Transcendentalism

By jtaplin

  • Transcendentalist Club First Meeting

  • Emerson publishes "Nature"

  • Invention of the daguerreotype

  • Emerson's Divinity Hall Sermon

  • Francis Johnson's Philidelphia Christmas Concert

    The first Integrated Concert by a Black Composer

  • First Issue of "The Dial" published

    Emerson calls it "the journal of the new spirit.

  • Elizabeth Peabody opens her "Foreign Library" in Boston

  • New England Non-Resistance Society Meeting

    Theodore Parker, Ripley, Alcott and Garrison start the abolitionist movement

  • Thoreau moves to Emerson's house

    Becomes Emerson children's tutor

  • Brook Farm Commune established

    Nathaniel Hawthorne moves in. ?

  • Emerson publishes "Self Reliance"

    ?

  • Collis Huntington opens Huntington's Merchandise

    Onteonta, New York

  • Bronson Alcott forms "Fruitlands" Commune

    ?

  • Mathew Brady opens photography studio in New York

  • Thoreau moves to Walden Pond

  • Parker's "Sermon of War"

    Crucial sermon against the Mexican war preached at the Boston Melodeon

  • Thoreau Goes to Jail

    Civil Disobedience is born

  • Lincoln's "Spot Resolution" against the Mexican War

    Challenged Polk about the cause of the war.

  • Thoreau gives "Resistance to Civil Government" lecture

    Concord Lyceum. ?

  • Premiere of Stephen Foster's Ethiopian Melodies

    Christy Minstrels

  • Collis Huntington and Carleton Watkins arrive in San Francisco

  • Herman Melville-Moby Dick

  • Watkins goes to work for Huntington in Sacramento

    Merchandise Business. ?

  • Great Sacramento Fire

    Destroys both Huntington and Mark Hopkins stores

  • Walden published

    ?

  • Lincoln's Peoria Speech

    Against the Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Carleton Watkins begins working in Robert Vance's Gallery

    Marysville Gallery, San Francisco. ?

  • Huntington and Mark Hopkins form Partnership

    Sacramento retail trade

  • Walt Whitman self-publishes "Leaves of Grass"

  • Pottawatomie Massacre

    John Brown in Kansas . ?

  • Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech

  • John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid

  • Thoreau gives "A Plea for Captain John Brown" Speech

    Concord, MA

  • Lincoln Elected President

  • First Big Four meeting with Theodore Judah

    Huntington, Hopkins, Stamford and Crocker plan the Central Pacific

  • Fort Sumter Attacked

  • Central Pacific Rairoad Incorporated

  • Carleton Watkins arrives in Yosemite

    Mamouth Plate Camera

  • Thoreau dies of Tuberculosis

  • Pacific Railway Act signed by Lincoln

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Clark & Rockefeller build first refinery

    ?

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Stephen Foster dies in poverty

  • Rockefeller & Andrews consolidates Cleveland refinery

    ?

  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • Ku Klux Klan founded by General Nathan Forrest

    Pulaski, Tenn.
    ?
    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm

  • Huntington takes control of Chesapeake & Ohio

  • Big Four purchase the Southern Pacific Rairoad

  • Virginia bans School intergration

    ?
    Virginia erected in 1869 a constitutional ban against blacks and whites attending the same schools, followed by Tennessee in 1870, Alabama and North Carolina in 1875

  • Trancontinental Railroad Completed

  • Black Friday Panic

    James Fisk and Jay Gould try to corner the gold market

  • Standard Oil of Ohio incorporated

  • Drexel, Morgan & Co. Formed

    ?

  • The Cleveland Conquest

    Rockefeller consolidates oil refining

  • Panic of 1873

    Jay Cooke and Co. bankruptcy

  • The White League establish in Louisiana

    White Paramilitary group

  • Battle of Liberty Place

    White Leage paramilitary vs. Louisiana State Militia

  • Wormsley House Agreement

    Compromise of 1877 to withdraw Federal Troops from the south
    http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/wormley.htm

  • Electoral commission awards Rutherford B. Hayes the Presidency

    185-184 electoral votes