1867
French leave Mexico; Maximilian executed.
Dominion of Canada established.
U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
South African diamond field discovered.
Strauss’s Blue Danube.
1868
In U.S., Fourteenth Amendment giving civil rights to blacks is ratified.
Georgia under military government after legislature expels blacks.
1869
First U.S. transcontinental rail route completed.
James Fisk and Jay Gould’s attempt to control gold market causes Black Friday panic.
Suez Canal opens.
Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements.
1871
German Empire proclaimed with Prussian King as Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Fighting with Apaches begins in American West.
Jane Canary was better known to America as Calamity Jane.
Boss Tweed corruption exposed in New York.
The Chicago Fire, with 250 deaths and $196-million damage.
Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa.
1872
Congress gives amnesty to most Confederates.
Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days.
1873
Economic crisis in Europe.
U.S. establishes gold standard.
1875
First Kentucky Derby. Aristides- 1875- FIRST Kentucky Derby Winner
1876
General George Armstrong Custer and his entire force were defeated and killed by Lakota and northern Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
1877
After presidential election of 1876, electoral commission gives disputed electoral college votes to Rutherford B. Hayes despite Tilden’s popular majority.
President Hayes removes federal troops from the South, ending the period known as Reconstruction.
Thomas Edison patents phonograph.
Thomas Edison recorded the human voice for the first time reciting, “Mary had a little lamb”
First ever recorded musical performance made in St Louis in 1878 on a sheet of tin foil on a phonograph invented by Thomas Edison.
The Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph is forced to surrender.
The Disastrous Premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
1878
First commercial telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Conn.
1879
Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light.
1880
U.S.-China treaty allows U.S. to restrict immigration of Chinese labor.
1881
President Garfield fatally shot by assassin; Vice President Arthur succeeds him. Charles J. Guiteau convicted and executed (1882).
1882
In U.S., Congress adopts Chinese Exclusion Act.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust is first industrial monopoly.
1883
Congress creates Civil Service Commission.
Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
Metropolitan Opera House completed.
Word count 357
>>to return to previous page – right click on back arrow <<