Timeline
Before 1810
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During 1860
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After 1920
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 Arts & Crafts Events  Births, Deaths and Marriages | ||
| 1900 | -- | Guild of Arts and Crafts established in New York. |
| -- | Albert Cicero Schweinfurth died. | |
| Jan 20 | John Ruskin died in Coniston, Lancashire.1-331 | |
| Apr 15 | Exposition Universelle de 1900 opened in Paris. Grueby won two gold medals and one silver medal besting Rookwood. | |
| Aug 22 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh married Margaret Macdonald at the Episcopal Church, Dumbarton.2 | |
| Nov 12 | Exposition Universelle de 1900 closed in Paris. | |
| Nov 30 | Oscar Wilde died in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room's wallpaper: "One of us had to go." | |
| Dec 27 | Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas.3 | |
| 1901 | -- | Artus Van Briggle opened Van Briggle Pottery in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| Jan 01 | The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.3 | |
| Jan 22 | Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. King Edward VII ascended to the throne.4 | |
| Feb | Issue of Model Homes of Moderate Cost ran an article entitled "A Home in a Prairie Town" about a Frank Lloyd Wright home. | |
| Feb | Charles Greene married Alice Gordon White.5 | |
| May 01 | Pan American Exposition opened in Buffalo, New York. Greene & Greene, Gustav Stickley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Grueby, Rookwood Pottery and Newcomb Pottery competed. Tiffany received a gold medal.3 | |
| Jul | Issue of Model Homes of Moderate Cost ran an article entitled "A Small House with Lots of Room in It" about a Frank Lloyd Wright home priced at $5,835. | |
| Aug | Charles Greene visited Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. | |
| Sep 06 | President McKinley shot twice by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition.4 | |
| Sep 14 | President McKinley died from his wounds. Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated President of the United States.4 | |
| Oct 01 | Gustav Stickley published the first issue of the The Craftsman, which he dedicated to William Morris. | |
| Oct 01 | Pan American Exposition closed in Buffalo, New York. | |
| Nov 02 | Gustav Stickley published the second issue of the The Craftsman, which he dedicated to John Ruskin. | |
| 1902 | Jan | Onondaga Shops opened in Fayetteville, New York by Leopold and John George Stickley. |
| Spring | James Abbott McNeill Whistler moved into Cheyne Walk, No.74, a house built by C.R.Ashbee.6 | |
| Dec 01 | The first Craftsman Building opened its doors to the public. | |
| 1903 | -- | Van Briggle opened an art pottery business. |
| -- | Charles Fairfax Murray sold 260 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and 226 Edward Burne-Jones drawings to Birmingham below market value.7 | |
| -- | The Buffalo Pottery Company opened in Buffalo. It was established by the Larkin Co., a soap manufacturer, to make premiums for its customers. | |
| Mar | Arts & Crafts Exhibition opened in the United Crafts Hall. | |
| May 07 | William Morris Society founded in Chicago by Joseph Twyman. | |
| Jul 17 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler died in London, England.6 | |
| Oct 31 | First Salon d'Automne held in Paris. Van Briggle won a gold medal. | |
| Dec 17 | Orville Wright made the first successful manned powered-airplane flights, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.4 | |
| 1904 | -- | Charles Fairfax Murray donated 35 Edward Burne-Jones stained glass cartoons to Birmingham.7 |
| Jan | Ladies Home Journal pictorial article entitled "The Comfortable Bungalow in California," featured bungalows ranging from $3,000 to $5,000. | |
| Jan 02 | Harvey Ellis died in Syracuse, New York. | |
| Apr 30 | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened by President Roosevelt in St. Louis. Tiffany received a gold medal.3 Charles Greene visted the Japanese exhibit. | |
| Nov 24 | Christopher Dresser died in Alsace, France. | |
| Dec 01 | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition closed in St. Louis. | |
| 1905 | -- | Ernest Batchelder visited England. |
| -- | Tiffany added a ceramic division. | |
| Jan 02 | Charles Sumner Greene's article "California Home Making" appeared in the Pasadena Daily News. | |
| Mar 01 | The Craftsman, published by Gustav Stickley carried another new feature "Home Training in Cabinet-Work," which encouraged readers to build their own furniture. | |
| 1906 | -- | Charles Locke Eastlake died. |
| -- | Otto L. and Edwin Heintz opened the Heintz Art Metal Shop in Buffalo, N.Y. | |
| -- | Onondaga Shops incorporated as L. & J.G. Stickley by Leopold and John George Sitckley. | |
| Apr 18 | The San Francisco earthquake.8 | |
| 1907 | -- | Arthur Wesley Dow painted "Rain in May." |
| 1908 | -- | Dirk Van Erp opened the Copper Shop in Oakland. |
| 1909 | -- | Charles Fairfax Murray sold 1450 Old Master drawings to John Pierpont Morgan for £3,000,000.7 |
| -- | Ernest Batchelder founded The Batchelder Tile Company. | |
| -- | Grueby & Co. declared bankruptcy. | |
| Jan | Charles Robert Ashbee visited Charles Greene in Pasadena. | |
| Mar 04 | William Howard Taft inaugurated President of the United States.4 | |
| Apr 06 | Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.3 | |
| Oct | Only issue of Arroyo Craftsman published in Los Angeles. | |
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1 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000 2 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edited by Wendy Kaplan, 1996 3 NY Times on the Web 4 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001 5 Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy, Randall L. Makinson, 1998 6 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, 1994 7 Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000 8 The Museum of the City of San Francisco |