Timeline

England Morris & Co. established, promoting arts and crafts movement.	1875
	1879	Thomas Edison demonstrates the electric light.
	1883	Construction begins on ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, the first to use skyscraper engineering.
Brussels Term "art nouveau" appears in print for the first time, describing the Belgian artists' group "Les XX."	1884	The first subway system opens in London.
	1885	Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent the first automobile run by an internal combustion engine.
	1889	The Eiffel Tower is built for the Paris World's Fair.
New York Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established.	1892
Great Britain Aubrey Beardsley design published in the first issue of the magazine The Studio. Paris Japanese prints exhibition organized by Siegfried Bing. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris. Brussels Victor Horta designs the Tassel House. Chicago Columbian World's Fair; Adler and Sullivan design the Transportation Building.	1893	Women win the right to vote in New Zealand, the first country to embrace female suffrage. In Belgium universal male suffrage is adopted.
Paris Hector Guimard designs Castel Béranger.	1894	Claude Debussy completes L'après-midi d'une faune.
Paris Siegfried Bing opens his gallery/shop L'Art Nouveau. Louis Comfort Tiffany exhibits at Bing's opening of L'Art Nouveau.	1895	The Lumière brothers screen the first moving picture--of workers leaving a factory.
Glasgow Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton design Buchanan Street tearooms. Brussels World's Fair: Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta show designs.	1897
Munich United Workshops for Art in Handicraft founded. Vienna Josef Olbrich designs Secession Building. Gustav Klimt paints Pallas Athene. Turin Exhibition of Italian decorative arts.	1898	European and American troops are sent to quell the Boxer Rebellion in China.
London South Kensington Museum becomes Victoria and Albert Museum. Paris Hector Guimard designs Castel Henriette. René Lalique designs Dragonfly woman corsage ornament.	1899	Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, published.
London Charles Robert Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibit to great acclaim at Eighth Secession Exhibition, Vienna. Paris Loïe Fuller Pavilion, Pavilion Bing, and other Art Nouveau designs triumph at the World's Fair. Paris metro opens using Hector Guimard's Metro station entrances.	1900	Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, published.
Nancy Émile Gallé made first president of École de Nancy.	1901	Queen Victoria dies after sixty-three-year reign that saw vast expansion of British colonial rule.
	1903	Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first manned flight at Kitty Hawk. Pierre and Marie Curie share Nobel Prize for discovery of radium.
	1905	Albert Einstein develops the special theory of relativity. Exhibition at Salon d'automne by artists dubbed "les fauves."
Barcelona Antoní Gaudí designs Casa Milá.	1906
Chicago Frank Lloyd Wright designs Robie House.	1907
Glasgow Completion of Glasgow School of Art.	1909
Venice Venice Biennale includes Gustav Klimt.	1910