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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
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Mississippi was the first state in the nation to grant married women the right to hold property in their own names. -
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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Susan B. Anthony is one of several women in Rochester, New York to vote in the presidential election. Anthony is arrested and charged with voting illegally. Her case is heard by a federal court, who issue their decision in 1873. The other women who voted are arrested but not charged. The election inspectors who allowed the women to vote are arrested and found guilty. President Ulysses S. Grant pardons them after they are jailed for refusing to pay their fines. -
The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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Approximately 10,000 people gather in New York City’s Union Square at what was, at the time, the largest woman suffrage demonstration held in the United States. -
the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue--the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day--in a procession organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
US Congress created the National Park Service
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the federal women is passed by the house of representatives and the senate. It is sent to the state for ratification. -
This federal law provides a path back to citizenship (and the voting booth) for women who lost their US citizenship by marrying a foreign national after passage of the Expatriation Act of 1907. -
It repeals the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and Chinese immigrants, including women, are able to become US citizens (though rights of property ownership remain restricted). Some already in the US are able to naturalize. The quota for entry visas to the US issued to Chinese citizens is set at 105 per year. -
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law. It prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Later amendments to the Act expand its protections. -
The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
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The Equal Rights Amendment passes in the US House of Representatives with a vote of 354 for, 24 against. -
Women’s Rights National Historical Park is established. It includes several properties associated with the 1848 Women’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls. It is a unit of the National Park Service. -
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide
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U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol
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U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
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U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation