At this time in history 1867 – 1883
- At this time in History Timeline 1867 – 1883
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- French leave Mexico; Maximilian executed.
- Dominion of Canada established.
- S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
- South African diamond field discovered.
- Strauss’s Blue Danube.
- In U.S., Fourteenth Amendment giving civil rights to blacks is ratified.
- Georgia under military government after legislature expels blacks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Congress gives amnesty to most Confederates.
- Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days.
- Economic crisis in Europe.
- S. establishes gold standard.
- First Kentucky Derby. Aristides- 1875- FIRST Kentucky Derby Winner
- 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.
- 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.
- First commercial telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Conn.
- Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light.
- S.-China treaty allows U.S. to restrict immigration of Chinese labor.
- President Garfield fatally shot by assassin; Vice President Arthur succeeds him. Charles J. Guiteau convicted and executed (1882).
- In U.S., Congress adopts Chinese Exclusion Act.
- Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust is first industrial monopoly.
- Congress creates Civil Service Commission.
- Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
- Metropolitan Opera House completed.