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April 19 – The United States and the Yankton Sioux Tribe sign a treaty. [1] May 11 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state (see History of Minnesota). May 19 – The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas. June 16 – Abraham Lincoln makes his "House Divided" Speech at the State Capitol in ...
May 18 – American Civil War: The siege of Vicksburg begins (ends Saturday, July 4, when 30,189 Confederate men surrender). American Civil War: The siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, by Union forces begins. The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is formed in Battle Creek, Michigan.
February 11 – Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the discovery leads to the use of coal as the key fuel source of America's Industrial Revolution. April 6 – John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company.
January 6 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph. January 8 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). January 12 – History of the Latter Day Saint movement: Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri. January 27 – Abraham Lincoln speaks at the ...
October 15 – The first blizzard mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder 's The Long Winter sweeps over the prairie in Dakota Territory. November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock. November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened. Wyatt Outlaw, the first African American town commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, is lynched by mob of Ku ...
The United States tests the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in New Mexico, July 16, 1945. The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Japanese Instrument of Surrender signed September 2, 1945.
2024 →. v. t. e. The following article is a broad timeline of the course of events surrounding the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by rioters supporting United States President Donald Trump 's attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol after ...