1080        Rise of the Nizari Ismaelis

1124        Hasan-i-sabbah dies at Alamut

1129        Knights Templar founded

1202        Liber Abbaci Fibonacci, introduces Arabic numerals & Hindi/Arabic decimal system

1207        Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī born in Persia

1225        Sonetto form, Giacomo da Lentino in court of Holy Roman Emp. Frederick II

                                also in the same court: the canzone

                Fibonacci comes to Fred’s court, meets the crew    

1256        Alamut sacked by Mongols

1265        Dante Alighieri born in Florence

1273        Rumi dies

1274        Dante meets Beatrice, age 9, love at first sight, sees her frequent in street age 18 onward

1294        La Vita Nuova Dante, world’s 1^st known Sonnet Sequence

1300

1304        De vulgari eloquentia Dante on development of vernacular Lit, 1^st discussion of sonnets

                Francesco Petrarca born, Dante was father’s friend

1308        Dante begins Divine
Comedy, invents terza rima

1312        Knights Templar disbanded by Pope
Clement V (began in France 1307 witch-hunts)

1321        Dante dies, end Divine Comedy

1327        Petrarch sees Laura,
leaves church, never attains her

1346        Siege Guns used by
English at Calais, 1^st
Gunpowder in Europe

1348        Black Death Plague in
Europe, to ’50, kills 30% -60% of pop, 75m-200miliion

1368        last poems of the Canzoniere
Petrarch

1374        Petrarch dies

1382        Red Book of Hergest just
post this year

1394        Ikkyu Sojun born at Kyoto court, bastard of Emperor Go
Komatsu

1400        Chaucer dies

1401                Renaissance ‘begins’ in Florence w/ competing designs for Florence Cathedral doors

1415        Cosimo de’ Medici becomes Priore of Florence

1431        Joan of Arc burned at the stake

                Francois Villon born

1450        Printing Press 1^st

1453        Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman
Turks

1461        Le Grand Testament Villon
between prison bids

1463        Villon disappears

1471        Corpus Hermeticum in Latin de Medici court, Ikkyu
meets Mori

1482        Ikkyu dies

1492                Columbus plague ships
‘discover’ Americas

1497        Bonfire of the Vanities
in Florence, Girolamo Savonarola

1500        Printing Press 20
million volumes

1519                Leonardo da Vinci dies

1521        Martin Luther excommunicated – can’t buy salvation

1552        Edmund Spenser born?

1558                Elizabeth (daughter of
Henry VIII) crowned, Dee/Ralegh/Drake, begin British Empire

                Renaissance begins in England

1564        William Shakespeare born

1582        John Dee meets Edward Kelly – Enochian angelic downloads

1588        Spanish Armada invasion of England
fails

1599        Edmund Spenser dies

1600

1603        Elizabeth dies, James IV of Scotland

1609        Shake-speares Sonnets

1616                Shakespeare dies

1637                 Discourse on
Method Rene Decartes, sets rules for scientific method

1650        1^st NE Whale fishery Long Island,
Corpus Hermeticum in English

1665        Great Plague of London,
70k dead

1666        Great Fire of London

1687                 Principia
Mathematica  Isaac Newton

1700

1718        Edward Teach / Blackbeard KIA age 38

1719                Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, one of 1^st English novels

1731        Defoe dies, age 71

1737        last Grand Duke de’ Medici dies

1757        William Blake born

1759        Robert Burns born

1760        George II dies, George III

1775                American Revolutionary War begins

1776                Declaration of
Independence Thomas Jefferson

                Common Sense Thomas Paine

                The Wealth of
Nations Adam Smith

1780        1^st Police Force as
result of Gordon Riots in London

1781        10hp Watt Steam Engine, 1^st
patent rotary

1783                American Revolutionary War
ends

1784        Blake’s print shop, Joseph Johnson’s house (T. Paine,
Wollstonecraft, Godwin, etc)

1787                American Constitution
adopted

1791        Bill of Rights (1-10 Amendments to
Am. Constitution)

                Rights Of Man Thomas Paine

1793        Louis XVI executed

1796        Robert Burns dies

1800

1802                Napoleonic Wars begin

                Age of Enlightenment ends

1803                 Louisiana Purchase Jefferson
(<3 cents/acre = $15 million)

1807        Internal Combustion 1^st

1809        Alfred, Lord Tennyson born

1812        War of 1812

                Napoleon invades Russia

                Childe Harold
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Europe/Russia fame

                Charles Dickens born Portsea, England

1814        The Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key

1815        Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeated

1816        Shelleys & Byron in Geneva

1818                Frankenstein,
Mary Shelley

                Endymion
John Keats

                Prometheus
Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelley work begins

                Shelleys, Byron, Leigh Hunt in Italy

1819        Don Juan Byron,
sections published

                Walt Whitman born rural Long Island

                Herman Melville born NYC

1820        George III dies, George IV

1821                Electromagnetism discovered,
Faraday Electro-rotation motor

                The Defense of
Poetry Shelley essay

                Keats dies of tuberculosis & negative reviews,
age 26

1822        Shelley drowns, boat Don Juan capsizes, age 30

1824        Byron dies of fever on maneuvers, age 36

1827        William Blake dies

1828        Jules Verne born

1830        George IV dies, William IV

                Indian Removal Act / Trail of
Tears (Eastern tribes to OK)

1831        4-4-0 Locomotive

1835        Samuel Clemens born MO

1836                 Pickwick Papers
Dickens 1^st Serialized

1837        Queen Victoria after William IV dies

                Oliver Twist serialized to ’39 Dickens

1840        Thomas Hardy born

1843        A Christmas Carol
Dickens

1845        US annexes Texas, Mexican American
War (’46-’48)

                1^st metal ammo cartridge, rimfire, France

                The Raven Poe

1846        Peak New England Whaling, to ‘52

1848        Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded:
Dante Rossetti, William Hunt, John Millais

                The Communist
Manifesto Karl Marx

                The Mabinogion trans
Lady Charlotte Guest

1849        CA Gold Rush

                Poe dies, age 40

1851        Moby Dick Melville

1854        Arthur Rimbaud born

1855        Leaves of Grass
Whitman

1857        Smith & Wesson Model 1, 1^st
commercial metal cartridge revolver

                Flowers of Evil
Baudelaire

1859        1^st Commercial Drilled
Oil Well, Titusville, PA; begin oil boom

                On
the Origin of Species Charles
Darwin

1860        Great Expectations
serial Dickens to ‘61

1861                 American Civil War begins

1863                Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln

                Black Elk born

1865        Am. Civil War ends

                Abraham Lincoln assassinated

                Jumping Frog
Twain 1^st

                Alice in
Wonderland Lewis Carroll

                Five Weeks in a
Balloon Jules Verne 1^st

                William Butler Yeats born in Dublin

1866        2-8-0 Consolidation Locomotive

                Butch Cassidy born

1867        Alaska Purchase

                Das Kapital
part 1 Karl Marx, Part 2 ’85 & Part 3 ’94 ed. Friedrich Engels

1869                Transcontinental Railroad
UP & CP meet in Utah

1870        Dickens dies, last serial printed

                20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea Verne, inspires The
Drunken Boat

1871        Paris Commune

                The Drunken
Boat Rimbaud (’69 1^st)

                God and the
State Mikhail Bakunin

1872        Hague Congress: Bakunin (Social
Anarchy) vs Marx (Communism)

1873        Market Panic

                Around the World in 80 Days Verne

                Statism and
Anarchy Bakunin

1874        Rimbaud stops writing

1876                American Centennial, Colorado becomes a State in US

                Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy
Horse vs. Custer

                Bell patents telephone

                Tom Sawyer Twain

1880        1^st Commercial use carbon
filament Light Bulb

                1,300 Reefers on American Rails

                Butch Cassidy arrested for IOU age 14

1881        Billy the Kid killed by Pat Garret

1882        1^st Electric Power Plants
London & NYC, Edison

                God is Dead
Nietzsche The Gay Science

                Jesse James murdered by Robert Ford

1884        Nikola Tesla emigrates to US, age 29, works for Edison
Machine Works

1885        Ezra Pound born in Idaho, move to PA age 2

                Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Twain

1886        Verse Libre, La Vogue magazine

1887        Mosada: A Dramatic Poem
Yeats 1^st

                Karl Benz 1^st
‘automobile’

1888                Roundhay Garden Scene, 1^st
Motion Picture

                Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn founded

1889        The Wanderings of Oisin
Yeats, he meets Maude Gunn

                Gerard Manley Hopkins dies, age 45

1890                Candlestick Telephone
introduced

                24,000 Reefers

                Wounded Knee Massacre

                Rhymers Club in London
founded by Yeats

                The Golden
Bough Sir James Frazier

1891        Melville dies, Rimbaud dies

1892                Whitman dies, Alfred Lord Tennyson dies

                Edna St. Vincent Millay born

1893        Market Crash, Silver
devalued, ‘Railroad Bubble’ bursts

                Stein at Radcliffe(Harvard) student of William James
until ‘97

1895        Ragtime music

                The Time Machine HG Wells

1896        Butch Cassidy forms Wild Bunch gang in Wyoming

1897        The War of the Worlds,
The Invisible Man HG Wells

                Romantic Songs
Herman Hesse poetry 1^st

1899        The Wind Among the Reeds Yeats

                The
Interpretation of Dreams Freud

                The Symbolist
Movement in Literature Arthur Symons

                The Abbey Theatre Dublin
founded by Yeats & Lady Gregory

1900        70,000 Reefers

                Haiku form invented from renga starting lines

                The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum

1901        Victoria dies, Edward VII

1902        WCW, Pound, HD meet at U of Penn

1903        Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, NC

                W.C. Handy discovers Delta
Blues

                Steins move to Paris, 27 rue de Fleurus

1904                Tungsten filament Light Bulbs

                Liber AL vel
Legis Crowley

1905        First Convention of Industrial Workers of the World,
Chicago

                Jules Verne dies

1906        writing Making of
Americans Stein to ‘08 or ‘11

1907        Financial Panic

                Chamber Music
Joyce 1^st poems

                Proto-Cubist painting style
begins, develops through ‘11

1908        Ford Model T affordable automobile

                Newsreel film format P. Freres
France

                1^st Commercial Radio transmission

                Pound moves to London, age 23, befriends Yeats

                A Lume Spento
Pound 1^st

                Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid supposedly killed in
Bolivia

1909        Cubism begins w/ Picasso according
to Stein

                Poems
Williams 1^st book

1910        Edward VII dies, George V

                Georgian
Poetry anthology             

                Rites
of Eleusis Crowley performance at
Caxton Hall

                Twain dies, Charles Olson born Worcester, MA

1911        Atomic Nucleus identified

                Imagism

                Salon des Independants 1^st
Cubist exhibition, Paris

1912        Tender Buttons
Stein

                Renascence
Millay wins 4^th in The Lyric
Year mag, controversy

                Salon de la
Section d’Or, Cubist retrospective exhibition, 200 works, Paris

                largest ship RMS Titanic
hits iceberg 1500 killed

1913        Federal Reserve Act

1914        World War One begins

                Leo Stein moves to Italy w/ part of Stein Collection

                Pound & Eliot meet in England

                Dubliners
Joyce 1^st prose

                William S. Burroughs born in KS?

1915        Des Imagistes
anthology by Pound

                The Birth of a
Nation D.W. Griffith film, Hollywood rising

                Joe Hill framed (’14) & executed: “Don’t mourn,
Organize.”

1916        Theory of Relativity Einstein

                Technicolor introduced (to 1952)

                Cabaret Voltaire founded in
Zurich by Hugo Ball Tristan Tzara, others, Dada

1917                Bolshevik October Revolution
Lenin

                1^st three Cantos Pound

                Prufrock and
Other Observations Eliot 1^st

                Renascence and Other Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1^st

                Gwendolyn Brooks born KS, grew
up Chicago

1918        World War One ends

                Major Flu epidemic in US

                Pulitzer Prize Sara Teasdale 1^st woman

1919                d’Annunzio takes Fiume
(through ’20): Anarchist Republic

                1^st Commercial International Airplane Flight, USA
– Canada

1920                 Woman’s Suffrage 19^th
Amendment in US, many others

                Prohibition on Alcohol begins

                Jazz Age & Speakeasys

                1^st Commercial Radio Broadcast

                Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley Pound

                A Few Figs from
Thistles Millay on fem sexuality & feminism

                Pound moves to Paris

                Charles Bukowski born

1921        Nobel Prize Physics Einstein

1922        Soviet Union formed at end
Russian Civil War

                Tutankhamen’s Tomb discovered by Carter & Herbert

                The Waste Land
Eliot

                Ulysses
Joyce

                Siddhartha
Hesse

                The Fugitive
mag to 1925

1923        Tulips and Chimneys
Cummings 1^st

                Nobel Prize for Poetry to Yeats

                Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Edna St. Vincent Millay (1^st
woman) for The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

1924        Lenin dies, Stalin era follows

                Pound moves to Italy

                J. Edgar Hoover joins the Bureau of Investigation

                Surrealist
Manifesto Andre Breton

1925        A Draft of XVI Cantos
Pound

1926                Schrodinger’s Quantum
equation (published ’27)

                Rilke dies of leukemia, age 51

1927        A Survey of Modernist
Poetry Graves & Riding

                Poem beginning
“The” Zukofsky to Pound

                Zukovsky begins work on “A”

                Thomas Hardy dies

                Last New England Whaling
Vessel sails, New Bedford

1929        Great Depression Stock
Market Crash

1930        Seven Types of
Ambiguity William Empson

                Whoroscope Samuel
Beckett 1^st

                Gwendolyn Brooks begins prolific magazine poems, age
13

                Swing bands become popular

                Silent Films extinct

1931        Hesse begins planning Glass
Bead Game

1932                Animated Color Cartoons

                Black Elk
Speaks John Neihardt

1933        Adolf Hitler comes to power

                End of Prohibition

                King Kong
Merian C. Cooper film

                Black Mountain College founded, NC

1934        I, Claudius Graves,
using analeptic process

                John Dillinger killed outside Biograph Theater
Chicago

                                also
Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd

1935        FBI founded by J. Edgar Hoover
BoI roots

                EPR Paradox paper (Einstein,
Podolsky, Rosen) QT incomplete

1936        George V dies, Edward VIII abdicates,
George VI

                The Hobbit JRR Tolkien

1937                Hindenburg disaster live
audio coverage

1938        Murphy Beckett 1^st
novel

                Understanding
Poetry R.P. Warren & Cleanth
Brooks, textbook

                The War of the
Worlds Welles radio broadcast hoax

1939        World War Two begins,
invasion of Poland

                Manhattan Project begins

                Heinkel He 178 1^st
turbojet aircraft

                Wizard of Oz film

                Graves & Riding’s intense 12 year relationship
ends abruptly

                Pound visits US, begins association w/ Mussolini

                Yeats dies

1940        Section 10 of “A”
Zukofsky

1941        Pearl Harbor

                The New
Criticism Ransom

                Citizen Kane
Orson Welles film 1^st

                Joyce dies

1943        The Glass Bead Game
Hesse

                The Roebuck in the Thicket Graves begins 3G/ogham
work, age 48

                Tesla dies

1944        D-Day 6 June: 5000 ships, 160k
soldiers land

                                13
June 1^st V1 Buzzbombs hit London

                                September
– March ’45: 3000 V2 rockets

                Pisan Cantos Pound in stockade for treason

                1 x 1
Cummings

                Bukowski 1^st Story in print

1945        Nuclear Fission:
Trinity, Little Boy, Fat Man

                World War Two ends

                A Street In Bronzeville  Gwendolyn
Brooks 1^st

                Nag Hammadi
Library Gnostic Gospels discovered, Egypt

1946        Bebop Jazz begins

                Nobel Prize for Literature Herman Hesse

                Paterson
book one Williams

                Bukowski stops writing for 10 years

                HG Wells dies

1947        Solid State Transistor

                Motorola VT-71 television for $189.95,
affordable

                                Home Refridgerators, Telephones

                Roswell,
NM UFO Crash

                The White Goddess Graves   

                To Carrado
Cagli Olson 1^st

1948        State of Israel begin by UN
recommendation

                Nobel Prize for Poetry Eliot

                Beckett writing Godot

                RA Heinlein & wife have idea for Stranger from Jungle Book

1949        People’s Republic of China
under Chairman Mao Zedong

                Bollingen Prize for Poetry to Pound, uproar

1950        Korean War begins

                Projective
Verse Olson

                Pulitzer for Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks for Annie Allen

                E. Vincent Millay dies, Black Elk dies

1951        On the Road Kerouac
(Town & Country ’50 1^st)

1952        George VI dies, Elizabeth II

                1^st Commercial Jet Service, London to
Johannesburg

                A City Winter,
and Other Poems O’Hara 1^st

1953        Korean War ends

                Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro

                City Lights
Bookstore & Press founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

                In Cold Hell,
In Thicket and Maximus Poems 1-10
Olson

                Waiting for
Godot Beckett premiere in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris

1954        Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley & the Comets

                55% US households have a
television

                The Lord of the
Rings Tolkien to ‘55

1955        Viet Nam War begins          

                Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott
to 56

                The Vestal Lady
on Brattle Corso 1^st

                Pictures of the
Gone World Ferlinghetti 1^st

                Bukowski begins to write poetry

1956                 COINTELPRO of FBI begins

                Black Mountain collapse

                Howl Ginsberg
1^st, obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti

1957        Sputnik launched

                The Return of
the Rivers Richard Brautigan 1^st

1958        Pound released from sanitorium “incurably insane but
harmless”

1959        Alaska becomes a State in US

                Shunryu Suzuki arrives in San Francisco, age 55

1960        The Twist (’59 Hank
Ballad) song & dance by Chubby Checker

                The New American Poetry: 1945-1960 anthology Donald Allen ed.

1961        A Stranger in a Strange
Land RA Heinlein Hugo & Nebula

                Black Elk
Speaks reprinted

                Bay of Pigs CIA failed
invasion of Cuba

1962        90% US households have a television

                Love Me Do Beatles 1^st Hit

                Naked Lunch
Burroughs Grove (’59 Olympia wrong ms.)

                Cummings dies

1963        JFK Assassination

                The Fugs Sanders/Kupferberg/Weaver

                V. Thomas
Pynchon 1^st

                WCW dies

1964        Civil
Rights Act bans racial discrimination in workplace & public places

                Bell’s theorem arguing nonlocality

                British Invasion of the US
pop market lead by The Beatles

                Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.

                Furthur bus trip Kesey, Cassady

                The Sonnets Berrigan

                77 Dream Songs
Berryman

                Lunch Poems
O’Hara

1965        US Combat Troops in Viet Nam

                Freak Out album Zappa/Mothers of Invention

1966                Tassajara Zen Mountain
Center, 1^st Buddhist monastery outside Asia, S. Suzuki / Richard Baker

                O’Hara dies

1967        Summer of Love 100k kids to San
Francisco

                Trout Fishing in America Brautigan (writ in ’61)

1968        Dr. King assassinated

1969        Apollo 11 lands on Moon
1^st

                Woodstock Music Festival
400k kids; proto-punk, proto-metal, psychedelic rock

                Nobel Prize in Literature Beckett

                Kerouac dies of alcoholism

                Black Sparrow Press begins funding Bukowski

1970        USA Peak Oil Production, steady
decline from here

                Olson dies

                Zen Mind,
Beginner’s Mind Shunryu Suzuki

1971                COINTELPRO ends

                This mag
Language Poets begin?

                Be Here Now
Ram Dass

                Nobel Prize in Poetry Neruda

                Lew Welch suicide

1972        Pound dies in Venice, J. Edgar Hoover dies still Director of
FBI

1973        Wm Casey CIA: Job done when
everything American Public believes is a lie

                Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion

                Gravity’s
Rainbow Pynchon Nat Book Award

                Pablo Neruda dies, age 69, no poison traced according
to 2013 forensics

1974        Beat Conference at Naropa Institute founding

1975        Viet Nam War ends

1976        Mao dies, Deng Xiopeng takes power,
modern reforms

                American Bicentential; Sex Pistols, Ramones, Clash

1977        TRS-80 Personal Computer

                SETI receives WOW signal
from 200 lightyears away

                Star Wars Lucas film

1978                L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
mag begin, to 1982

                The Stand
Stephen King

1979        1^st Hip-hop Album

                The Wall Pink Floyd album

1980        Ronald Reagan steals American election, begin Reaganomics: Politics of Greed

                John Lennon assassinated

                Riddley Walker Russell Hoban

1981                HIV/AIDS pandemic
recognized by CDC

1982        TCP/IP standard

                Compact Disc commercially
available

1983        1^st Generation Cell Phone
network, Digital Answering Machines

                The Exquisite Corpse mag Codrescu

1984        Apple Macintosh 128k w/ GUI (1^st
Xerox ’82)

                Neuromancer
William Gibson Hugo, Nebula, PKD, begin Cyberpunk Genre

                Brautigan suicide

1986                ‘Internet’ begin, 56kps
access to Supercomputers via Nat. Science Foundation

                Chernobyl nuclear plant
disaster

                Gangsta Rap begins w/
N.W.A.

                Slam Poetry
at Get Me High Lounge in Chicago, Marc Smith 1^st

1988        Naropa Institute accredited

                American Poetry
since 1970: Up Late, anthology Codrescu ed.

1990        First Gulf War (Kuwait) to 1991, Broadcast Live

                1^st National Poetry Slam

1991        Collapse of Soviet Union

                2G Cell Phones

1992                Snowcrash
Neal Stephenson

1994                Bukowski dies

1995        Internet fully commercialized

1996        Infinite Jest David
Foster Wallace

                Fight Club
Chuck Palahnuik (1999 film hit)

1997        Allen Ginsberg dies, WS Burroughs dies,

                The Exquisite
Corpse goes Online to 2011

1998                International Space Station
launched, 230 miles

1999        Seattle WTO Protests – begin 2^nd
Gen Professional Activists worldwide

                The Outlaw
Bible of American Poetry, anthology Alan Kaufman ed.

                The Matrix
Wachowski Brothers film

2000        George Bush Jr. steals American election w/ aid of Gov. Jeb Bush of FL

                ‘Internet Bubble’ bursts,
dot.com devalued, Market Crash into ‘01

                Gwendolyn Brooks dies

2001        9/11 Terrorist Attacks on World Trade
Towers NYC and Pentagon

                US Patriot Act erodes civil rights

                3G Smart Phones

2003        Second Gulf War (Iraq War) begins

                Human Genome Map completed

2006        World Peak Oil Production

2007                Recession to ’09, Credit
crisis due to Housing bubble peak in ‘06

2008        Barack Obama, 1^st Black
President (vs Hillary Clinton in primary, 1^st woman)

2011        Iraq War ends(?)

                Fukushima Nuclear Disaster from earthquake/tsumani

                Occupy Wall Street, worldwide protest

2012        Higgs Bosun proven?

2013                Quantum Fact: No Speed
Limit, Time is pre-Instantaneous

                Nelson Mandela dies

2014        Amiri Baraka dies, age 79

2015        CO2 Emissions Peak

2025        Lake Mead Critical Failure, no water to AZ, LA

2029        2014 NASA Study: First World Collapse

2030        9 Billion World Population; 50% increase in Food production or mass starvation/resource wars

2050        51% American population
Latino/Indigenous

2200        Stephen Hawking: Interplanetary Travel or Extinction