Pluto enters a new Zodiac sign
and the World Spins Out of Control

Pluto enters Capricorn ULTIMATE COMMITMENT to FIRM CONTROL

Events of 1763 when Pluto enters Capricorn last time.

• The Treaty of Paris signed 10 Feb 1763 ending the Europe’s Seven Years’ War (America’s French and Indian War). France cedes her territory in Canada, the treaty recognizes the Mississippi River as the boundary between British colonies in America and the Louisiana Territory ceded to Spain.
• Spain trades Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba and the Philippines
• Ottawa tribal Chief Pontiac leads uprising against Detroit and other British forts seeking to drive Europeans east of the Alleghenies, but their French allies desert them.
• George III decrees that British colonists must not settle West of the source of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic. Western frontiersmen violate any restriction on their progress West.
• British Mariner’s Guide published, contains observations that will revolutionize navigation.
• First notice to the Royal Society that salicylic acid in willow bark (now aspirin) has medicinal properties.
• Touro Synagogue completed in Newport, Rhode Island colony
• By 1764 “No taxation without representation,” boycotts of British goods, increased customs enforcement to deal with the widespread smuggling of molasses (all but 2,500 of 14,000 hogsheads 1763), and other measures that lead to attempts to raise tax money from American colonies while colonists resist any attempt to lessen their firm control of their own lands and opportunities.

1778 Pluto enters Aquarius: Ultimate Commitment to Objective Understanding
Pluto enters Aquarius events

• Frances recognizes American Independence. Continental Congress ratifies French Treaty of recognition and In mid-June rejects British peace offers.
• General Washington and his troops surviving the winter in Valley Forge, PA win the Battle of Monmouth after General Charles Lee is replaced and later court- martialed.
• “Molly Pitcher” brings water to Continental army troops and when her husband is overcome by heat takes over his cannon firing it to good effect through the rest of the battle.
• Scottish coal miners gain freedom from their former condition of virtual slavery.
• Thomas Jefferson persuades Virginia legislature to forbid further importation of slaves.
• Captain Cook explores the Pacific Coast of N. America north of Oregon.Hawaiian Islands discovered by Captain Cook, named Sandwich Islands for the Earl of Sandwich. The Earl of Sandwich invents the sandwich.
• France charters its Societe Royale de Medicine to study epidemics.
• Milan’s Opera House La Scala opens.
• First water closet patented by Joseph Bramah using valve-and-siphon flushing system of all future toilets.

1798 Pluto Pluto enters Pisces:
Ultimate Commitment to Feeling Tones

• Right, Center and Left political designations arise from French Council of 500.
• Napoleon occupies Rome—captures the Pope.
• Napoleon conquers Egypt, seizes the Rosetta Stone
• Nelson destroys the French Fleet in harbor near Alexandria, Egypt
• Irish resistance to British rule crushed at Battle of Vinegar Hill.
• President Adams passes Alien and Sedition Acts (making editorial criticism of President or his administration a crime) which Jefferson opposes.
• Eli Whitney pioneers American system of mass production including system to mass produce firearms with interchangeable parts.
• Method to make paper from wood pulp in continuous rolls invented.Lithography invented.
• First top hat made of silk plush, reducing demand for American beaver pelts.
• Malthus publishes his essay on the inevitability of world food crisis based on history of U.S. colonies that century. Notes food production arithmetical progression (adding fields one by one) while population growth is exponential (every surviving child grows up to produce their own children who grow up to produce their own again).
• Jenner announces his discovery of vaccination for smallpox.

1823 Pluto enters Aries:
Ultimate Commitment to the Prime Goal

• Monroe Doctrine enunciated in his message to Congress that the American Continents are not subjects for future colonization by any European power.
• French troops install Ferdinand VII as King of Spain, against their advice he begins a repressive rule.
• U.S. troops defeat Black Hawk whose alliance sought to resist white incursions into Indian territory.
• Bowing to reformers, Britain gives up death penalty for more than 100 previously capital crimes.
• Wilberforce establishes antislavery society.
• Petroleum industry begins at seaport of Baku, drilling for oil.
• English physicist Sturgeon devises the first electromagnet uses it to life pounds of iron.
• Cholera epidemic reaches Asiatic Russia, will spread all over Western world.
• Michael Faraday liquefies chlorine.
• A student playing soccer, picks up the ball and creates the game of rugby.
• Macintosh invents his rubberized waterproof fabric raincoat.
• British begin tea plantations in India to end China’s monopoly of tea trade.
• Illinois opened to U.S. corn farmers with defeat of Black Hawk.

1854 Pluto enters Taurus:
Ultimate Commitment to A Smooth Path

• Crimean War begins. Battle of Balaclava victory by allied British and French forces despite disastrous charge of the Light Brigade, where commander survives but 503 of his 700 men killed by Russian artillery.
• British withdraw from territory North of Orange River in S. Africa allowing Boer settlers to organize Orange Free State.
• Japanese ports open to U.S. trade. Commodore Perry returns to Japan with 10 ships. Shogun decides Japan needs defense force, has emperor order Buddhist temples to contribute their great bells for gun metal.
• Republican Party formed at Ripon, WI to oppose extension of slavery.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by Congress, repeals the Compromise of 1820, destroys Whig party whose Northern members join new Republican party Organizes the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Also opens these lands to white settlement in violation of treaty with the Indians.
• U.S. mint opens in San Francisco pays miners the official $16/oz rate for gold (silver @ $1/oz in the silver dollar)
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• Wisconsin court declares Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional.
• Know-Nothing Party political party- anti-Catholic, anti-immigration holds its first national convention.
• First distillation of Pennsylvania crude oil to make useful products.
• Several railroads reach the Mississippi, but Texans still use cattle drives to move their cattle.
• Egypt grants a Suez Canal concession.
• Boole publishes his mathematical symbolical logic.
• Typhus epidemic spreads from Russian troops to French and British in the Crimea and on throughout Russia and Turkey. Florence Nightingale brings 34 London nurses to improve conditions in British military hospitals.
• Papal infallibility in all matters established in a Vatican ruling on the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary as an article of faith.
• A paper mill in PA produces low cost paper from wood pulp.
• Walden published by Henry David Thoreau
• The Otis demonstrates his safety elevator by having the cables cut but safely stops at an Industrial Fair in NY.
• Thoreau describes ice harvesting on Walden Pond, “in a good day they get out 1,000 tons, about an acre of ice which will keep in an house 4 years or be shipped to New Orleans, Bombay or Calcutta.

1884 Pluto enters Gemini:
Ultimate Commitment to Various Alternatives

• German Chancellor Bismarck claims Namibia as a German colony, Togoland Cameroons coasts claimed as protectorates.
• Chile ends war with Peru and Bolivia taking nitrate rich areas and access to the sea from Bolivia and a province from Peru.
• First Democrat to win U.S. Presidency in 32 years, Grover Cleveland in close race won in backlash to attack by Republicans of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.
• Bureau of Labor created as major coal strikes occur in OH and PA.
• Germany institutes Workman’s Comp Insurance paid solely by employers.
• China declares war on France over French bombardment of Taiwan to punish China for resisting France’s protectorate of Indo-China.
• John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust markets more than 80% of petroleum from U.S. wells.
• California outlaws hydraulic mining which has been destroying the environment since 1852.
• First skyscraper goes up in Chicago.
• Bordeaux mixture effectively combats fungus attacking French vineyards (and later potato blight).
• Chinese farm workers now 50% of California workforce up from 10% in 1870.

August 1914 Pluto enters Cancer:
Ultimate Commitment to Poignant Feelings

• Germany declares war against Russia and France, invades Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany World War I begins.
• Panama Canal opens for business just as World War I begins
• Teletype machine introduced

September 1938 Pluto enters Leo:
Ultimate Commitment to Crowning Glory

• Munich Crisis: Chamberlain negotiates time to build the Spitfire fighters to defend Britain at the cost of giving Hitler the Sudetenland after Germany annexed Austria the year before.
• Kristalnacht attacks upon Jewish shops, businesses and homes and 20 to 30,000 Jews taken to concentration camps.
• House Committee turns from investigating Nazi activity in U.S. to communist activities.
• General Motors joins Standard Oil of California to buy up electric street railways and convert them to motorbus lines.
• First true Xerox image on waxed paper.
• Superman appears in. comics
• War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater of the Air terrifies folks near Halloween.

October 1957 Pluto enters Virgo:
Ultimate Commitment to Detailed Expression

• Sputnik launched October 4th is world’s first man made satellite. In November Sputnik II launched with dog on board. Tremendous impact on U.S. public who for first time could see a Soviet space object fly over their homes (actually a 2nd stage booster rocket). Soviets note they could easily put nuclear warhead on their rocket instead of a satellite. U. S. reacts to space gap like they did to Pearl Harbor. Math and Science studies now a matter of national security. Space race is on as major front of the Cold War.
• Ghana gains its independence, first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to do so.
• Eisenhower sends paratroopers to Little Rock, AR to enforce school desegregation order of the Supreme Court.
• Mao’s Great Leap Forward puts more than 500 million Chinese into people’s communes.
• China’s Great Leap Forward virtually eliminates houseflies, mosquitoes, rats and bedbugs over wide areas.
• Common Market established by Treaty of Rome.
• Edsel introduced by Ford Motor Company turns out to be colossal failure.
• African bees escape in Brazil

September 1972 Pluto enters Libra:
Ultimate Commitment to Harmony and Beauty (pan balance of Justice)

• U.S. bombs Haiphong and Hanoi in Viet Nam War
• June 17th Watergate burglars arrested in Democratic party HQ in the Watergate Complex
• Nixon visits China opening up relations frozen since 1949
• Gov. Wallace of AL shot while campaigning for Democratic nomination for President.
• Bloody Sunday in N. Ireland 13 Catholics killed by British Troops.
• Supreme Court rules death penalty cruel and unusual punishment.
• Pres. Nixon signs authorization for Space Shuttle to be built.
• British Coal miners strike for first time in 50 years. Rail workers strike later. London dock workers strike.
• Dow Jones closes over 1,000 for first time ever.
• Oil found in Mexico. 30 % of U.S. petroleum imported.
• Bay Area Rapid Transit System begins operation.

October 1984 Pluto enters Scorpio:
Ultimate Commitment to Power and Passion

• Iran-Iraq war spreads to Persian Gulf. Iraq. Iraq attacks oil tankers loading in Iran. Iran attacks tankers loading oil in Saudi Arabia and other smaller Gulf states.
• Indira Gandhi sends troops to retake Golden Temple from Sikh extremists. 600-1200 killed. She is assassinated by Sikh’s in her body guard.
• CIA mines Nicaraguan harbors to block Cuban and Soviet aim to rebels in El Salvador. Soviet freighter is damaged in clear violation of Boland Amendment.
• Reagan re-elected in landslide.
• Polish security forces kidnap and kill Catholic priest. Public outrage forces trial of perpetrators.
• Pinochet in Chile has 32,000 rounded up and detained in Santiago soccer stadium.

• Massive strikes and pit closures in British coal mines.
• Continental Illinois Bank escapes failure by massive Fed bailout after worst run on a bank since the Depression.
• Thatcher government privatizes British Telecom.

October 1996 Pluto enters Sagittarius:
Ultimate Commitment to Clear Expression

• Pres. Clinton re-elected President, Republicans campaign to keep control of Congress to “balance” Clinton.
• Clinton keep U.S. troops in Bosnia to stabilize peace there. No U.S. battle deaths result. Terrible Bosnian civil war settled peacefully.
• Yeltsin re-elected President of Russia confirming end to Communist Era.
• Whitewater investigation continues, Hillary Clinton testifies before Grand Jury
• Bin Laden unit in CIA recognizes major threat, OBL seeking weapons of mass destruction, but no co-operation in moving against him

20 Jan 2009 Pluto enters Capricorn :
Ultimate Commitment to Firm Control
44th President of the U.S. inaugurated.

What else will happen when Pluto enters Capricorn, completing the cycle begun when King George III insisted upon imposing his firm control over his newly occupied territories and demanding the American people pay new taxes to pay those expenses?

All events to 1991 quoted from The People’s Chronology by James Trager ISBN 0-8050-1786-0

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