THE  ALEISTER  CROWLEY  TIMELINE

 

 
 

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— 1893 —

 

January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December

 

 

—  January 

 

circa January 1893

                        

 

- Crowley transfers from Tonbridge School in Kent to Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, where he lives at 4 Sussex Gardens with a Plymouth Brethren tutor named Lambert. [56], [286]

 

 

     

 

Tuesday, 10 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   George Cecil Jones is 20 years old.

 

Thursday, 12 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Hermann Goering is born.

 

Friday, 13 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   The British Independent Labour Party forms.

 

Monday, 16 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Norman Mudd is 4 years old.

 

Thursday, 19 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin, Germany.

 

Sunday, 22 January 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Karl Germer is 8 years old.

 

—  February 

 

Wednesday, 1 February 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Thomas Edison completes the worlds  first movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey.

 

Thursday, 9 February 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Giuseppe Verdi's comic opera Falstaff premieres in Milan, Italy.

 

—  March 

 

Sunday, 5 March 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's death.

 

Tuesday, 21 March 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Jane Wolfe is 18 years old.

 

—  April 

 

circa April/May 1893

                        

 

- Crowley climbs Tryfan (3,002 feet), Glyder Fach (3,261 feet), Glyder Fawr (3,278 feet), Y Garn (Glyderau) (3,107 feet), Foel Grach (3,202 feet), the Craig Yr Ysfa ridge, Carnedd Dafydd (3,245 feet),  Carnedd Llewellyn (3,491 feet), Yr Elen (3,156 feet), Pen yr Helgi Du (2,733 feet), Y Lliwedd (2,946 feet), the Twill Ddu cliff of Cloqwen y Geifr and the highest mountain in Wales, Snowden (3,560 feet). [56]

 

 

     

 

Sunday, 2 April 1893

                        

  

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Charles Stansfeld Jones is 7 years old.

 

Sunday, 9 April 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Leah Hirsig is 10 years old.

 

—  May 

 

circa April/May 1893

                        

 

- Crowley climbs Tryfan (3,002 feet), Glyder Fach (3,261 feet), Glyder Fawr (3,278 feet), Y Garn (Glyderau) (3,107 feet), Foel Grach (3,202 feet), the Craig Yr Ysfa ridge, Carnedd Dafydd (3,245 feet),  Carnedd Llewellyn (3,491 feet), Yr Elen (3,156 feet), Pen yr Helgi Du (2,733 feet), Y Lliwedd (2,946 feet), the Twill Ddu cliff of Cloqwen y Geifr and the highest mountain in Wales, Snowden (3,560 feet). [56]

 

 

     

 

Friday, 5 May 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

 

Saturday, 6 May 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Victor B. Neuburg is 10 years old.

 

—  June 

 

circa June and September 1893

                        

 

- Crowley visits the Lake District in North West England and climbs Helvellyn (3,117 feet), Dollywagon Pike (2,815 feet), Harrison Stickle (2,415 feet), Stickle Pike (1,230 feet), Thunacar Knott (2,372 feet), High White Stones (High Raise, Langdale) (2,500 feet), Seargeant Man (2,415 feet), Skiddaw (3,054 feet), Helvellyn Lower Man (3,035 feet), Bowfell (2,959 feet), Great End (2,986 feet), Ill Crag (3,068 feet), Broad Crag (3,064 feet), Scafell Pike (3,209 feet), Sca Fell (3,163 feet), Pillar (2,927 feet), Great Gable (2,949 feet), Pike o’ Blisco (2,323 feet), Crinkle Crags (2,818 feet), Shelter Crags (2,673 feet), Bowfell (2,959 feet), Hanging Knott (2,828 feet), Rossett Crag (2,136 feet), and Rossett Crag (2,136 feet). [56]

 

 

     

 

Wednesday, 7 June 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Mahatma Ghandi's first act of civil disobedience.

 

Friday, 9 June 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Wilfred Talbot Smith is 8 years old.

 

Wednesday, 21 June 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The first Ferris Wheel opens at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

 

Tuesday, 27 June 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The great stock crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

 

—  July 

 

Sunday, 23 July 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Rose Kelly is 19 years old.

 

—  August 

 

Tuesday, 1 August 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - British Chess Magazine

 

 

Sunday, 13 August 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Frieda Harris is 16 years old.

 

Thursday, 17 August 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Actor, Mae West is born.

 

 Monday, 28 August 1893

                        

 

- Crowley climbs the Napes Needle on the Wasdale face of Great Gable via the "Crowley Route". [253]

 

 

 

 

—  September 

 

circa June and September 1893

                        

 

- Crowley visits the Lake District in North West England and climbs Helvellyn (3,117 feet), Dollywagon Pike (2,815 feet), Harrison Stickle (2,415 feet), Stickle Pike (1,230 feet), Thunacar Knott (2,372 feet), High White Stones (High Raise, Langdale) (2,500 feet), Seargeant Man (2,415 feet), Skiddaw (3,054 feet), Helvellyn Lower Man (3,035 feet), Bowfell (2,959 feet), Great End (2,986 feet), Ill Crag (3,068 feet), Broad Crag (3,064 feet), Scafell Pike (3,209 feet), Sca Fell (3,163 feet), Pillar (2,927 feet), Great Gable (2,949 feet), Pike o’ Blisco (2,323 feet), Crinkle Crags (2,818 feet), Shelter Crags (2,673 feet), Bowfell (2,959 feet), Hanging Knott (2,828 feet), Rossett Crag (2,136 feet), and Rossett Crag (2,136 feet). [56]

 

 

     

 

Friday, 1 September 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - British Chess Magazine

Current Events:

   J.F.C. Fuller is 15 years old.

 

Monday, 4 September 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Beatrix Potter writes the children's story Peter Rabbit.

 

Tuesday, 19 September 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote.

 

—  October 

 

Sunday, 1 October 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - British Chess Magazine

 

 

Thursday, 12 October 1893

                        

 

- Crowley is 18 years old.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 27 October 1893

                        

 

Location: George Hotel, Hailsham, playing chess.

- Crowley wins one chess game against his Hailsham Chess Club opponent. Crowley's Eastbourne Chess Club wins 9 games to 4 against Hailsham. [Eastbourne Gazette]

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 28 October 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathetique.

 

—  November 

 

Wednesday, 1 November 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - British Chess Magazine

   - Eastbourne Gazette

 

 

Friday, 3 November 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sussex Agricultural Express

 

 

Monday, 6 November 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky dies.

 

—  December 

 

circa December 1893

                        

 

- Crowley writes "The Legend of Ben Ledi" from his book Jephthah; and Other Mysteries, Lyrical and Dramatic.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 1 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - British Chess Magazine

 

 

Friday, 8 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Allan Bennett is 21 years old

 

Wednesday, 13 December 1893

                        

 

Location: Lewes, East Sussex, playing chess.

- Crowley wins two chess games against his Uckfield Chess Club opponents. Crowley's Eastbourne Chess Club wins 6 games to 4 against Uckfield. [Eastbourne Gazette]

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 16 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, New World Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York.

 

Sunday, 17 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Louis Wilkinson is 12 years old.

 

Wednesday, 20 December 1893

                        

 

Location: The headquarters of the Eastbourne Chess Club, playing chess.

- Crowley is playing in a chess tournament at the headquarters of the Eastbourne Chess Club where each player plays 32 games. So far he has won 12 of his first 16 games. [Eastbourne Gazette]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Eastbourne Gazette

 

 

Saturday, 23 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Eastbourne Gazette

 

 

Tuesday, 26 December 1893

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Mao Zedong is born.

 

 

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