Timeline
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| 1880 | -- | Maria Longworth Nichols founded the Rookwood Pottery firm in Cincinnati. |
| Feb | William Morris delivered "The Beauty of Life" lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design. This lecture included his famous quote, "Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." | |
| 1881 | Mar 04 | James Abram Garfield inaugurated President of the United States. |
| Sep 04 | The Edison electric lighting system was switched on and began serving 85 paying customers. | |
| Summer | William Morris leased a seven-acre site at Merton Abbey.1-429 | |
| Sep 19 | Chester Alan Arthur inaugurated President of the United States. | |
| 1882 | -- | Walter Crane illustrated Tales of the Brothers Grimm. |
| -- | The Century Guild, a partnership of designers led by A.H.Mackmurdo was formed. The group included Selwyn Image, Herbert Horne, Clement Heaton and Benjamin Creswick.1-591 | |
| Jan 02 | Oscar Wilde arrived in New York City and began a US lecture tour on the aesthetic movement. | |
| Apr 09 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti died in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England.1-441 | |
| Oct 18 | Alexander Graham Bell made his historic telephone call to the mayor of Chicago. | |
| 1883 | Jan 17 | William Morris joined the Democratic Federation.1-462 |
| Sep | Charles Rennie Mackintosh began classes at Glasgow School of Art.3 | |
| Sep 12 | Gustav Stickley married Eda Simmons of Susquehanna. | |
| Nov 29 | Dard Hunter born in Steubenville, Ohio.4 | |
| 1884 | -- | Henry Higby Gutterson born in Minnesota. |
| -- | The Art Workers' Guild founded by five your architects from Norman Shaw's office: W.R.Lethaby, Edward Prior, Ernest Newton, Mervyn Macartney and Gerald C. Horsley.1-592 | |
| Oct | Arthur Wesley Dow went to Paris. | |
| 1885 | -- | William Morris Woodpecker Tapestry completed. |
| -- | John Andrew Bauer opened Bauer Pottery in Kentucky. | |
| Mar 04 | Grover Cleveland inaugurated President of the United States. | |
| 1886 | -- | Dirk Van Erp emigrated from Holland. |
| -- | William D. Gates founded American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company in Terra Cotta, Illinois. Gates later developed matte glaze vases in classical architectural shapes, which he marketed under the Teco trade name. | |
| Apr 27 | Henry Hobson Richardson died of Brights Disease. | |
| Jun 13 | King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.5 | |
| 1887 | -- | William De Morgan married Evelyn Pickering. |
| -- | Arthur Wesley Dow returns from Paris. | |
| Dec | Charles Robert Ashbee visits William Morris to discuss a school of handicraft1-595 | |
| 1888 | -- | William De Morgan and Halsey Ricardo set up Merton Abbey. |
| Jun 23 | Charles Robert Ashbee founded Guild and School of Handicraft in the East End of London, later moving to Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds.1-593. | |
| Oct 04 | The first Arts and Crafts Exhibition opened at the New Gallery in Regent Street.1-596 | |
| Nov | Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society founded with Walter Crane as its first president. | |
| 1889 | Feb 16 | Mackay Hugh Baillie-Scott married Florence Kate Nash, a descendent of Beau Nash at Batheaston Parish Church.6 |
| Mar 04 | Benjamin Harrison inaugurated President of the United States. | |
| Mar 31 | French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.5 | |
| May 06 | Exposition Universelle de 1889 opened in Paris. Rookwood Pottery on display. | |
| Sep 22 | William Raymond Yelland born in Saratoga, California.4 | |
| Nov 06 | Exposition Universelle de 1889 closed in Paris. | |
| Dec 21 | Archibald Knox gains Art Master's Certificate. | |
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1 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994 2 Rossetti Archive 3 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edited by Wendy Kaplan, 1996 4 US Social Security Death Index 5 New York Times on the Web 6 The Victorian Web |