1876-1900

By isaac davenport

  • Rutherford Hayes inaugurated

    Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president.

  • U.S. population tops 50,000,000, including 6,000,000 foreign-born

  • Thomas A. Edison patents incandescent light bulb

  • Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to promote trade education for African-Americans

  • James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president.

    He dies later from complications from the shot.

  • He is shot by Charles Guiteau in Washington, DC.

  • United States divided into time zones

  • Brooklyn Bridge opens in New York

  • Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president.

  • Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York

  • Flood kills thousands in Johnstown, PA.

  • Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as twenty-third President of the U.S.

  • Wyoming becomes the 44th state and the first one admitted to the Union with women's suffrage

  • John Philip Sousa forms his band, after having led the U.S. Marine Corps Band

  • Grover Cleveland is inaugurated a second time, as the 24th president.

    He is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

  • A large tornado destroys the town of Sherman, Texas. This is part of a two-week sequence of tornadoes in nine states thought to be the worst in U.S. history.

  • William McKinley inaugurated as twenty-fifth President of the U.S.

  • The USS Maine is sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba, one of the events that led to the Spanish-American War(1898-1899).