User:EeVas/Family Timeline

eeVas Family Timeline

Below is a timeline of the eeVas Family tree. It includes items that are of significance to members of my childrens' pedigree. These items include births, deaths, significant family events as well has historical items that were important to the lives of those ancestors or the areas they lived. Direct line ancestors are in bold. For more information please follow the links, further information is given on the individual and family pages, including links to some early relatives that I do not have precise dates on, so cannot plot on a timeline.

It is amazing how hard it is to narrow down which historical events should be included, please let me know your thoughts on the talk page.

Links to historical articles are from Wikipedia.org.

Early

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Hispaniola, discovering the New World for 15th century Europe.

1700s

• 1776 - Declaration of Independence signed
• 1783 - The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War
• 1789 - United States Constitution goes into effect
• 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified

1800s

• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
• 1835 - Texas War for Independence begins
• 1836 - Battle of the Alamo
• 1837 - U.S. recognizes the Republic of Texas
• 1845 - Texas annexed, becoming the 28th state
• 1846 - U.S. Mexican War begins
• 1861 - American Civil War begins
• 1865 - End of the American Civil War
• 1877 - Reconstruction ends
• 1879 - Jacinto Vasquez is born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (great grandfather)
• 1879 - Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
• 1897 - Santos DeLeon born in Cruillas, Tamaulipas, Mexico (great grandmother)

1900 - 1919

• 1900 - 1900 Galveston Hurricane
• 1909 - Jacobo Martinez, Sr. is born in Texas (great grandfather)
• 1909 - Refugia 'Cora' Rios is born in Yancey, Texas (great grandmother)
• 1912 - Gordon T. Johnston is born in Heath, Texas (great grandfather)
• 1914 - Mary Lathrop was born in Texas (great grandmother)
• 1914 - World War I begins in Europe
• 1917 - Jacinto Vasquez & Roman Rodriguez marry, they have 1 child - Maria
• 1917 - Walter 'Jack' Bachman is born in Vernon, Texas
• 1917 - U.S. enters World War I
• 1919 - 18th Amendment ratified, establishing Prohibition

1920 - 1939

• 1920 - 19th Amendment ratified, granting women the right to vote
• 1921 - Mr. Cantu & Santos DeLeon marry, they have 2 children - Alonzo and Andrea
• 1924 - Addie Graninger is born in Bonham, Texas (great grandmother)
• 1925 - Jacinto Vasquez & Santos DeLeon marry, they have 6 children - Calistro, Santos, Jacinto II, Benito, Guadulupe, and Living
• 1928 - Jacobo Martinez & Refugia 'Cora' Rios marry in Pearsall, Texas, they have 14 children
• 1929 - Beginning of the Great Depression
• 1931 - Jacinto Vasquez, II is born Harlingen, Texas (grandfather)
• 1932 - Gordon T. Johnston & Mary Lathrop marry in Waurika, Oklahoma, they have 4 children - Grady, Jimmy, Kay and Living
• 1933 - 21st Amendment ratified, ending Prohibition
• 1934 - Dust Bowl begins, causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the Great Plains states
• 1935 - Rosa Martinez is born in Charlotte, Texas (grandmother)
• 1935 - James Johnston, Sr. is born in Houston, Texas (grandfather)
• 1939 - World War II begins with Nazi invasion of Poland
• 1939 - Walter 'Jack' Bachman & Addie Graninger marry in Vernon, Texas, they have 4 children - Leon, Loretta and two living

1940 - 1959

• 1941 - Regular commercial television broadcasting begins
• 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the U.S. to enter World War II
• 1945 - End of World War II
• 1950 - Korean War begins
• 1950 - Living Bachman is born (grandmother)
• 1952 - Jacinto Vasquez, II & Rosa Martinez marry in Lubbock, Texas, they have 6 children
• 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time
• 1956 - James Johnston, Sr. & Oleta Smith marry, they have 5 children

1960 - 1979

• 1960 - Jacinto Vasquez passes away in Carlisle, Texas
• 1961 - Peace Corps established
• 1961 - Vietnam War officially begins
• 1963 - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
• 1969 - James Johnston, Sr. & Living Bachman marry, they have 3 children
• 1969 - Santos DeLeon passes away in Lubbock, Texas
• 1975 - Microsoft is founded
• 1912 - Gordon T. Johnston passes away in Amarillo, Texas
• 1977 - Elvis Presley dies at his home Graceland at age 42

1980 - 1999

• 1981 - MTV signs on
• 1986 - Jacobo Martinez, Sr. passes away in Brownfield, Texas
• 1987 - Refugia 'Cora' Rios passes away in Lubbock, Texas
• 1987 - Mary Lathrop passes away in Dallas, Texas
• 1991 - The Cold War ends as the USSR dissolves
• 1995 - Addie Graninger passes away in Wichita Falls, Texas

2000s

• 2001 - September 11th terrorist attacks
• 2003 - Walter 'Jack' Bachman passes away in Vernon, Texas
• 2004 - Facebook launched
• 2007 - Rosa Martinez passes away in Lubbock, Texas
• 2011 - Jacinto Vasquez, II passes away in Lubbock, Texas
• 2011 - James Johnston, Sr. passes away in Bryan, Texas