Dark Jazz Timeline

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Prior to the 1920s

  • 1893 - Nikola Tesla meets Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P Morgan. The two become fast friends and, with investment from Morgan, Tesla is able to save Westinghouse from bankruptcy.
  • 1894 - Tesla secures the patent for the radio transmitter and receiver.
  • 1895 - Tesla-Westinghouse builds Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam.
  • 1897 - Tesla-Westinghouse begins marketing diathermic treatments for a variety of medical conditions.
  • 1899 - At his laboratory in Telluride, Colorado, Tesla has his first limited success with broadcast power.
  • 1900 - Count Von Zeppelin invents the dirigible airship.
  • 1901 - Tesla begins research into superconductivity.
  • 1902 - Wardenclyffe Tower is built on Long Island. The Morgan-Tesla Radio Company is formed, with Tesla as CEO and Anne Morgan leading the board of directors, and begins global radio broadcasts in March.
  • 1904 – The New York Subway opens its first line, an electric train running from City Hall to 145th Street.
  • 1909 - Tesla receives the Nobel Prize for the invention of radio.
  • 1910 - J.P. Morgan Sr. makes a hostile takeover of Consolidated Edison.
  • 1912 - Germanenorden (Order of Teutons) founded in Berlin by Theodor Fritsch. Walter Nauhaus, an art student, becomes keeper of pedigrees for the society.
  • 1913 - J.P. Morgan Sr. dies, leaving his son J.P. Morgan Jr. in charge. Anne Morgan Tesla takes over the radio broadcasting company, Morgan-Tesla, becoming the first woman executive in business history.
  • 1916 - Tesla perfects the fluid diode and the bladeless turbine.
  • 1917 – Nauhaus moves to Munich and founds Thule-Gesellschaft, the Thule Society.
  • 1918 – Rudolf von Sebottendorf joins the Thule Society, merging the membership of Germaneorden Walvater of the Holy Grail on 18 August 1918.
  • 1919 – Morgan-Tesla produces Tesla Steel, which is a third the mass of normal steel, but twice as strong. Munich artist Adolf Hitler, a friend of Walter Nauhaus, joins the Thule Society. Several members of the society are arrested in Bavaria; accused of attempting a coup to overthrow the Soviet government, they are convicted and executed by firing squad.
  • 1919 - A sample of the Philosopher’s Stone is discovered in an Egyptian New Kingdom tomb by noted archaeologist Flinders Petrie.

1920

  • 16 January - Prohibition begins in the United States
  • 19 January - The United States Senate votes in favor of joining the League of Nations.
  • 1 June - Los Angeles Railway opens its first underground lines downtown.
  • 19 October - Tesla invents radar by accident while trying to improve submarine detection equipment.
  • 25 December - The Ecclesia, a Rosicrucian Temple of Healing, is founded in Oceanside, California.

1921

  • 31 May - Thirty-nine people are reported dead from a race riot in Tulsa.
  • 11 August - Jacques d'Arsonvale is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the use of Tesla's diathermic radiation to treat tumors.
  • 24 August – Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England; 41 are killed.
  • 7 September – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
  • 9 November - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

1922

  • 11 January – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made.
  • 1 February – American actor William Desmond Taylor is murdered.
  • 2 February – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris by Sylvia Beach.
  • 25 February – Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
  • 3 April – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
  • 15 May - Engineers in New York created an electric-powered differential analyzer, while engineers in Los Angeles construct an electrical difference engine.
  • 30 May – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
  • 1 June - The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
  • 11 July – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
  • 23 August – Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
  • 23 August – The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon.
  • 13 September – Fire started by Turkish troops destroys most of Smyrna, killing an estimated 100,000.
  • 1 October – G.I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau in France.
  • 30 October – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.
  • 4 November – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • 26 November – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
  • 5 December – The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.

1923

  • 1 January - The Rosewood Massacre begins. It ends six days later on 7 January when the town is burned to the ground.
  • 30 January - Tesla-Morgan announces the construction of factories in Berlin and Munich. This causes a boom to the German economy and strengthens the Weimar Republic.
  • 23 February – Albert Einstein visits Barcelona, Spain, at the invitation of scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa.
  • 1 March - The USS Connecticut is decommissioned. Nikola Tesla later arranges to purchase the ship for his experiments.
  • 9 March - Lenin is bedridden by a stroke.
  • 18 April - Yankee Stadium opens in the Bronx.
  • 24 May - The Irish Civil War ends.
  • 18 June - Mount Etna erupts in Italy.
  • 1 September - An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama.
  • 4 September - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
  • 10 September - Ireland joins the League of Nations.
  • 17 September - A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
  • 18 September – 26 September – Newspaper printers strike in New York. President Cox, a former journalist, personally negotiates the settlement.
  • 16 October – Roy and Walt Disney Founded The Walt Disney Company.

1924

See 1924.

1925

See 1925.

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