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| 1 | 1613 |
- 21 Feb 1613—15 Mar 1917: The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood
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| 2 | 1820 |
- 29 Jan 1820—26 Jun 1830: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.HistoricUK
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| 3 | 1825 |
- 4 Jul 1825—1835: Ground is broken on the Farmington Canal and completed ten years later.CTHist FVTC
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| 4 | 1828 |
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| 5 | 1829 |
- 2 Mar 1829: The Perkins School for the Blind is incorporated in Boston originally as New England Asylum for the Blind.MassMoments Perkins
- 17 Mar 1829: The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is organized with General Henry Dearborn elected its first president..GoogleBooks CA
- 16 Aug 1829: The original "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng Bunker, arrive in Boston.CC Muse
- 29 Sep 1829: Scotland Yard begins operation.GAF AP
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| 6 | 1830 |
- 26 Mar 1830: The first printed copies of the Book of Mormon are available for sale in Palmyra, New York.DN PBS
- 6 Apr 1830: Joseph Smith and his followers organize the Church of Christ, the Mormon Church.LDS PBS
- 28 May 1830: The Indian Removal Act is signed into law.LoC SI
- 26 Jun 1830—20 Jun 1837: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.HistoricUK
- 28 Aug 1830: The superiority of steam-power is demonstrated when the first American built locomotive, Tom Thumb, races a horse-drawn B&O rail car.FHWA B&ORRM
- 15 Sep 1830: The first railroad fatality occurs when a member of Parliament, William Huskisson, steps in front of George Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.AO tNM
- 29 Nov 1830—5 Oct 1831: The November Uprising begins when Poles rebel against Russian occupation.W&W GS
- 6 Dec 1830: The United States Naval Observatory is established, first as the Depot of Charts and Instruments.USNA NASA
- 25 Dec 1830: The Best Friend of Charleston begins the first regular passenger service in America.A-R SCM
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| 7 | 1831 |
- 10 Mar 1831: The French Foreign Legion is created.FFL FFL2
- 31 Mar 1831: Both Montréal and Québec City are incorporated.BiogCA Montreal
- 21 Aug 1831: Nat Turner begins a bloody slave revolt in Virginia.ZEP
- 29 Aug 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetism.APS EDN
- 27 Dec 1831: The H.M.S. Beagle, with a crew of seventy-three men, sets sail out of Plymouth, England. On board is a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. SA
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| 8 | 1833 |
- 27 Jun 1833: Prudence Crandall is arrested.NPS CTLib
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| 9 | 1835 |
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| 10 | 1836 |
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| 11 | 1837 |
- 26 Jan 1837: Michigan becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 25 Feb 1837: Thomas Davenport receives a patent for the first practical DC electric motor.W I R E D MagLab
- 24 Mar 1837: Black men are granted the right to vote in Canada.BF
- 5 Jun 1837: Houston, Texas is incorporated as a city.TSHA HPOU
- 20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.HistoricUK
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| 12 | 1838 |
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| 13 | 1839 |
- 24 Feb 1839: William Otis receives a patent for his steam shovel, a device that will shape the world.Google Books MFSW
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| 14 | 1840 |
- 20 Jun 1840: Samuel Morse patents a system of dots and dashes used for telegraph communication - Morse Code.W I R E D SIMag
- 2 Dec 1840: William Henry Harrison is elected the 9th president of the United States of America. He dies of pneumonia on 4 Apr 1841 - the first President to die in office.PG USEA
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| 15 | 1841 |
- 20 Jan 1841: China cedes Hong Kong to Britain which remains in British hands until 1997.History.com HK
- 4 Apr 1841: John Tyler becomes the 10th president of the United States of America upon the death of President William Henry Harrison. He serves from 1841 - 1845.WH LSU
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| 16 | 1842 |
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| 17 | 1843 |
- 1 Feb 1843: MONY, the oldest continuous writer of insurance policies in the U. S. begins operation.FU 1Lib
- 19 Jul 1843: The SS Great Britain, the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic, is launched in Bristol, England.Nature ASME
- 13 Oct 1843: The B'nai B'rith is founded in New York City.PM B'nai B'rith
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| 18 | 1844 |
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| 19 | 1845 |
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| 20 | 1846 |
- 4 Feb 1846—13 Jun 1846: Brigham Young and 3000 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois on the first leg of their journey, heading for Utah.PBS NPS
- 25 Apr 1846—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.AHC PBS
- 13 May 1846: President James K. Polk signs a declaration of war against Mexico.UVA USState
- 14 Jun 1846: Anglo-Californians rebel against Mexican rule in the Bear Flag Revolt.BFM NPS
- 10 Aug 1846: The Smithsonian Institute is founded.SI USNA
- 10 Sep 1846: Elias Howe Jr. patents his sewing machine.ASME SI
- 23 Sep 1846: The planet Neptune is discovered.EarthSky" Astronomy
- 30 Sep 1846: Dentist William Morton uses ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston which begins its use for general anesthesia.W I R E D ASA
- 28 Dec 1846: Iowa becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
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| 21 | 1847 |
- 4 Jan 1847: Samuel Colt makes the first sale of his revolver to the U. S. government.History.com UTX
- 13 Jan 1847: The signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga puts an end to the fighting in the Mexican-American War in California.KCET NXTGOV
- 9 Mar 1847—29 Mar 1847: The American military attack the Mexican city of Veracruz.SotS UTA
- 5 Apr 1847—24 Jul 1847: Brigham Young leads the first Mormon wagon train bound for Utah on the final leg of their journey.Utah NPS
- 5 May 1847: The American Medical Association is founded.NEJM AMJMS
- 1 Oct 1847: Maria Mitchell is the first American to record a comet sighting.NEHS Nature
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| 22 | 1848 |
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| 23 | 1849 |
- 23 Jan 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the U. S. to receive a medical doctorate.NIH LoC
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| 24 | 1850 |
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| 25 | 1851 |
- 12 Aug 1851: Isaac Merritt Singer is granted a patent for a sewing machine.SI PG
- 22 Aug 1851: The yacht America wins the first America's Cup.LoC NYYC
- 14 Nov 1851: Moby Dick is first published in the U. S..Melville NBWM
- 24 Dec 1851: A fire at the Library of Congress destroys nearly two thirds of the books purchased from Thomas Jefferson.LoC AoC
- 29 Dec 1851: The first American YMCA is founded in the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts.YMCA UMN
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| 26 | 1852 |
- 16 Feb 1852: Henry and Clement Studebaker found a blacksmith and wagon building business, the company that will eventually produce that famous car.MotorTrend SILib
- 20 Mar 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.NCC SIMag
- 28 Apr 1852: The first municipal electric fire alarm system using call boxes with automatic signaling to indicate the location of a fire was placed into operation in Boston, Massachusetts.ETHW CI
- 2 Nov 1852: Franklin Pierce is elected the 14th president of the United States of America, 1853 - 1857.NEHS KCET
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| 27 | 1853 |
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| 28 | 1854 |
- 28 Mar 1854—1 Apr 1856: Britain and France declare war on Russia beginning their involvement in the Crimean War.SLSA HK
- 29 Apr 1854: The Ashmun Institute, the first black college, is chartered in Pennsylvania.Lincoln Columbia
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| 29 | 1855 |
- 28 Jan 1855: A train runs from the Atlantic Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.PCM SBH&RM
- 8 Mar 1855: The first train crosses the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, the first such bridge in the U. S..NFT NG
- 2 Jun 1855: The Portland Rum Riot begins.MHS NEHS
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| 30 | 1856 |
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| 31 | 1857 |
- 23 Mar 1857: Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at a department store in New York City.W I R E D TIME
- 19 May 1857: An electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph system is patented by William Channing of Boston and Moses Farmer of Salem, Massachusetts.SI GP
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| 32 | 1858 |
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| 33 | 1859 |
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| 34 | 1860 |
- 22 Feb 1860: More than 20,000 shoemakers go on strike in Lynn, Massachusetts.MassMoments PEM
- 3 Apr 1860—26 Oct 1861: The Pony Express mail delivery service is established.PX NPX
- 29 Jun 1860: The final stone is laid completing the Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, still in use today.US-L H2G2
- 18 Jul 1860: The first photographs of a solar eclipse are taken.HA EclipseMaps
- 6 Nov 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States of America, 1861 - 1865.SIMag LoC
- 20 Dec 1860: Confederate States begin to secede from the Union.Tulane SI
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| 35 | 1861 |
- 29 Jan 1861: Kansas becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 4 Feb 1861: The Confederate States of America is formed.CWH LoVA
- 18 Feb 1861: Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States of America.ACW LoC
- 19 Feb 1861: Serfdom is abolished in Russia by Alexander II.SHU LoC
- 28 Feb 1861—1 Aug 1876: Colorado Territory is organized.COEnc Politico
- 12 Apr 1861—14 Apr 1861: Fort Sumter is attacked.
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- 21 Jul 1861: The first major land battle of the Civil War occurs, the first Battle of Bull Run.USSenate ABT
- 5 Aug 1861: President Abraham Lincoln imposes the first income tax in order to afford the Civil War.NCC NPS
- 19 Nov 1861: The U. S. exports its first oil shipments to London.AOGHS
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| 36 | 1862 |
- 9 Mar 1862: The first naval engagement between ironclad ships, the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.ACW NPS
- 8 Apr 1862: John D. Lynde receives the first patent for an aerosol dispenser.DC GooglePatents
- 20 Apr 1862: The first pasteurization test, aimed at disproving the theory of spontaneous generation and proving food could be preserved by applied heat, is completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.HP AZDHS
- 29 Apr 1862: Union Admiral David Farragut forces the surrender of New Orleans, Louisiana.History.com HoW
- 15 May 1862: The United States Department of Agriculture is established.USDA USNA
- 1 Jul 1862: The Revenue Act of 1862 establishes the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, what will become the IRS in 1918.USNA Treasury
- 4 Nov 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun ushering in the age of high powered weaponry.IN GooglePatents
- 5 Nov 1862: More than 300 Santee Sioux are sentenced to hang in Minnesota.History.com NDStudies
- 13 Dec 1862: Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee defeat the Union forces under Ambrose Burnside, who abandoned his campaign 2 days later.LoC ABT
- 26 Dec 1862: 38 members of the Sioux nation are executed in Mankato, Minnesota in the largest mass hanging in U. S. history.UNA UDM
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| 37 | 1863 |
- 1 Jan 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.USNA OurDocs
- 10 Jan 1863: The first stretch of the London Underground opens.Telegraph DM
- 3 Mar 1863: The National Academy of Sciences is established.NAS Harvard
- 20 Jun 1863: West Virginia becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 1 Jul 1863—3 Jul 1863: Confederate forces meet Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg.NPS ABT
- 13 Jul 1863: The New York City Draft Riots begin.UChicago CUNY
- 17 Sep 1863—18 Sep 1863: The Battle of Antietam gives the Union a "victory", even though it is militarily a draw.ABT NPS
- 3 Oct 1863: Lincoln issues his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation establishing Thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November.NPS WAPO
- 19 Nov 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.LoC
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| 38 | 1864 |
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| 39 | 1865 |
- 1 Feb 1865: President Abraham Lincoln signs the 13th Amendment which abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude.LoC OurDocs
- 8 Feb 1865: Gregor Mendel first presents his works on plant hybridization.Nature NIH
- 9 Apr 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appomattox Court House ending the Civil War.LoC USNA
- 14 Apr 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.LoC Ford's
- 15 Apr 1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot by John Wilkes Booth the previous day.PBS LoC
- 15 Apr 1865: Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president of the United States of America upon President Lincoln's death. He serves from 1865 - 1869.NPS LoC
- 9 May 1865: Dr. Richard Gatling receives a patent for his machine gun.USNA SAWar
- 2 Jun 1865: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi sign the terms of surrender, officially ending the Civil War.NPS DC
- 19 Jun 1865: Union soldiers land at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War was over and that the enslaved were now free.SI PBS
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| 40 | 1866 |
- 27 Jul 1866: Cyrus W. Field finally succeeds in laying the first working trans-Atlantic Telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland.N&LH PBS
- 6 Oct 1866: The Reno brothers pull off the first train robbery in the United States.History.com
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| 41 | 1867 |
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| 42 | 1868 |
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| 43 | 1869 |
- 11 Jan 1869: The synthesis of alizarin, the standard for red dyes and pigments, is announced as it is also being prepared in front of the audience.GoogleBooks
- 26 Feb 1869: Physician Friedrich Miescher reports that he isolated DNA from white blood cells, naming it nuclein.SciDir RalfDahm
- 6 Mar 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents his Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.PopSci BYLib
- 10 May 1869: The first transcontinental railroad is complete when the Union and Central Pacific Railroads join rails in Promontory Summit, Utah.W-F CA
- 23 Jul 1869: The French-Atlantic cable is landed at Duxbury, Massachusetts.DRHS DH
- 16 Oct 1869: The Cardiff Giant, a 10 foot petrified body of a man, is "discovered" in Cardiff, New York.WRVO Hoaxes
- 3 Nov 1869: Ulysses S. Grant is elected the 18th president of the United States of America, 1869 - 1877.USEA
- 28 Dec 1869: William Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio receives a patent for chewing gum.OHC OTC
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| 44 | 1870 |
- 3 Jan 1870: Ground is broken and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.GG NY
- 9 Feb 1870: President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a national weather service.NOAA NWS
- 13 Apr 1870: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is incorporated in New York City.MetMuseum ArtNet
- 31 May 1870: The modern asphalt paving process is issued a patent.GoogleBooks McVey
- 22 Jun 1870: The U. S. Department of Justice is established.USNA DOJ
- 1 Nov 1870: The National Weather Service makes its first forecast.NWS PBS
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| 45 | 1871 |
- 27 Apr 1871: The American Museum of Natural History opens to the public.AMNH GoogleBooks
- 8 Oct 1871—10 Oct 1871: A fire starts in a barn that spreads into the Great Chicago Fire. Architecture
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| 46 | 1872 |
- 20 Feb 1872: New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its doors to the public for the first time.TheMet ArtStor
- 10 Apr 1872: Nebraskans plant more than a million trees on the first Arbor Day.LoC ArborDay
- 9 Jul 1872: Sea captain, John F. Blondel of Thomaston, Maine, patents the doughnut cutter.tFT CBSNews
- 9 Nov 1872—10 Nov 1872: A great fire destroys structures across 65 acres in the city of Boston.BFHS LoC
- Dec 1872: The first Rand McNally map is published.NA.gov
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| 47 | 1873 |
- 20 May 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.W I R E D LS&Co
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| 48 | 1874 |
- 10 Feb 1874: Lewis Latimer, the son of slaves and an inventor who worked closely with Edison on the incandescent light bulb, receives his first patent - a railroad car water closet.MassMoments RtG
- 16 May 1874: A dam bursts on the Mill River in western Massachusetts killing 139 people.MassMoments NEHS
- 7 Nov 1874: The first depiction of the Republican party as an elephant appears in Harper's Weekly in a Thomas Nast cartoon.SIMag LoC
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| 49 | 1875 |
- 9 Feb 1875: The first train passes through the Hoosac Tunnel, at the time, the second longest tunnel in the world.HT MassMoments
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| 50 | 1876 |
- 2 Feb 1876: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which comes to be more commonly known as the National League is formed.Reds SABR
- 7 Mar 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.USNA PBS
- 10 Mar 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call, telling his associate "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".LoC W I R E D
- 25 Jun 1876: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and all of his men are killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn.SIMag NPS
- 31 Jul 1876: The Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction is founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts, later to become the United States Coast Guard Academy.MassMoments SPW
- 1 Aug 1876: Colorado becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 19 Sep 1876: Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.BH GooglePatents
- 9 Oct 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson have the first "long distance" telephone conversation.Atlantic UILibs
- 7 Nov 1876: Rutherford Birchard Hayes is elected the 19th president of the United States of America, 1877 - 1881.USEA
- 23 Nov 1876: After being captured in Spain, "Boss" Tweed is delivered to authorities in New York City.History.com
- 5 Dec 1876: Daniel C. Stillson of Somerville, Massachusetts receives a patent for the first practical wrench used in plumbing applications.DATAMP GooglePatents
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| 51 | 1877 |
- 8 Jan 1877: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their final losing battle against the U. S. Cavalry in Montana.History.com ICT
- 13 Mar 1877: 15 year old Chester Greenfield of Farmington, Maine patents the earmuff.MIT ME
- 6 May 1877: Due to constant harassment by the U. S. Army and a shortage of food, Crazy Horse finally surrenders.ALMCC AHC
- 24 Jul 1877: For the first time, federal troops are used against striking workers.POLITICO WVCulture
- 5 Sep 1877: Crazy Horse is killed.CHM NPS
- 21 Nov 1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound. History.com
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| 52 | 1878 |
- 11 Feb 1878: The first bicycle club in the U. S. is formed - the Boston Bicycle Club.1878 ASU
- 12 Feb 1878: Fred Thayer, the captain of the Harvard baseball team, receives a patent for his invention - the catcher's mask.MLB NBHoF
- 19 Feb 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.LoC Signals
- 21 Feb 1878: The first telephone book is produced in New Haven, Connecticut.OTB SIMag
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| 53 | 1879 |
- 18 Feb 1879: A design patent is granted for the Statue of Liberty.GIZMODO MIT
- 3 Mar 1879: The United States Geological Survey is established.USGS USCapitol
- 8 Apr 1879: Milk is sold for the first time in glass containers.W I R E D CI
- 10 May 1879: The Archaeological Institute of America is founded in Boston.GoogleBooks AIA
- 31 Dec 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent light bulb to the public.LoC HFM
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| 54 | 1880 |
- 27 Jan 1880: Thomas Edison receives his patent for the incandescent light bulb.OurDocs USNA
- 3 Jun 1880: Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone.LoC Vice
- 2 Nov 1880: James Abram Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States of America. Garfield is wounded by an assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies on 19 Sep 1881.USEA USHouse
- 6 Nov 1880: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon, discovers the malaria parasite.CDC NIH
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| 55 | 1881 |
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| 56 | 1882 |
- 24 Mar 1882: Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, announces his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).CDC PBS
- 29 Mar 1882: The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.CTHist KoC
- 5 Jun 1882: The baggage claim check as it exists today is patented.WK CIPO
- 4 Sep 1882: The Edison Electric Illuminating Company at 257 Pearl Street in New York City begins providing eletricity to homes and businesses.JAIA ETHW
- 22 Dec 1882: For the first time, a Christmas tree is decorated using a string of electric lights.W I R E D DLG
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| 57 | 1883 |
- 19 Jan 1883: The first electrical transmission system utilizing overhead wires is put in place by Thomas Edison.fold3 USSI
- 24 May 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge opens to the public.LoC BWH
- 26 Aug 1883: Krakatoa begins erupting.ArcGIS NOAA
- 27 Aug 1883: Krakatoa blows its top, making the loudest noise ever heard, then collapses into a caldera.Nautilus NOAA
- 22 Oct 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York City.LoC NYPAP
- 18 Nov 1883: Canadian and U. S. railroads standardize on five time zones.W I R E D TCE
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| 58 | 1884 |
- 16 Jun 1884: The first amusement-park roller coaster ride in America opens at Coney Island.W I R E D WB
- 13 Oct 1884: The Greenwich meridian is officially adopted globally as the prime meridian, the imaginary north-south line where the longitude is 0 degrees.W I R E D MAA
- 14 Oct 1884: George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.PatentYogi Eastman
- 1 Nov 1884: Greenwich Mean Time is adopted universally when the International Meridian Conference meets in Washington, DC.GMT OFA
- 4 Nov 1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland is elected the 22nd president of the United States of America, 1885 - 1889.USEA
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| 59 | 1885 |
- 28 Feb 1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or AT&T, is chartered in New York.A-C GPM
- 26 Mar 1885: In Saskatchewan, Louis Riel leads the local Métis people and farmers for control of Fort Carlton beginning the North-West Resistance against Canada.CFP EoS
- 15 Apr 1885: Cree Uprising - 200 Anishinabe soldiers attack Fort Pitt, commanded by Francis Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, in western Saskatchewan.A-H CMA
- 17 Jun 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor on board the French Navy ship Isère.NPS IBTimes
- 30 Aug 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the first gas-engined motorcycle.W I R E D IH
- 1 Dec 1885: Dr Pepper® is served for the first time at a drugstore in Waco, Texas.WH BH
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| 60 | 1886 |
- 20 Mar 1886: Shops and hotels are lit up along Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts as a demonstration of AC electricity's capabilities. HMdb WM
- 4 May 1886: A peaceful labor demonstration erupts into violence and death at Haymarket Square in Chicago.ILHS PBS
- 8 May 1886: After John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola earlier in the year, the first sales are made at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta.Coca-Cola LoC
- 31 Aug 1886: The largest earthquake in South Carolina history occurs.EARTH USC
- 4 Sep 1886: Geronimo finally surrenders in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.AO ICT
- 28 Oct 1886: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated.SoL NPS
- 30 Nov 1886: The Westinghouse Electrical Company begins the first commercially successful transmission of A/C electricity.Google Books ETHW
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| 61 | 1887 |
- 2 Feb 1887: Groundhog Day! Six more weeks of winter if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow.GD 3RP
- 8 Feb 1887: The Dawes Act grants land to individual Native Americans.OurDocs PBS
- 27 Apr 1887: The first deliberate appendectomy in the U. S. is performed.GoogleBooks BMJ
- 27 May 1887: 34 Chinese gold miners are murdered on the Snake River.AM LT
- 8 Jun 1887: Herman Hollerith files for a patent for the punch card.WDN GooglePatents
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| 62 | 1888 |
- 27 Jan 1888: The National Geographic Society is incorporated. WHP
- 11 Mar 1888—14 Mar 1888: The Great Blizzard of March 1888 or the Great White Hurricane, hits the northeastern United States.HI LoC
- 22 Sep 1888: The National Geographic Society begins publishing its magazine. Biblio
- 30 Oct 1888: John J. Loud of Weymouth, Massachusetts receives the first patent for a ball-point pen.Pens tBPP
- 6 Nov 1888: Benjamin Harrison is elected the 23rd president of the United States of America, 1889 - 1893.USEA
- 9 Dec 1888: Statistician Herman Hollerith's computing device is installed at the U. S. War Department.RJ GoogleBooks
- 23 Dec 1888: Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear.SIMag VGG
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| 63 | 1889 |
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| 64 | 1890 |
- 3 Jul 1890: Idaho becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 10 Jul 1890: Wyoming becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 6 Aug 1890: The first execution by electric chair is carried out.DPI ABA
- 23 Sep 1890: The first automatic fire alarm is patented.SD GooglePatents
- 11 Oct 1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.DAR FairPark
- 15 Dec 1890: Sitting Bull is killed during a confrontation with Indian police in Grand River, South Dakota.ICT SI
- 29 Dec 1890: On Wounded Knee Creek, near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U. S. Army opens fire on an encampment of Big Foot's band of Miniconjou Sioux killing nearly 300 of the original 350 men, women, and children.LoC ICT
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| 65 | 1891 |
- 17 Aug 1891: U.S. Government rainmaking experiments begin in Texas.SIMag
- 21 Dec 1891: James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, introduces a new game to his class, basket ball.HoopHall MassMoments
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| 66 | 1892 |
- 1 Jan 1892: Ellis Island Immigration Station opens.EI LoC
- 15 Jan 1892: The first rules of basketball are published by Dr. James Naismith.USAB OCLC
- 19 Apr 1892: Charles Duryea becomes the first American to build and sell a gasoline-powered automobile.Hemmings DPL
- 28 May 1892: The Sierra Club is incorporated.SierraClub UCB
- 4 Aug 1892: Lizzie Borden kills her father and stepmother with a hatchet.CM SIMag
- 27 Sep 1892: Book matches receive a patent.PSU Hagley
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| 67 | 1893 |
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| 68 | 1894 |
- 14 Aug 1894: The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code is demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford.RSP NS
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| 69 | 1895 |
- 11 Jun 1895: The first U. S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile by a U. S. inventor was issued to Charles E. Duryea of the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. in Springfield.USNA HFM
- 27 Jun 1895: The first rail system in the U. S. using electric locomotives begins operating in Baltimore.HMdb A-R
- 26 Aug 1895: Water is diverted from Niagara Falls to begin the first large scale generation of electricity.SI BAH
- 8 Nov 1895: William Roentgen (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen) discovers X-rays.NobelPrize APS
- 28 Nov 1895: The first American automobile race takes place in Chicago.LoC THF
- 28 Dec 1895: The world's first commercial movie screening takes place in Paris. Variety
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| 70 | 1896 |
- 4 Jan 1896: Utah becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 29 Jan 1896: Émil H. Grubbe becomes the first to use radiation to treat a patient with recurrent breast cancer.ASCoPost RK
- 11 Aug 1896: Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut receives a patent for the first on-and-off pull chain, electric light bulb socket.CTHist F-a-G
- 16 Aug 1896: Gold is discovered in Rabbit Creek in the Yukon. The Klondike Gold Rush is on when word reaches civilization almost a year later.UoW PBS
- 3 Nov 1896: William McKinley Jr. is elected the 25th president of the United States of America, 1897 - 1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, New York on 14 Sept 1901.USEA USSenate
- 12 Dec 1896: Marconi demonstrates the radio and 5 years later, on this same day, transmits the first trans-Atlantic radio signal.W I R E D
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| 71 | 1897 |
- 7 Mar 1897: The first bowl of flaked corn is served by Dr. John Kellogg at his sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.W I R E D F&W
- 12 Jun 1897: The Swiss Army Knife is patented.Victorinox KP
- 20 Aug 1897: World Mosquito Day marks the discovery of the malaria parasite.Mosquito EM
- 1 Sep 1897: The first subway system in America opens in Boston.Boston MassMoments
- 23 Nov 1897: John Lee Love of Fall River, Massachusetts receives a patent for a pencil sharpener.GooglePatents BI
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| 72 | 1898 |
- 15 Feb 1898: "Remember the Maine!" The U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana harbor after striking a mine. 260 sailors are lost leading to the Spanish-American War.SIMag LoC
- 17 Mar 1898: John P. Holland launches what will become the U. S. Navy's first modern submarine.NavHist USSNautilus
- 21 Apr 1898: The U. S. declares war on Spain.NPS MoAGI
- 25 Apr 1898—Jul 1902: Spanish-American War: War is formally declared between the United States and Spain.LoC PBS
- 30 May 1898: Superman beware, Krypton is discovered.JLab NIH
- 1 Jul 1898: Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders make the charge up San Juan Hill.PBS USArmy
- 30 Jul 1898: William Kellogg, understanding the value of the flaked cereal served at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invents Cornflakes.TiS WCSA
- 29 Aug 1898: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is incorporated.Goodyear OHC
- 26 Nov 1898—27 Nov 1898: New England experiences a a severe storm, The Portland Gale.HazeGray NOAA
- 18 Dec 1898: The first recorded land speed record is set when Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat travels 39.252 miles per hour in a Jeantaud, a French electric automobile.WoS AC
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| 73 | 1899 |
- 10 Jan 1899: David Misell receives a patent for his "electric device" - better known as the flashlight, which is still almost unchanged from its original design.FF USPTO
- 14 Mar 1899: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a United States patent for his rigid airship design.W I R E D AW
- 13 Sep 1899: The first U. S. traffic fatality occurs after Henry Bliss is struck by a cab in New York City.W I R E D SIMag
- 2 Nov 1899—7 Sep 1901: The Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreigners in China, occurs.TW GoogleBooks
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| 74 | 1900 |
- 14 Mar 1900: Gold becomes the official standard of United States currency.NYTimes POLITICO
- 11 Apr 1900: The U. S. Navy acquires its first modern submarine, the Holland, designed by Irish immigrant John P. Holland, propelled by gasoline while on the surface and by electricity when submerged.LoC DoD
- 2 Jul 1900: Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, with five passengers, flies the world's first untethered rigid airship, the LZ-1 near Lake Constance in Germany.Airships CoF
- 8 Sep 1900: A hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing over 6000 people.1900Storm NPS
- 15 Oct 1900: Boston Symphony Hall is opened.BSO NET
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| 75 | 1901 |
- 10 Jan 1901: The oil industry gets underway in Texas with the Spindletop well.TXAlmanac TSHA
- 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: Edward VII. Ruler of England 1901-1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.HistoricUK
- 21 May 1901: Connecticut enacts the first speed limit law for automobiles in the U. S..W I R E D CTHist
- 6 Sep 1901: U. S. President William McKinley is shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.LoC BN
- 14 Sep 1901: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president of the United States of America upon the death of President McKinley. He serves 1901 - 1909.LoC NCC
- 10 Dec 1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.NP NPP
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| 76 | 1902 |
- 4 Mar 1902: The American Automobile Association is established in Chicago.AAA C&R
- 6 Mar 1902: The permanent United States Census Bureau is established through a legislative act.Census USFR
- 20 Apr 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris.SN DTE
- 9 Jun 1902: The first fast food restaurant in the United States, the Automat, opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.W I R E D PE
- 10 Jun 1902: Americus F. Callahan of Chicago receives a patent for the window envelope.NDM GooglePatents
- 17 Jul 1902: Willis Carrier completes the design for the world's first successful air-conditioning system.WC W I R E D
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| 77 | 1903 |
- 18 Jan 1903: The first two-way transatlantic wireless communication occurs.CapeCod TRC
- 15 Feb 1903: The first Teddy bears go on sale.History.com Politico
- 23 Feb 1903: The Treaty of Cuba is signed by President Roosevelt giving the United States the right to Guantanamo Bay.Avalon USState
- 15 Jul 1903: The newly formed Ford Motor Company takes its first order.Ford HF
- 11 Aug 1903: The first patent in the United States for instant coffee is received by Chicago chemist Satori Kato.W I R E D GooglePatents
- 1 Oct 1903—13 Oct 1903: The first baseball World Series begins - the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates.MLB BA
- 17 Dec 1903: The Wright brothers fly the first gas-powered, human-controlled, heavier-than-air aircraft.NASA LoC
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| 78 | 1904 |
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1828 - 1904 (~ 75 years)