| Captain D. Mercer Royal Marines |
| Generation: | 9 |
| Born: | July 1st, 1864 |
| Died: | --- |
| Father: | David Dixon Mercer |
| Mother: | Margaret (Trigg) Mercer |
| Occupation(s): | --- |
| Marriages: | • Katharine Frances (Lawrence) Mercer At Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Children: | Maragaret Lawrence Mercer David Dixon Mercer Lawrence Mercer |
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Captain D. Mercer |
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1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) 1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US 1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist 1861-1865 Civil War 1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic 1864 Louisiana organized as a territory 1864 Nevada enters the union - 36th 1865 Ku Klux Klan founded 1865 President Lincoln assassinated 1865 Lister invents Disinfection 1866 Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) 1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US 1867 Confederation of Canada 1867 Diamonds discovered in South Africa 1867 Dynamite 1867 Nebraska enters the union - 37th 1867 Alaska purchased from Russia 1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain 1868 Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer) 1869 Suez canal opened 1869 Trans-continental railroad completed 1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US 1869 Cutty Sark built 1869 Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold 1870 US black men can vote 1870 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war 1871 Great Fire destroys Chicago 1873 Color Photographs 1873-1878 Depression, banks fail 1876 Colorado enters the union - 38th 1876 Little Big Horn - Battle 1876 Telephone (Bell, Latimer) 1876 US Centennial 1877 Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings 1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US 1878 1st commercial telephone exchange in US 1879 Electric Light Bulb (Edison) 1879 Zulu war 1881 James A Garfield president of US 1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US 1881 President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) 1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic 1884 1st subway 1884 Motorcycle 1885 Automobile 1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US 1886 Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) 1887 X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths 1888 70...77 rpm musical records 1889 Holerith invents the punch card 1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd 1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US 1889 Montana enters the union - 41st 1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th 1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th 1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd 1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory 1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled 1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote 1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US 1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression 1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) 1893 Movies 1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1) 1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die 1896 Utah enters the union - 45th 1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation 1897-1901 William McKinley president of US 1898 Spanish American 1-year war 1899-1902 Boer war 1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic 1900 Boxer rebellion in China 1900 Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed 1900 Hawaii organized as a territory 1901 First British submarine launched 1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) 1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) 1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation 1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US 1901 US President William McKinley assassinated 1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts 1903 Nikola Tesla patents logic gates 1903 Airplane 1904 Radar 1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war 1907 Plastic 1907 Oklahoma enters the union - 46th 1908 Tunguska atmospheric object explosion 1909 Union of South Africa formed 1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US 1909 North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp. 1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor) 1910 Japan annexes Korea 1910 Halleys Comet 1911 South pole reached by Roald Amundsen 1912 New Mexico enters the union - 47th 1912 Titanic sinks 1912 Arizona enters the union - 48th 1912 Alaska organized as a territory 1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US 1914 The Bra 1914-1918 World War I 1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity 1916 Sonar 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion 1917 Russian revolution 1917 US enters WWI 1918-1933 Prohibition 1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die 1919 League of Nations instantiated 1919 Shortwave Radio 1920 Palestine established 1920-1929 Roaring 20s 1920 Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage) 1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US 1922 Insulin made available to diabetics 1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory 1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US 1926 Sound in Movies 1927 Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) 1927 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh 1928 Television 1928 Geiger Counter 1928 Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming 1928 Video Recordings 1929 Stock Market Crash 1929-1939 Great Depression 1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US 1930 Pluto Discovered 1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2) 1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US 1933 Armstrong invents FM modulation 1933 Soviet communist party purge 1933 Radio Astronomy 1934 Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days 1935 Dustbowl 1935-1936 Abyssinian war 1936 Spanish Civil War 1936 Helicopter 1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor) 1936 Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) 1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3) 1937 Nylon (by DuPont) 1938 Germany annexes Austria 1939-1945 World War II 1939 Digital Computer 1939 Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) 1940 Color Television 1940 1st black general in US army 1941-1945 Manhattan Project 1942 Nuclear Reactor 1942 Magnetic Recording Tape 1945 Hypertext 1945 United Nations formed 1945 US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US 1946 The Bikini 1946-1989 The Cold War 1947 Transistor 1947 India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India 1947 UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections 1948 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings 1948 NATO formed 1948 Israel inaugurated as state 1948 Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated 1948-1955 Multiple polio epidemics in the USA 1949 Apartheid policy in South Africa 1949 Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb 1949 45 rpm musical recordings 1950-1954 McCarthyism 1950-1953 Korean War 1950 World pop. est. at 2.4 billion 1950 Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize 1951 Electricity from Atomic Power 1952 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated 1952-2022 Reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England 1953-1960 Dwight D Eisenhower president of US 1954 Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional 1954 Womans right to vote (UN Suffrage) 1955 Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine 1955 Warsaw pact formed 1955 Invention of Velcro 1955 Fiber Optics (by Kapany) 1956 Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks 1957 Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite 1958 Stereo LP recordings come into usage 1958 FM Stereo Broadcasts 1958 Integrated Circuit 1958 US space agency (NASA) established 1958 Neural Network invented 1959 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah 1959 Alaska enters the union - 49th 1959 Hawaii enters the union - 50th 1960 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) 1960 Laser 1960 World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton 1960 Pantyhose 1961 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard 1961 First human in space - Yuri Gagarin 1961-1963 John F Kennedy president of US 1961-1989 Berlin Wall 1961-1991 7th Cholera Pandemic 1962-1965 Vatican II 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1963 Compact Cassette Recordings 1963 Pres. Kennedy Assassinated 1963 1st artificial heart 1963-1968 Lyndon B Johnson president of US 1963 Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space 1964-1975 Vietnam War 1964 US civil rights bill |
No death date, so the timeline is showing 100 years or until current year by default.