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Fitzgerald`s Brithdate
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Edward Fitzgerald and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald. Due to his fathers employment, the first decade of Fitzgerald`s life he was in a constant move between Buffalo and Syracuse. -
The World Series
The 1903 World Series was the first modem World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. The game featured the Boston Americans against the Pittsburgh Pirates where the Boston Americans prevailed. -
Saint Paul Academy
After his father loses his employment in New York, the family returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Here, Fitzgerald attends Saint Paul Academy where his first early writing is featured published on the shcool`s newspaper. -
Princeton
Fitzgerald attends Princeton University, where he wrote his beloved literary works as his grades fell. Here, Fitzgerald gained two lifelong friends Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, and picked up alcoholism. -
The War Begins
World War I had one the highest infantry mobilizations at over 70 million combatants mobilized, along with one of the highest casualty ratings. With over nine million combatants and seven million civilians dying as a result. -
Army Service
Fitzgerald drops out of Princeton University and enlists as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, reporting at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. -
Armistice Day
World War I ends before F. Scott Fitzgerald leaves the U.S. His failure to experience foreign combat will be one of Fitzgerald's greatest regrets, -
The League of Nations
Formed by the victorious powers of the first World War, its design was to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations would serve to resolve disagreements with diplomacy rather than war. -
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald is honorably discharged from the army in February, and hopes to marry Zelda. Zelda refuses their engagement due to Fitzgerald`s lack of fame. Fitzgerald then moves in with his parents in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he rewrites his novel The Egoist - now This Side of Paradise - and has it published -
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Marriage
After the success of his first novel, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre. The marriage lasted twenty years until F. Scott Fitzgerald`s death. -
Women`s Suffrage
American women were allowed to vote after the passage of the 19th Amendment which approved of such. -
Insulin Discovered
Canadian Physician Frederick Banting and medical student Charles H. best discovered the hormone insulin within the pancreatic extracts of a dog, which had the capabilities of lowering high blood suger. -
Frances Scott Fitzgerald
The sole child of the Fitzgerald's is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A daughter named Frances Scott Fitzgerald -
The Winter Olympics
The first Olympic Winter Games were conceived in 1924 and held a competition which included 258 athletes from 16 nations, competing in a total of 18 events. -
Publication of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald began his drafts of the novel in 1923, and the novel completed was published by Scribner, a New York based publishing company. The novel`s release received mixed reviews, and only sold 20,000 copies in its first year. -
The English Canal Conquered
Gertrude Caroline Ederle, an American competition swimmer and Olympic champion, became the first woman to swim across the English canal in 1926. -
Route 66
Route 66 is one of the original highways within the U.S. highway system, and has a length of 2,451 miles. -
The Home Run Record
In the second to last game, Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run and established a season home run record, which would hold its stature for 34 years. -
Sliced Bread
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa invented the first loaf-at-a-time-slicing machine which would slice a loaf of bread into smaller slivers of the loaf. This would revolutionize the consumer industry, and was first commercially used on July 27, 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company. -
The Stock Market Crash
Based upon the success in the war, many entered this mindset t please and amuse themselves however possible. Frivolously spending vast amounts of money for pure entertainment, this was the cause of the stock markets crashing. -
The Beginning of The Great Depression
Throughout the 1930`s, America experienced this era of great poverty which was caused by the stock market crash. Many couldn't acquire employment and industries faltered. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, or Roaring Twenties, was the name given to the period between the end of the first World War and the middle of the 1930s. This period expressed culture of all types and relished in African expression as well. -
Zelda Fitzeralds Nervous Breakdowns
Zelda Fitzgerald has several nervous breakdowns and is instituted into clinics in Switzerland for the majority of the next year. -
The End of the Great Depression
Industries begin to boom as the World War II begins. Producing much more and offering plenty of employment. -
Fitzgerald`s Death
Fitzgerald died of a heart attack while halfway through his final novel at the age of 44. He died believing himself a failure, but after his death his novel The Great Gatsby became known as an American classic.
