This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1890 and 1899, with U.S. and world events to provide context.
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1890
July 3 – Idaho becomes the 43rd state
July 10 – Wyoming becomes the 44th state
November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg born in Gloucestershire, England
1891
May 7 – Harold Edmund Stearns born in Barre, Massachusetts
December 26 – Henry Miller born in New York, New York
1892
February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay born in Rockland, Maine
March 5 – Josephine Herbst born in Sioux City, Iowa
March 13 – Janet Flanner born in Indianapolis, Indiana
May 7 – Archibald MacLeish born in Glencoe, Illinois
May 21 – John Peale Bishop born in Charles Town, West Virginia
June 12 – Djuna Barnes born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
1893
January 3 – Gilbert Seldes born in Alliance, New Jersey
March 4 – Grover Cleveland sworn in as the 24th U.S. President
March 18 – Wilfred Owen born in Shropshire, England
August 22 – Dorothy Parker born in West End, New Jersey
1894
May 27 – Dashiell Hammett born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland
May 27 – Louis-Ferdinand Celine born in Courbevoie, France
July 26 – Aldous Huxley born in Surrey, England
October 14 – E. E. Cummings born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 24 – John Allan Wyeth born in New York City, New York
October 26 – Eugene Jolas born in Union City, New Jersey
November 30 – Donald Ogden Stewart born in Columbus, Ohio
1895
May 8 – Edmund Wilson born in Red Bank, New Jersey
1896
January 4 – Utah becomes the 45th state
January 14 – John Dos Passos born in Chicago, Illinois; Ramon Guthrie born in New York City, New York
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald born in St. Paul, Minnesota
November 13 – William Slater Brown born in Webster, Massachusetts
December 27 – Louis Bromfield born in Mansfield, Ohio
1897
March 4 – William McKinley sworn in as the 25th U.S. President
April 6 – Robert Coates born
April 17 – Thornton Wilder born in Madison, Wisconsin
May 5 – Kenneth Burke born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 14 – Virgil Geddes born in Dixon County, Nebraska
September 25 – William Faulkner born in New Albany, Mississippi
1898
April 20 – U.S. declares war on Spain
June 22 – Erich Maria Remarque born in Osnabruck, Germany
July 3 – Thomas Boyd born in Defiance, Ohio
August 12 – U.S. and Spain sign an armistice, ending the Spanish-American war
August 24 – Malcolm Cowley born in Belsano, Pennsylvania
November 30 – Ginevra King born in Chicago, Illinois
December 10 – U.S. and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Spanish-American war
1899
February 15 – Matthew Josephson born in Brooklyn, New York
July 21 – Ernest Hemingway born in Oak Park, Illinois
July 21 – Hart Crane born in Garrettsville, Ohio
See also: 1870s-80s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
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