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1876-1900
United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. -
1876-1900
Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you." -
1876-1900
First female boxing match in NY between Nelly Sanfers & Rose Harland -
1876-1900
General Crook destory Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian Camps -
1876-1900
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake" -
1876-1900
Republicans pick Rutherford B. Hayes as US Presidential candidate -
1876-1900
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" -
1876-1900
Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate -
1876-1900
Thomas Edison is granted the patent for Autographic Printing ( US patent 180,857) -
1876-1900
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montanta Territory) -
1876-1900
Congress establishes the Electoral Commision to determine the disputed presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden -
1876-1900
US Electoral Commision declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election with an electoral vote of 185-184 against Samuel J. Tilden -
1876-1900
US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C -
1876-1900
Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles -
1876-1900
General strike brings US railroad to a stand still -
1876-1900
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy -
1876-1900
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 -
1876-1900
Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson -
1876-1900
Sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty -
1876-1900
Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th president James Madison -
1876-1900
1st railroad opens in Hawaii -
1876-1900
Doc Holliday kills for the first time when a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon. -
1876-1900
Rutherford B. Hayes visits San Francisco. -
1876-1900
James A. Garfield (R) elected 20th US President -
1876-1900
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. -
1876-1900
Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C. -
1876-1900
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton -
1876-1900
US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later -
1876-1900
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) -
1876-1900
Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops -
1876-1900
Charles J. Guiteau put on trial for the assassination of US President Garfield -
1876-1900
German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis) -
1876-1900
10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC -
1876-1900
1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison -
1876-1900
Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and NY Governor Cleveland -
1876-1900
Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional -
1876-1900
US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog) -
1876-1900
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. -
1876-1900
Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris -
1876-1900
Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President -
1876-1900
Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' -
1876-1900
$100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty -
1876-1900
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. -
1876-1900
US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence -
1876-1900
Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war -
1876-1900
Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City -
1876-1900
US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor -
1876-1900
Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President -
1876-1900
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 -
1876-1900
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president -
1876-1900
A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm -
1876-1900
2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886 -
1876-1900
US President Benjamin Harrison dedicates the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, then largest building in the US -
1876-1900
United Mine Workers of America forms -
1876-1900
President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products -
1876-1900
US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota -
1876-1900
The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia -
1876-1900
Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts on two counts of murder -
1876-1900
1st US federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features -
1876-1900
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi -
1876-1900
Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange -
1876-1900
Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine -
1876-1900
US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US -
1876-1900
11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn -
1876-1900
Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees -
1876-1900
A wildfire destroys the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing 438 people -
1876-1900
Serial killer H. H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons -
1876-1900
NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass -
1876-1900
1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University -
1876-1900
Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address -
1876-1900
William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president -
1876-1900
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration -
1876-1900
Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain -
1876-1900
1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship -
1876-1900
US fleet under commodore George Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines -
1876-1900
Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April -
1876-1900
US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila -
1876-1900
Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill -
1876-1900
US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American War -
1876-1900
George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy -
1876-1900
The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy -
1876-1900
Republican Party nominates President William McKinley for re-election, but chooses a new candidate for Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt
