Timeline of United States history (1860-1899)

1860s

• 1860 - Pony Express begins
• 1860 - Crittenden Compromise
• 1860 - South Carolina secedes
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President
• 1861 - Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established under President Jefferson Davis
• 1861 - United States Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
• 1861 - Morrill tariff
• 1861 - Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state
• 1861 - Ex Parte Merryman, federal court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
• 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run
• 1862 - Homestead Act
• 1862 - Pacific Railway Act
• 1862 - Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act
• 1863 - National Banking Act
• 1863 - Battle at Antietam
• 1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
• 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
• 1863 - West Virginia becomes a state
• 1863 - Draft riot in New York
• 1864 - Banking Act of 1864
• 1864 - Wade Davis Bill
• 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
• 1864 - Maximilian Affair
• 1864 - Nevada becomes a state
• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated
• 1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes President
• 1865 - United States Civil War ends
• 1865 - 13th Amendment
• 1865 - Freedman's Bureau
• 1866 - Civil Rights Act
• 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 - Tenure of Office Act
• 1867 - The Grange founded
• 1867 - Reconstruction Acts
• 1867 - US purchases Alaska
• 1867 - Nebraska becomes a state
• 1868 - Burlingame Treaty
• 1868 - 14th Amendment
• 1868 - Tenure of Office Act
• 1868 - University of California chartered
• 1868 - Carnegie Steel Company founded
• 1868 - Typewriter invented
• 1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
• 1869 - Wyoming grants women's suffrage
• 1869 - Golden spike[?] nailed in, completing the transcontinental railroad
• 1869 - James Fisk and Jay Gould's "Black Friday"
• 1869 - Knights of Labor formed

1870s

• 1870 - 15th Amendment
• 1870 - First graduate programs (Yale, Harvard)
• 1870 - Force Acts
• 1870 - Standard Oil Company is formed
• 1871 - Great Chicago Fire
• 1872 - Yellowstone National Park created
• 1872 - Credit Mobilier Scandal
• 1872 - Amnesty Act
• 1872 - Alabama Claims
• 1873 - Panic of 1873
• 1874 - Red River Wars
• 1875 - Aristides[?] wins first Kentucky Derby
• 1875 - Resumption Act
• 1875 - Civil Rights Act
• 1876 - National League 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
• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President and Reconstruction ends with the Compromise of 1877
• 1878 - Bland-Allison Act
• 1878 - Morgan silver dollars[?] first minted
• 1879 - Edison invents light bulb
• 1879 - Knights of Labor go public

1880s

• 1880s - Dust Bowl begins
• 1880 - US 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 - John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil
• 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 - Congress creates Interstate Commerce Commission
• 1887 - Dawes Act
• 1887 - Hatch Act
• 1888 - [[Looking Backward|Looking Backward]] written 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[?]
• 1889 - Jane Addams founds Hull House

1890s

• 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
• 1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act
• 1890 - McKinley tariff
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park created
• 1890 - Idaho and Wyoming become states
• 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre
• 1890 - North American Women's Suffrage Association founded
• 1891 - Basketball invented
• 1891 - Baltimore Crisis
• 1892 - Homestead Strike
• 1892 - General Electric Company 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, including Income Tax
• 1895 - Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company[?] strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff
• 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 legalizes segregation in railway cars
• 1896 - William Jennings Bryant[?] Cross of Gold[?] speech
• 1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike
• 1896 - Utah becomes a state
• 1897 - William McKinley becomes President
• 1897 - Boston subway[?] completed
• 1897 - Dingley tariff
• 1898 - US battleship Maine explodes in Havana, precipitating the Spanish-American War
• 1898 - DeLome Letter
• 1898 - Treaty of Paris (1898) ends Spanish-American War
• 1899 - Teller Amendment
• 1899 - Open Door Notes