|
| |
| 1500 |
Twenty-two-year-old Montezuma
II becomes ruler of the Aztec
Empire
|
| 1500
|
Black slaves
first arrive in the New World when Spanish
settlers bring them to Hispaniola |
| 1502 |
Christopher
Columbus
begins his fourth and final voyage
|
| 1673 |
Iowa first seen, Mississippi explored, taken for France
|
| 1762 |
Louisiana, including Iowa, ceded by France to Spain
|
| 1803
|
United States bought Louisiana from Napoleon
|
| 1804
|
Indiana territory established to include what is now Iowa
|
| 1805 |
Louisiana territory organized, with St. Louis as the capital
|
| 1812
|
Iowa
became a part of Missouri
territory
|
| 1821 |
Iowa left out when Missouri became state |
| 1834 |
Iowa attached to Michigan territory; two counties were formed |
| 1838 |
Iowa became a territory July 4 |
| 1843 |
Poweshiek County established
|
| 1846 |
Iowa became 29th state on December 28.
|
| 1857 |
New Constitution adopted; Poweshiek County planned out
|
| 1858 |
Pleasant Township formed March 1 |
| 1859 |
L. H. Harris settles in Ewart, engaging himself in the drug business
|
| 1862 |
Three
Ewart brothers, Matt, Robert, and Robinson, arrived from Ohio to
settle in Poweshiek County
|
| 1863 |
Emancipation
Proclamation
|
| 1873 |
Quaker Oats Company chooses Ewart for the land site.
Ewart family refused to sell the land to them. |
| 1875 |
 |
Community takes on the name of Ewart |
|
First
building (besides the Ewart mansion) a residence, built by L. H.
Harris, the pharmacist |
|
Grinnell-Montezuma
Railroad built in the fall
|
|
| 1876
|
The first store erected in the spring of by A. B.
Woods; ten charter members start the Presbyterian Church, meeting in
the depot of the railroad. |
| 1879
|
George T. Burns, a shoemaker, arrives in Ewart
|
| 1880
|
|
First doctor, W. B. Cotton arrived in Ewart on May 23
|
|
History of Poweshiek County of
Iowa
published
|
|
Railroad ran
two trains each way, every weekday
|
|
Presbyterian
Church erected in the summer |
|
| 1883
|
Redistrict of the township to accommodate the growing number of
students
|
| 1885
|
Township electors were asked for $800 for a schoolhouse; voted
“NO”
|
| 1887
|
Schoolhouse project approved
|
| 1888
|
First electric lights go on in Montezuma |
| 1895
|
Listing for Ewart in cities of Iowa
|
Population:
29 |
|
County:
Poweshiek |
|
Area
of state: central |
|
Has
a post office: yes |
|
Has
railroad: yes |
|
Has
Express office: yes |
I
|
MONTEZUMA
|
1062
|
Poweshiek
|
Central
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Grinnell
|
3332
|
Poweshiek
|
Central
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Grinnell
& Montezuma Junction
|
|
Poweshiek
|
Central
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
|
1901
|
Assessor
Davis of Pleasant Township, get small pox at
Ewart. |
| 1901
|
President
William
McKinley is assassinated at the World's
Fair. Theodore
Roosevelt becomes president at age 42
|
| 1902
|
The
Presbyterian Church
destroyed by fire. The
most famous of all dinosaurs,
Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Hell Creek, Montana
|
| 1903
|
Wright
brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
| 1904
|
The first flat-disk phonograph
is introduced, replacing wax cylinders as the most popular form of
recorded music |
| 1905
|
Albert Einstein
develops theory about the relationship of mass and energy |
| 1906
|
A great earthquake
hits San
Francisco. 2,500 people die |
| 1908
|
Henry
Ford develops the first Model
T automobile, which sells for $850 |
| 1914
|
World
War I breaks out in Europe |
| 1916
|
Billy Robinson’s airplane crashed |
| 1920
|
Prohibition |
| 1923
|
The
Ewart mansion burned on a chilly evening in May
|
| 1929
|
On Wall
Street, the stock
market crashes on October 29; Penicillin,
discovered by Alexander
Fleming |
| 1933 |
End
of Prohibition
|
| 1934
|
"The
Star Spangled Banner,'' becomes the American national anthem
|
| 1935
|
Reformed alcoholic Bill Wilson founds
Alcoholics
Anonymous -- anonymously |
|
1938
|
Ball
games were discontinued in Ewart |
|
1944
|
Japan
bombs Pearl Harbor |
|
1961
|
Soviet Yuri
Gagarin is the first man in space; Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fail |
|
1963
|
Zip codes; JFK
assassination |
|
1969
|
American Neil
Armstrong is the first man on the moon. Birth
of the Internet
|
|
1993
|
The
WWW Revolution truly begins
|
|
1976
|
Ted Turner
delivers programming nationwide by satellite |
|
1981
|
The IBM PC |
|
1983
|
Cellular phone
network
|
|
1994
|
U.S. government
privatizes Internet management
|
| 2001 |
Terrorists'
bombing of World Trade Center on September 11th. |
            
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