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Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
Recent History Of The United States 1865–1929 (1929) online old survey by scholar; Tindall, George B., and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History (8th ed. 2009), university textbook; White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States ...
Female education in the United States (1639–present) Timeline of women's colleges in the United States (1742–present) Timeline of low-temperature technology (1850–present) Women in dentistry in the United States (1855–present) Timeline of historically black women's colleges (1870–present) List of first female mayors (1887–present)
April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born 1809) April 26 – John Wilkes Booth , actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838 ) May 20 – William K. Sebastian , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1861 (born 1812 )
January 5 – John Neumann, first United States bishop to be canonized (born 1811) January 13 – William Mason, politician (born 1786) January 18 – John Nelson, lawyer (born 1791) February 25 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer (born 1790) April 6 – James Kirke Paulding, writer and United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1778)
September 1 – James J. Corbett, heavyweight boxer (died 1933) [5] September 2 – Hiram Johnson, U.S. Senator from California from 1917 to 1945 (died 1945) September 16 – Joe Vila, sportswriter (died 1934) September 22 Claude C. Hopkins, advertising executive (died 1932) Witmer Stone, ornithologist and botanist (died 1939)
This is a list of conflicts in the United States.Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history.This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars, skirmishes, wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy. 1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen. 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.