Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. The exhibition of his early career focuses on the years 1892 -1906, from age 11 to age 25. What world events were part of those years? Take a look.

1892

Picasso is eleven years old

Pearl Buck is born
Claude Monet begins painting what became known as his Rouen Cathedral series

Queen Lilioukalani of Hawaii overthrown Colorado allows women to vote for the first time, although general suffrage is years off
Franz Kafka is born
Aspirin is invented

Sino-Japanese War
Coxeys Army marches on Washington
A strike against the Pullman Company brings US transportation to a standstill
First steel-framed skyscraper built in Chicago

1895

Picasso's sister Conchita dies from diphtheria
Picasso accepted into the senior course at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona
At the Prado during summer vacation, Picasso sees the works of Velasquez and Goya for the first time
Picasso, now 14, paints The Young Girl with Bare Feet

Louis and Auguste Lumiere hold public film exhibitions in Paris

1896

Picasso paints First Communion

La Boheme premieres
Custer defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn A Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson states that separate but equal facilities are constitutional
F. Scott Fitzgerald born
The Philippines comes under US control

 1897

Picasso goes to Madrid to study at the San Fernando Academy of Art
Picasso creates Science and Charity

William McKinley becomes president Klondike Gold Rush William Faulkner born

Picasso visits la Horta

Battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
Spanish American War breaks out

Battle of Manila Bay
Battle of San Juan Hill

Paris Metro opens
Marie Curie discovers radium

1899

Ernest Hemingway is born
Boer War begins

1900

Picasso visits Malaga, the place of his birth, for the last time, with his friend Carlos Casagemas
Picasso's first art exhibition at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona
Picasso creates La Moulin de la Galette
Picasso's First trip to Paris

Olympics held in Paris
Casey Jones dies at the throttle of the Cannonball Express
US population is 75,994,575
San Francisco's Chinatown quarantined during a bubonic plague scare

 1901

Picasso's Blue Period begins; he paints The Absinthe Drinker, The Death of Casagemas, Child Holding a Dove, Le Gourmet, and Portrait of Pere Manach

First Mercedes built
President William McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt takes over the presidency
First proof that mosquitos carry yellow fever
Death of England's Queen Victoria
J.P. Morgan organizes US Steel Corporation

 1902

Picasso and friends travel between Paris and Barcelona

Enrico Caruso's first recordings
Aswan Dam opens

1903

Picasso paints Tragedy

Wright Brothers first flight
Ford Motor Company founded
Antisemitic pogroms in Russia
The film Great Train Robbery is released

 
1904

Blue Period is eclipsed by Picasso's Rose Period
Picasso moves into le Bateau Lavoir in Paris

Organized automobile racing begins
Baltimore's Great Fire
First radio transmission of music (Austria)
Panama Canal begun

1905

Picasso meets Gertrude and Leo Stein
Picasso creates paramount work of his early career, The Family of Saltimbanques

Einstein formulates Special Theory of Relativity
First neon light signs appear
Body of John Paul Jones is returned to the United States

 1906

Picasso's Gosol Summer
Picasso creates his Self-Portrait with Palette

San Francisco's Great Earthquake and Fire
Paul Cezanne dies
Night shift work for women internationally forbidden
George E. McNeill, the father of the 8-hour workday, dies

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