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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 0:13:44 GMT
In the following posts, I will write some of the important things that have happened in recent history. Your characters will likely remember them, even if they didn't pay attention to the specifics. They may not know when the radio was invented, but they would have likely heard the radio.
I will separate things into topics, and maybe add more at a later date.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:12:24 GMT
Politics:
1901 – The Platt Amendment makes Cuba into a de facto U.S. territory, despite its official independence in 1902.
1901 – William McKinley assassinated. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.
1903 – The May Coup in Serbia replaces the Austrian-allied ruling family with one allied with Russia.
1905 – First Russian revolution, state Duma (Parliament) established.
1906 – Finland becomes the first country to give women suffrage.
1908 – Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia.
1910 – Japan annexes Korea.
1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states, marking the end of the “wild west”
1912 – U.S. buys Alaska from Russia.
1913 – Woodrow Wilson becomes U.S. President.
1913 – 17th amendment allows U.S. senators to be elected directly.
1914 – Home Rule in Ireland.
1914 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria triggers The Great War.
1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk by a German U-Boat.
1917 – A series of revolutions mark the end of the Russian Empire. Vladimir Lenin rises to power.
1917 – The U.S. enacts the Conscription and Espionage acts.
1918-1920 – WW1 ends, map of Europe and colonies redrawn.
1919 – 18th amendment begins the prohibition era in the U.S.
1919 – League of Nations founded.
1920 – Women’s suffrage begins in the U.S.
1920 – Young Adolph Hitler enters politics.
1920 – Warren Harding elected U.S. president.
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch fails, Hitler arrested.
1923 – Pancho Villa assassinated.
1924 – The death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin takes power.
1924 – Immigration Act of 1924 limits U.S. immigration to whites.
1924 – Calvin Coolidge elected president.
1927 – FDA established.
1928 – Herbert Hoover nominated to the Republican Party for president, he will later win.
1928 – Hitler’s Nazi party loses election seats for the second time, marking an all-time low.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:16:47 GMT
Science:
1900 – Max Planck discovers black body radiation, inventing the field of quantum physics
1900 – Modern blood typing invented
1900 – Sigmund Freud publishes “The Interpretation of Dreams,” ushering in the age of psychology.
1903 – Willem Einthoven invents the EKG.
1904 – Halford Mackinder creates the modern field of geopolitics.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, and special relativity.
1905 – X and Y chromosomes discovered.
1909 – Discovery of the polio virus.
1910 – Halley’s comet visits Earth.
1910 – Robert Wood invents the infrared photograph.
1910 – “Principia Mathematica” first published by Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, attempting to prove all mathematics can be derived from a few axioms.
1911 – Ernest Rutherford models the atom
1911 – Heike Onnes discovers superconductors.
1912 – Piltdown Man “discovered” the hoax fossil is not uncovered until 1953.
1912 – Theory of Continental Drift published.
1913 – Discovery of Vitamins.
1913 – John Watson starts the Behaviorist school of psychology.
1915 – Pluto discovered.
1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his formal theory of relativity.
1916 – Electron Shell theory proposed.
1918 – R. A. Fisher publishes a paper based on Gregor Mendel’s work, creating the field of modern genetics.
1919 – Arthur Eddington proves Einstein’s theory of relativity correct during a solar eclipse.
1920 – HIV likely enters the human population, will not be discovered for another 60 years.
1921 – Insulin discovered.
1924 – Andromeda galaxy discovered by Edwin Hubble, first galaxy observed other than the Milky Way.
1925 – Scopes Monkey trial in Tennessee.
1926 – Werner Heisenberg publishes the uncertainty principal.
1927 – Big Bang hypothesis proposed.
1928 – Paul Dirac develops the relativist theory of quantum mechanics.
1928 – Frederick Griffith proves the existence of DNA
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:24:58 GMT
Technology:
1903 – Ford begins producing the old Model A.
1903 – Orville Wright flies the first heavier-than-air aircraft.
1904 – U.S. begins work on the Panama Canal.
1904 – New York Subway opens.
1906 – The Victrola record playing machine begins production.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought sails, creating modern battleships.
1908 – The Eiffel Tower is used as a transmitter to send the first long-distance radio message.
1908 – Ford begins producing the Model T.
1908 – Geiger counter invented.
1910 – First commercial flight takes place in Ohio.
1913 – Woolworth Building becomes the world’s tallest structure at 792 feet.
1913 – Henry Ford’s invention of the assembly line put into production for the Model T, cuts production time by 85%.
1914 – Stainless Steel consumer products enter the market.
1915 – First armored tanks roll out.
1916 – Oxycodone synthesized.
1916 – First stored blood transfusion.
1918 – German Enigma machine invented.
1919 – First transatlantic flight.
1919 – Invention of the Tommy Gun.
1921 – First tuberculosis vaccine.
1922 – Insecticide Zyklon B invented.
1925 – Radiovision invention.
1926 – First liquid fuel rocket.
1927 – Philo Farnsworth invents the television. Bell Telephone transmits the first television image.
1927 – Ford produces the new Model A.
1927 – Invention of the jukebox.
1927 – Negative Feedback Amplifier invented, patent is refused because no one thinks it will work.
1928 – First transatlantic television broadcast.
1928 – Penicillin discovered by accident.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:26:57 GMT
Culture:
1900 – Carrie Nation begins her crusade against saloons.
1901 – Death of Queen Victoria marks the end of the Victorian era.
1903 – Invention of the Teddy Bear, named after the president.
1903 – First World Series.
1904 – Peter Pan premieres in London.
1907 – First surgical and legal sex reassignment
1908 – The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the last time.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America are founded.
1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre, bringing the painting to international prominence.
1912 – RMS Titanic sinks.
1912 – Emperor Meiji dies, marking the end of the Meiji era in Japan.
1913 – Mona Lisa returned.
1913 – Camel becomes the first pre-packaged cigarette.
1914 – Babe Ruth plays his first Major League game.
1915 – Typhoid Mary placed in lifetime quarantine.
1915 – KKK revived in Georgia.
1915 – Harry Houdini does her first straitjacket performance.
1918 – Spanish Flu pandemic kills approximately 75 million people worldwide.
1918 – Daylight savings time begins in the U.S.
1919 – Bauhaus architecture movement begins in Germany.
1919 – Chicago race riots.
1919 – Felix the Cat becomes the first popular cartoon character.
1921 – White Castle opens in Kansas, becoming the first fast food chain.
1921-1925 – Jazz music begins to proliferate the U.S.
1925 – Mein Kampf published.
1926 – Al Capone is the most powerful gangster in Chicago.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes a solo flight across the Atlantic, capturing the public imagination.
1927 – Carving of Mt. Rushmore begins, faces will be complete in 10 years.
1928 – Amelia Earhart makes her first transatlantic flight.
1928 – Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated to a major political party for president (Democrats).
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:34:14 GMT
Media:
1900 - "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" published by L. Frank Baum.
1901 – van Gogh exhibit in Paris makes the artist famous, 11 years after his death.
1901-1904 – Picasso’s Blue period.
1902 – U.S. courts overturn Thomas Edison’s monopoly on motion pictures.
1906 - Upton Sinclair publishes his expose on the meatpacking industry, "The Jungle"
1910 – Frankenstein becomes the first popularly recognized horror movie.
1910 – Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” becomes a worldwide success.
1912 – Characters of Tarzan and Fu Manchu created in pulp magazines.
1914 – Charlie Chaplin debuts.
1915 – Franz Kafka publishes “The Metamorphosis”
1917 – H.P. Lovecraft published “Dagon”
1920 – 8MK begins broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.
1921 – First baseball game broadcast over radio.
1922 – James Joyce publishes “Ulysses”.
1922 – Nosferatu seen in theaters.
1922 – The BBC created.
1925 – “The Great Gatsby” published by F. Scott Fitzgerald typifies the era.
1926 – Winnie-the-Pooh created.
1926 – Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA combine to create NBC, broadcasting in 24 stations.
1927 – Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” opens.
1927 – First talking movie, The Jazz Singer.
1928 – W3XK, the first television station begins broadcasting.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:37:23 GMT
Economics:
1901 – “Panic of 1901”, NYSE crashes.
1910 - Heavy reinforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act causes the the last recession experienced in the U.S. for the next 19 years.
1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Fire kills 146, sparks modern safety standards.
1913 – 16th amendment passed, allowing the U.S. government to levy income taxes.
1914 – Ford Motors announces the eight hour work day and $5 daily wage.
1914 – WW1 triggers the closure of the NYSE for 5 months.
1919 – Oregon levies the first gasoline tax.
1919 – John Maynard Keynes publishes “The Economic Consequences of the Peace.” Predicting failure of the Treaty of Versailles.
1921-1923 – Hyperinflation in Germany.
1924 – The Dawes plan stabilizes the German economy, and softened the burden of reparations.
1926 – U.K. General strike.
1928 – The Soviet Union begins the first Five Year plan.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:38:00 GMT
Exploration:
1900 – Robert Peary reaches the north most point of Greenland.
1902 – Robert Scott’s “Discovery” expedition reaches 82°S.
1902 – American Anthropological Association formed.
1908 – The Tunguska event in Russia
1909 – Robert Peary reaches the North Pole.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton reaches 88°S.
1911 – Ruins of Machu Picchu discovered.
1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole, beating the English Scott expedition by one month.
1912 – Theodore Davis finishes exploration of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, declaring it empty.
1923 – First formal excavation at Chichen Itza.
1922 – King Tut’s tomb found in the Valley of the Kings and opened by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.
1922 – Failed attempt to summit Everest results in humans climbing above 8000 feet for the first time.
1926 – Richard Byrd flies over the North Pole
1926 – Leo Frobenius completes the first detailed survey of the Egyptian desert.
1926 – Stephen Langdon discovers 5000 year old pre-Babylonian tablets, possibly the oldest written material.
1927 – Excavation begins at Skara Brea, the most complete Neolithic village.
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 5, 2016 2:38:36 GMT
War:
1899-1901 – Boxer rebellion in China
1904-1905 – Russo-Japanese war.
1910-1920 – Mexican Revolution.
1911 – Italio-Turkish war over Libya ramps up tensions in Europe.
1912-1913 – First Balkan war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, spreads to other Balkan states.
1914-1919 – World War 1
1915 – Armenian Genocide
1916 – 300,000 people die in the Battle of Verdun.
1917 – U.S. enters WW1.
1917-1925 – Russian Civil War.
1919-1921 – Irish War of Independence
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Post by The Storyteller on Jan 9, 2016 19:42:57 GMT
History of Arkham:
Late 17th century – Arkham founded, many of the original citizens were people who fled Salem during the witch trials.
1761 – Francis Derby and Jeremiah Orne use Arkham to base their small fleet of trading ships and begin building up the town.
1765 - Jeremiah Orne dies, leaving his massive collection of books to the city. They are used to create the Orne library and Miskatonic College.
1796 - Sea trade has slowly dwindled, Arkham moves to a mill and textile based economy.
1806 - Arkham Gazette created, the first newspaper in the city.
1808 - Arkham loses it's status as a port of entry.
1850 - Arkham's first telegraph line is finished, the city begins to resemble other college towns
1870 - Miskatonic College becomes Miskatonic University
1882 - A strange meteor crashes into a farm west of Arkham. The land becomes poisoned and nothing will grow there, even today.
1888 - Major flood in Arkham, many buildings destroyed including the archives in the library basement.
1889 - Trolly lines and electrical lines are installed in Arkham
1905 - A typhoid epidemic strikes Arkham. Dean Allen Halsey of the Miskatonic Medical School works around the clock to save lives, eventually succumbing himself. A statue is erected in his honor.
1905 - A serial killer attacks Arkham, killing 15. He is locked away in Sefton Asylum. Some report he has an eerie resemblance to the late Dr. Halsey.
1921 - A riot at Sefton Asylum leads to the escape of the serial killer.
1921 - Physician Dr. Herbert West disappears from nearby Bolton under mysterious circumstances. His associate Dr. Dan Cain is held for his disappearance.
1927 November 3rd - Strange pink corpses are found washed down rivers during flooding in Vermont. Dr. Wilmarth publishes several papers refuting local folk stories about supernatural origin.
1927 December - A young man from Dunwich named Wilbur Whately visits the Miskatonic University Library to obtain the copy of the Necronoicon stored there. Chief Librarian Henry Armitage refuses.
1928 May 1st - Miskatonic University mathematics student Walter Gilman is found dead under suspicious circumstances in his apartment at the infamous "Witch House"
1928 June - Professor Wilmarth exchanges several letters with an individual in Vermont, but refuses to speak about the subject.
1928 August 3rd - Someone attempts to break into the library at the university, while windows are broken, a gun is recovered, and a strange white stain found on the floors and walls, nothing is taken and no perpetrator was caught.
1928 August - Dr. Marion Allen dies after a long period of illness. 5 other professors disappear for a weekend and return late Monday with no real explanation of their absence.
1928 September 2nd - Dr. Armitage begins refusing visitors to his office.
1928 September 9th - Five Miskatonic professors exchange phone calls to meet later that week to discuss the events that have occurred recently.
1928 September 12th - The 5 professors meet at Roxie's cafe.
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OH NOES
