Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899.anh tabu rat la dep trai

1860s

1860–1865

*1860 - Pony Express begins
*1860 - Crittenden Compromise
*1860 - U.S. presidential election, 1860
*1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union
*1860 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President
*1861 - Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Georgia secede from the Union.
*1861 - Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established in Montgomery, Alabama.
*1861 - Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
*1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter , federal court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of "habeas corpus"
*1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union
*1861 - First Battle of Bull Run
*1862 - Homestead Act
*1862 - Pacific Railway Act
*1862 - Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act
*1862 - Battle of Antietam
*1862 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
*1863 - National Banking Act of 1863
*1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
*1863 - Pro-Union counties become sovereign state of West Virginia
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*1864 - National Banking Act of 1864
*1864 - Wade-Davis Bill
*1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
*1864 - Maximilian Affair
*1864 - Nevada becomes a state
*1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864
*1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated
*1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes President
*1865 - Civil War ends
*1865 - 13th Amendment
*1865 - Freedman's Bureau
*1865 - Cornell University founded under the 1862 Morrill Act

1866–1869

*1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
*1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded
*1866 - "Ex parte Milligan" 71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian courts are available

*1867 - The Grange founded
*1867 - Reconstruction Acts
*1867 - Alaska Purchase from Russia
*1867 - Nebraska becomes a state
*1867 - Medicine Lodge Treaty

*1868 - Burlingame Treaty
*1868 - 14th Amendment
*1868 - University of California chartered
*1868 - Impeachment and trial of President Johnson, who retains office by one vote
*1868 - Carnegie Steel Company founded
*1868 - Typewriter invented
*1868 - Treaty of Fort Laramie with Lakota nation
*1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
*1869 - Wyoming becomes first state to grant woman suffrage
*1869 - Golden spike nailed in, completing the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)
*1869 - James Fisk and Jay Gould's "Black Friday"

1870s

*1870 - 15th Amendment
*1870 - First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard)
*1870 - Force Acts
*1871 - Great Chicago Fire
*1871 - Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding the Dominion of Canada
*1872 - Yellowstone National Park created
*1872 - Crédit Mobilier scandal
*1872 - Amnesty Act
*1872 - Alabama Claims
*1872 - U.S. presidential election, 1872
*1873 - Panic of 1873
*1873 - Virginius Affair
*1874 - Red River Indian War
*1875 - Aristides wins first Kentucky Derby
*1875 - Resumption Act
*1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875
*1876 - National League of baseball founded
*1876 - Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
*1876 - Munn v. Illinois establishes public regulation of utilities
*1876 - Colorado becomes a state
*1876 - Battle of Little Bighorn
*1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
*1876 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: Samuel J. Tilden apparently elected.
*1877 - and ends with the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction and giving Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency.
*1877 - Nez Perce War
*1878 - Bland-Allison Act
*1878 - Morgan silver dollars first minted
*1879 - Thomas Edison invents light bulb
*1879 - Knights of Labor go public

1880s

*1880 - U.S. population exceeds 50 million
*1881 - James Garfield inaugurated as President
*1881 - James Garfield assassinated
*1881 - Chester A. Arthur inaugurated as President
*1881 - Clara Barton creates Red Cross
*1881 - Tuskegee Institute founded
*1881 - "A Century of Dishonor" written by Helen Hunt Jackson
*1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction Act
*1883 - "Civil Rights Cases" 109 US 3 1883 legalizes doctrine of segregation
*1883 - Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
*1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens
*1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as President
*1885 - Washington monument completed
*1885 - Stanford University founded
*1886 - Haymarket Riot
*1886 - American Federation of Labor founded in Columbus, Ohio
*1887 - The United States Congress creates Interstate Commerce Commission
*1887 - Dawes Act
*1887 - Hatch Act
*1888 - Publication of "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy
*1888 - National Geographic Society founded
*1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President
*1889 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states
*1889 - Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania
*1889 - Jane Addams founds Hull House

1890s

*1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
*1890 - Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives"
*1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act
*1890 - McKinley tariff
*1890 - Yosemite National Park created
*1890 - Idaho and Wyoming become states
*1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre
*1890 - National American Woman Suffrage Association founded
*1891 - Baltimore Crisis
*1892 - Homestead Strike
*1892 - General Electric Company founded
*1892 - Sierra Club founded
*1893 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated President for second term
*1893 - Panic of 1893
*1893 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed
*1894 - Coxey's Army
*1894 - Pullman strike
*1894 - Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, including Income Tax
*1895 - Stagger Lee shoots Billy, spawning countless ballads.
*1895 - "Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company" strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff
*1896 - "Plessy v. Ferguson" 163 US 537 1896 affirms the idea of "separate but equal"
*1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech
*1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon's Klondike
*1896 - Utah becomes a state
*1896 - Hawaii annexed
*1897 - William McKinley becomes President
*1897 - Boston subway completed
*1897 - Dingley tariff
*1898 - USS "Maine" explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish-American War
*1898 - De Lôme Letter
*1898 - Treaty of Paris (1898) ends Spanish-American War
*1898 - Newlands Resolution
*1898 - American Anti-Imperialist League organized
*1899 - Teller Amendment
*1899 - American Samoa occupied
*1899 - Open Door Notes

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before=1820-1859
title=Timeline of United States history
years=1860–1899
after=1900-1929