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The Great Gatsby Timeline

By Jon Wilhelmsen
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    Great Gatsby Timeline

    Events Around The Time The Great Gatsby Was Published

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment is ratified for women's right to vote.

  • The Emergency Quota Act

    The Emergency Quota Act is passed to restrict immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

  • Irish Revolution

    The Irish Revolution leads to the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 providing for the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland with separate parliaments leading to the creation of the Irish Free State.

  • King Tut's Tomb

    King Tutankhamen's Tomb is opened by Howard Carter.

  • Thanksgiving Parade

    The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

  • The Great Gatsby

    The classic novel "The Great Gatsby" is published by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • Harry Houdini

    The famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini dies from a burst appendix at the age of 52.

  • Mount Rushmore

    Work begins on Mount Rushmore in the late 1920's carving the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. It takes nearly 15 years to complete.

  • Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger, becoming the first woman to do so successfully.

  • Al Capone

    During most of the decade turf wars between rival gangs were frequent and extremely violent. The best known of the many was Al Capone's Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago during 1929.

  • The Wall Street

    The Wall Street Crash of 1929 started the period of The Great Depression in the United States