Fatekh Vergasov בילין / Beilin / Baline / Irving Berlin, Israel - Isidor - Irving "Pre-history"   1772 - August 05. First Partition of Poland - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ended by Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria 1793 - January 23. Second Partition of Poland was made by Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia 1795 - October 24.  Third Partition of Poland - Grand Duchy of Lithuania was ended. As soon as the Polish Kosciuszko Uprising was defeated. With this partition, the independent Polish state ceased to exist   1799 - November 09. Napoleonic era starts 1812 1815 - June 28. Napoleonic era ends 1814 - September. Congress of Vienna began 1815 - June. Congress of Vienna ends 1823 - December 02. Monroe doctrine was introduced   Note: Fourth Partitions of Poland   1815 - Duchy of Warsaw 1832 - Congress Kingdom 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact   1846? - January. Father - Moses Beilin was born, - who was butcher, a cantor, shochet and certifier (overseer) of kosher meat 1849? - Август. Mother - Leah Jarchin or Yarchin (Lipkin) - was born. During her life she didn't know any language, but Yiddish   1878 - Sister Sarah Beilin was born 1881 - Brother Benjamin Beilin was born 1883 - Sister Rebecka Beilin was born 1885 - Sister Augusta Beilin was born 1888 - May 11. Mogilev Governorate, Orsha district, Old-Tolochin volost, One of the many Shtetls and Shtots. Israel Isidor Beilin / Baline was born, as the youngest of eight Beilin children   1892 - Buffalo, New York. First wife Dorothy Goetz was born 1882 - Parents house was burned down and family went to America 1892 - Speakin Yiddish only, parents + 6 children () get to Brody, Poland, Germany and got Antwerp 1893 - September 14. Ellis Island. Ship SS "Rhynland", Steerage - the lowest decks of a ship. 5 years old, illiterate youngster Israel Beilin / Baline came to USA from Antwerp after 11-dat journey 1893 - Ship "Rhynland" brought him with his Parents and 5 "of his siblings". They was meat by mother Leah Jarchin or Yarchin relatives 1893 - Manhattan. Lower East Side. Monroe St. Basement apartment - was Bielin / Baline fist place to live 1893 - Manhattan. Lower East Side, i.e. "Jewish quarter". 330 Cherry Street. Flat at the 3rd floor   1896? - The Bronx. Father - Moses Beilin died   1902 - Israel got home and street nickname Izzy 1903 - 22 марта. Brooklyn, NY. Second wife - Ellin Travers Mackay - was born   1906 - New York. Chinatown. First full-time job  as a Singing waiter at Callahan's, and then Pelham's Cafe 1907 - Samuel E. Moffett, The Americanization of Canada 1907 - His first small hit Marie from Sunny Italy was published under pseudonym Irving Berlin, which sounded much more Americanized, so being easier for others to remember 1909 - The Ted Snyder Music Company made him staff lyrists with $25 a week, signing 5 years contact with him 1910 - May 12, May 26 and June 03. New York. He got first Three Degrees of Freemasonry in Munn lodge # 190 1910 - Census: Music writer is head of household, living with his mother and sister Augusta   1911 - "Alexander's Ragtime Band" made him star at Tin Pan Alley and than at Broadway 1912 - February. First wife - Dorothy Goetz 1912 - July 17. First wife - Dorothy Goetz - died 1913 - Manhattan. Lower East Side, i.e. "Jewish quarter". After 20 years of living, Family left the flat at the 330 Street 1915* - September 23. Declaration of Intention. Supreme Court, New York County, #118640: "My place of birth was Mohilev"*   1917* - October 15. Petition for Naturalization  # 71726: "My place of birth was Mohilev"* 1918* - February 6. Oath of Allegiance, , 1918, #118640: "My place of birth was Mohilev"* 1918 - The Ted Snyder Music Company evolved into Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc.   1922 - July 21. The Bronx. Mother - Lena Leah Beilin (Yarchin/Jarchin), - died   1926 - January 04. City of New York. 2nd wife - Ellin Travers (Mackay). Certificate and Record of Marriage # 4826: "Place of birth - Russia" 1926 - November 25. Ellin Travers (Mackay) Berlin gave birth to daughter Mary Ellin (Barrett) 1927 - The National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) was founded   1928 - December 01. Ellin Travers (Mackay) Berlin gave birth to the son Irving Berlin 1928 - December 25. Son Irving Berlin dead 1929 - Greate depression starts. He financially rescued his father-in-law - Clarence Mackay   1932 - February 21. Ellin Travers (Mackay) Berlin gave birth to daughter Linda, Louise 1935 - New York. Freemasonry in Munn lodge # 190 - Life member   1936 - June 16. Ellin Travers (Mackay) Berlin gave birth to daughter Elizabeth 1940 - April 11. Manhattan. Census: He + his wife + 3 daughters were living at the address   1940 - September 16. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act was enacted 1942 - He made draft record: Tehmen (or Igumen - by Belarus Jewish genealogy researcher David Fox, or Tehmen[nevo] - by FP) was mentioned as his place of birth, but at variance with other records 1943 - Berlin gave the royalties of the song to the God Bless America Fund for Redistribution to the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA 1944 - The National Conference of Christians and Jews honored Irving Berlin for "advancing the aims of the conference to eliminate religious and racial conflict"   1950 - October 07. The Billboard, Disk Jockey supplement. Section II: He "was born in Tuman". 1952 - February 12. Sister Rebecka Beilin died 1955 - February 18. President Eisenhower presented him with a gold medal in recognition of his services in composing many patriotic songs for the country   1978 - January 25. Sister Augusta died   1988 - July. Brooklyn, NY. Ellin (Mackay) Berlin dead and was buried at Bronx Woodlawn Cemetery 1989 - 22 сентября. New York. Irving Berlin died in his sleep 1989 - Bronx. Woodlawn Cemetery. Не was buried next to his wife -------------------------------- Berlin gives Mohilev as his place of birth on each of 3 documents he signed under oath to obtain his Immigration and naturalization papers. And to to obtain Marriage License at January 04, 1926 --------------- * All the above from Manhattan County Clerk’s Office. Old Records Division Bibliography: 1 Woollcott, Alexander. The Story of Irving Berlin (New York: Putnam, 1925), , Da Capo Press, 1983 2 Bergreen, Laurence. "As Thousands Cheer: the Life of Irving Berlin"/ (New York: Viking, 1991) 3 Hamm, Charles. "Irving Berlin's Early Songs As Biographical Documents", Musical Quarterly 77/1 (Spring 1993) 4 Barrett, Mary Ellin. "Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994): He was born at Mogilev Governorate, Tolochin 5 Notes of Sociology (1914): 607 6 Steinberg, Stephen. "The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America" (New York: Atheneum, 1981) 7 Wilder, Alec "American Popular Song"., TRO - The Richmond Organization (March 1, 2000) 8 Biography - Irving Berlin: An American Song (A&E DVD Archives) (2000) 9 Jablonski, Edward. "Irving Berlin: American Troubadour" Vol. 1 10. The Irving Berlin reader / edited by Benjamin Sears 11. Morehause, Ward. "A trip to Chinatown with Irving Berlin" 12. "Berlin at 100: Life on a High Note" index   www.pseudology.org