| World Events | Lake Madison Chautauqua Events | |
| Wireless telegraph begins | 1891 | Grandview Hotel, Auditorium, W.C.T.U. Dining Hall, Boat
House and Barns are built.
First Lake Madison Chautauqua is held. T. DeWitt Talmage attends Chautauqua Summer School is held |
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Grover
Cleveland becomes 24th President
Internal combustion engine is patented First canned pineapple is sold |
1892 | 2500 trees are planted along platted streets
Tennis courts are built |
| "Art
Nouveau" appears in Europe
Henry Ford builds his first car |
1893 | The School of Patriotism,
suggested by Major Pickler in 1891, is established
Young Ladies Outlook Club is established |
| Edison opens a Kinetoscope
Parlor in New York
Kipling writes Jungle
Book |
1894 | The first three CLSC students complete their course of study and graduate |
| 1st professional football
game is played in U.S.
H.G. Wells writes A Time Machine Motion-picture camera is invented X-ray is discovered |
1895 | Indiana Bicycle Company advertises Waverly bicycles for $75.00 |
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Athens,
Greece holds 1st
modern Olympics
Alaskan Gold Rush begins Utah becomes a state |
1896 | Booker T. Washington is at Chautauqua |
| William McKinley becomes 25th President | 1897 | Mother's Congress is established to study child development and parenting |
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Spanish-American
War U.S. acquires Puerto Rico U.S. annexes Hawaii |
1898 | Madison holds first Normal School summer session |
| 1st magnetic sound is recorded | 1899 |
William
Jennings Bryant delivers his "Cross of Gold" speech
Eugene V. Debs is at Chautauqua |
| 'Cake
Walk' is most fashionable dance Listen to Golliwog's Cake Walk 1st radio message is transmitted 'Cinderella' is one of the earliest films L.Frank Baum publishes The Wizard of Oz |
1900 | The roundtrip by bus to the Chautauqua grounds is 25 cents. |
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President
McKinley is assassinated Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President 1st motor driven bicycle is marketed |
1901 | 4th of July crowds are entertained by Edison's projectoscope and moving pictures |