♀ Ida May Shepherd

1865 - 1902

Ida May Shepherd
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1882


Oct 29
Age: 16y

marriage


John Franklin Thornton
Missouri, USA ⇓
1882 • A transit of Venus, the last until 2004, occurs.

1884


Feb
Age: 18y
1884 United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

1885


Oct 17
Age: 19y
1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his single-cylinder water-cooled engine design.

1887


Jan 22
Age: 21y

birth of child


Sarah Jane Thornton
Missouri, USA ⇓
1887 • The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane.

1890


Jul
Age: 24y

birth of child


Walter Cyrus Thornton
Missouri, USA ⇓
1890 Treaty of London: Portugal and the United Kingdom define the borders of the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.

1893


Apr 1
Age: 27y
1893 • Completion of the Corinth Canal in Greece.

1898


Aug 17
Age: 32y
1898 • The Sinfonia Club, later to become the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

1902


Jun
Age: 36y
1902 • Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.

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