The previous conjunctions took place in:
- 1819 to 1820 (May, Oct 1819 and Jan 1820)
- 1851 to 1852 (June and Nov 1851 and Feb 1852)
- 1883 (May 1883)
- 1914 to 1915 (Oct and Nov 1914, May 1915)
- 1947 Aug
- 1982 Nov
- 2020 Jan
Let’s see what happened during the year, before and after the year using historycentral.com.
Major Events of 1982
- Leonid Brezhnev dies
- Israel invades Lebanon
- Falkland Islands War
- Lebanese Phalange Massacre Palestinians at Sabre and Shatila
- The Iran/Energy crisis recession (July 1981 to November 1982). This was caused by the deflationary monetary policy adopted by the Federal Reserve.
Major Events of 1947 (and 1946)
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- India/Pakistan Independent
- Revolt Against French Rule Madagascar
- Partition of Palestine
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Yaeger Breaks Sound Barrier
- B – 47 Enters Service
- Gigantic Spruce Goose Flies
- World war 2 ended in Sep 1945. Logically, the world economies were destroyed during and after this time. There was a post war recession from November 1948 to October 1949. US interest rates were very low to reduce the government’s interest expense from financing the war. With the low interest, inflation rose to 17%. However, the US government’s aim was to keep financing costs down as top priority.
Major Events of 1914
News Headlines
- Austria Declares War on Serbia
- Germany declares war and invades Belgium
- Japan declares war on Germany
- US Intervenes in Mexico
- Panama Canal opens
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Germany Invades Luxembourg
- Russians Invade Prussia
- Battle of Mons
- Germany wins vs. Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
- First Battle Marne
- First Battle of Ypres
- Germans Capture Lodz
- World war 1 started from July 1914 and ended in Nov 1918. One would expect the world economies to be the dumps during a war, never mind a world war.
Major Events of 1915
News Headlines
- First Zeppelin Bombing of England
- Gallipoli Campaign Begins
- Second Battle of Ypres
- Lusitania Sunk
- Vilnius Falls to Germans
- Third Battle of Artois
- Battle of Verdun
- Battle of Jutland Island
- Battle of Somme
- First Transcontinental Telephone Conversation
Major Events of 1916
- Battle of Cambrai
- Pershing Leads Expedition Against Mexican Rebels
- U.S. Troops Intervene in the Dominican Republic
- Child Labor Law Passed
- Easter Uprising in Ireland
1883
- Jan 19 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
- Aug 27 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
- Oct 4 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
- Brooklyn Bridge, The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River and when it was opened in 1883 it was the largest suspension bridge in the world and had taken 13 years to complete.
- This year was during the depression of 1882 to 1885.
1851
- End of the Great Irish Famine
- The start of a period of a great upheaval in US history including the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux is signed with the Sioux Indians. They agree to give up their lands in Iowa and almost all of Minnesota.
- May 1851: Census reveals the extent of Welsh support for the Nonconformist church. In addition to the population census of England and Wales, a census was taken of places of worship. This revealed that around 80% of Welsh worshipers went to Nonconformist chapels and only 20% to the established church. Awareness of this numerical superiority greatly encouraged the demand for the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales. Partly due to the opposition of the Conservative party and the House of Lords, this did not take place until 1914.
1819
- Simón Bolívar liberates New Granada (now Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador) as Spain loses hold on South American countries; named president of Colombia.
- Jan 28 Sir Stamford Raffles lands in Singapore
1820
Missouri Compromise > Missouri admitted as slave state but slavery barred in rest of Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30′ N.
Major Events of 1981
- Pope John Paul II shot twice
- Mitterand elected French premire
- Martial law in Poland
- Israel destroys Iraq’s nuclear reactor
- President proposes $180 billion
- President Reagan fires air traffic controllers
- Assasination attaempt on President Reagan
- First woman elected to the Supreme Court
- First Space Shuttle flight
- Anwar Sadat Assasinated
Major Events of 1948
- Communists Control Czechoslavakia
- Berlin Blockaded
- Soviets Recall Advisors From Yugoslavia
- Defeat in Manchuria
- South Africa Apartheid
- State of Israel Declared
- Berlin Airlift
- US Recognizes Israel
- Organization of American States
- Civil War In Costa Rica
- Polaroid Camera
- Quantum Dynamics Theory
- Soviets Introduce MIG -15
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