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Chinese people migrated to the American West coast during the period of the gold rush to work in the gold mines and railroads.
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The California Supreme Court case ruled that the testimony of a Chinese man who witnessed a murder by a white man was inadmissible.
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Yung Wing was the first Asian to be graduated from Yale University.
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California imposes a tax only for chinese men.
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Chinese railroad workers memorialMany Chinese are recruited to build the first transcontinental Railroad in United States of America. The harsh conditions of working killed many of them.
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The Transcontinental Railroad is completed.
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The Fourteenth Amendment gives full citizenship to every baby born in the U.S., regardless of race.
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The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a two day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco by the city's majority white population. The ethnic violence which swept Chinatown resulted in four deaths and the destruction of more than $100,000 worth of property belonging to the city's Chinese immigrant population.
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Chinese are ruled ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
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The Chinese exclusion act prohibits Chinese to immigrate to the United states for 10 years.
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Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was beaten to death. His murder became a rally point for Asian Americans. Vincent Chin's murder is often considered the beginning of a pan-ethnic Asian American movement.
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Angel Island in San Francisco Bay opens as the major station for as many as 175,000 Chinese and 60,000 Japanese immigrants.
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California bans Japanese immigrants from purchasing land.
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United States Immigration Act of 1924 banned most immigration from Asia.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 uprooting 100,000 people of Japanese birth or descent on the west coast to be sent to Internment camps.
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Wataru Misaka was the first player American of Asian descent to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA),
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A group of mostly Filipino farm workers go on strike against growers of table grapes in California. A strike which became known as the famous Delano grape strike. They were led by the famous Asian American activists and labor organizers Philip Vera Cruz and Larry Itliong.
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Asian American JazzA new distinct genre of music is created : Asian American Jazz. A musical movement based on it is launched.
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Congress creates Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate internment of Japanese Americans; in 1983 it reports Japanese American internment was not a national security necessity
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Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was beaten to death. His murder became a rally point for Asian Americans. Vincent Chin's murder is often considered the beginning of a pan-ethnic Asian American movement.
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President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988 apologizing for Japanese American internment and provide reparations of $20,000 to each victim.
