Pop Culture Timeline - Cengage
1 Pop Culture Timeline
Year Theory
Popular Culture and Sports
Politics and Society
Making Modern Life
1750
1792
1830
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication on the Rights of Women
1848 1863
1867 1869 1876
Karl Marx and Fredric Engels, The Communist Manifesto Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life"
Karl Marx, Capital Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Codification of the rules of Soccer/Football by The Football Association Invention of first breakfast cereal ("Granula") by James Caleb Jackson
1886 1893 1895
The Lumi?re brothers publicly demonstrate their cinematoscope, the first film projector
Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad case confirms corporations' legal status as persons The British colony of New Zealand leads the world in granting women the right to vote
Austins, the first Department store, opens in Derry, Ireland
The British brewery, Bass, registers the first trademarked brand
2 Pop Culture Timeline
1900
1902 Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done?
Eastman Kodak introduces new Brownie "dollar box" camera
1903 W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
1905 1906
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
First radio program broadcast
1908
1912 ?mile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Ford Motor Company assembly line factory begins First commercial radio broadcasts
1913
1914 1915 1916
1917
Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo
Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
Debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring provokes a riot in Paris Birth of a Nation, the first feature film, released
Creation of National Hockey League (NHL)
World War I begins
The Russian Revolution overthrows the Tsarist regime and establishes the first Communist State
First self-serve grocery store opens in Tennessee
3 Pop Culture Timeline
1918
World War I ends
1920
1922
1923 1924 1925
Georg Luk?cs, History and Class Consciousness
Founding of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Walt Disney Company formed Founding of Time magazine
First Winter Olympic Games
Benito Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
Clarence Birdseye pioneers the technology that ushers in frozen food; World's first freeway constructed in Italy
1927 Martin Heidgger, Being and Time The first sound-film or "talkie," The Jazz Singer released
1928
First regularly scheduled TV broadcast in the USA
Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
International Red Cross and Red Crescent founded
First widely owned refrigerator, the General Electric "Monitor-Top" is released Discovery of penicillin
1929
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1929-37 Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
First Academy Awards (Oscars) presented
"Black Tuesday" marks the height of the Great Wall St. Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression
1930 1930
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents F. R. Leavis, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
Invention of Twinkie?
4 Pop Culture Timeline
1931 1932
First appearance of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in Action Comics #1
Construction of the Empire State Building
1933
1934
1936 1937
Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I"
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times released; First televised Olympic Games, including the first torch relay, take place in Nazi Berlin
1938
1939
1940
1943 1944
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
The Wizard of Oz released; First televisation of a Major League Baseball game, between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor Beginning of Mao Zedong's Long March
Japan invades China Marihuana Tax Act in US initiated to curb marijuana use
World War II begins The Spanish Civil War ends Manhattan Project launched to develop Atomic bomb
The world's first global financial system, the Bretton Woods Agreements, comes into force
First Laundromat opens in Texas Completion of the Hoover Dam
First commercial use of nylon, the first synthetic plastic, in toothbrushes and, later, stockings
The founding of IKEA
5 Pop Culture Timeline
1945 1946
1947
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
1948
1950
1951 1952 1953
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Franz Fanon, Black Skin/White Masks
1954
1955
Jackie Robinson signs with Brooklyn Dodgers; first AfricanAmerican in baseball Foundation of the NBA, and the first game between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers
World War II ends
First ballpoint pens go on sale in New York city
Demonstration of first fullcolour television; First bikinis go on sale in Paris
South Asia achieves independence; Hundreds of thousands die and millions are displaced in violence following India/Pakistan partition; In the USA, the House Un-American Committee begins its investigations into communist presence in the film industry
First microwaves go on sale
Debut of I Love Lucy
McDonalds establishes their "Speedee Service System"; First drive-through opens at Inand-Out Burger in California Diners Group, the first credit card, launched
Elvis records at Sun Studios, 1953-4
Segregation in US schools deemed unconstitutional in the Brown vs. Board Education decision Signing of the Warsaw Pact
DNA discovered
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