Timeline
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| 1890 | -- | Edward Burne-Jones completed the Briar Rose series. |
| -- | Irving Gill employed by Joseph L. Silsbee.1 | |
| -- | William Morris designed 18-point Troy Type, a semi-Gothic design modelled on the medieval typefaces of Peter Schoeffer of Mainz, Gunther Zainer of Augsburg and Johann Mentelin at Strassburg. He created a 12-point version named Chaucer.2-613 | |
| 1891 | -- | Irving Gill moved to the office of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, where Frank Lloyd Wright was employed as chief draftsman.1 |
| Jan | William Morris meets Oscar Wilde at the Richmonds9 | |
| Jan 12 | William Morris rented a cottage at No. 16 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, a few doors east of Kelmscott House and established the Kelmscott Press.2-608 | |
| Mar 21 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh left on scholarship tour of Italy.3 | |
| May | William Morris moved the Kelmscott Press next door to No. 14 Upper Mall, Hammersmith.2-620 | |
| 1892 | -- | William Morris reprinted John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice at Kelmscott Press.4-111 |
| -- | William Morris published News from Nowhere.2-620 | |
| -- | Monet began the Rouen Cathedral series. | |
| 1893 | Mar 04 | Grover Cleveland inaugurated President of the United States. |
| May 01 | World's Columbian Exposition officially opened in Chicago, Illinois by President Cleveland. Matte glazes on French pottery inspired William Grueby. The Japanese designs, Ho-ho-den, inspired Frank Lloyd Wright. Irving Gill was on the architecural staff.1 Louis Comfort Tiffany received 54 medals.8 | |
| Sep | The Greene brothers visited their parents in Pasadena. | |
| Oct 06 | Ford Madox Brown died in London, England.8 | |
| Oct 26 | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois closed. | |
| 1894 | -- | The Greene brothers opened an architectural firm. |
| -- | Louis Comfort Tiffany made his first lamps. | |
| -- | Elbert Hubbard visited William Morris' Kelmscott Press. | |
| Aug 10 | The first page of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was printed on vellum at Kelmscott Press. | |
| 1895 | -- | Oscar Wilde completed the Importance of Being Ernest. |
| -- | Newcomb College Pottery, established in 1894, began producing pottery. | |
| Mar 22 | Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris; this is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen.8 | |
| Apr 05 | Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices.8 | |
| Jun | Elbert Hubbard opened the Roycroft Press. | |
| Jun | Frederic, Lord Leighton resigned as President of the Royal Academy. His resignation is not accepted.5 | |
| 1896 | -- | William Morris published the Kelmscott Chaucer. |
| -- | A. Page Brown died. | |
| Jan 25 | Frederic Leighton died in London, England. His last reported words were "Give my love to all at the Academy."5 | |
| Sep | House Beautiful, the first magazine ever to feature Frank Lloyd Wright's work, was founded in Chicago. | |
| Oct | Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibited watercolors, furniture and art at the Arts and Crafts Society Exhibition in London.3 | |
| Oct 03 | William Morris died at 11:15 am.m at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. Charles Fairfax Murray made two drawings of the corpse.2-670 | |
| 1897 | -- | Gustav Stickley visited England and France. |
| -- | William H. Grueby opened Grueby Faience in Boston Massachusetts. | |
| -- | Archibald Knox began working on designs for Liberty & Co. | |
| Mar 04 | William McKinley inaugurated President of the United States.7 | |
| Jun 28 | Boston Society of Arts & Crafts held its first meeting. | |
| Oct 22 | Chicago Society of Arts & Crafts founded. | |
| 1898 | -- | The Kelmscott Press closed. |
| -- | William Grueby introduced vases with signature matte glazes. | |
| -- | Gustav Stickley opened United Crafts and introduced his Craftsman furniture line. | |
| -- | Louis Comfort Tiffany open the Tiffany Metal Furnace in Corona, New York. | |
| -- | Henry Chapman Mercer opened the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Dolyestown, Pennsylvania. | |
| Feb 15 | American battleship Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba.7 | |
| Mar 19 | Aubrey Vincent Beardsley died in Menton, France. | |
| Apr 24 | Spain declared war on the United States.8 | |
| Apr 25 | United States declared war on Spain.7 | |
| Jun 16 | Edward Burne-Jones died in Fulham. | |
| Dec 10 | A treaty was signed in Paris, officially ending the Spanish-American War.8 | |
| Dec 21 | Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.8 | |
| 1899 | -- | Liberty & Co. produced the first handmade Cymric silver pieces. |
| Mar | A Message to Garcia appears in the Philistine published by Elbert Hubbard. | |
| Apr 11 | The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.8 | |
| Aug 22 | Henry Greene married Emeline Augusta Dart. | |
| Dec 20 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh completed the new Glasgow School of Art.3 | |
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1 Irving J. Gill, Architect, Bruce Kamerling, 1993 2 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994 3 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edited by Wendy Kaplan, 1996 4 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000 5 Frederic, Lord Leighton : Eminent Victorian Artist, Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonee Ormond, Richard Ormond, and Benedict Read, 1996 6 Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000 7 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001 8 New York Times on the Web 9 The O'Scholars website |