Timeline: Haymarket Riot | Timetoast

Jan 1, 1866

Labor union passes 8-hour workday

Actua Date, Not known, Only know year of 1866.
Jan 1, 1867

Illinois is first to enact 8 hour law

Date not known. Only know year of 1867.
Jan 1, 1878

Albert Parsons elected secretary of Chicago's 8 Hour league.

Date not known. Only know 1878.
May 1, 1886

Organized strikes fighting for 8 hour work days
May 1, 1886

100,00 American workers go on strike supporting 8 hour work day
May 4, 1886

Meeting of Workingmen near Haymarjet Square
May 4, 1886

Police arrvie to make peace
May 4, 1886

Bomb is thrown killing some workingmen & police officers
Aug 20, 1886

8 men convicted guilty and sentenced to death
Nov 11, 1887

Spies, Parsons, Fielden, and Engel are hanged