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Van Gogh's Life |
Historical, Religious & Political Events |
Literature, Music, Science, & Technology |
1850
to
1860 |
VG Born 1853 in Amsterdam; Theo born in 1857 |
Crimean War |
Dostoyevsky; Tolstoy; Checkhov; Melville's Moby Dick;
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; celluloid
discovered; Darwin's Origin of the Species |
1861
to
1870 |
"Fragmented" school career, including two years
in boarding school; appointed junior apprentice art dealer at the Goupil & Co. in the
Hague 1869 |
Russia abolishes serfdom; Civil War in US; Emancipation
Proclamation 1863; Lincoln assassinated 1865 |
"Impressionist Composers": Debussy, Ravel,
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt & Wagner; Hugo's Les Miserables; first subways in
London; Pasteur's germ theory; Mendel's genetic experiments; discovery of dynamite by
Nobel; Suez Canal opens |
1871
to
1880 |
Letters to Theo began 1872; VG transferred to Goupil's London branch 1873,
then "against his will" to Paris; developed severe dislike of art trade &
went into seclusion; dismissed & returned his parents in Etten in 1876 |
Franco-Prussian War; Battle of Bighorn in US (General Custer & Sitting
Bull); |
Carl Jung & Thomas Mann born 1875; Nietzsche born 1878;
Schliemann excavates Troy; Bell patents the telephone; internal-combustion engine
developed in Germany; Edison invents phonograph 1877 & incandescent bulb 1879; Pavlov
gets a response 1879 |
1881
to
1890 |
June 1890 - Dr. Gachet portrait Death July 29, 1890 |
First pogroms against Jews in Russia; AFL formed; Zionism appears in
Europe; |
James' Portrait of a Lady, Twain's Huckleberry Finn,
barbed-wire fences in American West; first automobiles invented by Benz and Daimler |
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