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 1858 - 1927 (~ 68 years)
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| 1 | 1526 | - 1526—1918: HABSBURG DYNASTY
https://www.mzv.cz/tripoli/en/general_information_about_the_czech/history/index.html - Habsburg Dynasty - Czech lands became part of Hapsburg monarchy, Ferdinand I elected as Czech King.
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| 2 | 1816 | - 1816—1867: Austrian Empire Provinces
1816-1867; Austrian Empire Provinces: Konigreich Bohmen, Markgrafenschaft Mahren, Konigreich Ungarn, Herzogtum Schlesien
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| 3 | 1848 | - 1848—1949: Humpelec district
Humpolec, Pelhrimov, Vysocina; (VOPALENSKY family of village Dusejov and surrounding villages of Opatov, etc., all villages belonged to district until 1949. Many documents are in District Pelhrimov.)
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| 4 | 1858 | - 1858: Minnesota
11 May 1858, Minnesota becomes 32nd state.
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| 5 | 1859 | - 1859: French-Austrian War
French-Austrian War
- 1859: Oregon
14 Feb 1859, Oregon becomes 33rd state.
- 1859: Guilds Abolished in Bohemia
Up to 1859, craftsmen and artisans in the Czechlands were organized in guilds ("cechy").
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| 6 | 1860 | - 1860: Immigrant Kolman
*** 9 Jul 1860, Mathias Kolman, born about 1805, miller, married 1833 in Strmechy, 1860 immigrated to Baltimore, and in 1870 was in Grant County, Wisconsin, USA. On same ship as Kratochvill, Dvorac, Doubrava, Morava, Homolka families, destination was Illinois.
- 1860: Immigrant Doubrava
*** 16 Dec 1860, John Doubrava, born 1817, 1860 immigrated to Galveston, and moved to Grant County, Wisconsin in 1866.
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| 7 | 1861 | - 1861—1865: USA Civil War
USA Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
- 1861: Kansas
29 Jan 1861, Kansas becomes 34th state.
- 1861: Immigrant Womastek
*** Jun 1861, Franz Womastek, born 1830, 1861 immigrated to Baltimore and lived in Grant County, Wisconsin in 1870.
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| 8 | 1862 | - 1862: Homestead Act
Homestead Act guarantees 160 acres to each farmer willing to cultivate and improve land in the West for five years.
- 1862: Sokol founded in Czechlands
Sokol founded in Czechlands
- 1862: Immigrants
*** 25, 26 June 1862, 2 ships, carrying 51 Bohemian individuals; the families were VOPALENSKY, Zemlicka, Riba (Fish), Burian, Rychesky, Vasicek, Svejda, and Homolka immigrated to New York and went mainly to Grant County, Wisconsin, USA. Immigrant Frank Vopalensky is the first cousin of immigrant Jan Vopalensky who immigrated in 1891 to Milwaukee.
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| 9 | 1863 | - 1863: Karel (Charles) Jonas to USA
In 1860 Karel Jonas fled to London, after publishing a pamphlet which caused his expulsion from the university and persecution by the Austrian authorities. In 1863 he immigrated to the US, and lived in Racine, Wisconsin. Published the Czech language newspaper Slavie. Friend of Vojtech Naprstek. In 1877 he was elected to Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1882 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate. In 1886 he was appointed US Consul at Prague. In 1890 he was elected Lieutanant Governor of Wisconsin. In 1894 he was appointed US Consul at St Petersburg, Russian and in 1896 appointed US Consul at Crefeld, Germany.
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| 10 | 1866 | - 1866: Austro-Prussian War
14 Jun - 23 Aug 1866; Austro-Prussian War of 1866 - Seven Weeks War; In the north, Austria degeated by the Prussian army at the Battle of Koniggratz (Hradec Kralove) on 3 Jul 1866; 225,000 Prussians against 265,000 Austrians and Saxons.
- 1866: Cholera epidemic
Cholera epidemic in Bohemia
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| 11 | 1867 | - 1867: Nebraska
1 Mar 1867, Nebraska becomes 37th state.
- 1867: Immigrant Schoenberger
*** 25 May 1867, Frank Schoenberger, born 1839, immigrated to New York with wife Mary (nee VOPALENSKY) daughter of immigrant Frank Vopalensky who immigrated in 1862.
- 1867—1918: Austro-Hungarian Empire
1867 - 1918; Austro-Hungarian Empire (Hapsburg Monarchy divided into Dual Monarchy).
- 1867: Immigrant Washechek
*** 9 Nov 1867, Jacob Washechek, born 1839 in Opatov #14, in 1859 married Marie Duba of Opatov #9 in Opatov; 1867 immigrates to New York, in 1870 living in Blue River, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA.
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| 13 | 1871 | - 1871: Chicago Fire
8-10 Oct 1871, Great Chicago Fire causes extensive damage to city, over 300 deaths, and over 100,000 were left homeless (about one third of the population of Chicago), as 17,500 buildings over 4.0 square miles of the city was destroyed.
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| 14 | 1876 | - 1876: Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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| 15 | 1877 | - 1877: Military Map - 3rd Military Survey
1877; 3rd Military Survey of Bohemia; Bohemia map no. 2455_1 (1:25000) for VOPALENSKY family of Dusejov (Duschau) at: http://oldmaps.geolab.cz/map_viewer.pl?z_height=330&lang=en&z_width=700&z_newwin=1&map_root=3vm&map_region=25&map_list=4255_1
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| 16 | 1878 | - 1878: Anton Dvorak composer
Czech composer Anton Dvorak writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets.
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| 17 | 1879 | - 1879: Opatov - Fire
Bad fire in Opatov, Czech Republic. 28 houses were burned.
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| 19 | 1885 | - 1885: Oberlin College
Oberlin College organized a Theological Seminary for the Protestant Czechs, in connection with its Slavic Department.
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| 20 | 1886 | - 28 Oct 1886: Statue of Liberty
Dedication of Statue of Liberty, gift from France
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| 21 | 1889 | - 1889: North Dakota and South Dakota
2 Nov 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota becomes states.
- 1889: Washington
11 Nov 1889, Washington becomes 42nd state.
- 1889: Oklahoma Land Runs
Homestead land becomes available in Oklahoma, with land runs.
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| 23 | 1891 | - 1891: Immigrant Vopalensky
*** 10 Jun 1891, Jan VOPALENSKY, born 1856, immigrated to Baltimore; lived in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA. First cousin of immigrant Frank VOPALENSKY who immigrated in 1862 to Grant County, Wisconsin, USA.
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| 24 | 1892 | - 1 Jan 1892—Nov 1954: Ellis Island
Ellis Island, New York; passenger ship immigration port
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| 25 | 1893 | - 1893: St Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin, USA
(Premonstratensian / Norbertine Abbey) In 1893, Father Bernard Pennings and two other Norbertines from Berne Abbey (in Heeswijk, Netherlands) came to the United States to minister to Belgian immigrants in northern Wisconsin. De Pere, Wisconsin, became the site of the first Norbertine Abbey in the new world.
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| 26 | 1894 | - 1894—1895: Smallpox Epidemic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
*** Jun 1894 - 1895, Smallpox Epidemic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jan and Josefa VOPALENSKY family, living in Milwaukee travel back to Dusejov, Bohemia (Czech Republic). The Milwaukee smallpox epidemic of 1895-1895 reported 1074 total cases and 269 deaths. The highest concentration of cases and deaths was in the 11th Ward, which had 420 cases and 120 deaths. On 12th Avenue (the Jan Vopalensky family lived on 12th Avenue in the 11th ward) in the 11th Ward, there were 15 cases and 4 deaths. From http://www.upmchealthsecurity.org/website/resources/multimedia/2004-leadership-guide/exec_summary/case_studies/case_study_24.html : Milwaukee's 1894 public health response contributed greatly to the spread of smallpox and ultimately to the duration of the outbreak. During that time, Milwaukee had an active anti-vaccination movement that touted the dangers of vaccination.
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| 27 | 1898 | - 1898: Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War
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| 29 | 1907 | - 1907: Oklahoma
16 Nov 1907, Oklahoma becomes 46th state.
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| 30 | 1908 | - 1908: Henry Ford car
Henry Ford begins production of Model T cars in USA.
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| 32 | 1914 | - 1914—1918: World War I
28 Jun 1914 - 3 Nov 1918, World War I from 1914 to 1918. USA enters war in 1917.
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| 33 | 1915 | - 1915: Eastland sinks in Chicago River
24 Jul 1915, 844 died in the sinking of the Eastland excursion boat in the Chicago River. The ship rolled over while tied to the dock. It was chartered to take employees from Western Electric Company of Cicero, Illinois to a picnic in Michigan City, Indiana. Many of the passengers were Czech immigrants from Cicero; 220 of them perished.
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| 34 | 1918 | - 1918—1992: CZECHOSLOVAKIA
28 Oct 1918 - 31 Dec 1992, Establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918. First President was Thomas G. Masaryk who died in 1937. According to the 1921 census, its population makup was: Czechs 51%, Slovaks 14.5%, Germans 23.4%, Hungarians 5.5%, plus some Polish, Ukrainians, Russians, Jews and Romy.
- 1918—1919: Spanish Flu in USA
The Spanish Flu or "la gripe" spread quickly across the United States.
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| 35 | 1919 | - 1919: Prohibition
In USA outlaws purchase, sale and transport of alcohol.
- 1919: Sudetenland
28 June 1919, in Paris, Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, is assigned to the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
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| 36 | 1921 | - 1921: Civil registration required by law
Civil registration required by law, church registers no longer valid public records.
- 1921: Czech Census
census
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| 37 | 1922 | - 1922: US Immigration Law
Married woman's citizenship becomes independent of her husband's.
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| 38 | 1927 | - 1927: First talking movies.
First talking movies
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