Timeline: If the Legends Are True...

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> 1792 - Birth: 1 Dec 1792

> 1810 - Married General James Hoge: 5 Jun 1810

> 1811 - Child Daniel Howe Hoge b. 30 Mar 1811

> 1815 - Child Eliza Hoge b. 11 Dec 1815

> 1818 - Child James Fulton Hoge b. 16 Apr 1818

> 1820 - Child Joseph Haven Hoge b. 21 Jan 1820

> 1822 - Child William Edward Hoge, M. D. b. 26 May 1822

> 1856 - Died: 13 Jun 1856

> 1810 - Birth: 15 Dec 1810

> 1840 - Child Mary E. Hoge b. Abt 1840

> 1841 - Married Octavia Mary Browne: 20 Sep 1841

> 1847 - Child George F. Hoge b. Abt 1847

> 1849 - Child Fanny L. Hoge b. Dec 1849

> 1850 - Child Pauline O. Hoge b. Aug 1850

> 1853 - Child Belle Josephine Hoge b. Abt 1853

> 1854 - Child Blanche Hoge b. Abt 1854

> 1859 - Child Charles Joseph Hoge b. Abt Oct 1859

> 1862 - Child Octavia Hoge b. Abt 1862

> 1891 - Died: 14 Aug 1891

> 1926 - Birth: 21 Apr 1926

> 1947 - Married Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh: 20 Nov 1947

> 1948 - Child Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor, Prince of Wales b. 14 Nov 1948

> 1950 - Child Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Princess Royal b. 15 Aug 1950

> 1960 - Child Andrew Albert Christian Edward Windsor, Duke of York b. 19 Feb 1960

> 1964 - Child Edward Anthony Richard Windsor, Earl of Wessex b. 10 Mar 1964

	Year	Event(s)
1	1794	14 Mar: Eli Whitney is granted the patent for the cotton gin. At the time the U.S. is producing 187,000 pounds of cotton per year. The same year Samuel Slater opens the country's first textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
2	1795	Two years after Eli Whitney's cotten gin is introduced the production of cotton jumps from 187,000 pounds to 6 million pounds.
3	1810	A staggering 93 million pounds of cotton is harvested in the U.S. The slave population of The South has risen to 1.3 million from 657,000 in 1790.
4	1812	12 Jun: America declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812 which will end 24 Dec 1814 with The Treaty of Ghent.
5	1814	24 Aug: British General Ross lands about 30 miles from Washington with 5,000 troops and after defeating an American force twice as large marches on Washington and burn the Capitol, The President's Mansion and other public buildings. President James Madison and wife Dolly barely escaped.
6	1815	The first mechanized loom, powered by water, is built in Waltham, Massachusetts. Providence, Rhode Island has 170 mills, making it one of the largest textile producing cities in the U.S.
7	1825	New England becomes the nation's textile center with 16,000 mills in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
8	1828	Frank Logan discovers gold in White County, Georgia. The Cherokee controlled most of the land in the gold region. The Georgia legislature began to plan their removal almost immediately after the discovery of gold. This eventually led to the "Trail of Tears."
9	1833	Witnessing the explosive growth of factories, Thomas Jefferson claims wage work undermines the autonomy of workes and thus threatens America's democratic institutions.
10	1835	British Scientest Andrew Ure claims "training humans is essential to successful manufacturing".
11	1838	17 May: The Trail of Tears begins as General Winfield Scott arrives in New Echota with 7,000 men. At least 4,000 Cherokee die in a forced march out of Georgia to reservations in Oklahoma.
12	1839	9 Apr: The first commericial telegraph begins operation in England.
13	1849	The California Gold rush draws fortune seekers from around the world to San Francisco.
14	1861	12 Apr: American Civil War begins
15	1865	9 Apr: The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Lee at Appomattax.
16	1869	10 May: Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah. This reduced from 6 months to 6 days the travel time from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California; a distance of 2,000 miles.
17	1878	Jan: First North American telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
18	1879	California's 2nd Constitutional Convention, presided over by Joseph P. Hoge, concludes. The constitution they drew up is the one in effect today.
19	1881	The first public electricity supply was generated in Godalming, Surrey using a waterwheel at a nearby mill.
20	1886	Flush toilets are invented.
21	1901	10 Jan: Texas Oil Rush begins when Spidletop comes in a gusher in East Texas near Beaumont.
22	1906	18 Apr: The Great San Francisco Earthquake. 8:12 AM
23	1914	1 Jan: The first commerical airline flight in the United States. 1 Aug: World War I begins when Germany declares war on Russia following the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.
24	1917	6 Apr: American formally declared war against Germany, entering World War I.
25	1918	11 Nov: Word War I ends when the Germans request armistice negotions with the Allies.
26	1920	Women have the right to vote for the first time in a federal election. 29 Jan: The 18th Amendment was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, having been approved by 36 states, and went into effect on a Federal level on January 29, 1920, beginning Prohibition. 2 Nov: The first commerical radio broadcast gives citizens of Pittsburg presidential election results before the newspapers.
27	1928	28 Sep: Penicillin is discovered to be a miracle antibiotic by Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist and pharmacist.
28	1929	24 Oct: The Great Wall Street stock market crash begins on Thursday. The sell-off closes the markets on Friday. When the market continues to crash the following Monday and Tuesday panic spreads and the Great Depression begins. The Great Depression didn't end until 1941 when the United States entered World War I.
29	1930	The Great Dustbowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. It lasted until 1936 and in some places until 1940. 5 Sep: The Bardford #3 comes in, beginning an oil rush in the East Texas counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, Smith, and Cherokee.
30	1933	5 Dec: The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.
31	1939	1 Sep: Hitler attacks Poland beginning Word War II. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany 2 days later.
32	1941	1 Jul: First commercial television broadcast airs in New York City. 7 Dec: Pearl Harbor. The U.S. entered World War II when the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor.
33	1945	2 Sep: World War II ends
34	1961	14 May: Freedom Rider's bus firebomed in Anniston, Alabama.
35	1963	15 Sep: The 16th Street Baptist Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. 22 Nov: President John F. Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, Texas.
36	1965	7 Mar: On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies. 11 Aug: Six days of race riots begin in Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles.
37	1968	4 Apr: Martin Luther King is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. 5 Jun: Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of assassinated President John Kennedy, is assassinated.
38	1969	20 Jul: The first manned spacecraft, Apollo 11, lands on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility.
39	1977	Personal computers enter the commerical market.
40	1982	AIDS is diagnosed in San Francisco
41	1989	17 Oct: 7.1 earthquake in San Francisco
42	1996	Nov: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 passes in California, decriminalizing the medical use of marijuana.
43	2001	11 Sep: The World Trade Towers in New York City are destroyed by terrorists.
44	2008	4 Nov: Barak Obama becomes the first person of color elected President of The United States.