May 15 National Woman Suffrage Association forms

May 01 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH

May 01 "Folies-Bergère" opens in Paris France

May 10 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Point UT-Transcontinental RR

Jan 20 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes first woman to testify before Congress

Jan 13 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention

Jan 13 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington DC

Feb 19 US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized

Feb 26 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states

Feb 11 Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Feb 15 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

Feb 06 Harper's Weekly publishes first picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

Feb 23 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

Feb 02 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade

Feb 20 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

Feb 26 Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres

Feb 27 John Menard is first black to make a speech in Congress

Apr 18 First international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian

Apr 30 Hawaiian YMCA organized

Apr 13 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)

Apr 09 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada

Apr 12 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law

Apr 16 Ebenezer Bassett, first US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti

Apr 02 R Luther discovers asteroid #108 Hecuba

Nov 17 After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens

Nov 15 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated

Nov 06 Diamonds discovered at Kimberley, South Africa

Nov 17 Suez Canal opens (Egypt)

Sep 06 The first westbound train arrives in SF

Sep 24 The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.

Sep 22 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)

Sep 24 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold

Sep 06 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania

Sep 10 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan

Jun 09 Charles Elmer Hires sells his first of many root beers (Phila)

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