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United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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First female boxing match in NY between Nelly Sanfers & Rose Harland
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General Crook destory Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian Camps
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"
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Republicans pick Rutherford B. Hayes as US Presidential candidate
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Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Cheifs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
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Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
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Thomas Edison is granted the patent for Autographic Printing ( US patent 180,857)
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Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montanta Territory)
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Congress establishes the Electoral Commision to determine the disputed presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden
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US Electoral Commision declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election with an electoral vote of 185-184 against Samuel J. Tilden
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US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C
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Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles
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General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
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Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy
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World's first moving pictures caught on camera (used 12 cameras, each taking one photo) done to see if all 4 of a horses hooves leave the ground
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Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
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Sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
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Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th president James Madison
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1st railroad opens in Hawaii
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Doc Holliday kills for the first time when a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
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Rutherford B. Hayes visits San Francisco.
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James A. Garfield (R) elected 20th US President
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Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
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Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C.
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American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
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US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later
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Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
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Charles J. Guiteau put on trial for the assassination of US President Garfield
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German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
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10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
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1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
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Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and NY Governor Cleveland
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Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
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US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
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Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
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Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
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Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
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$100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
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In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
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US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
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Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
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Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
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US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
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Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President
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US President Harrison announced the government would open the 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely at noon on April 22
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Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
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A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm
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2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886
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US President Benjamin Harrison dedicates the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, then largest building in the US
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United Mine Workers of America forms
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President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
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US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
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Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts on two counts of murder
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1st US federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
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Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
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Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine
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US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
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11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
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Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees
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A wildfire destroys the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing 438 people
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Serial killer H. H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons
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NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
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1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
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Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
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William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
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President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
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Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain
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1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
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US fleet under commodore George Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
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Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April
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US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
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Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
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US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American War
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George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy
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The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy
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Republican Party nominates President William McKinley for re-election, but chooses a new candidate for Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt
