讨论:美国历史年表

18th century

A depiction of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment

The Death of General Wolfe during the French and Indian War

George III of the United Kingdom

Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre

A depiction of the Boston Tea Party

Depiction of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Trumbull's Battle of Bunker Hill

Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

Washington's Crossing of the Delaware

The Surrender of General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown

The American delegation that signed the Treaty of Paris

A depiction of the Constitutional Convention

George Washington, the first President of the United States

Year	Date	Event
1702	March 8	威廉三世去世，安妮女王继位。
		安妮女王战争（1702年－1713年）开始。
		东泽西省与西泽西省成为直辖殖民地。
1715		Yamasee War: The war, in Carolina, took place.
1727	June 11	George I of Great Britain died and was succeeded by George II of Great Britain.
1729		The proprietors of the Province of Carolina sold out to the British crown.
1732		First Great Awakening: The First Great Awakening took place.
1749		The Province of Georgia overturned its ban on slavery.
1752		本杰明·富兰克林的风筝实验。
1754		法国－印第安人战争：战争开始。
		Albany Congress: A "Union of Colonies" was proposed.
1758	October	The Treaty of Easton was signed.
1760	September 8	法国－印第安人战争：Pierre de Rigaud, Governor of New France, signed the Articles of Capitulation of Montreal, ceding the Ohio Country and Illinois Country, and the territory of modern-day Canada, to British Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, ending major hostilities.
	October 25	George II died and was succeeded by his grandson George III of the United Kingdom.
1763		Pontiac's Rebellion: The rebellion began.
	February 10	法国－印第安人战争：The Treaty of Paris, under which France ceded much of its North American territory to Great Britain but surrendered Louisiana to Spain, formally ended the war.
	October 7	乔治三世发布1763年公告, establishing royal administration over the British colonies won under the Treaty of Paris and demarcating their western boundary.
1764	April 5	The Sugar Act, intended to raise revenues, was passed by the British Parliament.
	September 1	The British Parliament passed the Currency Act, which prohibited the colonies from issuing paper money.
1765	March 22	To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act 1765, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies.
	March 24	The British Parliament enacted the Quartering Act, requiring the Thirteen Colonies to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops.
	May 29	Virginia's House of Burgesses adopted the Virginia Resolves, which claimed that under British law Virginians could be taxed only by an assembly to which they had elected representatives.
	October 19	Stamp Act Congress: A congress of delegated from nine colonies adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which petitioned Parliament and the King to repeal the Stamp Act.
1766		Pontiac's Rebellion: The rebellion ended.
	March 18	The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and issued the Declaratory Act, which asserted its "full power and authority to make laws and statutes... to bind the colonies and people of America... in all cases whatsoever."
	May 21	The Liberty Pole was erected in New York City in celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act.
1767		The British Parliament suspended the Governor and assembly of the Province of New York for failure to enforce the Quartering Act.
	June 29	The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, were passed by the British Parliament, placing duties on many items imported into America.
1769		The British Parliament suspended the Governor and assembly of the Province of New York for failure to enforce the Quartering Act.
	December	The broadside To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York was published by the local Sons of Liberty.
1770	January 19	Battle of Golden Hill: British troops wounded several civilians and killed one.
	January 28	Frederick North, Lord North becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
	March 5	Boston Massacre: The massacre took place.
1771	May 16	Battle of Alamance: A battle took place in North Carolina ending the Regulator Movement.
1772		Samuel Adams organized the Committees of Correspondence.
	May	The Watauga Association, in modern-day Tennessee, declared itself independent.
	June 9	Gaspée Affair: The affair took place.
1773年	5月10日	英国国会通过茶叶法案。
	12月16日	波士顿倾茶事件。
1774		Franklin, then Massachusetts's agent in London, was questioned before the British Parliament.
		Dunmore's War: The war took place.
		Britain passed the Quebec Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
		First Continental Congress: The Congress, to which twelve colonies sent delegates, met.
	March 31	Britain passed the Boston Port Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
	May 20	Britain passed the Administration of Justice Act 1774, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
		Britain passed the Massachusetts Government Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
	June 2	Britain passed a second Quartering Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
	September 1	Powder Alarm: British General Thomas Gage secretly raided a powder magazine in Cambridge.
	October 19	The HMS Peggy Stewart was burned.
	December 22	Greenwich Tea Party: The Greenwich Tea Party took place.
1775		Second Continental Congress: The Congress met.
	April 19	Battles of Lexington and Concord: The battles took place, beginning the American Revolutionary War.
	May 9	Skenesboro, New York was captured by Lieutenant Samuel Herrick.
	May 10	Fort Ticonderoga was captured by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys.
	June 17	Battle of Bunker Hill: The battle took place.
	July	The Olive Branch Petition was sent to King George III.
	December 5	Henry Knox began the transport of fifty-nine captured cannon from upstate New York to Boston.
1776		New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution.
		Prisoners began to be taken in Wallabout Bay. see Prisoners in the American Revolutionary War.
	January 10	Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
	January 24	Knox reached Boston.
	March 3	Battle of Nassau: The battle began.
	March 4	Battle of Nassau: The battle ended.
	July 2	第二次大陆会议：国会通过了Lee Resolution，宣告从英帝国中独立。
	July 4	国会通过了独立宣言。
	August 27	Battle of Long Island: The battle took place.
	September 11	Staten Island Peace Conference: The peace conference took place.
	September 15	Landing at Kip's Bay: The landing took place.
	September 16	Battle of Harlem Heights: The battle took place.
	September 21	Great Fire of New York (1776): The fire began.
	September 22	Nathan Hale was captured and executed for espionage.
		Great Fire of New York (1776): The fire ended.
	October 11	Battle of Valcour Island: The battle took place.
	October 29	Battle of White Plains: The battle took place.
	November 16	Battle of Fort Washington: The battle took place.
	November 20	Battle of Fort Lee: The battle took place.
	December 23	Battle of Iron Works Hill: The battle began.
	December 26	Battle of Trenton: The battle took place.
		Battle of Iron Works Hill: The battle ended.
1777		Forage War: The war took place.
	January 2	Second Battle of Trenton: The battle took place.
	January 3	Battle of Princeton: The battle took place.
	April 13	Battle of Bound Brook: The battle took place.
	May 28	The Continental Army made camp at the Middlebrook encampment.
	July 2	The Continental Army left the Middlebrook encampment.
	July 5	Fort Ticonderoga was abandoned by the Continental Army due to advancing British troops placing cannon on Mount Defiance.
	July 6	The British retook Fort Ticonderoga.
	July 7	Battle of Hubbardton: The battle took place.
	July 8	Delegates in Vermont established the Vermont Republic and adopted the Constitution of Vermont (Vermont Republic), which abolished slavery.
	July 26	Battle of Short Hills: The battle took place.
	August 6	Battle of Oriskany: The battle took place.
	August 16	Battle of Bennington: The battle took place.
	September 11	Battle of Brandywine: The battle took place.
	September 19	Battles of Saratoga: The first Battle of Saratoga took place.
	September 20	Battle of Paoli: The battle took place.
	September 26	The British occupied Philadelphia.
	October 4	Battle of Germantown: The battle took place.
	October 7	Battles of Saratoga: The second battle concluded with the surrender of the British army under General John Burgoyne.
	October 22	Battle of Red Bank: The battle took place.
	November 15	Second Continental Congress: The Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
	December 5	Battle of White Marsh: The battle began.
	December 8	Battle of White Marsh: The battle ended.
	December 11	Battle of Matson's Ford: The battle took place.
	December 19	The Continental Army entered its winter quarters at Valley Forge
1778	February 6	The Treaty of Alliance was signed with France.
	May 20	Battle of Barren Hill: The battle took place.
	June	British occupation of Philadelphia ended.
	June 19	The Continental Army left its winter quarters at Valley Forge.
	June 28	Battle of Monmouth: The battle took place.
	November 30	The Continental Army entered winter quarters at the Middlebrook encampment.
1779	June 3	The Continental Army left the Middlebrook encampment.
	July 16	Battle of Stony Point: The battle took place.
	August 19	Battle of Paulus Hook: The battle took place.
	December	The Continental Army entered winter quarters at Morristown.
1780	January 28	A stockade known as Fort Nashborough was founded on the banks of the Cumberland River.
	February 1	Some eight thousand British forces under General Henry Clinton arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, from New York.
		Second Continental Congress: New York ceded its western claims, including territory west of Lake Ontario, to the Congress.
	March 14	Bombardment of Fort Charlotte: After a two-week siege, Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez captured Fort Charlotte, in Mobile, from the British.
	April 8	Siege of Charleston: British troops under General Clinton and naval forces under Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot besiege Charleston, South Carolina.
	May	The Continental Army left Morristown.
	May 6	Siege of Charleston: Fort Moultrie fell to the British.
	May 12	Siege of Charleston: American General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered Charleston to the British. The British lost two hundred and fifty-five men while capturing a large American garrison.
	May 29	Battle of Waxhaws: A clash between Continental Army forces under Abraham Buford and a mainly Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton near Lancaster, South Carolina resulted in the destruction of the American forces.
	June 6	Battle of Connecticut Farms: The battle took place.
	June 23	Battle of Springfield (1780): An attempted British invasion of New Jersey was stopped at Connecticut Farms and Springfield, ending major fighting in the North.
	September 23	John André was captured, exposing the treason of Arnold.
	October 7	Battle of Kings Mountain: The battle took place.
1781	January 17	Battle of Cowpens: The battle took place.
	March 1	The Articles of Confederation were ratified.
	March 15	Battle of Guilford Court House: The battle took place.
	October 19	Siege of Yorktown: The British surrendered at Yorktown.
	December 31	The Bank of North America was chartered.
1782		The British government officially, yet informally, recognized American independence.
1783		The British withdraw from ports in New York and the Carolinas.
	September 3	American Revolutionary War: The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the war.
1784		The State of Frankland, later Franklin, seceded from North Carolina.
1785		Congress refused Franklin admission to the Union.
	November 28	The Treaty of Hopewell was signed.
1786		Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion took place.
		Annapolis Convention (1786): The convention failed.
1787		The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was passed.
		Philadelphia Convention: A Constitutional convention took place in Philadelphia.
		Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey ratified the Constitution.
1788		North Carolina reconquered and dissolved the State of Franklin.
1789		1789年美国总统选举在费城进行。
	3月4日	美国宪法生效。
	April 30	First inauguration of George Washington: George Washington was inaugurated as President in New York City.
		1st United States Congress: The Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the Hamilton tariff.
		The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty was signed.
	November 21	North Carolina, by a margin of 43%, became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution.
1790	May 26	The Southwest Territory (a/k/a Territory South of the River Ohio) is created from North Carolina's Western frontier lands.
	May 29	Rhode Island, by a margin of 3%, became the thirteenth state to ratify the Constitution.
1791		The United States Bill of Rights was ratified.
		The First Bank of the United States was chartered.
		The independent Vermont Republic was admitted to the Union as Vermont, becoming the fourteenth state.
1792		Kentucky County, Virginia became the fifteenth state of Kentucky.
	November 2 – December 5	U.S. presidential election, 1792: Washington was reelected President. John Adams was chosen as Vice President.
1793		Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
		A yellow fever outbreak occurred in Philadelphia.
		The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was passed.
	February 18	Chisholm v. Georgia was decided.
1794		Whiskey Rebellion: The rebellion took place.
	Aug – Nov	The Nickajack Expedition brings a close to the Chickamauga Wars.
	Aug 20	Battle of Fallen Timbers: The battle took place ending the Northwest Indian War with the Western Confederacy.
		The first of the "Civilized" Indian Nations, the Cherokee Nation, is founded.
1795		The Treaty of Greenville was signed.
		The Jay Treaty was signed.
		The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified
1796	June 1	Tennessee, formerly Southwest Territory, was admitted as the sixteenth state.
		Pinckney's Treaty was signed.
		The Treaty of Tripoli was signed.
	November 4 – December 7	U.S. presidential election, 1796: Adams was elected President. Thomas Jefferson was elected Vice President.
1797		Adams was inaugurated.
		XYZ Affair: The affair took place.
1798		The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed.
		The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were issued.
1799		The Charles Brockden Brown novel Edgar Huntly was published.
		Fries's Rebellion: The rebellion took place.
		The Logan Act was passed.
	December 14	Washington died.
1800		The Library of Congress was founded.
	October 31 – December 3	U.S. presidential election, 1800: Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in votes in the Electoral College.

19th century

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States

Explorers Lewis and Clark

The U.S. Capitol after the Burning of Washington

A depiction of the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, the basis for the Star-Spangled Banner

A depiction of the Battle of New Orleans

James Monroe, the author of the Monroe Doctrine, and his cabinet

A depiction of the Battle of the Alamo

The Battle of Veracruz in the Mexican-American War

Dred Scott, the plaintiff in Dred Scott v. Sandford

The Battle of Fort Sumter, which began the American Civil War

Remains of casualties at the Battle of Antietam

A depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The trial of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The Great Chicago Fire

Women's suffragist leader, Susan B. Anthony

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb

The Brooklyn Bridge

The unveiling of the Statue of Liberty

The charge of the Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War

Year	Date	Event
1801		Jefferson was elected President by the House of Representatives. Burr became Vice President.
		Adams appointed John Marshall as Chief Justice.
1803		The Supreme Court issued a decision in Marbury v. Madison which overturned the Judiciary Act of 1789.
		Louisiana Purchase: The purchase was made.
	Mar 1	Ohio, formerly the Northwest Territory, became the 17th state.
1804		The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
		New Jersey abolished slavery.
	July 11	Burr–Hamilton duel: Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded.
		Lewis and Clark set out.
	November 2 – December 5	U.S. presidential election, 1804: Jefferson was reelected President; George Clinton was elected Vice President.
1807		The Embargo Act of 1807 was passed.
		Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.
1808		The slave trade was ended.
	November 4 – December 7	U.S. presidential election, 1808: James Madison was elected president. Clinton was reelected as Vice President.
1809		Madison was inaugurated.
	March 1	The Non-Intercourse Act was passed.
1810		The Supreme Court issued a decision in Fletcher v. Peck which overturned a state law.
1811		The charter of the First Bank of the United States expired.
1812		War of 1812: The war began.
		Daniel Webster was elected to the United States Congress.
		Louisiana became the 18th state.
		U.S. presidential election, 1812: Madison was reelected President; Elbridge Gerry was elected United States Vice President.
1814	August 24	Burning of Washington: British troops burned Washington, D.C. but were forced back at Baltimore.
	Dec 14	War of 1812: The Treaty of Ghent ended the war.
1815	Jan 8	War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: The battle took place before notification of the Treaty of Ghent made it to the frontier.
1816		U.S. presidential election, 1816: James Monroe was elected President. Daniel D. Tompkins was elected Vice President.
		The Second Bank of the United States was chartered.
	Dec 11	Indiana became the 19th state.
1817		Monroe was inaugurated.
		The Rush–Bagot Treaty was signed.
		Harvard Law School was founded.
	Dec 10	Mississippi became the 20th state.
1818		Cumberland Road opened.
	Dec 3	Illinois became the 21st state.
		The Jackson Purchase in Kentucky was obtained.
1819		Panic of 1819: The panic took place.
		The Adams–Onís Treaty, which provided for the acquisition of Florida, was signed.
		The decision in McCulloch v. Maryland prohibited state laws from infringing upon federal Constitutional authority.
		The decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward protected the principle of honoring contracts and charters.
	Dec 14	Alabama became the 22nd state.
1820		The Missouri Compromise was passed.
	March 15	Maine became the 23rd state.
		U.S. presidential election, 1820: Monroe was reelected President, Tompkins Vice President.
1821	Aug 10	Missouri became the 24th state.
1823		The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed.
1824		The decision in Gibbons v. Ogden affirmed federal over state authority in interstate commerce.
		U.S. presidential election, 1824: An election was held with inconclusive results.
1825		John Quincy Adams was elected President by the House of Representatives; John C. Calhoun was elected Vice President.
		The Erie Canal was completed
1826	July 4	Former Presidents Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on Independence Day
1828		Nullification Crisis: The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was published.
		Construction began on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
		U.S. presidential election, 1828: Andrew Jackson was elected President. Calhoun continued as Vice President.
1829		Jackson was inaugurated.
1830		Second Great Awakening: A religious revival movement took place.
		The Oregon Trail came into use by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest.
	May 28	The Indian Removal Act was passed.
1831		A revolt led by Nat Turner occurred.
		Publication of The Liberator began.
		Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper.
		Petticoat affair: The affair took place.
1832		The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Nation in Worcester v. State of Georgia.
		Black Hawk War: The war took place.
		The Tariff of 1832 was passed.
		The Ordinance of Nullification was passed by South Carolina.
		The Department of Indian Affairs was established.
		United States presidential election, 1832: Jackson was reelected President; Martin Van Buren was elected Vice President of the United States.
		Bank War: Jackson vetoed the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States.
		Calhoun resigned the Vice Presidency.
1833		The Force Bill, expanding Presidential powers, was passed.
		Jackson's second inauguration was held.
1834		Slavery debates took place at Lane Theological Seminary.
1835		Texas Revolution: The revolution began.
		Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published.
		Second Seminole War: A war began in Florida with Seminole resistance to relocation.
1836		Battle of the Alamo: The battle took place.
		Battle of San Jacinto: The battle took place.
		Creek War of 1836: The war took place.
		Samuel Colt invented the revolver.
		The original "Gag Rule", a bar on discussion of antislavery petitions passed by the House, was imposed.
		The Specie Circular was issued.
	Jun 15	Arkansas became the 25th state.
		U.S. presidential election, 1836: Van Buren was elected President, Richard Mentor Johnson Vice President.
1837		Van Buren was inaugurated.
		The United States recognized the Republic of Texas.
		Caroline Affair: The affair took place.
	Jan 26	Michigan became the 26th state.
		Oberlin College began enrolling female students.
		Panic of 1837: The panic took place.
		A decision in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge reversed a decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward and affirmed that property rights can be overridden by public need.
1838		The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the Southeastern United States along the Trail of Tears led to over four thousand Native American deaths.
		Aroostook War: The war took place.
1840		United States presidential election, 1840: An election was held.
1841		William Henry Harrison became President.
		John Quincy Adams argued the case United States v. The Amistad before the Supreme Court.
		United States v. The Amistad was decided.
		President Harrison died after only a month in office.
		John Tyler became President.
1842	August 9	The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed.
		Dorr Rebellion: A civil war took place in Rhode Island.
1843		An attempt to impeach Tyler failed.
1844		U.S. presidential election, 1844: An election was held.
		The anti-suffragist Helen Kendrick Johnson was born.
1845		Texas Annexation: The annexation took place.
		James K. Polk became President of the United States.
	Mar 3	Florida became the 27th state.
	Dec 28	Texas became the 28th state.
1846		Mexican–American War: The war began.
	Dec 28	Iowa became the 29th state.
		The Wilmot Proviso was introduced.
1848		U.S. presidential election, 1848: An election was held.
	May 29	Wisconsin became the 30th state.
	Feb 2	Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war.
1849		Zachary Taylor became President.
		California Gold Rush: The gold rush began.
1850		Taylor threatened to veto the Compromise of 1850 even at the risk of civil war.
		Taylor died. Millard Fillmore became President.
		The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was signed.
		The Compromise of 1850 was passed.
	Sep 9	California became the 31st state.
1852		U.S. presidential election, 1852: An election was held.
1853		Franklin Pierce became President.
		Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan.
1854		The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
	Jun 8	The Gadsden Purchase was finalized.
		The Ostend Manifesto was issued.
		The Convention of Kanagawa was signed.
		William Walker led an expedition.
1855		The Farmers' High School, later Penn State University, was founded.
1856		Sacking of Lawrence: The sacking of Lawrence took place.
	May 24–25	Pottawatomie Massacre: The massacre, led by John Brown, took place.
		Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with his walking stick in the Senate chamber.
		U.S. presidential election, 1856: An election was held.
1857		James Buchanan became President.
		A decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue.
	May	Utah War: The war started.
		The LeCompton Constitution was rejected in the Kansas Territory.
		Panic of 1857: The panic took place.
1858		The first transatlantic cable was laid.
	May 11	Minnesota became the 32nd state.
		Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The debates were held.
		The United States became party to the Treaty of Tientsin.
1859		John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry.
	Feb 14	Oregon became the 33rd state.
		The Comstock Lode was discovered.
1860		The Pony Express was founded.
		The Crittenden Compromise was reached.
	Nov 6	United States presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
	Dec 20	South Carolina seceded from the Union.
1861		Ten more states seceded from the Union and established the Confederate States of America.
	Jan 29	Kansas became the 34th state.
		Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy.
		American Civil War: The war began at Fort Sumter.
		First Battle of Bull Run: The battle took place.
1862		Battle of Hampton Roads: A naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimack took place.
		The Homestead Act was passed.
		The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act was passed.
		General Robert E. Lee was placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
		Second Battle of Bull Run: The battle took place.
		Battle of Antietam: The battle took place.
	Aug–Dec	Dakota War of 1862: The war was fought.
1863		Battle of Gettysburg: The battle took place.
	Jan 1	Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the rebel states.
		Siege of Vicksburg: The siege took place.
		New York Draft Riots: Draft riots took place.
	Jun 20	Pro-Union counties which had seceded from Virginia became the 35th state, West Virginia.
1864		General Ulysses S. Grant was put in command of all Union forces.
		The Wade–Davis Bill was passed.
		Sand Creek Massacre: The massacre took place.
	Oct 31	Nevada became the 36th state.
		U.S. presidential election, 1864: An election was held.
		Sherman's March to the Sea: The march took place.
1865		Lee was made commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces.
		Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, was captured by a corps of black Union troops.
		Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
	April 15	林肯被刺杀。安德鲁·约翰逊继任。
		American Civil War: The war ended with the surrender of the last elements of the Confederacy.
		第十三条修正案通过，永久禁止奴隶制。
		The Freedman's Bureau was established.
1866		The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed.
		三K党成立。
1867		The Tenure of Office Act (1867) was enacted.
	Mar 1	Nebraska became the 37th state.
		从俄罗斯购得阿拉斯加。
1868		Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: The attempted impeachment ended in an acquittal by the Senate.
		The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, second of the Reconstruction Amendments, was ratified.
		Grant was elected President.
1869		The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.
	May 15	Women's suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1870		The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
		The first graduate programs, at Yale University and Harvard, began.
		The Force Acts were passed.
1871		Great Chicago Fire: The fire occurred.
		The Treaty of Washington, 1871 was signed with the British Empire regarding the Dominion of Canada.
1872		黄石国家公园建立。
		Crédit Mobilier scandal: The scandal took place.
		The Amnesty Act was passed.
		The Alabama Claims were settled.
		U.S. presidential election, 1872: An election was held.
1873		Panic of 1873: The panic took place.
		Virginius Affair: The affair took place.
1874		Red River Indian War
1875		Kentucky Derby: Aristides (horse) won the first Kentucky Derby.
		The Resumption Act was passed.
		The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was passed.
		The Art Students League of New York was founded.
1876		The National League of baseball was founded.
		Centennial Exposition: The Exposition, in Philadelphia, was held.
		A decision in Munn v. Illinois established the public regulation of utilities.
		Colorado became the 38th state.
		Battle of Little Bighorn: The battle took place.
		Wild Bill Hickok was killed by a shot to the back of the head by Jack McCall while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota.
		Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
		U.S. presidential election, 1876: The election produced an unclear, result with twenty Electoral College votes disputed.
1877		The Electoral Commission awarded Rutherford B. Hayes the Presidency.
		Reconstruction era of the United States: The era ended.
		Nez Perce War: The war took place.
1878		The Bland-Allison Act was passed.
		The first Morgan silver dollars were minted.
1879		爱迪生发明灯泡.
		The Knights of Labor went public.
1880		The University of Southern California was founded.
		The Population of the United States passed fifty million.
1881		Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: A gunfight took place in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
		James Garfield was inaugurated President of the United States.
		Garfield was assassinated.
		Chester A. Arthur was inaugurated President of the United States.
		Clara Barton created the Red Cross.
		The Tuskegee Institute was founded
		Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
		A Century of Dishonor was written by Helen Hunt Jackson.
1882		The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
		Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford and Charlie Ford.
1883		Buffalo Bill Cody debuted his Wild West Show.
		A decision in the Civil Rights Cases legalized the doctrine of racial segregation.
		The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was passed.
		The Brooklyn Bridge opened.
1885		Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as President.
		The Washington monument was completed.
1886		Haymarket Riot: The riot took place.
		The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1887		The United States Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission.
		The Dawes Act was passed.
		The Hatch Act was passed.
1888		Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, was published.
		The National Geographic Society was founded.
1889		Benjamin Harrison becomes President
	Nov 2	North Dakota, South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
	Nov 8	Montana became the 41st state
	Nov 11	Washington became the 42nd state.
		Johnstown flood: A flood occurred in Pennsylvania.
		Jane Addams founded Hull House.
	April 22	Land Run of 1889: The land run began.
1890		The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed.
		Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives.
		The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was passed.
		The McKinley tariff was passed.
		Yosemite National Park was created.
	Jul 3	Idaho became the 43rd state.
	Jul 10	Wyoming became the 44th state.
		Wounded Knee Massacre: The massacre took place.
		The National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded.
1891		Baltimore Crisis: The crisis took place.
		James Naismith invented basketball.
1892		Homestead Strike: The strike took place.
		General Electric was founded.
		The Sierra Club was founded
1893		Cleveland was inaugurated President for a second term.
		Panic of 1893: The panic took place.
		The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was repealed.
1894		Coxey's Army marched on Washington, D.C.
		Pullman strike: The strike took place.
		The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, including an income tax, was passed.
1895		Stagger Lee Shelton shot Billy Lyons.
		Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company was decided, striking down part of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act.
1896		A decision in Plessy v. Ferguson affirmed the legality of "separate but equal" facilities.
		William Jennings Bryan delivered his Cross of Gold speech.
		Gold was discovered in the Yukon's Klondike region.
	Jan 4	Utah became the 45th state.
1897		William McKinley became President.
		The Boston subway was completed.
		The Dingley Act was passed.
1898		The “Maine”号ACR-1 (6) exploded in Havana harbor.
		The De Lôme Letter was published.
		美西战争: The Treaty of Paris (1898) ended the war.
	Jul 7	Republic of Hawaii was annexed.
		The Newlands Resolution was passed.
		The American Anti-Imperialist League was organized.
1899		The Teller Amendment was passed.
		American Samoa was occupied.
		The Open Door Policy was announced.
1900		The United States population exceeded seventy-five million. see Demographics of the United States.
		The Foraker Act was passed.
		The Gold Standard Act was passed.
		Boxer Rebellion: The United States helped put down the rebellion.
		1900 Galveston hurricane: The hurricane took place.