Dark Jazz Timeline

Prior to the 1920s

• 1893 - Nikola Tesla meets and marries Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P Morgan. With investment from his father-in-law, 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.

• 1909 - Tesla receives the Nobel Prize for the invention of radio.

• 1910 - J.P. Morgan Sr. makes a hostile takeover of Consolidated Edison.

• 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.

1920

• 16 January - Prohibition begins in the United States

• 19 January - The United States Senate votes in favor of joining the League of Nations.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.