Josiah's Spring 2014 Timeline

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Birth of the Republic of Rome

509 BC

Roman Empire

27 BC - 476

Middle Ages (Medieval Times)

400 - 1600

The Italian Renaissance

1300 - 1600

Zacharias Janssen POSSIBLY invented the compound microscope

1590

Cornelius Drebbel POSSIBLY invented the compound microscope

1619

Life of Basho

1644 - 1694

In Japan

Anton van Leeuwenhoek first used a single lens microscope

1650

Sewing machine first invented

1790

But it was not patented or produced

WWI

1914 - 1918

First electron microscope is built

1928

Zworykin invents the television

1929

WWII

1939 - 1945

Cliff Young won the Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon

1983

United States

Life of Daniel Boone

1734 - 1820

Boston Tea Party

1773

Paul Revere's Ride

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

When "Warm As Wool" takes place

1803

Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882

Wisconsin becomes the 30th state

1848

Singer patents and produces the sewing machine

1851

Longfellow writes "Paul Revere's Ride"

1861

Life of Wilson A. Bentley

1865 - 1931

Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

1867 - 1957

First successful photograph of a snowflake

1885

Taken by W.A. Bentley

Idaho becomes the 43rd state

1890

Arizona becomes the 48th state

1912

U.S. Post Office introduces domestic parcel post

1913

When "Mailing May" takes place

1914

Approximately when "Roxaboxen" took place

1918

First television programs broadcast in the U.S.

1939

Grandpa's Birth

1940

Mamu & Buppa's Birth

1950

Mom's Birth

1976

Josiah's Birth

2006

Today

2014