Timeline of United States history (1860-99)

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This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899.

Video Timeline of United States history (1860-99)

1860s

• 1860 - Pony Express begins.
• 1860 - Crittenden Compromise
• 1860 - United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected president; Hannibal Hamlin elected vice president
• 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union
• 1861 - Ten more states secede from the Union and establish the Confederate States of America
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President; Hannibal Hamlin becomes Vice President
• 1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
• 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas)
• 1862 - Battle of Hampton Roads (Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack; first ever naval battle between iron-sided ships)
• 1862 - Homestead Act
• 1862 - Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
• 1862 - Gen. Robert E. Lee placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia
• 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)
• 1862 - Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg)
• 1862 - Dakota War of 1862 begins
• 1862-1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
• 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
• 1863 - The Siege of Vicksburg ends
• 1863 - New York City draft riots
• 1863 - Pro-Union Virginia counties become separate state of West Virginia
• 1864 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant put in command of all Union forces
• 1864 - Wade-Davis Bill
• 1864 - Sand Creek massacre
• 1864 - Nevada becomes a state
• 1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864; Abraham Lincoln is reelected president; Andrew Johnson is elected vice president
• 1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea
• 1865 - Robert E. Lee made commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces
• 1865 - President Lincoln begins second term; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President
• 1865 - Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, captured by a corps of black Union troops
• 1865 - Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
• 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President
• 1865 - American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender
• 1865 - 13th Amendment passes, permanently outlawing slavery
• 1865 - Freedmen's Bureau
• 1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
• 1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded
• 1867 - Tenure of Office Act enacted
• 1867 - Territory of Alaska purchased from the Russian Empire
• 1867 - Nebraska becomes a state
• 1868 - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, acquitted by the Senate
• 1868 - Fourteenth Amendment is ratified; second of Reconstruction Amendments
• 1868 - Ulysses S. Grant is elected president; Schuyler Colfax elected vice president
• 1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes the 18th President; Schuyler Colfax becomes Vice President
• 1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory

Maps Timeline of United States history (1860-99)

1870s

• 1870 - 15th Amendment
• 1870 - First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard)
• 1870 - Enforcement 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: Ulysses S. Grant reelected president; Henry Wilson elected vice president
• 1873 - Panic of 1873
• 1873 - President Grant begins second term; Henry Wilson becomes Vice President
• 1873 - Virginius Affair
• 1874 - Red River Indian War
• 1875 - Aristides (horse) wins first Kentucky Derby
• 1875 - Resumption Act
• 1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875
• 1875 - The Art Students League of New York is founded
• 1875 - Vice President Wilson dies
• 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 - Wild Bill Hickok is killed by a shot to the back of his head by Jack McCall while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota. He held aces and eights, now known as the Dead man's hand.
• 1876 - U.S. presidential election, 1876 produces an unclear result with 20 Electoral College votes disputed
• 1877 - The Electoral Commission awards Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency and William A. Wheeler the vice presidency
• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th President; William A. Wheeler becomes Vice President
• 1877 - Reconstruction ends
• 1877 - Nez Perce War
• 1878 - Bland-Allison Act
• 1878 - Morgan silver dollars first minted
• 1879 - Thomas Edison creates first functioning light bulb
• 1879 - Knights of Labor go public

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1880s

• 1880 - University of Southern California founded
• 1880 - U.S. population exceeds 50 million
• 1880 - U.S. presidential election, 1880: James A. Garfield elected president; Chester A. Arthur elected vice president
• 1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory
• 1881 - James Garfield becomes the 20th President
• 1881 - President Garfield assassinated, Vice President Arthur becomes the 21st President
• 1881 - Clara Barton creates Red Cross
• 1881 - Tuskegee Institute founded
• 1881 - Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
• 1881 - A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson
• 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
• 1882 - Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert and Charlie Ford
• 1883 - participants include: Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Calamity Jane, and Annie Oakley.
• 1883 - Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3 1883 legalizes doctrine of segregation
• 1883 - Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
• 1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens
• 1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: Grover Cleveland elected president; Thomas A. Hendricks elected vice president
• 1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd President; Thomas A. Hendricks becomes Vice President
• 1885 - Washington Monument completed
• 1885 - Vice President Hendricks dies
• 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
• 1888 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Benjamin Harrison elected president; Levi P. Morton elected vice president
• 1889 - Oklahoma Land Rush (April 22, 1889)
• 1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd President; Levi P. Morton becomes Vice President
• 1889 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states
• 1889 - Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania
• 1889 - Jane Addams founds Hull House

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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
• 1891 - James Naismith invents basketball
• 1892 - Homestead Strike
• 1892 - General Electric Company founded
• 1892 - Sierra Club founded
• 1892 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland elected president; Adlai E. Stevenson elected vice president
• 1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes the 24th President; Adlai E. Stevenson becomes Vice President
• 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 & Trust Co. 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 - U.S. presidential election, 1896: William McKinley elected president; Garret A. Hobart elected vice president
• 1897 - William McKinley becomes the 25th President; Garret A. Hobart becomes Vice 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, Philippine-American War begins
• 1898 - Hawaii annexed
• 1898 - Newlands Resolution
• 1898 - American Anti-Imperialist League organized
• 1899 - Teller Amendment
• 1899 - Newsboys' strike of 1899
• 1899 - American Samoa occupied
• 1899 - Open Door Notes
• 1899 - Vice President Hobart dies

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See also

• Timeline of the American Old West
• History of the United States (1849-1865)
• History of the United States (1865-1918)

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External links

• Library of Congress. Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880

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