Today in United States of America History (Part 3)
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Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 1,274
1822-01-05 - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1822-01-07 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1822-02-04 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1822-02-09 - American Indian Society organizes
1823-07-01 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1824-08-15 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1825-05-25 - American Unitarian Assn founded
1826-02-13 - American Temperance Society, forms in Boston
1827-11-17 - The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1828-02-21 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1828-04-21 - Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1828-05-19 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1830-05-20 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830-08-28 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1831-07-04 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1832-07-04 - "America" 1st sung publicly
1832-11-26 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1833-12-04 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1835-01-08 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1835-12-29 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1836-02-25 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.
1836-11-10 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
1837-02-11 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1837-03-04 - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1837-06-11 - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1838-01-26 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1838-04-30 - Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
1838-07-07 - Central American federation is dissolved
1838-11-05 - Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1839-06-12 - 1st baseball game played in America
1839-11-27 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1840-02-16 - American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1840-08-18 - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1843-02-06 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1845-08-28 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1845-12-02 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1846-01-05 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1846-04-25 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1847-01-04 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1847-05-05 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1847-05-07 - American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1847-07-26 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1847-07-29 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1847-09-12 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1847-09-13 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1848-04-18 - American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1848-07-06 - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1848-08-22 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1848-09-20 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1849-02-14 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1849-10-03 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1850-03-18 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1851-08-12 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1851-08-22 - Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1851-12-29 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1853-07-06 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
1854-06-10 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1854-10-01 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1855-02-14 - Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1855-09-03 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1855-09-27 - George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in NYC
1856-02-18 - American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1856-02-18 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1856-08-21 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1856-11-17 - On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1857-09-12 - 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
1857-10-06 - American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1857-10-10 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1858-07-29 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1859-09-17 - Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America
1860-01-29 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1860-08-03 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
1861-01-10 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1861-01-11 - Alabama secedes from the United States.
1861-01-18 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1861-02-01 - American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1861-02-06 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
1861-02-08 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
1861-02-28 - Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
1861-04-25 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
1861-05-06 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861-06-08 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1861-08-29 - American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1861-11-02 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1861-12-09 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1862-06-07 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1862-09-17 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1863-01-08 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1863-01-26 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1863-05-14 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1863-08-08 - American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday.
1863-09-16 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864-07-29 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1864-11-07 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1865-01-31 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1865-03-18 - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1865-11-06 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1865-11-13 - PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1866-04-10 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1866-05-01 - American Equal Rights Association forms
Famous Birthdays
Results 201 - 300 of 9,097
1810-09-02 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1811-04-21 - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
1811-08-22 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1811-09-19 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1812-02-14 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
1812-03-06 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1812-03-22 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1812-04-27 - William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
1812-09-12 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
1812-09-18 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
1813-04-18 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1814-04-02 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
1814-11-22 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1815-01-21 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1815-03-05 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1815-03-13 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
1815-10-29 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1816-06-19 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1816-07-04 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1816-11-29 - Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
1816-12-08 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
1817-02-14 - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor
1817-03-04 - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1817-08-14 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
1817-11-25 - John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
1818-04-04 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
1819-03-29 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
1819-04-28 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1819-10-16 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1819-12-26 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1820-02-01 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
1820-03-24 - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1820-04-26 - Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1820-09-03 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1820-10-05 - David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
1821-01-27 - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1821-07-24 - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1821-08-04 - James White, American theologian (d. 1881)
1821-08-10 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1821-09-28 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1821-10-22 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
1821-12-19 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
1821-12-25 - Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse/founder (American Red Cross)
1822-12-05 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907)
1823-03-20 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
1823-05-22 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1823-05-29 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1823-09-16 - Francis Parkman, American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1824-03-05 - Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc
1824-03-25 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1824-09-04 - Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
1825-02-15 - Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
1825-07-31 - William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1826-03-04 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1826-04-26 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826-04-26 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
1827-05-21 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1827-05-27 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1827-09-30 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1827-10-31 - Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
1827-11-26 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
1828-05-23 - Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
1828-10-10 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1829-03-24 - George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829-04-15 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1830-05-05 - John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
1830-07-08 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1830-08-05 - James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
1830-09-02 - William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1831-02-27 - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
1832-01-13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
1832-05-21 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1832-07-10 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1833-01-02 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1833-10-02 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897)
1834-04-01 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
1834-08-22 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1834-10-08 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1835-03-15 - John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1835-12-18 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
1836-03-05 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1836-03-20 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
1836-03-28 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1836-06-16 - Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
1836-08-11 - Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
1836-09-11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1836-11-04 - Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912)
1836-11-08 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1837-04-10 - Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
1837-04-17 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
1837-05-28 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1837-08-01 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1837-11-13 - James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
1837-12-26 - Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
1837-12-26 - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1838-06-16 - Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1838-07-20 - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1839-02-09 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
1839-02-20 - Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1839-02-22 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 3,298
1870-03-28 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1870-09-12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1871-08-27 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1872-01-07 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1872-04-09 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1872-10-10 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1874-04-20 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
1874-08-14 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
1875-05-17 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1875-07-30 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1875-08-27 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1875-11-22 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1876-01-09 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1876-04-09 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1876-05-07 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
1876-09-09 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1876-09-27 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1877-04-22 - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
1877-10-29 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1878-04-04 - Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
1878-06-16 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1878-11-28 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1878-12-19 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
1879-10-31 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879-10-31 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1879-12-06 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1880-06-28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1880-07-21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1880-12-11 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1881-03-21 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1881-06-16 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881-07-14 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1881-07-17 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1881-10-03 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1882-07-04 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1882-07-13 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1882-07-16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1883-01-10 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1883-04-04 - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1883-04-06 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1883-08-19 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1883-10-22 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1884-03-13 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
1884-03-21 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1885-01-13 - Schuyler Colfax,American politician (b.1823)
1886-01-26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1886-05-17 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
1886-08-30 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1886-09-03 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1886-10-08 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1886-11-22 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1887-03-08 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
1887-03-08 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
1887-05-07 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1887-05-14 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1887-07-25 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1887-08-08 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1887-11-08 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1887-12-05 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1888-08-16 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1889-01-13 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
1889-05-14 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1889-07-21 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1890-02-17 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
1890-02-22 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890-04-01 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
1890-04-13 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1890-07-13 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1891-01-05 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1891-09-18 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1892-03-16 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1892-12-02 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
1893-02-18 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
1893-02-20 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1893-06-21 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1893-07-17 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894-07-01 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1894-10-07 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1895-01-03 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1895-01-09 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1895-08-19 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1896-01-01 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1896-05-05 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1896-05-07 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
1896-07-19 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1896-09-11 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1897-10-19 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1897-11-17 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1897-11-19 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1897-12-28 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1897-12-29 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1898-03-11 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1898-03-18 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1898-07-08 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1898-09-14 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1898-10-12 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1899-01-12 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1899-03-03 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
1899-07-21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1899-09-17 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
