Events In Chicago

By lopezesmeralda21

  • Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison took the oath of office as president and gave an uplifting inaugural address.

  • Chicago fire

    Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks.

  • Civil War

    William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general, died in New York City at the age of 71.

  • Sierra Club

    Writer and naturalist John Muir founded the Sierra Club. Muir's campaigning for conservation would exert an influence on American life in the 20th century.

  • Frederick Douglass

    Abolitionist author Frederick Douglass died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 77.

  • Olympic Games

    The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.

  • Hartford

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, died in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 85.

  • Battleship

    The American battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, a mysterious event that will lead to the United States going to war with Spain.

  • Battle

    The United States declared war on Spain.

  • Horatio Alger

    Writer Horatio Alger died in Massachusetts at the age of 67.