Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts & Crafts Events Births, Deaths and Marriages
1910	--	Fulper Pottery created Vase-Kraft, their Arts and Crafts line.
	--	Bauer Pottery opened in Los Angeles. J.A.Bauer had moved to Los Angeles the year before.
	May 06	King George V ascended to the throne.
	Sep 07	William Holman Hunt died in London, England.
1912	Apr 10	The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.²
	Jun 27	Frank Furness died in Medea, Pennsulvania.
	Aug	The last major article on the Greenes appeared in The Craftsman.
	Nov 17	Richard Norman Shaw died in Hampstead, London, England.
1913	--	Joseph Worcester died.
	Mar 04	Woodrow Wilson inaugurated President of the United States.
	Mar 31	John Pierpont Morgan died in Rome, Italy.
	Oct 20	The new Craftsman Building opened to the public.
	Nov 05	The Los Angeles Aquaduct opened allowing the city to grow to 14 million people up from a maximum of 250,000 before the aquaduct.
1914	--	Jane Morris died in, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England.
	Jun 28	Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist.²
	Jul 28	World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
1915	--	San Francisco hosted the Panama-Pacific Exposition with Louis Christian Mulgardt as coordinator of architecture. Tiffany received a gold medal.²
	Mar 15	Walter Crane died in London.
	Mar 24	Gustav Stickley declared bankruptcy.
	Apr 17	Philip Webb died in Sussex, England.
	May 07	Elbert Hubbard and his wife died when the Lusitania sank in the Irish Sea.
1916	--	Charles Greene moved from Pasadena, California to Carmel, California.
	Oct	The Mackintoshes exhibit a collaborative work with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London.¹
	Dec 15	French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.²
	Dec 01	Gustav Stickley published the last issue of The Craftsman.
1917	--	William Ralph Emerson died.
	Jan 15	William de Morgan died from trench fever in London, England.
	Apr 06	The United States declared war on Germany.²
	Jul 17	With the country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed its name to Windsor from the German Saxe-Coburg Gotha.²
1918	May 16	Furniture World magazine carried a notice for a new Stickley company, listing Leopold as president, Gustav as vice-president and J. George as treasurer.
	Nov 11	World War I ended.
1919	--	Grueby & Co. closed.
	Jan 24	Charles Fairfax Murray suffered a third stroke and died.³
	Aun 28	The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.²
	Aug 11	Andrew Carnegie died.²
	Dec 01	Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.²

¹ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edited by Wendy Kaplan, 1996
² New York Times on the Web
³ Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000