This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1870 and 1889, with U.S. and world events to provide context.
Next: 1890-1899
1873
December 17 – Ford Madox Ford born in Merton, Surrey, England
1874
February 3 – Gertrude Stein born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania
1876
September 13 – Sherwood Anderson born in Camden, Ohio
1877
March 5 –Rutherford B. Hayes sworn in as 19th U.S. President
1878
March 3 – Edward Thomas born in Lambeth, England
1880
June 17 – Carl Van Vechten born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
September 12 – H.L. Mencken born in Baltimore, Maryland
1881
March 4 –James A. Garfield sworn in as the 20th U.S. President
July 2 –President Garfield assassinated
September 20 – Chester A. Arthur sworn in as the 21st US President
1882
January 25 – Virginia Woolf born in London, England
February 2 – James Joyce born in Dublin, Ireland
1883
November 7 –Sara Murphy born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1884
September 20 – Maxwell Perkins born in New York, New York
1885
February 7 – Sinclair Lewis born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota
March 4 – Grover Cleveland sworn in as the 22nd U.S. President
March 6 – Ring Lardner born in Niles, Michigan
August 15 – Edna Ferber born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
October 30 – Ezra Pound born in Hailey, Idaho
1886
May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks born in Plainfield, New Jersey
May 10 – Olaf Stapledon born near Liverpool, England
November 24 – Margaret Anderson born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1887
March 14 – Sylvia Beach born in Baltimore, Maryland
August 3 – Rupert Brooke born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England1888
March 25 – Gerald Murphy born in Boston, Massachusetts
June 22 – Alan Seeger born in New York City, New York
July 2 – James Boyd born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
September 26 – T. S. Eliot born in St. Louis, Missouri
1889
March 4 – Benjamin Harrison sworn in as the 23rd U.S. President
November 2 –North Dakota becomes the 39th state, South Dakota the 40th
November 8 – Montana becomes the 41st state
November 11 – Washington becomes the 42nd state
See also: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
