James Knight
Context
Parents
Father | Date of Birth | Mother | Date of Birth |
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Bennett Knight | 1826 | Unknown |
Partners & Children
Partners | Date of Birth | Children |
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Events
Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
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Birth | 1855 | ? Leicestershire |
Media
Notes
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Kinships
Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
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Siblings | |||||
Elizabeth Knight | Sister | 1853 | Freland ? | ||
Arthur Knight | Brother | 1861 | Wirksworth | ||
Bennett C. Knight | Brother | 1865 | Hucknall, Notts. | ||
Parents | |||||
Unknown | Mother | ||||
Bennett Knight | Father | 1826 | ? Leicestershire | DEC 1895 | Hucknall, Notts. |
World History
Date | Age | Event | Category |
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2/12/1809 - 4/19/1882 | (-45.9) - 27.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
2/12/1809 - 4/15/1865 | (-45.9) - 10.3 | Life of Abraham Lincoln | Personalities |
2/7/1812 - 6/9/1870 | (-42.9) - 15.4 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
12/13/1816 - 12/6/1892 | (-38.1) - 38.0 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
12/30/1819 - 9/20/1890 | (-35.0) - 35.7 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923 | (-22.1) - 69.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
3/17/1834 - 3/6/1900 | (-20.8) - 45.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-16.5) - 62.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-11.1) - 55.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-10.1) - 74.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-7.9) - 76.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-7.8) - 67.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
12/2/1852 - 9/4/1870 | (-2.1) - 15.7 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
3/4/1853 - 3/4/1857 | (-1.8) - 2.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce | USA - Presidents |
5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | 1.3 - 84.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
3/4/1857 - 3/4/1861 | 2.2 - 6.2 | President of the United States of America: James Buchanan | USA - Presidents |
1859 | 4.0 | Construction period of Big Ben | Monuments |
3/4/1861 - 4/15/1865 | 6.2 - 10.3 | President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln | USA - Presidents |
3/17/1861 | 6.2 | Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy | Italy |
9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | 6.7 - 87.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | 8.6 - 92.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | 8.8 - 82.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
4/15/1865 - 3/4/1869 | 10.3 - 14.2 | President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson | USA - Presidents |
6/9/1866 - 7/26/1866 | 11.4 - 11.6 | Austro-Prussian War ('German War') | Germany |
3/10/1867 | 12.2 | First telephone voice transmission | Technology |
1868 - 1878 | 13.0 - 23.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
3/4/1869 - 3/4/1877 | 14.2 - 22.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
9/5/1869 - 1884 | 14.7 - 29.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
1870 | 15.0 | Begin of the 3rd French Republic | France |
4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | 15.3 - 69.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
7/19/1870 - 5/10/1871 | 15.6 - 16.4 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
1/18/1871 - 3/9/1888 | 16.1 - 33.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
11/9/1871 | 16.9 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | 19.9 - 110.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | 21.0 - 112.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
3/4/1877 - 3/4/1881 | 22.2 - 26.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 23.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 23.0 - 26.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
12/31/1878 | 24.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
1879 | 24.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 24.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 24.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | 24.2 - 100.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
12/20/1880 - 3/23/1881 | 26.0 - 26.2 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
3/4/1881 - 9/19/1881 | 26.2 - 26.7 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | 26.6 - 100.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
9/19/1881 - 3/4/1885 | 26.7 - 30.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 27.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 | 27.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1884 | 29.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | 29.1 - 109.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
11/15/1884 - 2/26/1885 | 29.9 - 30.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
3/4/1885 - 3/4/1889 | 30.2 - 34.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 31.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
1886 | 31.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
10/28/1886 | 31.8 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 32.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 32.0 - 34.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
1888 | 33.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
3/9/1888 - 6/15/1888 | 33.2 - 33.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | 33.5 - 63.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
3/4/1889 - 3/4/1893 | 34.2 - 38.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | 34.3 - 90.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 35.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 35.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | 35.8 - 114.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | 38.2 - 42.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 | 41.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
1896 - 1897 | 41.0 - 42.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 42.2 - 46.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
10/11/1899 - 5/31/1902 | 44.8 - 47.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
9/8/1900 | 45.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 46.7 - 54.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
10/19/1901 | 46.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | 47.0 - 112.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
6/16/1903 | 48.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
12/16/1903 | 49.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 49.0 - 53.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
4/18/1906 | 51.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 52.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
9/16/1908 | 53.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
9/27/1908 | 53.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 54.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 54.2 - 58.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
5/30/1911 | 56.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
5/30/1911 | 56.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
10/23/1911 | 56.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 58.2 - 66.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 59.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 59.5 - 63.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 59.6 - 63.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 59.7 - 60.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 59.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 61.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 61.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 62.0 - 68.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 62.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 62.4 - 109.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
11/7/1917 | 62.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
11/9/1918 | 63.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
1919 | 64.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 64.2 - 70.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 64.2 - 64.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 64.4 - 64.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
8/11/1919 | 64.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
9/10/1919 | 64.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 66.2 - 68.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
12/6/1921 | 67.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
10/28/1922 | 67.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 68.6 - 74.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 68.7 - 68.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
9/13/1923 | 68.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 70.4 - 79.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
1928 | 73.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 73.5 - 112.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 74.1 - 113.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 74.2 - 78.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
10/25/1929 | 74.9 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 75.1 - 76.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 75.3 - 77.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
8/5/1930 - Today | 75.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
1931 | 76.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
4/14/1931 | 76.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
12/11/1931 | 77.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 77.5 - 77.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 78.0 - 78.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 78.1 - 90.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 78.2 - 78.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 78.2 - 90.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 80.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 82.0 - 97.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
1937 | 82.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
5/6/1937 | 82.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
8/27/1939 | 84.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
9/1/1939 - 1945 | 84.7 - 90.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
5/14/1940 | 85.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
12/7/1941 | 87.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |