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1800 - 1899


1899 The modern American League is founded

	April 25, 1898 Spanish-American War

January 1, 1898 Hawaii is annexed

	1896 Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) publishes Lyric of Lowly Life

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson

June 2, 1895 George Herman "Babe" Ruth is born in Baltimore, MD

July 1894 The Pullman strike ends in defeat for workers

	May 1, 1894 Coxey's Army arrived in Washington, DC

1892 Organized labor suffers defeats in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

	December 29, 1890 The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota

	October 8, 1890 (1890-1973) Edward Vernon (Eddie) Rickenbacker, American aviator, born in Columbus, Ohio.

	July 2, 1890 Congress enacted the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

	January 22, 1890 Founding of the United Mine Workers of America

	January 1, 1890 The National American Woman Suffrage Association is organized

1887 Professional baseball creates a color barrier

	January 1, 1887 Dawes Act is passed

December 1886 The AFL was formed under the leadership of Samuel Gompers

	May 4, 1886 The Haymarket strike in Chicago

May 1, 1886 National demonstrations called for an eight-hour workday

January 1, 1886 The Statue of Liberty Dedication

1885 John Montgomery Ward creates the Brotherhood of Baseball Players

1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black professional baseball player

1882 The American Baseball Association founded

January 1, 1881 The American Red Cross founded

March 14, 1879 1879-1955 Albert Einstein

	January 1, 1879 Edison Invents the Electric Light

	March 1877 The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction

1877 Railroad strikes spark the Great Uprising of 1877

	February 2, 1876 Club owners consolidate control of professional baseball

	January 1, 1874 Barbed Wire is patented

January 1, 1874 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

March 17, 1871 National Association of Professional Baseball Players is established

January 1, 1870 John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil Company (Ohio)

	November 1, 1869 Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States

	May 10, 1869 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

1869 The Knights of Labor is established

	1869 The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professions baseball team

	January1, 1868 First President to be Impeached

1867 Amateur baseball becomes racially segregated

	January 1, 1867 U. S. Purchases Alaska from Russia

	January 1, 1866 The Ku Klux Klan is established.

	April 28, 1865 Lincoln Funeral Train in Columbus

	April 14,1865 President Lincoln is assassinated.

	April 9, 1865 The End of the Civil War

	November 1, 1863 General Sherman's March to the Sea

July 13, 1863 The New York Draft Riots

	July 8, 1863 Morgan's Raiders Invade Ohio

	July 1, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

1863 Ned Cothbyrd steals the first stolen base in baseball history.

	January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Issued

	January 1, 1862 Federal Land Grant College Act (Morrill Act)

	April 12, 1861 Confederates fire on Fort Sumter beginning the Civil War

	November 1, 1860 Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln is elected president

	January 1, 1859 John Brown's Raid, Harper's Ferry, Virginia

	August 5, 1858 The First Successful Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Message

	1857 The National Association of Baseball Players is formed

	January 1, 1857 The Dred Scott Decision

	April 5, 1856 Booker T. Washington was born

	1854 John Mercer Langston becomes the first African American lawyer in Ohio

	January 1, 1854 Founding of the Republican Party

	1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

	January 1, 1852 1820-1909 Susan B. Anthony.

	Spring 1851 Simon Lazarus opens his first store in Columbus

	September 1850 Compromise of 1850

	January 1, 1850 The John Rankin House and the Underground Railroad

March 17, 1849 Diplomatic relations opened with Egypt.

	January 1, 1849 California Gold Rush

July 19--20, 1848 The Seneca Falls Convention

	September 23, 1845 The modern incarnation of baseball is established

January 1, 1845 The Irish Potato Famine

	January 1, 1839 The Construction of the Ohio Statehouse

	January 1, 1839 George Armstrong Custer

	February 1, 1836 Texas War for Independence.

1832 The Supreme Court rules in Worcester v. Georgia

	January 1, 1832 The Invention of the telegraph

	February 1831-January 1838 Mormons relocated to Kirtland, OH

	January 1, 1831 1831-1865 The Liberator is published.

	1830-1860 The Underground Railroad

	January 1, 1827 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered

	January 1, 1825 The Completion of the Erie Canal

	December 2, 1823 The Monroe Doctrine

	1822 North Union Shaker community is established in Cuyahoga County, OH

1820 Missouri Compromise

	1817 First Separatist settlers arrive at what would become the Village of Zoar

	January 1, 1815 The Battle of New Orleans

	October 1814 Thomas Worthington elected 6th governor of Ohio

	September 14, 1814 Francis Scott Key Composes The Star Spangled Banner

	1814 First State Building constructed in Columbus, OH.

	January 1, 1814 The British Burn Washington, D. C.

	October 5, 1813 Battle of the Thames, the Death of Tecumseh

	October 3, 1813 The Death of Tecumseh

	June 1812 The United States declares war on Britain

	January 1, 1812 The War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie

	1807 Rev. David Bacon founds the community of Tallmadge, OH

	January 1, 1807 The first successful Steamboat

	1804-1857 Ohio law mandates the registration of all free black persons

	January 1, 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition

April 1803 Louisiana Purchase

	March 3, 1803 Ohio becomes the 17th state.

1803 Marbury v. Madison

	January 1, 1803 Marbury v. Madison

January, 1803 Successful expedition against Barbary Pirates

	November 29, 1802 Ohio adopts its first state constitution

January, 1802 Failed Naval expedition against Barbary Pirates

1800 Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, Virginia