Fitzgerald, F Scott Contents
Fitzgerald, F Scott Timeline
| Year | Historical | Literary | Author |
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| 1896 | F. Scott Fitzgerald born on 24 September | ||
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | ||
| 1899 |
( - 1902) Second Boer War Irish Literary Theatre founded |
Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken Pinero's Trelawney of the 'Wells' Symons' The Symbolist Movement in literature Wells' Tales of Space and Time |
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| 1900 |
Most children under eleven attending elementary school Daily Express founded Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams |
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| 1901 |
Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII king First transatlantic radio communication by Marconi |
Wells' The First Men in the Moon | |
| 1902 |
Balfour Education Act establishes state system of secondary schools Second Boer War ends |
Bennett's Anna of the Five towns Mare's Songs of Childhood Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles Kipling's Just So Stories |
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| 1903 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright make first powered flight New York-London news service begins using wireless telegraphy Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union |
Butler's The Way of All Flesh James' The Ambassadors The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. du Bois |
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| 1904 |
Entente Cordiale settles colonial differences between UK and France Offset printing invented Abbey Theatre, Dublin, founded Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |
Hardy's The Dynasts, Part I published J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan first performed on stage James' The Golden Bowl |
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| 1905 |
Start of suffragette agitation and first suffragettes imprisoned Einstein's special theory of relativity Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality |
Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes Wells' Kipps |
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| 1906 | Liberal landslide in general election; 29 Labour MPs elected and Labour Party constituted | Mare's Poems | |
| 1907 | Pablo Picasso introduces cubism | ||
| 1908 |
Old Age Pensions Act introduces state pensions for the over-seventies Ford's first Model T car sold in Britain Pathe's first regular newsreel First aeroplane flight in Britain |
Edmund Gosse's Father & Son published Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale Wells' The War in the Air |
Fitzgerald moves to St Paul, Minnesota |
| 1909 |
North Pole reached by Robert Peary (US) NAACP founded |
Galsworthy's Strife Pound's Personae |
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| 1910 |
Edward VII dies. George V becomes king South Wales Miners' strike First post-impressionist exhibition in London First feature-length films Freud's On Psychoanalysis Collapse of cotton farming due to boll weevil damage |
Galsworthy's Justice Wells' The History of Mr Polly |
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| 1911 |
Ford Model T assembly plant opened in Manchester Beatrice and Webb's Poverty Der Blaue Reiter group of expressionist artists formed in Munich Frazer's The Golden Bough (11 vols.-1915; first two vols., 1890) Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole Suffragette riots in London |
Wells' The New Machiavelli | |
| 1912 |
First Post-Impressionism Exhibition in London Titanic sinks Widespread strikes in Britain Women's Franchise Bill rejected by the House of Commons; suffragettes riot in London Some 400 cinemas in London; establishment of British Board of Film Censors |
Bridges' Poetical Works Mare's The Listeners Georgian Poetry, ed. Edward Marsh Pound's Ripostes Mann's Death in Venice |
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| 1913 |
Suffragette Emily Davies dies after throwing herself under the King's horse at the Derby Freud's Totem and Taboo; also Interpretation of Dreams Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring 'Cat and Mouse' Act House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill but rejected by the House of Lords Suffragette deonstrations |
Marcel Proust publishes first of the seven volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) (last volume, 1927) | Fitzgerald studies English at Princeton University (but does not complete his degree) |
| 1914 |
August: Great War breaks out (to November 1918) Irish Home Rule Act passed but later suspended because of war World War One - although segregated, black soldiers enlisted to fight in US armed forces |
Pound's Des Imagistes | |
| 1915 |
War intensifies with huge losses Zeppelin attacks on London Sinking of Lusitania Einstein's general theory of relativity Second Battle of Ypres |
Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps Kafka's Metamorphosis Maugham's Of Human Bondage Some's Imagist Poets: An Anthology, ed. Amy Lowell (further Imagist anthologies followed in 1916 and 1917) Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier |
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| 1916 |
Easter Rising, Dublin Conscription introduced Battle of the Somme Theories of shell-shock develop Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious Battle of Verdun Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister The Great Migration to the north begins (US) |
Brighouse's Hobson's Choice Wells' Mr Britling Sees it Through |
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| 1917 |
USA enters war Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Russian Revolution (March) Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis Abdication of Czar Nicholas II Russian Revolution (October) |
F. Scott Fitzgerald joins the US Army | |
| 1918 |
End of the Great War: Armistice, 11 November Rutherford splits atom Representation of the People Act (4th Reform Bill) gives the vote to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty Stopes' Married Love; Parenthood Fisher Education Act raises school-leaving age to fourteen Influenza pandemic, kills over 20 million people world-wide by 1920 Execution of Czar Nicholas II Vote given to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty |
Joyce's Exiles Thomas' Last Poems |
Meets Zelda Sayre whilst stationed in Alabama |
| 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles Anglo-Irish War begins Nancy Astor becomes first woman MP Flu pandemic Peace conference at Versailles |
Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence |
Gets engaged to Zelda, an engagement which she later breaks off F. Scott Fitzgerald is discharged from the US Army, never having been deployed. Briefly works in advertising, New York |
| 1920 |
Partition of Ireland League of Nations founded (precursor of the United Nations) Oxford admits women to degrees (1880 at London University) Jung's Psychological Types |
Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles Mansfield's Bliss Strachey's Eminent Victorians Hardy's Collected Poems |
Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise Marries Zelda Sayre on 3 April |
| 1921 |
Economic slump Marie Stopes opens first birth-control clinic in London Irish Free State formed |
Huxley's Crome Yellow Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author |
Fitzgerald produces Flappers and Philosophers (short stories) Birth of Frances Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1922 |
Unemployment stands at 2 million: first of many 'hunger marches' organised by the NUWM throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Irish Civil War breaks out (ends 1923) Mussolini comes to power in Italy Radio broadcasting begins; British Broadcasting Company formed Frazer's The Golden Bough (one-volume abridged edn) Establishment of the USSR |
Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga Mansfield's The Garden Party Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism |
Fitzgerald writes The Beautiful and the Damned and Tales of the Jazz Age (short stories) |
| 1923 | Matrimonial Causes Act (allows women to sue for divorce on same grounds as men, including adultery) |
Sitwell's Façade published Cummings' Tulips and Chimneys Huxley's Antic Hay Cane, Jean Toomer (Harlem Renaissance author) |
Fitzgerald writes The Vegetable: or, From President to Postman (play) |
| 1924 |
Paris Exhibition First Labour government in Britain under Ramsay MacDonald (January) Housing Act provides for subsidised public housing (generates over half a million new homes by 1932) Freud's The Ego and the Id Ramsay Macdonald forms first Labour government |
Fitzgeralds live in Paris (until 1931) | |
| 1925 | Pensions Act provides pensions at sixty-five |
Coward's Hay Fever Hemingway's In Our Time |
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Meets Ernest Hemingway |
| 1926 |
General Strike Television first demonstrated by John Logie Baird; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established |
T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom | |
| 1927 |
Trade Disputes Act makes general strikes illegal Charles Lindbergh, first solo transatlantic flight German financial and economic crisis Rise of Stalin in USSR |
Graves and Riding's A Survey of Modernist Poetry | |
| 1928 |
Universal suffrage for men and women Minimum voting age for women in Britain reduced to twenty-one from thirty years Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin (fully exploited from 1940) First films with sound in Britain |
Blunden's Undertones of War Huxley's Point Counter Point Isherwood's All the Conspirators |
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| 1929 |
General election returns minority Labour government; Margaret Bondfield becomes first woman Cabinet member Wall Street Crash and start of international economic depression Margaret Bondfield becomes first woman Cabinet member |
Graves' Goodbye to All That Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Priestley's The Good Companions Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (film version, 1930) |
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| 1930 |
Jet engine invented 11th May: Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to complete a solo flight from England to Australia The Great Depression Nazis begin rise to power in Germany Foundation of the Nation of Islam (black national separatist organisation) |
Blunden's Collected Poems Coward's Private Lives Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Maugham's Cakes and Ale |
Zelda admitted to a mental hospital (repeated discharge then re-admittance until her death in 1948) |
| 1931 | Woolf's The Waves | ||
| 1932 |
Hunger marches in Britain British Union of Fascists formed |
Huxley's Brave New World Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes |
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| 1933 | Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
Auden's The Dance of Death Orwell's Down and Out in London and Paris |
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| 1934 |
British Union of Fascists addressed by Oswald Mosley Adolf Hitler becomes Führer |
John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate James' The Art of the Novel Pound's Make it New Priestley's English Journey |
Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night |
| 1935 |
Radar & nylon invented Italy invades Ethiopia |
Launch of first Penguin paperbacks | Fitzgerald, Taps at Reveille (short stories) |
| 1936 |
Death of George V Accession, then abdication of Edward VIII Spanish Civil war begins Jarrow March of the unemployed Accession of George VI |
Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying Thomas' 25 Poems |
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| 1937 |
British policy of appeasement towards Italy and Germany Mass Observation Project starts |
Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier Priestley's Time and the Conway's Woolf's The Years Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston |
Fitzgerald writes movie scripts in Hollywood for MGM |
| 1938 |
Munich agreement with Hitler Supreme Court rules Missouri must provide access to public schooling for blacks as well as whites |
Waugh's Scoop Day-Lewis' Overtures to a Death Greene's Brighton Rock |
MGM contract halted |
| 1939 |
End of Spanish Civil War Start of the Second World War Evacuation of children from London |
Thomas' Twenty-Six Poems Eliot's The Family Reunion Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin Joyce's Finnegan's wake Orwell's Coming up for Air Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath |
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| 1940 |
Churchill becomes Prime Minister Evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk Start of the Blitz |
Thomas' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Greene's The Power and the Glory |
Fitzgerald writes The Pat Hobby Stories (first published individually between January 1940 and May 1941 and later collected into an edition in 1962) Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack, aged 44, on 21 December |
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