moves to starve kulaks who resist collectivization

Franklin D. Roosevelt wins presidency on "New Deal" platform

U.S. Federal Reserve system organized

Reconstruction Finance Corporation established by Congress

Unemployment (in millions): U.S., 17 (34 million Americans have no income of any kind);

Germany, 5.6; Britain, 2.8

Amelia Earhart first woman to fly solo across Atlantic

Lindbergh baby kidnapped

Olympic Games at Los Angeles; first Winter Games in U.S. (Lake Placid, New York)

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Death in the Afternoon (Ernest Hemingway); Brave New World

(Aldous Huxley); Tobacco Road (Erskine Caldwell); Little House in the Big Woods (Laura

Ingalls Wilder); The Story of Babar (Jean de Brunhoff)

Alexander Calder exhibits mobiles

Radio comedy The Jack Benny Show

Films: A Farewell to Arms; Grand Hotel; King Kong

Johnny Weissmuller appears in first Tarzan film

New York's Radio City Music Hall opens

Music: Grand Canyon Suite (Ferde Grofe)

Popular songs: April in Paris;" "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?;" "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a

Chance with You;" "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got that Swing;" "Night and Day"

Cockroft and Walton succeed in splitting the atom

Positron discovered

The neutron discovered

Auguste Piccard reaches height of 17.5 miles in stratosphere balloon

Balloon tire produced for farm tractors

Vitamin D discovered

Work begins on Golden Gate Bridge

YEAR: 1933

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Shortening of school year threatened unless taxes paid promptly; city

employees' wages cut by 25%

Maryville Savings & Loan Corporation begins operation

Maryville stores adopt 56-hour week

Mary Alice Byrd Dunn appointed Maryville Postmaster by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dr. Isaac Anderson remains moved from New Providence Cemetery to Maryville College

Cemetery

Civilian Conservation Corps camps established to provide jobs; merchants eagerly anticipate

these workers in town on Saturdays

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Adolph Hitler begins 12 years as dictator of German Reich; FDR begins

12 years as president of the U.S.

Nazis open first German concentration camp at Dachau for Jews, gypsies and political prisoners

Kandinsky, Bruno Walter and Klee flee Germany

Portugal becomes a fascist dictatorship

U.S. Congress votes independence for Philippines

Washington and Moscow establish relations

20th Amendment sets January 20 inauguration date

Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor, first woman Cabinet member

Tennessee Valley Authority created

Public Works Administration created to provide jobs for unemployed Americans

21st Amendment repeals prohibition

Chicago World's Fair; Sally Rand performs fan dance wearing only ostrich plumes; credited with

attracting thousands of jobless Americans to fair in search of fun

Fiorello H. LaGuardia elected New York mayor

First baseball All-Star game played

C. J. Jung: Psychology and Religion

Leon Trotsky: History of the Russian Revolution

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein); The Human

Condition (Andre Malraux); God's Little Acre (Erskine Caldwell); The Blood Wedding

(Frederico Garcia Lorcas); Residence on Earth (Pablo Neruda)

All Jewish authored books burned in Germany

Theater: Men in White (Sidney Kingsley)

George Balanchine and L.E. Kirstein found School of American Ballet

Radio soap opera serials popular

Films: Dinner at Eight; Duck Soup; 42nd Street; Little Women; She Done Him Wrong; The

Private Life of Henry VIII

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers debut as new dance team

Opera: Arabella (Richard Strauss)

Popular songs: "Basin Street Blues;" "Easter Parade;" "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes;" "Stormy

Weather"

Pure vitamin C synthesized

First pure chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing chemical) isolated

Influenza virus isolated

PRESIDENT: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

YEAR: 1934

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Blount National Bank opens in former First National Bank building

Aluminum plant closed by August 10 strike, idling 1,900 workers; reopens September 10

Work begins on runways of new McGhee Tyson Airport

Gen. John J. Pershing, WWI hero, visits Maryville, site of his mother's birthplace (just east of

town)

Cusick Street bridge spanning Pistol Creek is constructed

Main Street fire destroys Byrne Drugstore, causing $40,000 in damages

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Hitler becomes German president

Mounting opposition to Stalin within Communist party

First nationwide general strike in U.S.

U.S. initiates reciprocal tariff-cutting agreements with foreign nations to stimulate world trade

Switzerland inaugurates secret numbered bank accounts to protect accounts of Jews in Nazi

Germany

Winston Churchill warns Britain of German air menace

Britain introduces driving tests

300 million tons of Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas topsoil blown into Atlantic by dust

storms; Dustbowl "Okies" migrate to California

Max Baer wins world heavyweight boxing title

Joe Louis wins first fight

"Satchel" Paige breaks Dizzy Dean's 30-game winning streak

"Li'l Abner" comic strip appears

Consumption of red meat increases in U.S.

Dionne quintuplets born

Bonnie and Clyde gunned down after 2-year crime spree

FBI shoots John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1

Bruno Hauptmann arrested for possession of ransom money paid to recover kidnapped

Lindbergh baby

Alcatraz Island (the "Rock") converted into federal prison

R. Niebuhr: Moral Man and Immoral Society

Arnold Toynbee: A Study of History

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Seven Gothic Tales (Isak Dinesen); I, Claudius (Robert Graves);

Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton); "The Daring

Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (William Saroyan); Lust for Life (Irving Stone); Murder on

the Orient Express (Agatha Christie); The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)

Theater: The Children's Hour (Lillian Hellman)

Films: The Lost Patrol; Of Human Bondage; The Thin Man

Shirley Temple, age 6, makes her first full-length film and steals the show in Little Miss Marker

Clark Gable reveals his bare chest in It Happened One Night; men's underwear sales slump

Musicals: Anything Goes (Cole Porter)

Popular songs: "Beer Barrel Polka;" "Blue Moon;" "I Only Have Eyes for You;" "On the Good

Ship Lollipop;" "Stars Fell on Alabama;" "Winter Wonderland"

Hammond organ patented, first pipeless organ

First launderette opens

First radar tests

Uranium bombarded with neutrons to produce transuranium elements

Aluminum bombarded with alpha particles to produce radioactive form of phosphorus

Refrigeration process for meat cargoes devised

YEAR: 1935

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Professor Charles W. Henry, founder of Maryville Polytechnic

School dies September 15; mourned by many

Bank of Maryville issues $50,000 of preferred stock to Reconstruction Finance Corporation,

helping to stabilize the local economy

New traffic lights installed in effort to regulate traffic

Ideal Hosiery Mill closes, leaving many workers unemployed

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty and reinstitute compulsory military

service; Luftwaffe formed to give Germany military air capability

Nazi SS leader Himmler starts breeding program to produce an "Aryan super race"

Nazi Nuremburg Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship and forbid intermarriage with Jews

Mussolini invades Abyssinia

Persia changes name to Iran

Anti-Catholic riots in Belfast; Northern Ireland expels Catholics

U.S. Army Air Corps is first independent U.S. strategic air force

National Labor Relations Act

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) founded

Social Security Act provides system of old-age annuities and unemployment insurance benefits

First U.S. public housing project opens in New York

Governor Huey Long assassinated in Louisiana

Williamsburg, Virginia completes 8 years of restoration to its colonial splendor

Pilot Wiley Post and humorist Will Rogers killed in plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska

Alcoholics Anonymous organized

James Braddock wins heavyweight title from Max Baer

First Heisman Trophy awarded

Caddy Sam Snead begins professional golf career

Malcolm Campbell drives "Bluebird" at 276.8 mph

Monopoly board game introduced by Parker Brothers

Rhumba becomes fashionable dance

Karl Barth: Credo

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Stars Look Down (A.J. Cronin); The Last Puritan (George

Santayana); Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck); Of Time and the River (Thomas Wolfe); Studs

Lonigan (James T. Farrell); National Velvet (Enid Bagnold)

Theater: Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets); Night Must Fall (Emlyn Williams); Murder in the

Cathedral (T.S. Eliot)

Radio comedy Fibber McGhee and Molly

Films: Anna Karenina; The Bride of Frankenstein; David Copperfield; Mutiny on the Bounty;

The 39 Steps

Opera: Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin)

Popular songs: "Begin the Beguine"; "I Got Plenty 'o' Nothin'"; "I'm in the Mood for Love;" "It

Ain't Necessarily So"; "Just One of Those Things;" "Moon Over Miami;" "The Music Goes

'Round and 'Round"

Prontosil (first sulfa drug for treating streptococcal infections) discovered

Vitamin B synthesized

Vitamin K isolated

Polyethylene developed, first true "plastic"

First wearable hearing aid produced

Nylon developed

Charles Richter devises scale to measure intensity of earthquakes

YEAR: 1936

MARYVILLE HISTORY: First sewage disposal plant constructed on property located

approximately 400' west of this location

WPA (Works Progress Administration) project completes massive rock wall on Harper Street

Local ordinance passed to regulate barbers

City donates $5,000 for additional construction at McGhee Tyson Airport

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Spanish Civil War begins

Mussolini and Hitler proclaim Rome-Berlin axis

Italy annexes Ethiopia

Great Purge begins in Soviet Union; Stalin eliminates political enemies by killing 8-10 million

people

King Edward VIII abdicates British throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson

New oil well located in California using seismograph techniques

DC-3 aircraft introduced by Douglas Aircraft

Olympic Games in Berlin; Jesse Owens wins four gold medals

Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis for world heavyweight boxing championship

Joe DiMaggio begins career with New York Yankees

Population (in millions): China, 422; India, 360; USSR, 173; U.S., 127; Japan, 89; Germany, 70;

Great Britain, 47; France, 44

Life magazine published

Fictitious "Betty Crocker" answers consumer inquiries to General Mills

Bruno Hauptmann dies in electric chair for Lindbergh kidnapping

Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie); The

Forty-Second Parallel (John Dos Passos); The Gift (Vladimir Nabokov); Gone with the Wind

(Margaret Mitchell); Drums Along the Mohawk (Walter D. Edmonds);

Penguin Books begins paperback revolution in U.S.; issues paperback editions of good literature

for 25 cents

Art: Composition in Red and Blue (Piet Mondrian)

Theater: Idiot's Delight (Robert Sherwood); You Can't Take It With You (Kaufman and Hart)

Films: Anthony Adverse; Camille; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Music: Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev)

U.S. folk singer Woody Guthrie hired by Dept. of Interior to propagandize public power projects

Popular songs: "De-Lovely;" "I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande;" "Pennies from

Heaven;" "Stomping at the Savoy;" "Whiffenpoof Song"

Boulder (Hoover) Dam completed; Lake Meade, largest reservoir in the world

Artificial heart developed

Thiamin synthesized; niacin isolated

Dirigible "Hindenburg" makes transatlantic flight

YEAR: 1937

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Federal grant aids in financing construction of new high school

Strike closes Alcoa Sheet Mill; many unemployed; National Guard troops assist in security at

plant

McGhee Tyson Airport dedicated; American Airlines first carrier to serve region

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Japanese seize Peking, Shanghai, Nanking and Hangchow; execute over

200,000 civilians; Chiang Kai-shek unites with Communists Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai

Japanese planes sink U.S. gunboat "Panay" in Chinese waters; tensions mount between Japan

and U.S.

Stalin continues to purge Communist party with executions and forced exiles to Siberia

Germany evicts Jews from trade and industry; orders them to wear yellow "Star of David"

badges

Neville Chamberlain becomes British prime minister

Strike against Republic Steel, Chicago - 4 killed, 84 hurt

Amelia Earhart lost on Pacific flight

Lincoln Tunnel completed

Hindenburg dirigible disaster. Lakehurst, New Jersey

First transcontinental radio broadcast

Golden Gate Bridge opens; world's longest suspension bridge

Joe Louis, 23, regains world heavyweight boxing title

ART, SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Citadel (A.J. Cronin); Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck); The

Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien); The Late George Apley (John P. Marquand)

Art: Guernica (Picasso)

Theater: Golden Boy (Clifford Odets)

Radio: The Charlie McCarthy Show; The Guiding Light

Films: Captains Courageous; The Life of Emile Zola; A Star is Born

First Bugs Bunny Cartoon

Musicals: Babes in Arms (Rodgers and Hart)

Popular songs: "Harbor Lights;" "The Lady is a Tramp;" "My Funny Valentine"

Architecture: Falling Water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Insulin used to control diabetes

First lab-made element produced

Nylon patented

Xerography pioneered as dry-copying process

First jet engine constructed

YEAR: 1938

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Policeman Bart Coker shot and killed on December 31 in area

adjacent to current library building, Maryville's second officer to die in uniform

New Maryville High School cornerstone laid in March; old school building (former Freedmen's

Institute of 1873) is razed

Maryville High School gymnasium begun as WPA project in August

Lions Club organized to provide assistance to vision-impaired

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Mexico nationalizes petroleum industry; revokes licenses granted to

British and U.S. oil companies

Hitler annexes Austria; persecutes Austrian Jews

House Unamerican Activities Committee formed

American ambassador to Germany recalled; German ambassador to U.S. recalled

Fair Labor Standards Act limits working hours, provides overtime pay and sets minimum wage

Supreme Court rules University of Missouri Law School must admit blacks

20,000 TV sets in service in New York City

Samba and conga dances introduced to U.S.

S. S. Queen Elizabeth launched

32,000 people die in U.S. auto accidents

Eddie Arcaro's first Kentucky Derby win

Don Budge wins first "grand slam" in tennis

"Superman" introduced in comic books

Lewis Mumford: The Culture of Cities

Tropical hurricane strikes New England; 680 lives lost; $400 million in property damage

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen); The Unvanquished (William

Faulkner); The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)

Art: Regatta (Raoul Dufy)

The War of the Worlds radio broadcast is so realistic that it causes panic among listening

audience

Films: Bringing Up Baby; Holiday; Pygmalion; Robin Hood; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;

You Can't Take It with You

Ballet: Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland)

Benny Goodman gives first Carnegie Hall jazz concert

Popular songs: "Flat Foot Floogie;" "Jeepers Creepers;" "Thanks for the Memory;" "That Old

Feeling"

Architecture: Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts (Walter Gropius); Taliesin West, Phoenix,

Arizona (Frank Lloyd Wright)

First Volkswagen "beetle" assembled in Germany for Adolph Hitler

Ballpoint pen invented

Fiberglas perfected by Owens-Illinois and Corning

Vitamin E identified

First nuclear fission of uranium

First high-definition color TV

Cyclotron research suggests possibility of self-sustaining nuclear fission

YEAR: 1939

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. A. M. Gamble elected mayor

City purchases Tennessee Electric Power Company rights and holdings within city and begins

operation of first municipally owned electric system

City contracts power purchase from newly created TVA; creates utilities boards to manage

affairs of utility systems

First Christmas decoration of downtown streets under direction of Chamber of Commerce;

Christmas tree placed in center of Broadway ordered removed

Plaid dressed Scottish terrier appears on football field and becomes official mascot of Maryville

College

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Spanish Civil War ends; Britain, France and U.S. recognize Franco's

government

Italy invades Albania

WWII begins: Germany invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany; Roosevelt

declares U.S. neutral; USSR invades Poland from the east; Britain sends 158,000 men to France;

USSR invades Finland

Jewish refugees flee to U.S., Britain, France, Belgium and Brazil

Balloons used as air raid protection in Britain; radar stations used for early warning

Conscription adopted in Britain

Women and children evacuated from London

John L. Lewis calls UMW coal strike

Pan American Airways begins regular flights to Europe; first commercial transatlantic passenger

air service

Baseball game first televised in U.S.

Baseball Hall of Fame established

Lou Gehrig stricken with amyotropic lateral sclerosis; retires from Yankees

First Little League baseball game

Bobby Riggs wins men's singles at Wimbledon and Forest Hills

"Batman" comic launched

Nylon stockings first appear

ART, SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West); "The Secret Life of

Walter Mitty" (James Thurber); Finnigan's Wake (James Joyce); How Green Was My Valley

(Richard Llewellyn); The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck); Mrs. Minniver (Jan Struthers)

Grandma Moses, 79, is "discovered" and her primitivist paintings exhibited at New York's

Museum of Modern Art

Theater: Life With Father (Crouse and Lindsay); The Philadelphia Story (Philip Barry); The

Time of Your Life (William Saroyan); The Man Who Came to Dinner (Hauffman and Hart)

Films: Dark Victory; Drums Along the Mohawk; Gone With the Wind; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; The

Hunchback of Notre Dame; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Of Mice and Men; Ninotchka; The

Wizard of Oz

Popular songs: "Heaven Can Wait;" "I'll Never Smile Again;" "Moonlight Serenade;"

"Somewhere"

Frank Sinatra begins singing career

War songs in England: "Roll Out the Barrel"; "The Last Time I Saw Paris"; "Lily Marlene"

Barium isotopes obtained by bombarding uranium with neutrons

Joliot-Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting the atom

DDT synthesized

Polyethylene invented

Igor Sikorsky constructs first helicopter

Frequency modulation (FM) invented

YEAR: 1940

MARYVILLE HISTORY: As threat of war looms, first draft registration held at alumni gym on

college campus

Chilhowee Club moves into new clubhouse on Elm Street

All city offices move to Bank of Maryville building

New armory construction begins on "Methodist Hill"

City allocates $200 for control of sale of liquor by local bootleggers

Road (present-day US 321) opened between Maryville and Hubbard

Maryville population: 5,609

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: Bacon, butter and sugar rationed in Britain; Germany invades

Norway and Denmark; Chamberlain resigns and Churchill becomes British Prime Minister;

Germany invades Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg; Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears and

Sweat" speech; British forces (340,000) evacuated from Dunkirk; Italy declares war on France

and Britain; Germans enter Paris on June 14; RAF begins night bombing of Germany; Japan,

Germany and Italy sign military and economic pact; London "blitz" (all night raids) begin;

British 8th Army opens offensive in North Africa

Trotsky assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders

Southern California defeats Tennessee in Rose Bowl

First peacetime military draft in U.S. history begins

"Galloping Gertie", Puget Sound suspension bridge, breaks up in wind

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers); The Ox-Bow

Incident (Walter Clark); The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene); Native Son (Richard

Wright); For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

Theater: The Male Animal (Nugent and Thurber)

Films: Fantasia; The Grapes of Wrath; The Mark of Zorro; Northwest Passage; The

Philadelphia Story; Pinocchio

Musicals: Pal Joey (Rodgers and Hart)

Popular songs: "Blueberry Hill;" "Imagination;" "San Antonio Rose;" "Wabash Cannonball"

Lascaux wall paintings (20,000 B.C.) discovered in French cave

Penicillin becomes world's major weapon against infections and chronic diseases

Carbon-14 isotope discovered

Uranium-235 isolated

Rh factor in blood discovered

Cavity magnetron invented

First demonstration of electron microscope

Neptunium discovered

First successful U.S. helicopter flight

Soviet MIG-1 fighter plane introduced

YEAR: 1941

MARYVILLE HISTORY: War threatening, local National Guard units, 191st Field Artillery,

Batteries C and D leave for training at Camp Forrest, Tullahoma, Tennessee

First electrically heated home

City develops plans to purchase Pearson's Springs to increase city water supply

Cusick Street viaduct and College Street viaduct over Pistol Creek constructed

City annexes Sunset View

Amos and Andy Motor Co. begins construction of new building on Broadway at Norwood

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: British invade Abyssinia; Rommel attacks Tobruk; Germans

invade Crete; German battleship Bismarck sunk; Germans invade Russia; Japanese bomb Pearl

Harbor December 7; U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan December 8; Japanese invade

Philippines; Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.; U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy;

Hong Kong surrenders to Japanese

Jeannette Rankin casts sole dissenting vote in Congress against declaration of war on Japan

Severe winter in Russia; starvation kills 1.2 million

Office of Price Administration established; OPA freezes price of steel; rubber rationing instituted

U.S. savings bonds and stamps go on sale

Mt. Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota dedicated

Joe DiMaggio hits safely in 56 consecutive games

Stan Musial begins career with St. Louis Cardinals

"Whirlaway", Eddie Arcaro up, wins Triple Crown

Reinhold Niebuhr: The Nature and Destiny of Man

Rudolph Bultmann: New Testament and Mythology

ART, SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Blood, Sweat and Tears (Winston Churchill); Let Us Now Praise

Famous Men (James Agee); Escape From Freedom (Erich Fromm); The Keys of the Kingdom

(A.J. Cronin); H.M. Pulham, Esquire (John P. Marquand); Curious George (H.A. Rey)

Theater: Arsenic and Old Lace (Joseph Kesselring); Watch on the Rhine (Lillian Hellman);

Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward)

Films: Citizen Kane; 49th Parallel; How Green Was My Valley; The Maltese Falcon; The Man

Who Came to Dinner; Suspicion

Popular songs: "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy;" "Chattanooga Choo Choo;" "Deep in the Heart of

Texas;" "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good;" "I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire;" "Lili

Marlene"

Bailey invents portable military bridge

Haas begins underwater photography

"Manhattan Project" begins

Dacron invented

Plutonium discovered

Grand Coulee Dam starts operation

YEAR: 1942

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mayor Gamble designates Elizabeth Lane, "Miss Maryville" to

represent city at ceremony promoting defense bonds and stamps by actress, Greer Garson

Army air force cadets arrive at Maryville College campus for pre-flight training

Sugar, butter, tires, gasoline, shoes and other items rationed

Volunteers organize Civilian Defense and black-out drills common

Organizational meeting of Aircraft Warning Service, predecessor of Civil Air Patrols

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWI: Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Burma; U.S. government

inters over 100,000 Japanese-Americans; Japanese occupy Batan; death march; General Jimmy

Dolittle leads air raid of Tokyo; Americans win Battle of the Coral Sea; Czech patriots

assassinate Gestapo leader and Nazis burn village of Lidice; Americans defeat Japanese at

Midway; Rommel takes Tobruk; FBI captures 8 German saboteurs landed in Florida and New

York; Americans land in Guadalcanal; Battle of El Alamein

Hitler and Gestapo chief Himmler begin methodical annihilation of European Jews in gas

chambers

Office of Strategic Services (OSS) created

Automobile plants in U.S. cease production of passenger vehicles to produce tanks and aircraft

for war

Gasoline rationing in U.S.

Camp David begins as Shangri-la retreat built for President Roosevelt

Stars and Stripes daily paper appears

Coconut Grove nightclub fire, Boston, 487 die

Supreme Court rules Nevada divorces valid

Eric Fromm: The Fear of Freedom

C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Stranger (Albert Camus)

Theater: The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder)

Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (Frederick Delius); Rodeo (Aaron Copland)

Films: Bambi; Casablanca; Holiday Inn; Mrs. Minniver; Yankee Doodle Dandy

Popular songs: "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen;" "Praise the Lord and Pass the

Ammunition;" "That Old Black Magic;" "White Christmas"

First gold record, Glen Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

Carole Lombard killed in plane crash (b. 1909)

Enrico Fermi splits the atom

First electronic brain (automatic computer) developed in U.S.

Magnetic recording tape invented

First surface-to-surface guided missile

Napalm developed

Successful turboprop engine developed

Bell Aircraft tests first U.S. jet plane

Henry Kaiser develops technique for building liberty ships in 4 days

YEAR: 1943

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Tragedy of war apparent as gold stars appear in windows of local

homes

Doctor's Hospital opens at Ellis Avenue and College Street

Fred Lowry Proffitt, Maryville College treasurer for 29 years, dies after 35 years of service to

college

College-Maid Shop produces hundreds of nurses uniforms, shipped as far as Australia and

Hawaii

State of Tennessee buys "Sam Houston Schoolhouse"; establishes operating board of

Maryvillians

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWII: Japanese driven from Guadalcanal; Russians destroy German

army southwest of Stalingrad; Eisenhower assumes command of Allied armies in North Africa;

German army surrenders in Tunisia; U.S. forces recapture Aleutians; Allies land in Sicily and

invade Italy; Italy surrenders September 8; Italy declares war on Germany

Kaiser's first liberty ships launched

Charlie Chaplin marries Oona O'Neill

Infantile paralysis epidemic kills 1,200 and cripples thousands

Shoes, meat, cheese, fats and all canned foods rationed

Pay-as-you-go income tax system instituted

Zoot suit (with reet pleat) popular among hepcats

Lindy hop yields to jitterbugging

ART, SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand); The Little Prince (Antoine de

Saint-Exupery)

Theater: While the Sun Shines (Terence Rattigan)

Martha Graham dances in Deaths and Entrances

Films: Guadalcanal Diary; For Whom the Bell Tolls

Musicals: Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Popular songs: "Mairzy Doats;" "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning;" "People Will Say We're in

Love"

Pentagon completed at Arlington, Virginia

Term "antibiotic" coined

Penicillin successfully used

Streptomycin discovered

"Pap" test used to detect cervical cancer, leading cause of death among U.S. women

Hallucinogenic properties of LSD discovered

DDT used in U.S. to kill pests that threaten U.S. crops

Oil pipeline from Texas to Pennsylvania begins operation

YEAR: 1944

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Ft. Craig Hospital, founded by Dr. J. E. Carson and Dr. Charles C.

Vinsant closes after 16 years of operation

Maryville and Alcoa Daily Times, owned by Clyde B. Emert, becomes daily newspaper

producing updated war information

Sensing victory, State Adjutant General directs mayor to organize "V" (victory) Day plans

Maryville College celebrates 125th anniversary

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWII: Allied landings at Anzio beachhead; U.S. regains Solomon and

Marshall Islands; D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6 (700 ships, 4,000 landing craft); first

flying-bomb (V-1) dropped on London; German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler;

Americans capture Guam; de Gaulle enters Paris August 25; Brussels liberated; first V-2 rockets

on Britain; U.S. troops land in Phillippines

Russians enter Belgrade, occupy Hungary; Battle of Leyte Gulf; Battle of the Bulge begins;

Vietnam declares herself independent of France under Ho Chi Minh; Rommel commits suicide

Otto Frank and family betrayed to Gestapo after more than 2 years in hiding; daughter Anne sent

to Auschwitz

Iceland becomes independent republic

Large-scale migration of Americans from rural to urban areas begins

U.S. farm acreage declines

John Hilton: Rich Man, Poor Man

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Bell for Adano (John Hersey); The Razor's Edge (William

Sommerset Maugham)

Theater: No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Ballet: Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland)

Films: Lifeboat; Meet Me in St. Louis; National Velvet

Popular songs: "Don't Fence Me In;" "Rum and Coca-Cola;" "Sentimental Journey;" "Twilight

Time"

Uranium pile built at Oak Ridge

First kidney machine

YEAR: 1945

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Blount Memorial Hospital charter drawn and plans under way for

dedication as memorial to dead of WWI and WWII

S.S. Maryville Victory, merchant class ship named for Maryville College, stocked with library of

130 volumes donated by alumni, launched in California

Wartime enrollment at Maryville College: 409 women, 127 men

End of rationing

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: WWII: Americans enter Manila; Okinawa captured; Roosevelt dies April

12; Mussolini killed by Italian partisans; Hitler commits suicide April 30; Germany capitulates

May 7; war ends in Europe May 8 (VE Day)

U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima August 6 and Nagasaki August 9; Japan surrenders; U.S.

regains Okinawa; end of WWII August 14; war dead estimated: 54.8 million, mostly civilians

Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz; Nazi genocide has killed 14 million "racial inferiors,"

including 6 million Jews

Arab League founded to oppose creation of Jewish state

Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals

Gen. George S. Patton killed in accident (b. 1885)

U.S. private Eddie Slovik executed for desertion

U.S. gas and fuel oil rationing ends

Automobile companies resume production of passenger vehicles

B-25 bomber crashes into 78-79 floors of Empire State Building July 28

Martin Buber: For the Sake of Heaven

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Animal Farm (George Orwell); Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn

Waugh); The Age of Reason (Sartre); Black Boy (Richard Wright); Stuart Little (E.B. White)

Theater: The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams); Dream Girl (Elmer Rice); The Madwoman

of Chaillot (Jean Giraudoux)

Radio: Meet the Press

Films: The Body Snatcher; The Lost Weekend

Popular songs: "For Sentimental Reasons;" "Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!;" "You'll

Never Walk Alone"

Architecture: Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright)

First aerosol spray insecticides

Vitamin A synthesized

First atomic bomb detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico

PRESIDENT: Harry S. Truman

YEAR: 1946

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Washington Street viaduct linking Maryville with Alcoa is opened

Mayor proclaims August 14 as WWII Victory Day

City elects Paul Costner and Lon Badgett to serve on first Blount County Memorial Hospital

board of directors

City adopts April resolution changing from central standard to eastern standard time

Blount County Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5154 organized, Everett D. Timmons commander

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Truce declared in Chinese civil war

Nuremburg Tribunal returns verdicts; 12 Nazis sentenced to death

U.N. General Assembly holds first session in London

Albania, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia; Transjordan, Lebanon and the Philippines gain

independence

Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton, Missouri

Soviet petroleum production begins major expansion

Atomic Energy Commission created

Strikes in U.S.; worst work stoppage since 1919; U.S. troops seize railroads and coal mines

U.S. inflation begins; will last for decades

President Truman announces wage increases to equal rise in cost of living

John D. Rockefeller donates $8.5 million for permanent U.N. Headquarters building site in New

York

Post-war U.S. birthrates soar

U.S. college enrollments reach all-time high as returning vets attend school on the G.I. Bill

Joe Louis successfully defends title for 23rd time

Bowling becomes leading U.S. participation sport

Bikini creates sensation at Paris fashion show; banned at many resorts

Population (in millions): China, 455; India, 311; USSR, 194; U.S., 140; Japan, 73; West

Germany, 48; Italy, 47; Britain, 46; Brazil, 45; France, 40

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis); The Member of the Wedding

(Carson McCullers); All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren); I the Jury (Mickey Spillane);

Deaths and Entrances (Dylan Thomas)

Revised Version of the New Testament published

Theater: The Iceman Cometh (Eugene O'Neill)

Ballet: The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)

Musicals: Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin)

Opera: The Medium (Gian-Carlo Menotti)

Films: The Big Sleep; Great Expectations; It's a Wonderful Life; The Postman Always Rings

Twice; The Razor's Edge; The Yearling

Popular songs: "La Vie en Rose;" "Route 66;" "Stella by Starlight;" "Tenderly"

Benjamin Spock: Baby and Child Care

Discovery of emission of radio waves from sunspots

Electronic brain built at Pennsylvania University

South Pole expedition of R. E. Byrd

Atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll

YEAR: 1947

MARYVILLE HISTORY: John C. Crawford, Jr. elected mayor

Blount Memorial Hospital opened, capacity: 50 beds

Maryville College Voorhees Chapel, built in 1906, burns on March 26

St. Andrews Episcopal Church purchases Friends (Quaker) Meetinghouse on West Broadway

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church organized, meeting in building on Ellis Avenue

Maryville College plays Catawba College in first Tangerine Bowl (present Citrus Bowl); is

defeated 31-6

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Marshall Plan outlined proposing financial aid for European

reconstruction

Truman Doctrine proposes aid to countries threatened by Communist takeover

U.N. announces plan for partition of Palestine

India gains independence from Britain; partitioned into India and Pakistan

Taft-Hartley Act passed, restricting rights of labor unions

"Hollywood Black List" of alleged Communist sympathizers compiled; includes 300 names

"Flying saucers" reported in U.S.

Laws of Hammurabi reconstructed from excavations

Dead Sea Scrolls discovered

Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose," largest aircraft ever built, makes first and only flight

Racedriver John Cobb establishes world ground speed record: 394.196 mph

Jackie Robinson becomes first black major league baseball player

Oklahoma faith healer Oral Roberts begins healing ministry

December 17 blizzard (28") in New York

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Plague (Albert Camus); The Age of Anxiety (W.H. Auden);

Tales of the South Pacific (James Michener)

Art: Three Standing Figures (Henry Moore)

Theater: A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

Musicals: Finian's Rainbow; Brigadoon (Lerner and Loewe)

Maria Callas makes her debut

Films: Black Narcissus; Life with Father; Miracle on 34th Street

Popular songs: "Almost Like Being in Love;" "Autumn Leaves;" "How Are Things in Glocca

Mora?;" "I'll Dance at Your Wedding"

Levittown constructed at Long Island, New York

Thor Heyerdahl sails balsa raft Kon-Tiki across Pacific from Peru to Polynesia (101 days)

Discovery of Carbon-14 dating

Aureomycin and chloromycetin available

Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier in U.S. Bell X-1 rocketplane

First microwave ovens

Transistor invented

YEAR: 1948

MARYVILLE HISTORY: The "white-way", streetlighting of Broadway, enabled by $5,000

donation by Lions Club

Blount Memorial Hospital second unit construction begins, raising capacity to 125 beds

Plans for new Maryville College chapel announced, honoring Dr. Samuel T. Wilson, former

president

City offices move from Bank of Maryville building to Maryville Savings and Loan building at

Broadway and North Court Street

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated

Weizman and Ben-gurion first president and premier of new Jewish state of Israel

Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by U.N.

Marshall Plan Act passed; $17 billion in aid for Europe

Soviet troops blockade ground access to Berlin; Berlin airlift begins

Phrase "cold war" coined

British railroads nationalized

Selective Service Act provides for continued military draft

U.S. production, employment and income increase in spite of continued strikes and inflation

U.S. energy crisis (U.S. has become a net importer of oil)

Joe Louis retires (25 title bouts since 1937)

"Citation," Eddie Arcaro up, wins Triple Crown

Over 1 million televisions in U.S.

Churchill: The Gathering Storm

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton); The Naked and the

Dead (Norman Mailer); Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton); The Young Lions (Irwin Shaw);

Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)

Art: Christina's World (Andrew Nelson Wyeth)

Jackson Pollock pioneers abstract expressionist painting

Theater: Summer and Smoke (Tennessee Williams); Anne of a Thousand Days (Maxwell

Anderson)

Ballet: Cinderella; Fall River Legend; Orpheus

TV: Ed Sullivan Show

Films: Hamlet; Key Largo; Oliver Twist; The Red Shoes; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Music: Knoxville-Summer of 1915 (Samuel Barber, text by James Agee)

Popular songs: "Buttons and Bows;" "I'll Be Home for Christmas;" "Nature Boy;" "Tennessee

Waltz"

Fender Broadcaster (later Telecaster) mass produced

Long Playing (LP) phonograph record introduced

"Porsche 356" car first built

200" Mount Palomar telescope dedicated

Idlewild Airport dedicated

Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

Cortisone synthesized; used to treat arthritis

YEAR: 1949

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Mayor Crawford and Commission recommend moving to City

Manager-Council form of government

Maryville High band and local citizens participate in parade celebrating opening of Oak Ridge to

public

First permanent voter registration in Maryville

Wartime rent control lifted on September 9

Maryville College enrollment: 938

Dr. Robert Haralson, Sr. appointed to Blount Memorial Hospital Board; Dr. William C. Crowder

appointed Chief-of-Staff

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Communist Chinese control mainland China; Chiang Kai-shek and

Nationalists retreat to Formosa; People's Republic of China proclaimed; Mao Zedong, chairman

Berlin blockade lifted

Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason

U.S. completes troop withdrawal in South Korea

Apartheid program established in South Africa

Famine in China

NATO created; participants pledge mutual assistance against aggression and cooperation in

strategic planning and arms production

"Tokyo Rose" goes on trial for treason

U.S. prices: 2-bedroom house, $10,000; new Cadillac, $5,000; man's suit, $50; dozen eggs, 80

cents; gallon of gas, 25 cents; pack of cigarettes, 21 cents; Coke, 5 cents

Volkswagen "beetle" introduced in U.S.; only 2 sold

North Carolina evangelist Billy Graham begins tent crusades

Eric Fromm: Man for Himself

Paul Tillich: The Shaking of the Foundations

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir); 1984 (George Orwell); The

Man With the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren); Point of No Return (John P. Marquand); A Guide to

Confident Living (Norman Vincent Peale); The Greatest Story Ever Told (Fulton Oursler)

Theater: Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

Ballet: Beauty and the Beast (Maurice Ravel)

TV: Dragnet

Films: All the King's Men; On the Town; The Third Man

Musicals: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Styne and Robin); South Pacific (Rodgers and

Hammerstein)

Popular songs: "Mona Lisa;" "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer;" "Some Enchanted Evening"

First edible vegetable-protein fiber made from soybeans

Neomycin isolated

Air force jet flies across U.S. in 3 hours, 46 minutes

U.S. launches guided missile 250 miles, highest altitude reached by man

USSR develops and tests atomic bomb

YEAR: 1950

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Responding to world crisis, Maryvillians volunteer for service in

Korea

Maryville College Fine Arts Center dedicated; gift from Lloyd family

Poor conditions temporarily close West Side Elementary School; property purchased for new

building

Ordinance passed forbidding running at large of chickens in city

Maryville population: 7,742 (increase of 2,000 in 10 years)

First new fire engine since 1930 is purchased

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: USSR and Communist China sign 30-year pact; Sino-Soviet treaty

names Japan and U.S. as enemies; Communist Chinese forces invade Tibet

Blacks riot against apartheid in South Africa

Korean War begins as Communist North Korea invades Republic of South Korea; U.S. forces

enter conflict

"McCarthy Hearings" begun by Senator Joseph McCarthy are Communist "witch-hunt"

Truman instructs Atomic Energy Commission to develop hydrogen bomb

FBI's first "10 Most Wanted" list

World population: 2.3 billion

Population (in millions): U.S., 151; London, 8.3; New York, 7.8; Tokyo, 5.3; Moscow, 4.1

5 million television sets in U.S.

Margaret Mead: Social Anthropology

Boll weevil destroys $750 million in U.S. cotton

Smokey the Bear becomes symbol for forest fire prevention

Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic appears

Pope Pius XII proclaims dogma of bodily assumption of Virgin Mary

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury); Kon-Tiki (Thor

Heyerdahl)

Theater: The Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers); Venus Observed (Christopher Fry)

TV: What's My Line?

Films: All About Eve; Cinderella; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Father of the Bride; Sunset

Boulevard

Musicals: Guys and Dolls (Loesser and Lowe)

Popular songs: "Goodnight, Irene;" "Luck Be a Lady;" "Rag Mop;" "Silver Bells"

U.N. building completed

Californium and berkelium discovered

Miltown widely used as tranquilizer

Antihistamines popular remedy for colds and allergies

YEAR: 1951

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bonds issued and contract awarded for construction of new

elementary school to replace West Side School

College of Surgeons gives approval to Blount Memorial Hospital

Extensive state survey of downtown Maryville traffic problems; parking meters installed to

alleviate problems

Policeman Howard Cupp, mistaken as prowler, shot and seriously wounded; Cupp survives

wounds

Easing of Sunday "blue" laws allows Sunday opening of gas (service) stations

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Gen. MacArthur's forces retake Seoul but MacArthur relieved of Far

East command by Truman; U.N. forces take "Heartbreak Ridge;" armistice negotiations fail

Iran nationalizes oil industry against terms of treaty with British

Peron re-elected president of Argentina

22nd Amendment establishes 2-term limit for president

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage

Worst floods in U.S. history leave 19 million homeless; $1 billion in property damage in Kansas

and Missouri

Color television first introduced in U.S.

"Dennis the Menace: comic strip appears

"Jersey" Joe Walcott wins heavyweight boxing crown from Ezzard Charles

"Sugar Ray" Robinson wins middleweight boxing title; relinquishes it to try for light

heavyweight crown

Willie Mays begins career with New York Giants

Mickey Mantle joins New York Yankees

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: God and Man at Yale (William F. Buckley); The Rebel (Albert

Camus); The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger); From Here to Eternity (James Jones); (The

Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk); Lie Down in Darkness (William Styron); Complete Poems (Carl

Sandburg)

Theater: The Rose Tattoo (Tennessee Williams)

Ballet: The Pied Piper (Aaron Copland, Jerome Robbins)

TV: I Love Lucy; Kukla, Fran and Ollie

Films: The African Queen; Alice in Wonderland; An American in Paris; A Streetcar Named

Desire

Cinerama invented

Musicals: The King and I (Rodgers and Hammerstein); Paint Your Wagon (Lerner and Loewe)

Opera: The Pilgrim's Progress (Ralph Vaughan Williams); Amahl and the Night Visitors (Gian-

Carlo Menotti), first opera written for television

Popular songs: "Cold' Cold Heart;" "If;" "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening;" "Kisses

Sweeter Than Wine;" "Unforgettable"

Architecture: Chicago Apartment Building (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe); Vassar Dormitory

(Marseilles Breuer)

Univac computer introduced on commercial basis for businesses and scientists

First hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll

First power-producing nuclear fission (atomic) reactor

Heart-lung machine devised

YEAR: 1952

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville College construction of Samuel Tyndale Wilson Chapel

Dr. G. D. Lequire honored at state's Family Doctor

Fireman injured in fire at City Drugstore on Broadway

Resolution passed naming new school, Sam Houston Elementary School

Annexation of Niles Ferry, Sunset View, and Creekwood areas extends city boundaries

Municipal employee starting salary increased to 88 cents per hour

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Korean War: U.S. planes bomb North Korean hydroelectric plants

Truman announces H-bomb tests in Pacific

In August, 16,000 people escape from East To West Berlin

Elizabeth II ascends the British throne

Mau Mau insurrection creates emergency in Kenya

Puerto Rico becomes first U.S. commonwealth

Jericho excavated

McCarthy's "witch-hunt" continues, ruining many careers

War has inflated U.S. food prices; beef rationed

Drought reduces U.S. grain harvest and farmers are eligible to receive disaster loans

17 million U.S. homes have television sets

Albert Schweitzer wins Nobel Peace Prize

Rocky Marciano wins heavyweight title from "Jersey" Joe Walcott

John Cobb killed establishing speedboat record on Loch Ness

Norman Vincent Peale: The Power of Positive Thinking

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr); East of Eden

(John Steinbeck); The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway); The Natural (Bernard

Malamud); Charlotte's Web (E.B. White); "Do not go gentle into that good night" (Dylan

Thomas)

Art: The Pink Violin (Raoul Dufy)

Theater: The Shrike (Joseph Kramm); The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie); The Seven-Year Itch

(George Axelrod)

TV: American Bandstand; The Today Show

Films: The Bad and the Beautiful; High Noon; The Quiet Man; Singin' in the Rain; Viva Zapata

David Brubeck and San Francisco quartet pioneer "modern" or "progressive" jazz

Popular songs: "Jambalaya;" "Your Cheatin' Heart"

Architecture: Lever House (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill)

Jonas Salk tests vaccine against polio after epidemic strikes more than 50,000 Americans

Isotopes used in medicine and industry

Contraceptive pill produced

First pocket-size transistor radio

British atomic tests in Australia

YEAR: 1953

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Sam Houston Elementary School opened; Fort Craig School building

razed and construction begun on new elementary school; Fort Craig students bussed daily to

West Side School during construction

First Hillbilly Homecoming attended by Gov. Frank Clement, WWI hero Alvin C. York, and

entertainers Homer and Jethro and Carter sisters; homecoming announced by Snuffy Smith in

newspaper comic strip

Local civic organizations and Maryville College and High School bands honor five former

Korean Conflict POW's with parade up Broadway

Dr. Lea Callaway elected mayor

Former mayor John C. Crawford, Jr. sworn in as U.S. District Attorney for East Tennessee

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Korean Armistice signed at Panmunjom on July 27; casualties: North

Korea and Chinese, 1.54 million; U.N., 344,227, including 54.246 Americans killed, 103,284

wounded and 8,177 reported Missing In Action. Of the total number of Americans killed , 8 were

Blount Countians. Over 2 million Korean civilians were also killed.

Stalin dies; succeeded by G.M. Malenkov; Beria dismissed and executed; Khrushchev heads

Communist Party

Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Cabinet post created

All price controls removed in U.S.

Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Ethel and Julius Rosenburg executed

Giant uranium deposit discovered in Ontario; Canada will become a leading supplier of ore for

nuclear energy fuel

Texas, Michigan and Massachusetts tornadoes kill 350 people

Ben Hogan wins Masters, U.S. Open and British Open championships

New York wins 5th consecutive World Series over Brooklyn

Pizza becomes increasingly popular in U.S.

Frozen "TV dinners" introduced

L. Ron Hubbard founds Church of Scientology

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: A Stillness at Appomattox (Bruce Catton, 3rd in trilogy of Civil

War histories); Go Tell It On the Mountain (James Baldwin); The Adventures of Augie March

(Saul Bellow); Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury); Battle Cry (Leon Uris); Collected Poems

(Archibald MacLeish)

Theater: Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett); The Crucible (Arthur Miller); Picnic (William

Inge); Camino Real (Tennessee Williams); The Teahouse of the August Moon (John Patrick)

Ballet: Fanfare (Benjamin Britten, Jerome Robbins)

Films: From Here to Eternity; The Robe; Roman Holiday

Musicals: Kismet

Popular songs: "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window;" "I Believe;" "Rags to Riches;"

"Stranger in Paradise;" "That's Amore"

Edmund Hillary makes first successful ascent of Mt. Everest

Nevada nuclear tests result in fallout in St. George, Utah; higher-than-average rates of cancer and

birth defects observed in Utah

USSR explodes hydrogen bomb

Piltdown Man proved to be hoax

Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

Lung cancer reported attributable to cigarette smoking

Correlation between heart disease and diet high in animal fat observed

Rocket-powered plane flies 1,600 mph

PRESIDENT: Dwight David Eisenhower

YEAR: 1954

MARYVILLE HISTORY: New Fort Craig School, second modern elementary school,

completed

Blount Memorial Hospital accredited by Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation; room

rates raised to $2,00 per day

Samuel T. Wilson Chapel completed

Fire department acquires 65' aerial firetruck capable of being manned by one person

May 17 declared "We Want Baseball Night" promoting attendance at Maryville-Alcoa Twins

games at Hunt Field

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Russia rejects idea of German reunification

Col. Nasser seizes power in Egypt; British agree to withdraw from Suez Canal Zone

Geneva Conference divides North and South Vietnam at 17th parallel; Ho Chi Minh becomes

leader of Communist North

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established

Canada and U.S. agree to Distant Early Warning, "DEW" Line radar system

Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by Senate for witch-hunt activities

Supreme Court rules against racial segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education

Veteran's Day replaces Armistice Day as national holiday

1,768 U.S. newspapers publish 59 million copies daily; 29 million homes have TV

Ray Kroc buys McDonald's franchise rights and begins expansion

Roger Bannister breaks 4-minute mile

Arnold Palmer wins amateur championship

Hank Aaron begins baseball career with Milwaukee Braves

U.S. contains: 6% of world population, 60% of all cars, 58% of all telephones' 45% of all radio

sets' 34% of all railroads

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis); Lord of the Flies (William Golding);

Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan); The Blackboard Jungle (Evan Hunter); No Time for

Sergeants (Mac Hyman)

Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Art: Iwo Jima Memorial Monument (Feliz de Weldon)

Theater: The Tender Trap (Smith and Shulman)

Films: A Star is Born; The Caine Mutiny; On the Waterfront; Rear Window; Seven Brides for

Seven Brothers

Musicals: The Pajama Game (Adler and Ross); Peter Pan

Popular songs: "Little Things Mean a Lot;" "Mister Sandman;" "Three Coins in the Fountain"

Elvis Presley, 19, makes his first commercial recording, "That's All Right, Mama" and "Blue

Moon of Kentucky"

First Newport Jazz Festival

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer dismissed from government service

Hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll; evidence of increased cancers and malformations in fallout

zone

Known chemical elements: at birth of Christ, 9; year 1500, 12; year 1900, 84; year 1954, 100

Submarine Nautilus converted to nuclear power

First U.S. oxygen steel-making furnace

Thorazine used to treat psychotic patients

Dr. Jonas Salk begins anti-polio inoculation of school children

First successful kidney transplant

YEAR: 1955

MARYVILLE HISTORY: April 4, Southern Bell Company v. Communications Workers of

America strike disrupts telephone service, outage lasting 23 days

F. W. Woolworth self-service store opens on Broadway, offering cash register checkout of

pushcart, customer-gathered merchandise

Tutt Bradford, former publisher of Bristol Herald Courier buys the Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times

from Clyde Emert, publisher since 1915

J. Fred Muggs, Today Show chimpanzee, visits Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Churchill resigns; succeeded by Anthony Eden

Malenkov resigns; succeeded by N. A. Bulganin

Warsaw Pact signed May 14 by 8 European Communist powers

U.S. Air Force Academy opens

AF of L and CIO merge, unionizing 12 million U.S. workers; George Meany, president

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on bus in Montgomery, Alabama; draws attention to

segregated bus lines

Americans move out of central cities to suburbs

U.S. golf statistics: 3.8 million players, 5,000 courses encompassing 1.5 million acres

Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Guinness Book of World Records (Ross and Norris

McWhirter); The Dead Sea Scrolls (Edmund Wilson); Auntie Mame (Patrick Dennis); Lolita

(Vladimir Nabokov); The Quiet American (Graham Greene); Officers and Gentlemen (Evelyn

Waugh); Andersonville (Mackinlay Kantor); The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (Sloan Wilson);

Marjorie Morningstar (Hermann Wouk); The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank)

Theater: Bus Stop (William Inge); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams); The Diary of

Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett); Inherit the Wind (J. Lawrence and R.E. Lee); A View from

the Bridge (Arthur Miller); No Time for Sergeants (Ira Levin)

Films: East of Eden; Marty; Rebel Without a Cause; The Rose Tattoo; The Seven Year Itch

TV: Captain Kangaroo; The Mickey Mouse Club

Musicals: Damn Yankees (Adler and Ross); Silk Stockings (Cole Porter)

Popular songs: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing;" "Maybellene;" "Sixteen Tons;" "The

Yellow Rose of Texas"

Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" becomes a million-seller

Ultra-high frequency waves produced at M.I.T.

First use of atomically generated power

Discovery of liver extract for treating pernicious anemia

Molecular structure of insulin discovered

Prednisone introduced for treating arthritis

YEAR: 1956

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Municipal building built on old West Side School site; dedicated May

Maryville College is first integrated college in South to employ black faculty member, James H.

Hamlett; appointed to teach Spanish

Water pumped from new Maryville water filtration plant constructed on Sevierville Road at

Little River

U.T. president Andy D. Holt is principal speaker at November 26 dedication of Maryville Junior

High School

Lamar Alexander wins coveted Eugenia Buxton Cup for piano performance in state competition

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Egypt seizes Suez Canal; Anglo-French forces bomb Egyptian airfield;

U.N. forces arrive

Hungarian students rally to demand democratic government; Cardinal Mindszenty released;

Soviet troops enter Hungary; martial law and mass arrests

Fidel Castro lands in Cuba to overthrow dictator Batista

Libya's first oil well comes into production

Prince Rainier of Monaco marries Grace Kelly

Construction of Interstate Highway System to link major U.S. urban centers authorized by

Congress

Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes boycott of Montgomery, Alabama public transportation and

becomes leader of desegregation movement

Rock and roll dance in style

Andrea Doria sinks off Nantucket Island

Floyd Patterson, at 21, defeats Archie Moore in heavyweight title fight

Pele begins soccer career in Brazil

W. H. Whyte, Jr.: The Organization Man

Winston Churchill: History of the English Speaking Peoples

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy); Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

(Angus Wilson); The Last Hurrah (Edwin O'Connor); Peyton Place (Grace Metalious); Don't Go

Near the Water (William Brinkley); The Mulberry Bush (Angus Wilson); Benjamin Henry

Latrobe (Talbot F. Hamlin); Middle of the Night (Patty Chayevsky)

Theater: Look Back in Anger (John Osborne); A Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill)

Ballet: Nocambules (Humphrey Searle)

Films: Around the World in Eighty Days; The King and I; Lust for Life; The Man with the Golden

Arm; The Seventh Seal; The Ten Commandments

Musicals: My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe)

Maria Callas makes debut in Norma

Popular songs: "Blue Suede Shoes;" "Don't Be Cruel;" "Folsom Prison Blues;" "Hound Dog;" "I

Could Have Danced All Night;" "Love Me Tender;" "Que sera, sera"

Elvis Presley gains popularity as "Heartbreak Hotel" is heard around the world

Architecture: TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York (Eero Saarinen)

Nutrino produced at Los Alamos laboratory

Ion microscope developed

Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated

Ross and Lewis reach height of 22.8 km in balloon

Sabin develops oral polio vaccine

YEAR: 1957

MARYVILLE HISTORY: New wing dedicated at Blount Memorial Hospital; Richard Mac

Brown, first baby born at hospital (7/24/47), cuts ribbon

Lombes Honaker retires after 36 years as head football coach at Maryville College

On August 25, First Baptist Church holds services in new building constructed between Cates

and Court Streets (present day U.S. 321)

The History of Blount County by Inez Burns published; jointly sponsored by Mary Blount

Chapter of DAR and Tennessee Historical Commission

Capitol Airlines inaugurates first local jet service on February 1 with Vanguard prop-jet plane

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns; succeeded by Harold Macmillan

U.N. reopens Suez Canal to navigation

European Common Market (EEC) initiated

Britain explodes thermonuclear bomb in central Pacific

AFL-CIO expels Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Union on charges of corruption

Eisenhower sends paratroopers to Little Rock, Arkansas in desegregation crisis

First U.S. civil rights bill since Civil War

Congress funds National Cancer Institute to seek cure for cancer, 2nd leading cause of death in

U.S. behind heart disease

Hurricane Audrey tidal wave kills 530 in Texas and Louisiana

Bobby Fischer, 13 years old, becomes chess champion

"Beat" and "beatnik" introduced into vocabulary

Arthur Bryant: The Turn of the Tide

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing (Robert Paul

Smith); Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak); On the Beach (Nevil Shute); The World of Susie

Wong; (Richard Mason); Room at the Top (John Braine); By Love Possessed (James Gould

Cozzens); Pegasus (C. Day Lewis); Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand); On the Road (Jack Kerouac);

The Sandcastle (Iris Murdoch); Things of This World (Richard Wilbur); A Visit to a Small Planet

(Gore Vidal); The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)

Albert Camus wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Art: Falling Warrior (Henry Moore)

Theater: Endgame (Samuel Beckett)

Ballet: Prince of the Pagodas (Benjamin Britten)

Films: Bridge on the River Kwai; Love in the Afternoon; 12 Angry Men; Bonjour, Tristesse

Musicals: The Music Man (Meredith Willson); West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

Sondheim)

Opera: The Harmony of the World (Paul Hindemith)

Popular songs: "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation;" "Bye Bye, Love;" "Jailhouse Rock;"

"Seventy-Six Trombones;" "Tonight;" "Young Love"

Jerry Lee Lewis has first hit single with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

Frisbee introduced

Sputnik 1, first manmade Earth satellite, launched in October; Sputnik 2 in November

Wankel rotary engine produced, first new internal combustion engine since 1880's

Edsel, introduced by Ford Motor Co. to compete with GM Olds, is a failure

Steam power replaced by diesel power on U.S. railroads

"Killer" bees escape in Brazil and move north

Synthetic DNA produced

Darvon introduced as a painkiller

YEAR : 1958

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Fluoridation introduced into city water supply

Star players from 8 Blount County high schools play in first annual Blount County Shrine East-

West All-Star football game

Gasoline prices fall from 30 cents per gallon to 8 cents per gallon during price war

Mercury vapor bulbs replace incandescent fixtures in street lighting

"Dear Abby" column appears in Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times

Carl Sandberg draws large audience at Maryville College lecture series

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Khrushchev succeeds Bulganin as chairman

Fidel Castro begins total war against Batista government

Degaulle elected president of France

Former premier Imre Nagy executed in Hungary after secret trial

Alaska becomes 49th state

USSR finances construction of Aswan High Dam in Egypt

Arkansas governor Falbus closes Little Rock schools

First parking meters appear in London

"Beatnik" movement spreads throughout America and Europe

John Birch Society founded

Bertrand Russell's symbol for total nuclear disarmament becomes universal peace symbol

Post-war high unemployment in U.S.; economic recession

American Express and Visa cards introduced

Cha cha cha is new dance vogue

Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters Tournament

Sugar Ray Robinson wins middleweight boxing title for 5th time

Hula hoop fad

Nathan Leopold paroled after 24 years in prison

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY Literature: Only in America (Harry Golden); The Ugly American (Burdick and

Lederer); Masters of Deceit (J. Edgar Hoover); Some Came Running (James Jones); Breakfast at

Tiffany's (Truman Capote); Exodus (Leon Uris); Dr. No (Ian Fleming); Justine (Lawrence

Durrell); Promises: Poems 1954-56 (Robert Penn Warren)

Art: Peace (Pablo Picasso)

"Pop Art" appears

Ballet: Witchboy (Leonard Salzedo and Jack Carter)

Films: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Gigi; Touch of Evil; Vertigo

Musicals: Flower Drum Song (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Opera: Vanessa (Samuel Barber)

Music: 9th Symphony in E Minor (Vaughan Williams)

Van Cliburn wins Moscow piano competition

Popular songs: "Volare" (winner of first Grammy Award); "Catch a Falling Star;" "Diana;" "The

Purple People Eater;" "Satin Doll;" "Splish Splash;" "Twilight Time"

Stereophonic recordings popular

Architecture: Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright); Geodesic Dome (Buckminster

Fuller)

First U.S. Earth satellite Explorer I (31.lbs.) launched; USSR Sputnik 3 (3,000 lbs.) launched;

space probes reveal Van Allen radiation belts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established

First voyage under North Pole completed by U.S. atomic sub Nautilus

First commercial transatlantic jet flights

YEAR: 1959

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Broadway Methodist Church meets Easter Sunday in new building on

site of 1899 structure, less than a year after razing old building

Duncan Renaldo, the Cisco Kid, and Horse Diablo attend June 30 Amigo Day sponsored by area

merchants

Highway 129 Maryville-Alcoa bypass opened to public

Montvale Nursing Home begins construction of addition to double patient capacity

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Cuban dictator Batista flees; Fidel Castro becomes premier; expropriates

U.S.-owned sugar mills

Uprising of Hutu tribesmen in Rwanda against minority Tutsi aristocracy

Hawaii becomes 50th state

Public debate between VP Nixon and Premier Khrushchev

Lewis S. B. Leakey finds "Nutcracker Man" skull (approximately 600,000 B.C.)

Ingemar Johansson wins heavyweight boxing title from Floyd Patterson

Total U.S. auto accident death toll: over 1.25 million, more than all U.S. war casualties

Bill Malden wins second Pulitzer Prize for cartoons

Taft-Hartley Law invoked to halt 116 day old nationwide U.S. steelworkers strike

97 lb. blue catfish landed at Missouri River, South Dakota; 2,664 lb. shark landed in south

Australia

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth); Advise and Consent (Alan

Drury); Hawaii (James Michener); Goldfinger (Ian Fleming); The Status Seekers (Vance

Packard); The Travel of Jamie McPheters (Robert L. Taylor); Act I (Moss Hart)

Art: The Yellow Buick (Cesar)

Theater: The Miracle Worker (William Gibson); Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry); The

Zoo Story (Edward Albee)

Films: Anatomy of a Murder; Ben Hur; La Dolce Vita; Some Like It Hot; Suddenly Last Summer

Musicals: Gypsy (Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim); The Sound of Music (Rodgers and

Hammerstein)

Popular songs: "Breaking Up is Hard to Do;" "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands;" "High

Hopes;" "Mack the Knife;" "Peggy Sue;" "Personality;" "The Sound of Music;" "That'll Be the

Day;" "Tom Dooley"

Buddy Holly dies in plane crash

Barbie doll introduced

Pantyhose introduced

Transistorized TV set introduced by Sony; first TV's in India; first color TV's in Cuba; TV

banned in South Africa

Microchip invented by Texas Instruments to make electronic wristwatches

Volkswagen popular in U.S.

USSR launches rocket with 2 monkeys aboard; Lunik rocket reaches moon; Lunik 3 photographs

moon

DeBeers manufactures synthetic diamond

Neutral xi-particle discovered

Savannah, nuclear powered merchant vessel, launched

YEAR: 1960

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Asbury Acres, Holston Methodist Conference home for retired,

formally opens on February 2

Portions of movie, The Little Shepherds of Kingdom Come shot at Thaw Hall and Willard House

at Maryville College

Maryville population: 10,348

R. Leslie Webb, Jr. named oustanding Scottish Rights Mason of East Tennessee

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Brezhnev becomes president of USSR

U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, shot down; U.S. admits aerial reconnaissance flights over

USSR; Krushchev cancels summit meeting

Castro signs agreement with Soviets; U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba

Former gestapo chief Adolph Eichmann arrested

Kennedy-Nixon TV debates

U.S. blacks stage "sit-in" at Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counters

Southern senators attempt to block civil rights legislation

Bobby Fischer, 16, successfully defends U.S. chess title

Brasilia replaces Rio de Janeiro as Brazilian capital

Floyd Patterson regains heavyweight title

U.S. population: 179,323,000

Charles Van Doren, TV show 21 contestant, arrested for perjury

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer); A Man for

All Seasons (Robert Bolt); Rabbit, Run (John Updike); To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee); A

Separate Peace (John Knowles); The Waste Makers (Vance Packard); Summoned by Bells (John

Betjman)

Art: Monumental Head (Alberto Giacometti)

Theater: Toys in the Attic (Lillian Hellman); The Best Man (Gore Vidal); A Man for All Seasons

(Robert Bolt); Rhinoceros (Eugene Ionesco)

Films: The Apartment; Breathless; The Entertainer; Exodus; Inherit the Wind; Psycho; Spartacus

Musicals: Bye Bye Birdie (Strouse and Adams); Camelot (Lerner and Loewe); The Fantasticks

(Schmidt and Jones); Oliver (Lionel Bart)

Opera: The Prince of Homburg (Hans Werner Henze)

Popular songs: "Cathy's Clown;" "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini; "Never on

Sunday;" "Only the Lonely"

"The Twist" recorded by Ernest "Chubby Checker" Evans launches international dance craze

Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.

Architecture: IBM Research Center (Marcel Breuer)

Chlorophyll synthesized

Pituitary hormone synthesized

Methicillin discovered

Nuclear submarine "Triton" circumnavigates globe underwater

Laser (light amplification by simulated emissions of radiation) device perfected; optical

microwave laser constructed

Lt. Don Walsh and Jacques Pickard descend to 35,800 feet in bathyscaphe "Trieste"

First weather satellite, Tiros 1, launched; first communications satellite, Echo 1, launched

Pollution in Mississippi River kills millions of fish

Aluminum cans used commercially for food and beverages

YEAR: 1961

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Sam Roberson elected mayor

Direct distance dialing for long distance telephone service begins on February 19

Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd retires after 31 years as president of Maryville College; Dr. Joseph J.

Copeland elected 7th president

Additional wings added to Maryville College Fine Arts Center as additional space for art and

band instruction

Lennon Sisters are featured performers at Hillbilly Homecoming

New $1,200,000 runway completed at McGhee Tyson Airport

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Cuba

John Birch Society activities are concern of Senate

U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid

President Kennedy acknowledges responsibility for Bay of Pigs fiasco

Berlin Wall constructed

Peace Corps of Young Americans created by President Kennedy

Last journey of "Orient Express" (Paris-Bucharest)

Population (in millions): China, 660; India, 435; USSR, 209; U.S., 179; Japan, 95; Pakistan, 94;

Brazil, 66; West Germany, 54; Great Britain, 53; world population tops 3 billion

"Freedom Riders" attacked and beaten in Anniston and Birmingham

Jack Nicklaus wins amateur golf championship; Gene Littler wins Open; Gary Player wins

Masters

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Making of the President: 1960; (T. H. White); Catch-22

(Joseph Heller); The Agony and the Ecstasy (Irving Stone); All the Way Home (G. A. Mossell,

Jr.; Franny and Zoe (J. D. Salinger); The Carpetbaggers (Harold Robbins); Babi Yar (Yevgeny

Yevtushenko)

Theater: The Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams)

Films: Breakfast at Tiffany's; The Guns of Navarone; The Hustler; Judgement at Nuremburg;

Jules and Jim; West Side Story

Musicals: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Loesser and Burrows); Stop the

World I Want to Get Off

Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Benjamin Britten)

Popular songs: "Crying;" "Exodus;" "It Was a Very Good Year;" "Moon River;" "Where the

Boys Are"

Bob Dylan releases first album

Yuri Gagarin orbits earth in 6-ton satellite; Alan Shepherd makes first U.S. space flight

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) receives FDA approval as alternative to aspirin

PRESIDENT: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

YEAR: 1962

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Senator Estes Kefauver speaks at April 28 dedication of new post

office at 1905 East Broadway

Proffitt's Department Store moves from its 1919 downtown location to Midland Center

Lambert Brothers, later to merge with Vulcan Materials, gives Maryville College $33,000 in

Vulcan Materials stock to fund new chapel organ

Science wing and gymnasium added to Maryville High School

Former Tennessee Textile Plant, built with city assistance, sold to Levi Strauss Co.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Adolph Eichmann hanged

Cuban missile crisis

U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers traded for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel

Black student James Meredith denied admission to University of Mississippi; U.S. marshals and

3,000 soldiers suppress riots when Meredith arrives on campus to begin classes

Sonny Liston defeats Floyd Patterson for heavyweight title

Total world population: 3.1 billion, 44% of adults illiterate

Jack Nicklaus wins U.S. Open, first professional title; Palmer wins 3rd Masters

Sam Walton opens first Wal-Mart

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Travels with Charley in Search of America (John Steinbeck); One

Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ((Ken Kesey); King Rat (James Clavell); The Reivers (William

Faulkner); A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess); The Thin Red Line (James Jones); Fail-Safe

(E. Burdick and H. Wheeler); The Crucible (Robert Ward); Silent Spring (Rachel Ward);

Happiness is a Warm Puppy (Charles Schulz)

Art: Marilyn Monroe (Andy Warhol)

Theater: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)

Ballet: Improvisations (Aaron Copland and Jack Carter)

Films: Cleopatra; Lawrence of Arabia; The Manchurian Candidate; The Trial

Marilyn Monroe dies of overdose

Popular songs: "Blowin in the Wind;" "Days of Wine and Roses;" "I Left My Heart in San

Francisco;" "Ramblin' Rose;" "Surfin' Safari"

Spacemen Glenn, Carpenter and Shirra orbit separately; Telstar satellite launched; Mariner 2

Venus Probe launched

Lear jet introduced

Atomic reactors in operation: US, 200; Britain, 39; USSR, 39

Thalidomide causes thousands of children to be born with gross malformations

YEAR: 1963

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Black students enroll at Maryville High for the first time

White Star Lines ends residential bus service but continues service to Knoxville

City Industrial Development Board formed to recruit industries to area

Maryville High senior Anne Baker receives woman's athletic scholarship to UT, a Neyland

Academic Scholarship; becomes first woman to play on men's varsity team as member of golf

team

Inger Louise Anderson arrives from Denmark as first high school foreign exchange student;

hosted by Sid Rogers family

Tut Bradford, the Daily Times publisher, elected president of Tennessee Association of

Associated Press

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: De Gaulle objects to Britain's entry into common market; Britain rejected

Birmingham race riots; Martin Luther King arrested; President Kennedy calls out 3,000 troops;

NAACP leader Medgar Evers murdered in June; "march on Washington" in August

"I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington

U.S. and USSR agree on "hot line" from White House to Kremlin

Nuclear test ban signed by U.S., USSR and Great Britain

President Kennedy assassinated November 22 by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; Oswald

assassinated by Jack Ruby

Congress votes for equal pay for women for equal work

First state lottery conducted in New Hampshire to raise money for state education

Glasgow-London mail train robbery nets 2.5 million pounds ($7 million)

Evidence of "credibility gap" between truth and official report of events in Cuba, Vietnam and

elsewhere

Hurricanes and tsunamis leave 22,000 dead in east Pakistan; 4,000 die in Cuba-Haiti hurricane

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan; Cat's Cradle (Kurt

Vonnegut, Jr.); The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath); The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John Le

Carre); The Group (Mary McCarthy); The Unicorn (Iris Murdoch); The Guns of August (Barbara

Tuchman); Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

Art: Whaam (Roy Lichtenstein); Signe (Brauner)

Theater: Barefoot in the Park (Neil Simon)

Films: The Birds; The Cardinal; Charade; Dr. Strangelove; The Great Escape; Hud; Tom Jones

Popular songs: "Blue Bayou;" "Fly Me to the Moon"

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan popular singers

Beatles have first success with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

Valentina Tereshkova makes 3-day space flight, first female astronaut; Gordon Cooper

completes 22 orbits in Atlas rocket

Friction welding invented

J. Robert Oppenheimer receives Enrico Fermi medal

Matthews and Sandage discover quasars

Dr. Michael De Bakey uses artificial heart for circulation during heart surgery

Valium introduced as muscle-relaxer and anti-convulsant

PRESIDENT: Lyndon Baines Johnson

YEAR: 1964

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Lea Callaway, former mayor for 4 consecutive terms, dies

December 30

Discussions regarding possible sale of Everett High School campus to city for site of new

elementary school

Sam Houston postage stamp issued January 10; Sam Houston Memorial Association sells first

day covers and first day issue postcards of Sam Houston Schoolhouse flown from Houston the

day cancelled

New 1,000 gallon per minute fire pumper truck purchased, replacing 1926 American Lafrance

fire engine in service for 37 years

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: 24th Amendment abolishes poll tax

Jack Ruby sentenced to death for killing Oswald; dies of cancer January 1965

U.S. destroyer allegedly attacked off North Vietnam; U.S. aircraft attack North Vietnam bases in

reprisal

Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize

Khrushchev replaced as prime minister by Kosygin, as party secretary by Brezhnev

Arafat assumes leadership of Al Fatah, Arab guerillas

114 die in major Alaska earthquake

300 spectators killed in Lima soccer riots

Cassius Clay wins heavyweight title from Sonny Liston

Arnold Palmer wins 4th Masters tournament

James Hoffa sentenced to 8 years and 5 years respectively for jury tampering, fraud and

conspiracy

Go-go girls in discotheques demonstrate the watusi, frug, monkey, funky chicken and other

varieties of the Twist

W.Paul Gray born.(not dead yet)- Future Computer Guru for the City of Maryville Tennessee

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Games People Play (Eric Berne); Herzog (Saul Bellow); The

Keepers of the House (Shirley Ann Grau); The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn); Charlie

and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

Theater: After the Fall (Arthur Miller); Inadmissible Evidence (John Osborne); Marat/Sade

(Peter Weiss); The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Peter Schaffer); The Subject Was Roses (Frank

Gilroy)

Films: A Hard Day's Night; Goldfinger; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; Zorba the Greek

Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher; weds Richard Burton in 10 days

Musicals: Fiddler on the Roof; Funny Girl; Hello, Dolly!

Music: 3rd Symphony 'Kaddish' (Leonard Bernstein)

Popular songs: "I Get Around;" "King of the Road;" "Love Me, Do;" "Mr. Tambourine Man;"

"People"; "Pretty Woman;" "She Loves You"

Rolling Stones enter U.S. Top 40 for first time

Architecture: Philharmonic Hall, Berlin (Hans Scharoun)

G.I. Joe doll for boys

Fundamental particle omega-minus discovered

Ranger 7 returns close-up photographs of moon surface

Britain grants drilling licenses in North Sea

Ford Motor Co. introduces Mustang

Verrazono Narrows Bridge, world's longest suspension bridge, opens to traffic

Surgeon General's Report links smoking to lung cancer and other diseases

YEAR: 1965

MARYVILLE HISTORY: T. Ned Lee elected mayor on platform calling for change to council-

manager type government

On November 16, Rodney Lawler appointed City Administrator

Monument to Blount County's war dead dedicated May 29 on front lawn of courthouse; topped

by statue of soldier, monument contains names of all Blount Countians killed from War of 1812

to Vietnam War

Secretary of State Dean Rusk speaks at September 21 Maryville College Convocation

Groundbreaking held November 10 for new Blount County Children's Home on Louisville Road

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Malcolm X, black Muslim leader, assassinated in New York

Martin Luther King leads civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

War in Vietnam: U.S. bombs North Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh rejects peace talks; full scale combat

offensive by U.S. troops begins

Anti-war rallies; U.S. university enrollments increase as young Americans take advantage of

draft deferrals for college students

Medicare Bill becomes law

Race riots in Los Angeles Watts district result in 35 dead, 4,000 arrested and $40 million in

property damage

New U.S. immigration law replaces 1921 law based on nationality

U.S. spends $654 per student for public school education

Ontario relay switch malfunction blacks out 30 million people in northeast U.S. and Canada

Miniskirt appears in London

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X and Alex Haley);

Unsafe at Any Speed (Ralph Nader); The Thousand Days (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); The Magus

(John Fowles); Thunderball (Ian Fleming); An American Dream (Norman Mailer); The Green

Berets (Robin Moore); The Rosy Crucifixion (Henry Miller)

Art: Weatherside (Andrew Wyeth)

Theater: The Homecoming (Harold Pinter); The Odd Couple (Neil Simon)

John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs

Films: Help! (The Beatles)

Musicals: Man of La Mancha

Popular songs: "Downtown;" "I Got You Babe;" "Like a Rolling Stone;" Lara' Theme

(Somewhere My Love);" "Sounds of Silence;" "What the World Needs Now Is Love;"

"Yesterday"

Rolling Stones gain popularity with huge success of their recording of "Satisfaction"

James Brown has international success with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"

Astronaut Leonov floats in space for 10 minutes; astronaut Edward White walks from Gemini 4

for 21 minutes

Legislative momentum for anti-pollution laws in U.S.

YEAR: 1966

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Army staff Sgt. Donald L. Dotson, Special Forces Advisor, first

Blount Countian to die in Vietnam (eventually 34 Blount Countians would die in Vietnam)

Hugh E. Delozier, City Attorney for 17-1/2 years and recently appointed Assistant Attorney

General, dies November 3

William J. Hale School, constructed as school for black community in 1931, is closed

Two women's dorms and one men's dorm constructed on Maryville College Campus

Performance by Flatt and Scruggs draws 4,000 residents to Hillbilly Homecoming Grand Finale

Portion of Foothills Parkway dedicated in June providing alternate route to Chilhowee Lake

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: De Gaulle requests removal of NATO forces from France

48 hour Christmas truce observed in Vietnam

Cultural Revolution in China

Northern Italy floods ruin thousands of art treasures in Venice and Florence

U.S. Senate votes to prohibit prayer in public schools

National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

Miranda v. Arizona: Supreme Court rules that police officers must advise anyone taken into

custody of their right to counsel and their right to remain silent

LSD outlawed in U.S.

U.S. population: 195,827,000

Jim Ryun runs mile in 3 minutes, 51.3 seconds, world record

Billy Graham conducts Greater London crusade

United Brethren and Methodist churches merge as United Methodist Church

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Quotations of Chairman Mao (Mao Tse-tung); The Death of a

President (William Manchester); In Cold Blood (Truman Capote); The Last Picture Show (Larry

McMurtry); The Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann); Cactus Flower (Abe Burroughs); The

Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein); The Green House (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Theater: The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)

Ballet: Tancredi (Hans Werner Henze)

TV: Star Trek

Films: A Man for All Seasons; Alfie; Born Free; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Musicals: Cabaret (Kander and Ebb); Mame (Jerry Herman); Sweet Charity

Opera: Antony and Cleopatra (Samuel Barber)

Burton Lane: "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"

Douglas Moore: "Carrie Nation"

Popular songs: "Alice's Restaurant;" "Born Free;" "California Dreamin';" "Eleanor Rigby;"

"Georgy Girl;" "Good Vibrations;" "If I Were a Carpenter;" "Mellow Yellow;" "Scarborough

Fair;" "Strangers in the Night;" "Yellow Submarine"

Dr. Michael De Bakey performs 3.5 hour valve replacement operation by using heart machine

Soviet Luna 9 makes soft landing on moon; U.S. Surveyor 1 makes soft landing on moon; two

male dogs orbit in Cosmos 110; Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin makes 129-minute space walk

U.S. B-52 crashes near Spain with 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs

YEAR: 1967

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Rodney Lawler named first City Manager with change to new form

of government

Stanley B. Shields named Mayor

Sandy Springs Park and Evrett Park constructed under Open Space Grant Program; cost:

$500,000

East Maryville Fire Station completed in September

Official City of Maryville seal adopted

First United Methodist moves into new building on Montvale Station Road

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Vietnam War: U.S. bombers attack Hanoi; massive demonstrations for

and against war in New York, San Francisco and Washington

Six-Day Arab-Israeli War

Black Power Conference in Newark, New Jersey; race riots across U.S.

Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice, sworn in

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) indicted for refusing induction into armed forces

Mickey Mantle hits 500th career home run

Peggy Fleming is world champion women's figure skater

Billie Jean King is world's female tennis champ

Green Bay Packers under Vince Lombardi win 3rd consecutive conference championship

Albert H. DeSalvo, "Boston Strangler," sentenced to life imprisonment

U.S. one year consumption: 5.3 billion cans of soft drinks, 12 billion cans of beer

3.6 million births registered in U.S.

Francis Chichester completes solo voyage around the world, 226 days

Twiggy takes U.S. fashion by storm

Lynda Byrd Johnson marries Marine Capt. Charles Robb

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Division Street (Studs Terkel); One Hundred Years of Solitude

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez); Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)

Films: Bonnie and Clyde; The Chelsea Girls; Cool Hand Luke; In the Heat of the Night; The

Graduate; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; To Sir with Love

Theater: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Nichols); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

(Tom Stoppard)

Musicals: Hair (Ragni, Rado and MacDermot)

Popular songs: "Light My Fire;" "Ode to Billie Joe;" "Penny Lane;" "Release Me;" "Respect;"

"Ruby Tuesday;" "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;" "Somebody to Love"

Barbra Streisand sings to audience of 135,000 in Central Park

Woodie Guthrie dies

Gerry Dorsey changes name to Engelbert Humperdinck; gains world fame

Architecture: World Trade Center begun (Minoru Yamasaki)

Compact microwave ovens for home use

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komorav killed during reentry of Soyuz 1; U.S. manned space flights

suspended after death of three astronauts in fire

China explodes first hydrogen bomb

Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs world's first heart transplant operation

Cryosurgery developed as means of treating Parkinson's disease

74 U.S. nuclear subs in commission

Desmond Morris: The Naked Ape

YEAR: 1968

MARYVILLE HISTORY: $2 million Plainfield neighborhood improvement project initiated as

part of urban renewal campaign

John Sevier Elementary School opens in August to 600 students in east side of Maryville

Lamar Alexander and Albert Gore, Jr. debate Republican and Democratic views of the Nixon-

Humphrey presidential campaign at Maryville College

New Sutton Science Center building dedicated October 26 as element of Maryville College

Sesquicentennial campaign

Emergency 911 service, first in Tennessee, inaugurated in local area

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. Navy intelligence ship Pueblo captured by North Korea, charged

with violating North Korean waters; crew released after 11 months

Senator Robert Kennedy announces candidacy for presidential nomination; assassinated during

campaign in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan

Riots and police brutality mar Chicago Democratic Convention

Rev. Martin Luther King assassinated; Scotland Yard arrests James Earl Ray in London

Czechoslovakia chooses sovereignty; Yugoslav president Tito supports Czech liberation drive;

Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade; Czech leaders accede to Soviet demands

Oil discovered on Alaska's North Slope; construction of pipeline to port of Valdez begins

Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis

Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower

Lee Trevino wins U.S. Open championship

Terry McCoy born.(not dead yet). Future Network Technician and Computer Guru

extraordanaire for the City of Maryville Tennessee. Turns out to be a so-so golfer.

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Myra Breckenridge (Gore Vidal); True Grit (Charles Portis); The

Last Unicorn (Peter Beagle); Airport (Arthur Hailey); The Crying Game (John Braine); The

Money Game (Adam Smith); The Boys in the Band (Matt Crowley); Lute (Joe Wharton)

Art: Portrait of Mies van der Rohe (Marini Marini)

Theater: The Boys in the Band (Mart Crowley); The Great White Hope (Howard Sackler); Plaza

Suite (Neil Simon)

TV: Hawaii Five-O

Films: Bullitt; Funny Girl; The Lion in Winter; Planet of the Apes; 2001: A Space Odyssey

Music: "Prometheus" (Carl Orff)

Popular songs: "Both Sides Now;" "Galveston;" "Hey Jude;" "Jumpin' Jack Flash;" "Little Green

Apples;" "Mrs. Robinson"

Aretha Franklin (soul music) and Jimi Hendrix (hard rock music) compete for popularity

The Doors have their biggest hit with "Hello, I Love You"

Architecture: Gateway Arch in St. Louis (Eero Saarinen)

Jacuzzi Whirlpool bath introduced in California

Automatic bank teller machines

U.S. explodes hydrogen bomb underground

Surveyor 7 lands successfully on moon; Apollo 7 with 3 astronauts orbits 11 days; Apollo 8

returns after orbit of moon

Pulsating radio sources (pulsars) discovered

YEAR: 1969

MARYVILLE HISTORY: City receives nation's first Neighborhood Development Program

grant to renovate downtown business district

Kenneth Devereaux named second City Manager, replacing Rodney Lawler

Local military personnel return as President Nixon begins withdrawal of forces from Vietnam

Asbury Acres Heath Center opens in December

Surgeons at Blount Memorial Hospital successfully perform first local heart pacemaker

implantation

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Yasir Arafat elected chairman of Palestine Liberation Organization

"Chicago 8" indicted for violating anti-riot clause of Civil Rights Act during 1968 Democratic

Convention, found not guilty

First U.S. troops withdrawn from Vietnam

Senator Edward Kennedy's credibility as a statesman is undermined after accident at

Chappaquiddick in which Mary Jo Kopechne drowns

North Vietnam president Ho Chi Minh dies

Britain sends 600 troops into Belfast to quell rioting

Anti-Vietnam War protests in several U.S. cities

Saturday Evening Post, founded 1821, suspends publication

Hurricane Camille devastates Mississippi gulf coast

Trouser outfits for women become acceptable

Tate-LaBianca (Charles Manson) murders

World population: 3.5 billion, growing at 2% annually

Wilt Chamberlain leading basketball rebounder 4th year in row, 8 out of 10 years

Lew Alcindor emerges as great basketball star at UCLA

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Peter Principle (Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull); The

Chairman (J. Richard Kennedy); The Velachi Papers (Peter Maas); Armies of the Night (Norman

Mailer) Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.); Portnoy's Complaint (Phillip Roth); The

Godfather (Mario Puzo); The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton); The Kingdom and the

Power (Gay Talese)

"Doonesbury" by U.S. cartoonist Gary Trudeau syndicated in 25 newspapers

Theater: Butterflies Are Free (Leonard Gersh); Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Neil Simon)

TV: Sesame Street

Films: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Easy Rider; Midnight Cowboy; They Shoot Horses,

Don't They?

Musicals: Oh! Calcutta!

Opera: Bonaventura's Heroes (Gian Francesco Malipiero)

Music: "The Transfiguration" (Olivier Messiaen)

Popular songs: "Aquarius;" "Come Saturday Morning;" "Games People Play;" "Get Back;"

"Honky Tonk Women;" "Okie from Muskogee;" "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"

Duke Ellington celebrates 70th birthday

Woodstock near Bethel, New York draws 300,000 youths

Concorde supersonic aircraft makes first test flight

Apollo 10 astronauts bring lunar module 9.4 miles from moon's surface; Apollo 11: Neil

Armstrong first man on moon July 21; Astronauts Conrad and Bean land Apollo 12 lunar module

on moon; Mariner Probe sends back Martian surface pictures

Alaska 1-day oil field lease sale brings in $900,220,590

Cyclamates removed from market

DDT ban initiated

PRESIDENT: Richard Milhous Nixon

YEAR: 1970

MARYVILLE HISTORY: John Sevier swimming pool opens May 30, offering recreational

opportunities to East Side residents

New Cusick Street bridge over Pistol Creek constructed under urban renewal program

Parham Hill, once fashionable residential area of the wealthy, graded and leveled for retail

development

Municipal Building enlarged to house Maryville Utilities Board and new City Council room

City population: 13,808, a 10-year increase of 3,500

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Four students killed by National Guardsmen in anti-war protest at Kent

State University

U.S. strength in Vietnam reduced below 400,000 men

Environmental Protection Agency formed by Congress

Clean Air Act

First mass demonstrations against pollution on Earth Day April 21

U.S. Census shows ratio of men (94.8) to women (100), lowest in history

Cyclones and floods kill 500,000 in east Pakistan; 70,000 die in earthquakes, floods and

landslides in Peru

Populations (in millions): China, 760 (305 per square mile); India, 550 (655 per square mile);

USSR, 243; U.S., 205 (85 per square mile); Japan, 1,083 per square mile

U.S. hospital care costs: $81 per patient/day, $664.28 per average patient-stay

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Future Shock (Alvin Toffler); Losing Battles (Eudora Welty);

Islands in the Stream (Ernest Hemingway); The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles);

Love Story (Erich Segal); Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)

Art: Spiral Jelly at Great Salt Lake (Smithson)

Theater: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)

TV: The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Films: Catch-22; Claire's Knee; Five Easy Pieces; Little Big Man; M*A*S*H; Patton; True Grit

Musicals: Purlie

Popular songs: "Bridge Over Troubled Water;" "I'll Never Fall in Love Again;" "Your Song"

Apollo 13 launched; unmanned spacecraft, Luna 16, returns from moon; unmanned Soviet

spacecraft lands on Venus

150-inch telescope completed for Kit Peak Observatory

YEAR: 1971

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Governor Winfield Dunn kicks off September 28 New Town

Celebration recognizing renovation of downtown

City drugstore on Broadway destroyed by fire just prior to New Town Celebration

Blount Memorial Hospital adds patient unit

Dam construction on Pistol Creek initiated to create Greenbelt Lake

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Vietnam War: U.S. planes bomb supply routes in Cambodia; fighting

spreads to Laos and Cambodia; large scale bombing raids against North Vietnam

Lt. William Calley, Jr. found guilty of premeditated murder in My Lai Massacre

"Pentagon Papers" appear in New York Times

26th Amendment allows 18 year olds to vote

Violence worsens in Northern Ireland

Nixon orders 90-day wage and price freeze to curb inflation

Cigarette advertisements banned from U.S. television

Rolls Royce Ltd. declares bankruptcy

Joe Frazier out points Muhammad Ali; retains heavyweight title

Hank Aaron hits 600th career home run

Los Angeles earthquake kills 60

Amtrak takes over declining U.S. passenger railroad traffic, ends service to many cities

Attica Prison riots

Roman Catholic bishops reaffirm role of celibacy for clergy

Church of England and Roman Catholic Church agree on essential meaning of the Eucharist,

ending 400-year dispute

Jesus Movement much publicized element of religion on U.S.

Federal aid to parochial schools ruled unconstitutional

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown); The Winds of War

(Herman Wouk); The Scarlatti Inheritance (Robert Ludlum)

Art: Circus with Joglers (Marc Chagall)

TV: All in the Family

Films: A Clockwork Orange; Death in Venice; The French Connection; The Last Picture Show

TV: All in the Family

Musicals: Godspell (Stephen Schwartz); Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim

Rice)

Opera: The Knot Garden (Michael Tippett)

Music: "Mass" (Leonard Bernstein)

Popular songs: "Poems, Prayers, and Promises;" "Take Me Home, Country Roads;" "You've Got

a Friend"

Donny Osmond has No. 1 hit with "Go Away, Little Girl"

Apollo 14 and 15 crews explore moon's surface; Satellite Mariner 9 orbits Mars; Soyuz 11

astronauts die while reentering earth's atmosphere; USSR soft lands capsule on Mars

Astronomers discover 2 galaxies adjacent to Milky Way

U.S. explodes hydrogen bomb beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska

YEAR: 1972

MARYVILLE HISTORY: February 13 Maryville College fire severely damages Pearson Hall,

closing dining facilities and leaving 90 female students without dormitory space

Pistol Creek Dam closed on March 13, allowing lake to fill

Senator Howard Baker officially dedicates new Huddleston Wing at Blount Memorial Hospital

All time high attendance of 25,000 recorded at November 29 annual Christmas Parade of 1,500

participants, also a record

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. returns Okinawa to Japan

Nixon becomes first president to visit Soviet Union since 1945

The "Watergate" affair

George Wallace shot by Arthur Brimmer and partially paralyzed

Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland; "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland

Vietnam War: Peace talks continue; U.S. mines North Vietnamese ports

11 Israeli Olympic athletes killed by Arab terrorists in Munich

President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in Philippines

Supreme Court rules death penalty unconstitutional

Surgeon General's Report warns of danger of second-hand smoke to non-smokers

Swimmer Mark Spitz captures 7 gold medals at summer Olympics

3rd-largest gem quality diamond ever discovered unearthed in Sierra Leone (969.8 carats)

Prospectors strike largest oilfield in Western Hemisphere in Mexico

Militant Angela Davis acquitted of murder-conspiracy charges

U.S. military draft phased out; armed forces become all volunteer

Life magazine ceases publication after 36 years

Federal Express founded in Memphis

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Foxfire Book (Eliot Wigginston); August 1914 (Aleksander

Solzhenitsyn); Watership Down (Richard Adams); The Exorcist (William P. Blatty); The Day of

the Jackal (Frederick Forsyth)

TV: The Waltons; M*A*S*H

Films: Cabaret; Deliverance; The Godfather; Play It Again, Sam; Straw Dogs

Musicals: Grease (Jim Jacobs); Pippin (Stephen Schwartz)

Fiddler on the Roof, longest running Broadway show in history, closes after 3,242 performances

Music: 15th Symphony (Shostakovich)

Popular songs: "American Pie;" "Operator;" "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

Architecture: Olympic Stadium, Munich (Frei)

Apollo 16 and 17 crews spend 71 and 75 hours, respectively, on the surface of the moon; Soviets

soft land craft on Venus

Stone Age tribe discovered living in caves in southern Philippines

Richard Leakey and Glen Issac discover 2.5 million year old human skull in Kenya

YEAR: 1973

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Don Peterson becomes third City Manager upon resignation of Ken

Devereaux

Citizens Bank of Blount County begins operation on Church Avenue September 24; Joe Bruce,

president

Schlegal Company promises many new jobs with announcement of intentions to build a plant in

Maryville

Two earthquakes shake city within a month

Construction begins on interceptor sewer line and third phase of Greenbelt Park near courthouse

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark join Common Market

Nixon ends wage-price controls except in food, health care and building industries

President Nixon implicated by John Dean in Watergate hearings

Spiro Agnew resigns; Gerald Ford named Vice President

U.S./South Vietnam and Vietcong/North Vietnam sign cease fire agreement January 23; fighting

continues after agreement; 2nd cease fire agreement in June; fighting continues

Arabs and Israelis fight Yom Kippur War in Middle East; Arab nations retaliate, embargo

shipments to U.S., western Europe and Japan for support of Israel; energy crisis in industrialized

world

"Pentagon Papers" defendants Ellsberg and Russo freed

Militant Native American Indians occupy Wounded Knee for 70 days

American League adopts "designated hitter" policy

George Foreman wins heavyweight title from Joe Frazier

O.J. Simpson sets 1-year rushing mark of 2,003 yards

Supreme Court rules state prohibition of abortion during first 6 months of pregnancy

unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade

Dave Halberstam: The Best and the Brightest

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon); Fear of Flying (Erica Jong);

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.); The Changing Room (David Storey)

Criminal Court rules Deep Throat "indisputably and irredeemably obscene"

Ballet: Dybouk (Leonard Bernstein)

Films: A Touch of Class; American Graffiti; The Exorcist; Last Tango in Paris; Paper Moon;

Save the Tiger; The Sting

Musicals: A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim)

Opera: Death in Venice (Benjamin Britten)

Popular songs: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown;" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road;" "Killing Me Softly

with His Song;" "I Shot the Sheriff;" "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"

Elton John has first No. 1 hit with "Crocodile Rock"

Architecture: Sears Tower, Chicago opens; Sydney Opera House, opens

Skylab Missions 1, 2 and 3 completed, astronauts spending 59.5 days in space; Pioneer 10 space

probe transmits pictures of Jupiter

YEAR: 1974

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Lamar Alexander is Republican nominee for governor of Tennessee

Groundbreaking for Blount County Courthouse annex to house offices and a new jail

McClung's downtown store heavily damaged by fire

Plans announced for construction of Maryville Towers, assisted living complex at site of

Hannum Springs

Supreme Court rules in favor of City on proposed annexation of Eagleton area

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Worldwide inflation and Arab boost of oil prices cause dramatic

increases in cost of food, fuel and materials; Dow Jones index falls to 663, lowest since 1970

recession

Irish terrorism spreads to England; Tower of London and Parliament bombed

Famine in Bangledesh

Watergate convictions; President Nixon resigns August 9; President Ford pardons Nixon

Vietnam War drags on

55 mph highway speed limit act signed by President Nixon

Jim Bakker founds PTL television ministry

Muhammad Ali reclaims heavyweight title by defeating Joe Frazier and George Foreman

Henry Aaron tops Babe Ruth's 714 career home run record

Little League baseball allows girls to play

Frank Robinson first black to manage major league baseball team

Jimmy Connors wins Wimbledon, Australian and U.S. Open; Billie Jean King wins 4th U.S.

Open; Chris Evert wins Canadian, French and Italian Open

Gary Player wins 3rd British Open and 2nd Masters golf championship

Patricia Hearst kidnapped; joins Symbionese Liberation Army

"Streaking" a fad in U.S.

World population: 3.7832 billion

Oil company (30 largest) net profits increase 93% first half of 1974 per Chase Manhattan Bank

AT and T bans discrimination against homosexuals

11 women ordained as Episcopal priests

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn); All the

President's Men (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein); The Eye of the Storm (Patrick White); Zen

and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Persig); Jaws (Peter Benchley); Tinker,

Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carre)

TV: The Rockford Files

Films: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Benji; Blazing Saddles; Chinatown; Clarence Darrow;

The Godfather, Part II; Harry and Tonto; Scenes from a Marriage

Popular sings: "Behind Closed Doors;" "I Honestly Love You;" "Jet;" "Rhinestone Cowboy;"

"The Way We Were"

Skylab 3 astronauts spend 84 days in space; Mariner 10 transmits detailed pictures of Venus and

Mercury; Soviet space probe lands on Mars

India becomes 6th nation to explode nuclear device

Air Force SR71 jet flies from New York to London in 1 hour 55 minutes, reaching speeds of

2,000 mph

psi subatomic particle detected

"Heimlich maneuver" described

PRESIDENT: Gerald Rudolph Ford

YEAR: 1975

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Memorial Hall, 1871 college dorm for men, is razed

Londoner Ken Bright's City of Maryville flag design is adopted September 23

City offers land for new library

Price of First Class stamp rises from 10 to 13 cents

U.S. Bicentennial caravan visits Maryville in December

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Khmer Rouge Communist insurgents take over Cambodia; U.S. Embassy

closed and evacuated

North Vietnamese and Vietcong seize Saigon; U.S. troops withdrawn ending 20 years of military

involvement in Vietnam War

Egypt reopens Suez Canal closed during Arab-Israeli War of June 1967

Bloody fighting between rightist Christians and leftist Moslems in Lebanon

Oil prices raised 10% by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Two assassination attempts made on President Ford

First strike in U.S. by doctors; hospitals agree to shorten hours; malpractice insurance rates

quadruple

New York City, financially destitute, appeals to federal government

International Woman's Year World Conference in Mexico City

U.S. unemployment reaches 9.2%, highest since 1941

William and Emily Harris and Patricia Hearst captured

James R. Hoffa disappears

Mauna Loa erupts in Hawaii, first since 1950

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow); Shogun (James Clavell); Dry

Tortuga (Peter Mathiessen); A Month of Sundays (John Updike); Curtain (Agatha Christie); The

Killer Angels (Michael Shaara); Turtle Island (Gary Snyder)

Theater: Equus (Peter Schaffer); Same Time, Next Year (Bernard Slade); Seascape (Edward

Albee); The Taking of Miss Janie (Ed Bullins)

TV: Saturday Night Live

Films: Jaws; Nashville; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Sunshine Boys

Musicals: A Chorus Line (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban); Shenandoah (Geld and Udell);

The Wiz (Charlie Smalls)

Popular songs: "At Seventeen;" "Born to Run;" "Feelings;" "The Hustle;" "Jive Talkin';" "Love

Will Keep Us Together;" "Lyin' Eyes"

Discos enjoy renewed popularity; Donna Summer and the Bee Gees popular

6,000 life-size pottery figures, 3 B.C., found in northwest China

Viking spacecraft launched to Mars; first U.S. and Soviet spacecraft linkup in space

Microsoft founded by William Gates and Paul Allen

Atlantic salmon return after 100 years to spawn in Connecticut River

YEAR: 1976

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Bicentennial Park dedicated July 4 to honor our nation's founding

Maryville named a bicentennial community April 6

Blount County Courthouse addition, including new jail, dedicated in January

Dr. Joseph Copeland retires June 30 as president of Maryville College (since 1961); search

begins for successor

Wayne Thompson, bicycling from Boston to Astoria, Oregon, stops to participate in Bicentennial

commemoration

Maryville High School football team wins Class AA Championship game against Brentwood

Academy November 25

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S and Soviets sign nuclear treaty providing on-site inspection for

compliance

U.S. celebrates Bicentennial across the country

North and South Vietnam reunited as Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Syria takes control of Lebanon

Concorde jets begin first supersonic passenger service

Israeli commandos rescue 103 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda

Worst racial violence in South Africa's history

Supreme Court upholds new death penalty laws for murder as drafted by Congress

Air Force Academy admits 155 women, ending all male tradition at military academies

Rumanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, 14, wins 3 gold medals at Montreal Olympics

Hank Aaron retires with record of 755 career home runs

David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") begins 12-month killing spree in New York

"Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 at convention in Philadelphia

Violent earthquakes strike Italy, China, Philippines, Turkey, Bali and Guatemala; an estimated

780,000 die

Parents protest alleged "brainwashing" by Moon's Unification Church ("Moonies")

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Blind Ambition (John Dean); The Hite Report (Shere Hite); Roots

(Alex Haley); The Boys from Brazil (Ira Levin); 1876 (Gore Vidal); The Bell of Amherst

(William Luce)

Art: Running Fence California (Christo)

Theater: American Buffalo (David Mamet); Streamers (David Rabe); California Suite (Neil

Simon); Dirty Linen and New-Found Land (Tom Stoppard)

Films: All the President's Men; Face to Face; Network; Rocky; Taxi Driver

Popular songs: "All by Myself;" "I Write the Songs;" "Show Me the Way"

Punk rock popular among England's working class; spreads to U.S.

Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docks with orbiting Salyut space station; Viking 1 and 2 landing

vehicles transmit first close-up photos of Mars' surface; radar observations of Venus' surface

recorded

New "upsilon" atomic particles detected

Spray can gases suspected of damage to ozone layer

Breakthrough in genetic engineering as M.I.T. researcher reports successful construction of a

bacterial gene

Discovery of viral cause of multiple sclerosis

"Swine flu" scare in U.S.

Apple Computer founded California garage by Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs

YEAR: 1977

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Wayne Anderson named president of Maryville College

Palace Theater, closed 40 years, reopened by Walker Ahrrill and Jerry Cardin

Blount County Health Department moves to new quarters adjacent to Thompson-Brown house

Alcoa pot lines shut down by energy crisis, causing layoffs for many

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: President Carter challenges Americans to make profound changes in oil

consumption, the moral equivalent of war

Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy released from prison after 52.5 months

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat first Arab leader to visit Jewish state since Israel founded in

1948

Royal Dutch Airline 747 crashes into Pan American Airways 747 on runway on Canary Island in

world's worst aviation disaster

U.S. admits Vietnamese "boat people" on emergency basis

U.S. Department of Energy created by Congress

8.2 million gallons of crude oil spilled before North Sea well capped after blow out

Lightning strike at Consolidated Edison creates massive blackout for 9 million New Yorkers

Oil flows through Alaskan pipeline through Prudhoe Bay to Port of Valdez

Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's base stealing record

Seattle Slew wins Triple Crown

Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore executed by firing squad in Utah

Coldest winter on record in U.S.

U.S. population: 216 million

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Age of Uncertainty (John Galbraith); The Complete Book of

Running (James Fixx); The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullogh); Blind Date (Jerzy Kosinski);

Blood Ties (Mary Lee Settle)

Art: Stone Field, Hartford, Connecticut (Carl Andre); Batcolumn Chicago (Claes Oldenburg)

Theater: The Gin Game (D. L. Coburn); The Shadow Box (Michael Cristofer)

TV miniseries: Roots

Films: Annie Hall; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Goodbye Girl; Julia; Oh, God!;

Saturday Night Fever; Star Wars

Musicals: Annie (Strouse and Charnin)

Popular songs: "Fly Like an Eagle;" "Hotel California;" "You Light Up My Life"

Elvis Presley dies at age 42 at his Memphis mansion, Graceland

Space shuttle "Enterprise" makes first manned flight; Voyager 1 and 2 begin exploration of outer

solar system; discovery of 5 rings encircling Uranus

U.S. confirms testing of neutron bomb

Methanogens, primitive microorganisms, discovered

Life threatening viral infection, herpes encephalitis, successfully treated with drug

Apple II computer introduced

First magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is tested

Tagamet, revolutionary new ulcer treatment, wins FDA approval

PRESIDENT: James Earl (Jimmy) Carter

YEAR: 1978

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville native Lamar Alexander elected 53rd governor of

Tennessee after a year-long campaign walk across state in red checked shirt

Gary Hensley appointed 4th City Manager

Work continues on Home Avenue Redevelopment Project, providing new business corridor for

small business

Maryville College receives first $1 million gift

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Sandinista guerillas seek violent overthrow of Nicaraguan government

U.S. and People's Republic of China announce establishment of full diplomatic relations

Israeli Premier Menahem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat meet with President Carter

at Camp David

Begin and Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Shah of Iran imposes martial law to end anti-government demonstrations; exiled Moslem leader

Ayatollah Khomeini promotes strife to topple Shah

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act imposes strict controls on export of U.S. nuclear technology

Environmentalists demonstrate against nuclear plants in Oregon and California

David R. Berkowitz, "Son of Sam'" sentenced to life imprisonment

Player wins 3rd Master championship; Nicklaus wins 3rd British Open title

American obsession with jogging

Chicago Daily News ceases publication after 103 years

Brigadier General Margaret A. Brewer, first female general in U.S. Marine Corps

First transatlantic crossing by balloon; Naomi Jones first woman to sail around the world alone

Murder-suicide of People's Temple leader Jim Jones and 917 followers in Guyana

98% of U.S. households have television sets

World population: 4.4 billion, 200,000 added daily

John Paul II first non-Italian Pope in 456 years

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Falconer (John Cheever); The World According to Garp (John

Irving); War and Remembrance (Herman Wouk); Chesapeake (James A. Michener); Fools Die

(Mario Puzo); Son of the Morning (Joyce Carol Oates), Elbow Room (James Allen McPherson);

Collected Poems (Howard Nemerov)

TV: Dallas

Films: Coming Home; The Deer Hunter; Grease; National Lampoon's Animal House; Superman

Musicals: Ain't Misbehavin' ("Fats" Waller); Dancin' (Bob Fosse); Evita (Andrew Lloyd Webber

and Tim Rice); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Carol Hall, Tommy Tune)

Opera: Paradise Los (Krysztof Penderecki)

Popular songs: "Just the Way You Are;" "Last Dance;" "Love is Thicker Than Water;" "Miss

You;" "Three Times a Lady"

Architecture: East Building, National Gallery Washington (I.M. Pei)

Salyut 6 cosmonauts orbit 139 days

Moon discovered orbiting Pluto

"Test-tube" baby born in England

Oil drilling begins off New Jersey shore

Last Volkswagen Beetle produced in Germany

YEAR: 1979

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Stanley Shields voted "Mayor of the Year" by Tennessee Municipal

League

Groundbreaking held September 7 for new Blount County Library

Historic Thompson-Brown House restoration begins

Blount Memorial Hospital opens new mental health unit

Former First Baptist Church building on Ellis Avenue razed

Farmer's market opens in downtown Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Soviets invade Afghanistan

Iranian government overthrown; Shah flees country, seeks medical help in U.S.; President Carter

refuses extradition of Shah to Iran; Islamic revolutionaries storm American Embassy in

November, seizing 66 hostages

Peace treaty signed by Sadat and Begin

Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister

Supreme Court upholds affirmative action program

Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

Federal bail-out of Chrysler Corporation

Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell

Double digit inflation plagues world; fuel shortage creates waiting lines at filling stations

Mexican offshore oil well blowout

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels); The Executioner's Song

(Norman Mailer; Sophie's Choice (William Styron); The Confederates (Thomas Keneally); The

White Album (Joan Didion); Smiley's People (John Le Carre)

Art: Sad Flowers (Hodgkin)

Theater: Amadeus (Peter Schaffer); On Golden Pond (Ernest Thompson)

TV: Knots Landing

Films: All That Jazz; Apocalypse Now; The China Syndrome; Kramer vs. Kramer; Mad Max;

Manhattan

Musicals: Sugar Babies; Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim)

Music: 8th Symphony (Malcolm Arnold)

Popular songs: ""Bad Girls;" "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy;" "Heart of Glass;" "Le Freak;" "Too Much

Heaven;" "What a Fool Believes"

Sony Walkman introduced

Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion debuts on National Public Radio

YEAR: 1980

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Population: 17,480

Residents asked to conserve water as drought conditions prevail

Blount football players practice on courthouse lawn during teachers' strike

Hannum Springs Park wins Timberform Design Award

Nancy Broady Miser, instrumental in ratification of 19th Amendment and Blount County's first

female school superintendent, dies

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S attempt to rescue hostages from Iran ends in disaster

Iran-Iraq 8-year war begins

Draft registration instituted

Solidarity movement founded in Poland under Lech Walesa

"Voo doo economics" coined by George Bush

Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act

Cable News Network (CNN) initiated by Ted Turner

Rollerblade, Inc. is founded

Mt. St. Helens erupts

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Cosmos (Carl Sagan); The Zero-Sum Society (Lester Thurow); The

Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco); Rites of Passage (William Golding); Nuns and Soldiers (Iris

Murdoch)

Theater: Children of a Lesser God (Mark Medoff); The Fifth of July (Lanford Wilson)

TV: Shogun

Films: Coal Miner's Daughter; The Elephant Man; The Empire Strikes Back; Ordinary People;

Raging Bull

Musicals: 42nd Street (Gower Champion)

Opera: Satyagraha (Philip Glass)

Popular songs: "Imagine;" "Sailing"

Beatle John Lennon fatally shot

Crystal Cathedral completed at Garden Grove, California

Voyager 1 explores 14 moons and more than 1,000 rings of Saturn

Five shots in arm replace 23 in abdomen for rabies vaccine

YEAR: 1981

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Blount County Public Library dedicated January 26 by governor

Alexander

John Michael Callahan killed in February, the 3rd Maryville police officer to die in line of duty

Blount Memorial Hospital establishes Hospice Program

Cable TV service introduced in Maryville

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Minutes after Reagan inauguration, Iran releases hostages held 444 days

President Reagan wounded March 31 in assassination attempt

Pope John Paul II wounded in Rome May 13 in assassination attempt

Israeli jets destroy Iraq nuclear reactor

Ferdinand Marcos ends 8 years of martial law in Philippines

Socialist Francois Mitterand elected president of France

Sandra Day O'Connor first female Supreme Court Justice

President Reagan dismisses striking air traffic controllers

Britain's Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer

Favoring "supply side" economics over Keynesian, Reagan signs bill mandating deepest tax cuts

in U.S. history

IBM's first personal computer introduced using Microsoft disc operating system (DOS)

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) begins worldwide toll

Dan Rather succeeds Walter Cronkite, news anchorman for 19 years

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) approved by FDA

World population: 4.5 billion, up from 2.5 billion in 1950

Population (in millions): China, 957; USSR, 266; Japan, 117; Brazil, 122; Britain, 56

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Gorky Park (Martin Cruz Smith); Rabbit is Rich (John Updike);

The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving); The Mosquito Coast (Paul Theroux); Noble House

(James Clavell); Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)

Art: Tilted Arc (Serra)

Theater: Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley); Torch Song Trilogy (Harvey Fierstein)

Films: Arthur; Chariots of Fire; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Mephisto; Raiders of the Lost

Ark

TV: Dynasty; Hill Street Blues; Miami Vice

Musicals: Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber); Dreamgirls (Krieger and Eyen)

Popular songs: "Arthur's Theme;" "Bette Davis Eyes;" "Boy from New York City"

MTV debuts on cable TV

PRESIDENT: Ronald Reagan

YEAR: 1982

MARYVILLE HISTORY: April 7 groundbreaking for Foothills Mall

Lamar Alexander reelected for 2nd term as governor

Harper Memorial Library building given to Blount County Red Cross Chapter as new quarters

Bank of Maryville, established in 1885, acquired by First Tennessee Bank

David W. Proffitt donates $100,000 to Maryville College

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: U.S. Marines land in Lebanon as part of international peace-keeping

force

Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington

Argentina invades Britain's Falkland Islands; British troops return in force; Argentine forces

surrender

Brezhnev succeeded as Soviet Party Secretary by Yuri Andropov

Surgeon General Everett Koop calls cigarette smoking the chief preventable cause of death

Artificial heart implanted in human for the first time

AT and T agrees to break up in settlement of anti-trust suit

Recession continues worldwide; unemployment in U.S. highest since 1940

Deregulation of savings and loan companies will lead to widespread failures

USA Today begins publication

"Electronic mail" (fax machines) gain popularity

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Color Purple (Alice Walker); Space (James Michener)

Theater: The Dining Room (A. R. Gurney); Noises Off (Michael Frayn); The Real Thing (Tom

Stoppard)

Films: E.T., The Extraterrestrial; Gandhi; Tootsie; The World According to Garp

TV: Cheers

Musicals: Little Shop of Horrors; Nine

Opera: The Miraculous Shoemaker's Wife (Udo Zimmermann)

Music: "Lux Aeterna" (William Mathias)

Popular songs: "Always on My Mind;" "Ebony and Ivory;" "Up Where We Belong"

Boy George and Culture Club score hit with "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"

YEAR: 1983

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Foothills Mall holds Grand Opening, promising jobs and revenue for

city

The Daily Times celebrates 100th anniversary with special edition

Construction begins on downtown highrise building for elderly

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: President Reagan proposes "Strategic Defense Initiative" ("Star Wars")

Reagan identifies USSR as "an evil empire"

Korean Airlines passenger jet downed by Russian fighters in North Pacific

Terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon

Iran-Iraq hostilities spread to Persian Gulf

U.S. Marines and Army Rangers land on Grenada Island

Supreme Court rules tax exemptions to segregated private schools unconstitutional

Supreme Court rules life imprisonment with no chance of parole unconstitutional

Martin Luther King Day established

"Crack" (crystallized cocaine) developed by drug traffickers; low priced and highly addictive

"Just Say No" program begun by Nancy Reagan

Cellular telephones introduced for motorists

Cabbage Patch dolls introduced

John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova win singles championships at Wimbledon

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Vietnam: A History (Stanley Karnow)

Theater: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Neil Simon); 'night, Mother (Marsha Norman); Run for Your

Wives (Ray Cooney)

Films: Flashdance; Return of the Jedi; Terms of Endearment; Yentl

Musicals: La Cage aux Folles (Jerry Herman); My One and Only

Opera: St. Francis of Assisi (Olivier Messiaen)

Popular songs: "All Night Long;" "An Innocent Man;" "Beat It;" "Every Breath You Take;"

"Karma Chameleon;" "Let's Dance;" "Thriller"

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" the best selling record of all time

YEAR: 1984

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Inter-city connector (U.S. 321) connecting Morganton Road with

Washington Avenue opens December 1

Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Recreation and Parks Commission formed to provide

recreational opportunities for local citizens

Ceremonies held on high school campus commemorating site of Freedman's Institute and

Maryville Polytechnic School

Concluding successful financial campaign, Maryville College raises over $12 million in 5 years

Blount County Humane Society formed

Joint communications center, coordinating all emergency agencies, established by Maryville,

Alcoa and Blount County

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: CIA mines Nicaraguan harbors to block import of Cuban/Soviet arms to

El Salvador

U.S. economy grows at 6.8% rate, highest since 1951

Federal loan "bail out" of Continental Illinois Bank

Olympic Games at Los Angeles; record participation despite boycott by 14 Soviet bloc countries

Trivial Pursuit board game introduced; revives board-game industry

New York "subway vigilante" shoots 4 black youths

Average price of new U.S. single-family house tops $101,000

Lethal gas escapes Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 3,500

Drought and famine in Ethiopia kill 800,000

Reagan Administration halts funding of international birth control programs

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera); Lincoln

(Gore Vidal); The War of the End of the World (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Theater: Balm in Gilead (Lanford Wilson); Hurlyburly (David Rabe); The Miss Firecracker

Contest (Beth Henley)

Films: Amadeus; Beverly Hills Cop; The Killing Fields; A Soldier's Story; The Terminator

TV: The Cosby Show

Musicals: Sunday in the Park with George (Stephen Sondheim)

Popular music: "Against All Odds;" "Born in the U.S.A.;" "Can't Slow Down;" "Careless

Whisper;" "Like a Virgin;" "Purple Rain;" "What's Love Got To Do With It?"

The Macintosh introduced by Apple Computer

One-megabit random access memory (RAM) chip perfected

YEAR: 1985

MARYVILLE HISTORY: A record low temperature of minus 24 degrees in the city

Blount County Genealogical and Historical Society founded

City resident and Blount County historian Inez Burns made honorary member of City Council

for efforts in preservation of local history

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Secretary of Communist Party

Terrorist bombings in Madrid, Paris, Athens, Frankfurt, U.S. Air Base near Frankfurt and Rome;

cruise ship Achille Lauro seized, U.S. passenger murdered

Vietnamese forces in Cambodia drive Khmer Rouge from their bases

Panicky depositors make runs on S&Ls after failure of Home State Savings and Loan in Ohio

U.S. becomes debtor nation for the first time since 1914

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act mandates congressional spending limits but proves ineffective in

cutting actual spending

Boris Becker wins men's singles at Wimbledon; Martina Navratilova Wins Women's singles at

Wimbledon

Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 career hits

Michael Spinks wins world heavyweight boxing title over Larry Holmes

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Good War (Studs Terkel); The Accidental Tourist (Anne

Tyler); Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry); Lake Wobegone Days (Garrison Keillor)

Art: Electric Painting (Immendorf); Man Asleep (Gormley)

Theater: Biloxi Blues (Neil Simon); I'm Not Rappaport (Herb Gardner)

Films: Agnes of God; Cocoon; The Color Purple; Out of Africa; Prizzi's Honor

Movie actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS

Musicals: Big River (Roger Miller); Les Miserables (Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzmer)

Popular songs: "Centerfield;" "Edge of Darkness;" "We Are the World"

Live Aid rock concert raises $70 million for starving Africans

Compact discs and CD players introduced

"Hole" in ozone layer reported by British scientists

Scanning tunneling microscope developed

YEAR: 1986

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Local Homecoming '86 activities kicked off by Governor Alexander

Dr. Mark Ebersole appointed interim president of Maryville College upon resignation of Dr.

Wayne Anderson

Memorial dedicated marking site of former W.J. Hale School (1930-1966)

Maryville High football stadium officially named Shields Stadium, honoring Mayor Stanley B.

Shields

Portion of U.S. 321 in city officially named Lamar Alexander Parkway, honoring Tennessee

governor and Maryville native Lamar Alexander

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Corazon Aquino, widow of slain opposition leader, assumes presidency

of Philippines; key military leaders and Marcos given sanctuary in Hawaii

U.S. war planes bomb Muammar Qadaffi's Libyan headquarters at Tripoli in retaliation for West

Berlin terrorist bombing

Oliver North-Contra investigations

Terrorist attacks in West Berlin, London, Karachi, Istanbul, Pakistan and El Salvador

Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Iceland

Black civil rights leader Desmond Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of South Africa; South

African blacks strike to protest apartheid

U.S. Senate overrides Reagan's veto of economic sanctions against South Africa

Congress restructures federal income tax system

Depression continues in west and mid-west U.S.; more than 60,000 farms sold or foreclosed

Congress passes new anti-drug legislation

Space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all 7 astronauts

Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes

Nintendo video games debut in America

Mike Tyson wins world heavyweight boxing title

Insider trading scandals rock Wall Street

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Reckoning (David Halbertstam); Cities and the Wealth of

Nations (Jane Jacobs); The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

TV: L.A. Law

Films: Aliens; The Mosquito Coast; Platoon

Musicals: Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart)

Music: "Wind Quintet IV" (Perle)

Popular songs: "Graceland;" "Nikita;" "That's What Friends Are For"

Swiss and German scientists discover zero resistivity in ceramic materials that permits super-

conductivity at high temperatures

First genetically engineered vaccine, against hepatitis B

RU486 (abortion pill) approved for testing in France and China

YEAR: 1987

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Dr. Richard I. Ferrin installed as 9th president of Maryville College

Leslie Nier becomes first female to join Maryville Kiwanis Club

City designates January 15 as "Lamar Alexander Day" honoring outgoing governor

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Gorbachev demands perestroika (reform) in Soviet central-planning

system/economic policy; Boris Yeltsin ousted for complaining of slow pace of reform

Reagan and Gorbachev sign first treaty reducing size of nuclear arsenals

U.S. honors Kuwait's request for naval protection of tankers in Persian Gulf; U.S. frigate Stark

hit by Iraqi missile

"Iran-Contra" recriminations embroil Cabinet officers; Oliver North testifies before

congressional committee; many questions left unanswered

Hostilities continue in Nicaragua between U.S.-backed contras and Sandinista government

U.S. trade deficit hits record high of $16.5 billion

Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women

Texaco files bankruptcy despite $34.9 billion in assets, largest bankruptcy in history

Jerry Falwell controls PTL as Jim Bakker resigns after charges of infidelity

Stock market scare as Dow Jones average takes a steep plunge in October

"Inside trader" Ivan Boesky sentenced to 3 years in prison

AFL-CIO votes to permit the Brotherhood of Teamsters to rejoin

Environmentalists fear "greenhouse effect" as Brazilian landowners burn 80,000 square miles of

rain forest in 79 days

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Closing of the American Mind (Allan Bloom); Presumed

Innocent (Scott Frederic Turow); The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe); Empire (Gore Vidal)

Theater: Driving Miss Daisy (Alfred Uhry); Fences (August Wilson); Lettice and Lovage (Peter

Schaffer)

Films: The Last Emperor; Moonstruck; The Untouchables

Musicals: Into the Woods (Sondheim and Lapine)

Popular songs: "Bad;" "The Joshua Tree;" "Somewhere Out There;" "Tunnel of Love"

AZT wins FDA approval as a treatment for AIDS

Gene-altered bacteria to aid agriculture are tested

Microwave ovens increasingly popular; food companies rush to develop microwavable food

products

YEAR: 1988

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Groundbreaking for Nippondenso Tennessee, Inc., major auto parts

plant employing approximately 900

City of Maryville and Blount County announce creation of Big Springs Industrial Park

Maryville College enrollment: 787, 25% increase over previous year

Fort Craig Monument dedicated July 4; ceremony at site of original fort

Maryville Utilities Board abolished; all responsibilities assumed by Maryville City Council

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Soviet occupation forces withdraw from Afghanistan

Gorbachev elected Soviet President; promises U.N. unilateral reduction of Soviet troops, missiles

and munitions

Romanian president Ceausescu announces program to demolish 8,000 villages and resettle

residents in urban housing

End of Iran-Iraq war

U.S. warship Vincennes mistakenly shoots down Iranian passenger jet over Persian Gulf, killing

all 290 aboard

Jordan cedes West Bank, ruled by Hussein family 1948-1967, to PLO

Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega indicted by federal grand juries in Florida, his

opponents stage strike when he fails to step down; government responds by closing banks; U.S.

imposes sanctions

Benazir Bhutto elected prime minister of Pakistan, first woman to head Muslim state

Iraqi forces use poison gas against Kurdish civilians

George Bush becomes first sitting vice president to win election to presidency since 1836

U.S. S&Ls lose $13.44 billion

Jimmy Swaggart removed from pulpit by Assemblies of God

Junk bond expert Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felony charges

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Battle Cry of Freedom (James McPherson); The Satanic Verses

(Salman Rushdie); Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); Breathing Lessons

(Anne Tyler); ...And Members of the Club (Helen Santmyer)

Theater: The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein); Our Country's Good (Timberlake

Wertenbaker)

Films: Big; Dangerous Liaisons; The Last Temptation of Christ; Mississippi Burning; Rain Man;

The Thin Blue Line; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Popular songs: "Don't Worry, Be Happy;" "So Emotional;" "Sweet Child O' Mine"

YEAR: 1989

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Indiana Avenue historic district placed on National Registry of

Historic Places

Operations center opened on Home Avenue to house public works, electric and water

departments

City receives state A+ Award for community commitment to excellence in education

American-LaFrance 1954 fire truck refurbished to extend usable life 20 additional years

Maryville Middle School capacity for grades 6-8 increased by expansions

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Collapse of communism in Russia and eastern Europe

Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

Baltic republics demand autonomy; ethnic divisions threaten to dismember the Soviet Union

Demolition of Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany begins

Hungary proclaims itself a democratic republic and plans multi-party elections

Paraguay has first multi-candidate election in over 30 years; Chile returns to democratic tradition

as Pinochet regime ends; Brazil holds first democratic elections in 29 years

Demands from Congress to stop support of El Salvador's 10-year old civil war when 6 Jesuit

priests murdered by government forces

U.S. troops invade Panama

Chinese troops fire on demonstrating students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square

Vaclav Havel arrested in Czech demonstration; parliament eventually votes to move toward

democracy and Havel is elected president

Romania's communist president Ceausescu overthrown and executed by firing squad

Douglas Wilder of Virginia first elected black governor since Reconstruction; David Dinkins

first black mayor of New York City

U.S. banks write off billions in uncollectible Latin loans

Federal government "bails out" savings and loan associations at taxpayers' expense

President Bush asks for constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning

Former PTL minister Jim Bakker convicted of fraud and conspiracy, sentenced to prison

William Bennett, new drug czar, announces war on drugs

Tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground, dumping 240,000 barrels of oil into Alaska Sound

Hurricane Hugo strikes Carolina coast

California announces draconion measures in attempts to reduce air pollution

San Franciso earthquake buckles highways and Bay Bridge

Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose suspended from baseball for life for betting on games

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan); The Remains of the Day (Kazuo

Ishguro); Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Allan Gurganus)

Mapplethorpe exhibit canceled at Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Senator Jesse Helms

introduces legislation to bar funding of "obscene" work

Films: The Accidental Tourist; Born on the Fourth of July; Driving Miss Daisy; Glory; The Little

Mermaid; My Left Foot

Musicals: Miss Saigon (Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg)

Popular songs: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn;" "Look Away;" "My Prerogative"

PRESIDENT: George Bush

YEAR: 1990

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Maryville population: 19,454, a 1,700 increase in 10 years

City adopts "Maryville 2010" comprehensive plan for future growth

Police department receives national accreditation, the first agency in East Tennessee and 3rd in

state to achieve this goal

Grand opening ceremonies at Nippondenso Tennessee, Inc. for its 3rd local plant for auto

instrument production, employing 330

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Iraqi forces invade Kuwait August 2; U.N. Security Council authorizes

force to expel Iraqi forces (first time since 1950 Korean Conflict); world boycotts Iraqi oil

East and West Germany reunited

First free election in Poland since pre-WWII; Lech Walesa elected president

Nicaraguan Sandinista leader defeated in bid for reelection

First free elections in Haiti since 1957

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replaced by John Major

South African resistance leader Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years; President F.

W. de Klerk asks for Mandela's help is negotiating political settlement between whites and

blacks

Soviet President Gorbachev comes under attack as citizens cope with widespread shortages;

threat of famine as stores run out of bread and other food products

America's record 8 year economic boom ends

Smoking banned on U.S. domestic flights

General Motors introduces the Saturn

U.S. prisons have 1.3 million inmates, more than any other country

Michael Milken pleads guilty to insider trading

"Buster" Douglas k.o.'s Mike Tyson to win world heavyweight boxing crown; loses title to

Evander Holyfield

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: The Politics of Rich and Poor (Kevin Phillips); The Burden of

Proof (Scott Turow); Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid)

Films: Dances with Wolves; Ghost; Goodfellas; The Grifters; The Russia House;

Norplant contraceptive approved by FDA; first new birth-control measure since 1960's

YEAR: 1991

MARYVILLE HISTORY; Tennessee Illustrated magazine ranks Maryville No. 5 among

Tennessee's most livable towns

Maryville Animal Shelter opens, serving Blount County

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Boris Yeltsin wins presidency in first democratic election in Russia;

President Yeltsin foils coup attempt by communist hardliners; Communist Party suspended,

ending 74 years of communist rule; Gorbachev recognizes independence of Baltic republics;

resigns as Soviet president

Serbo-Croat battles erupt in former Yugoslavia

Iraq sets fire to Kuwaiti oil refineries and oil field; pumps Kuwaiti crude oil into Persian Gulf;

contaminating air, water and ground surface throughout the area

Persian Gulf war begins as Allies bomb targets in Iraq and Kuwait; Operation Desert Storm

begins February 24, ends 100 hours later with Iraqi forces defeated; President Saddam Hussein

remains in power

Switzerland abolishes secret numbered bank accounts

Cali cartel in Colombia responsible for continued export of cocaine

California suffers 5th straight year of drought

Los Angeles police brutalization of Rodney King videotaped

Anita Hill's charges against Clarence Thomas focus public attention on sexual harassment in the

workplace

Eastern Airlines ceases operation after 62 years; Pan Am ceases operation

Basketball superstar "Magic" Johnson stuns world by announcement the he has AIDS

World population: 5.5 billion; China, 1.15 billion

Population (in millions): U.S., 250; India, 850; Soviet Union, 293; Japan, 125; Germany, 77;

Britain, 58; Brazil, 150; Mexico, 88; Canada, 26.5

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Immortality (Milan Kundera); St. Maybe (Anne Tyler); Brotherly

Love (Pete Dexter)

Theater: Lost in Yonkers (Neil Simon)

Films: Bugsy; The Silence of the Lambs; Thelma and Louise

Musicals: The Secret Garden

Popular songs: Use Your Illusions

YEAR: 1992

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Vice president Dan Quayle visits Maryville for political rally

Maryville High School achieves graduation rate of 96%

"Technology in the classroom" program initiated providing all students with computers and

advanced teaching methods

Maryville College enrollment: 842

Recycling program introduced for all residents with creation of drop-off centers

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Balkan republics continue bloody fighting in their bid for independence

Russia and other former Soviet nations struggle with rampant inflation and unemployment as

they move from a state economy to a market economy

Cuban Democracy Act tightens 30-year embargo against U.S. trade with Communist-controlled

Cuba

Presidents Bush and Yelstin agree to drastic cuts in nuclear arsenals

President Bush grants pardon to Casper Weinberger in Iran-Contra affair

Jury acquittal of Los Angeles policemen in Rodney King beating case triggers worst violence

and looting in urban history

U.S. Navy Tailhook Scandal

Lloyd's of London announces that 1989 losses were worst in insurance history

U.S. national debt climbs from $735 billion in 1981 to over $3 trillion

Mall of America, largest in the world, opens in Minneapolis; takes in $2 million per day

Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate after 11 years of marriage

New York Mafia boss John Gotti convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment

Andre Agassi wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Steffi Graf wins in women's

Evander Holyfield loses heavyweight boxing title to Riddick Bowe

Hurricane Andrew strikes south Miami, leaving 250,000 homeless

Famine kills 300,000 in Somalia as nation falls into anarchy; U.N. intervenes, sending 28,000

troops

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler); Two Nations,

Black and White (Andrew Hacker); All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy); A Thousand

Acres (Jane Smiley)

Theater: Conversations with My Father (Herb Gardner)

Films: Aladdin; The Crying Game; Glengarry Glen Ross; Howard's End; The Last of the

Mohicans; Malcolm X; Unforgiven

Musicals: Crazy for You; Falsettos (William Finn); Jelly's Last Jam (Morton, Birkenhead)

Popular songs: "End of the Road;" "Tears in Heaven"

Satellite receivers locate sites of galaxy cluster formation, advancing "big bang" theory

Depo-Provera, injectable contraceptive hormone, approved by FDA

YEAR: 1993

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Paul G. Elrod, 12-year council member, succeeded on death by

former council member Donald Walker

Police department begins citizens' police academy, program designed to allow better community

understanding of role of law enforcement

City receives national acclaim for "Project Project", innovative approach to youth education and

job preparedness in public housing

City Manager Gary Hensley named Public Administrator of the Year by UT's Institute for Public

Service and American Society for Public Administration

W.Paul Gray hired by City of Maryville as Data Systems Manager - resigned April 1997.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Israeli cabinet announces agreement to recognize PLO and grant limited

self-rule to Palestinians in Gaza Strip and West Bank

New York World Trade Center bombing

President Clinton sends 400 Army Rangers to Somalia

Neo-Nazi German right wing extremists (skinheads) attack foreign workers

Sears Roebuck announces discontinuation of 97 year old general merchandise catalog

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) enacted

Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas burned, killing 80, including 24 children

Pocket size telephones become commonplace

Former savings and loan head Charles Keating convicted of securities fraud

Passage of "Brady Bill" requiring 5-day waiting period for handgun purchases

The "blizzard" of '93

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Operation Shylock: A Confession (Philip Roth); Streets of Laredo

(Larry McMurtry)

TV: NYPD Blue; Seinfeld

Theater: Redwood Curtain (Lanford Wilson)

Films: The Age of Innocence; The Fugitive; The Joy Luck Club; Jurassic Park; Like Water for

Chocolate; The Piano; The Remains of the Day; Schindler's List

Musicals: The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kander and Ebb); Sunset Boulevard

Popular music: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Billy Joel

Flavr Savr tomato, first genetically altered food, awaiting FDA approval

Number of AIDS cases among heterosexuals doubles

Space-walking astronauts repair Hubble telescope

PRESIDENT: Bill Clinton

YEAR: 1994

MARYVILLE HISTORY: January blizzard and March flood threaten property and lives in

Maryville

Installation of the City of Maryville Computer Network (COMNet) begins. The $2.5 million

computer wide-area-network (WAN) revolutionizes communication between city departments

and the campuses of Maryville City Schools.

Nippondenso Tennessee, Inc. announces 2 planned expansions, promising employment boost to

1,400

City utility crews to Nashville to aid city recovery from damage of massive ice storm

Blount Memorial Hospital opens James N. Proffitt Center for Surgical Medicine; constructs

40,000 square foot medical office building

Terry McCoy hired by City of Maryville as Network Technician - not fired yet.

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Nelson Mandela elected first black president in South Africa's first all-

race election

Israel withdraws from Jericho and Gaza Strip; PLO assumes challenge of governing; Jordan and

Israel end state of war

100,000 slaughtered in Rwanda's genocidal violence

U.S. trade embargo against North Vietnam lifted

U.S. troops occupy Haiti to ensure stability

International terrorist Carlos the Jackal captured

GATT bill passed by Congress

Republicans win control of House and Senate for first time in 40 years

Byron De La Beckwith, 73, sentenced to life imprisonment for 1963 murder of Medgar Evers

Rodney King awarded $3.8 million in L.A. brutality suit

O.J. Simpson charged in double murder

U.S. prison population tops 1 million

First women sent to Navy combat duty; Britain's Anglican Church ordains female priests; Citadel

ordered to admit female cadet

Major League baseball players strike; season canceled

George Foreman, 45, oldest boxer in any class to win a championship fight, wins heavyweight

title

Internet extremely popular; Pentium computer introduced with flawed microprocessor; Donkey

Kong game popular

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (John Gray); How We

Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (Sherwin B. Nuland); Bridges of Madison County

(Robert James Waller); The Book of Virtues (William Bennett); Disclosure (Michael Crichton);

The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield); A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines); My Own

Country (Abraham Verghese); Afterlife and Other Stories (John Updike); The Crossing (Cormac

McCarthy)

The Last Judgement fresco unveiled in Sistine Chapel after 4-year restoration of 1530's painting

Theater: Three Tall Women (Edward Albee); Love! Valour! Compassion (Terrence McNally);

Broken Glass (Arthur Miller)

TV: ER

Movies: Clear and Present Danger; Disclosure; Forrest Gump; Grumpy Old Men; Intersection;

The Last Seductions; The Lion King; Little Women; Maverick; Mrs. Doubtfire; The Paper;

Philadelphia; Pulp Fiction; Schindler's List; The Shawshank Redemption; True Lies

Popular songs: "Again;" "Breathe Again;" "All for Love;" "Hero;" "Music Box;" "The One

Thing;" "Vs."

Tess Trueheart Tracy files for divorce to "contemporize" Dick Tracy comic strip

Space shuttle's 60th mission includes Russian cosmonaut

Sixth and heaviest quark identified

Australopithecus ramidus; 4.4 million year old pre-human fossil discovered

Breast cancer gene identified

Second solar system confirmed

Shoemaker-Levy comet fragments strike Jupiter

Polio reported eradicated in the Americas

Italian woman, age 62, gives birth

EPA confirms dioxin link to cancer

YEAR: 1995

MARYVILLE HISTORY: Foothills Elementary School opens to serve students on the west end

of Maryville

Installation of the City of Maryville Computer Network (COMNet) continues. As installation of

computer equipment is being completed, training begins for the approximately 500 employees of

Maryville and Maryville City Schools. Impact of the revolutionary network is already being

realized.

Construction is completed on the West Maryville Fire Station on Sandy Springs Road

The Fort Craig School of Dynamic Learning opens as an experimental year-round elementary

school

An addition is created to the Maryville Greenbelt linking Sandy Springs Park with Foothills

Elementary School

Maryville native Lamar Alexander announces presidential candidacy

Maryville celebrates its 200th Anniversary with the dedication of this monument in the

Bicentennial Park (Greenbelt)

SOCIAL/POLITICAL: Serbia/Bosnia/Croatia War continues

Cuba arrests U.S. fugitive Robert Vesco

Supreme Court strikes down congressional term-limit laws; blocks federal affirmative action

plan

Former Defense Secretary McNamara asserts Vietnam War was a mistake

Young trader bankrupt's Britain's Barings Bank with losses in derivatives; Dutch bank buys

Barings

Deadly Ebola virus strikes in Zaire

AIDS cases top 1 million

Car bomb explodes at Oklahoma City Federal Building; death toll ; Timothy McVeigh arrested

Unabomber serial bomber strikes again

Cult nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway kills 10

Baseball strike ends; play resumes

Wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone Park and Great Smoky Mountains Natains National Park

ART, SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY: Literature:

TV: Friends

Movies: Apollo 13; The Client; Crimson Tide; Diehard with a Vengeance; Don Juan DeMarco;

French Kiss; Nine Months; Pocahontas; Rob Roy; Waterworld

Popular songs:

More evidence of Black Hole found

Space shuttle Discovery and Russian space station Mir rendezvous; U.S. astronaut orbits on

Russian space station

Top quark reported found

Neutrinos found to have mass

Male and female brains found to differ

Sickle cell anemia treatment (hydroxyurea) found

Tomb of Ramses II's sons reported found