Madame Butterfly
Composer: Giacomo Puccini

 

Significant events during the life of Giacomo Puccini:

1859
The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.

1861-1865
US Civil War

1865
General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in

Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.

1867
African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

1870 First motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia.

1871 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening.

1876 First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1877 First sound recording made (Thomas Edison)

1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage

1886 First successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe

1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president

1890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot

1892 "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres

1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time: New Zealand.

1896 First movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission.

1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"

1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes first public demonstration of radio

1904 World's first subway opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel.

1905 Albert Einstein introduces the equation E=mc².

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1907 First radio broadcast of a musical composition aired

1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died)

1910 First opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC

1912 The Republic of China is established.

1913 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line

1914 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800

1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1919 U.S. Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill.

1920 Panama Canal opens

1921 The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.

1922 First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC

1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established

1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator

1926 First public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London

1927 First national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)

1929 Oct 29th - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crash triggers "Great Depression"