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Strikers demand an eight hour work day, instead of the long one's that they normally worked.
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McCormick Reaper Works factory workers strike and the police kill several strikers.
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A peaceful group of men meet near the square, Soon after, police arrive to break up the peaceful congregation and a bomb is thrown into the crowd, which results in killing many people, including policemen, however, there wasn't a suspect (at the time).
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Police arrest anarchists and labor activists, including seven of eight of the arrested men who would eventually be on trial for being suspects.
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Multiple people charged, while Albert Parsons, August Spies, Oscar Neebe, Louis Lingg, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden are put on trial to stand for the crime of throwing the bomb.
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Jury selections begin of among 981 people, including businessmen, clerks, etc.
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Defendants Fielden, Schwab, Spies and Parsons charged with the belief of instigating violence. It was said that a death snetence was inevitable.
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Defendants and another man sentenced to fifteen years in pennetentary.
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The convicted people begin to deliver their speeches of innocence to the court before sentencing
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The executions of Lingg, Parsons, Spies, Engel, and Fischer in Chicago are witnessed by 150,000 - 500,000 people.
