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This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
From top left, clockwise: A famous gunfight erupts at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881; a long-distance passenger train called the Orient Express begins running between Paris and Constantinople in 1883; U.S. Congress bans Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for ten years, starting in 1882; South Fork Dam fails after heavy rainfall and floods the town of Johnstown ...
More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, including these men who fell during the bloody Battle of Antietam. This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899.
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
August 8 – Gouverneur K. Warren, civil engineer and Union Army general in the American Civil War (born 1830) August 16 – Benjamin Harvey Hill, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1877 to 1882 (born 1823) September 27 – Fernando C. Beaman, teacher, lawyer and politician from Michigan (born 1814)
August 19 – James Seddon, 4th Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1815) August 24 – Ouray, Ute leader (b. c. 1833) September 19 – Lafayette S. Foster, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1855 to 1867 (born 1806) October – Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief (b. c.1825) November 3 - Solon Robinson, founder of Crown Point, Indiana ...
U.S. cavalry charge and scatter a Cheyenne war party on the banks of the Solomon River in north-central Kansas Territory. Sep 1: The Battle of Pima Butte, in what is now Arizona, is the last major battle fought solely between indigenous peoples in North America. [98] Sep 11
1865–1877: Southern United States – Reconstruction following the American Civil War: The South is divided into five Union occupation districts under the Reconstruction Act. 1866: Mexico: To protect American residents, General Sedgwick and 100 men in November obtained surrender of Matamoros, on the border state of Tamaulipas. After three ...