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Hawaii grants the United States exclusive use of Pearl Harbor.
On January 20th 1887 the United States senate allowed the navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. -
Grover Cleveland is re-elected president.
In the United States presidential election of 1892, former President Grover Cleveland ran for re-election against the incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, who was also running for re-election. Cleveland defeated Harrison, tthen becoming the only person in American history to be elected to a second, non-consecutive presidential term. -
Planters overthrow the Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani.
Local sugar planters and businessmen feared a loss of revenue and influence and instigated an overthrow. To avoid bloodshed, the Queen yielded her throne on January 17, 1893. A provisional government was established. -
William McKinley is elected president.
William McKinley (1843-1901), former congressman and Governor of Ohio, won the election of 1896 and became the 23rd U.S. president. -
Spanish-American war takes place.
On March 28, the Naval Court of Inquiry reported that the Maine was destroyed by a mine, and did not assign the blame to any party. Many newspapers, however, stirred up outrage and called for war. On April 11, 1898, President McKinley asked Congress to declare war. On April 22, the Unites States was at war with Spain. -
William McKinley is assassinated.
On September 6, 1901 an assassin's bullet tore into President William McKinley and eventually propelled Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. McKinley was cut down while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. -
Theodore Roosevelt is elected president.
After McKinley is assassinated Theodore Roosevelt beomes president. -
William Howard Taft is elected president.
The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor. -
Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. -
Panama Canal opens.
The Panama Canal cost Americans around $375,000,000, including the $10,000,000 paid to Panama and the $40,000,000 paid to the French company. It was the single most expensive construction project in United States history to that time. Fortifications cost extra, about $12,000,000. -
Pancho Villa makes a raid in the United States.
It was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican insurgent Francisco "Pancho" Villa from 1916 to 1917 during the Mexican Revolution. The expedition was launched in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus, New Mexico and was the most remembered event of the Border War. The expeditions had one objective, to capture Villa dead or alive and put a stop to any future forays by his paramilitary forces on American soil.
