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Old West

Literature

Science

Food

Industry

Medicine

Fine Arts

General

1881 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama is founded on July 4 with Booker T. Washington as the school's first president. 1883 Inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger patents his shoe-lasting machine that shapes the upper portions of shoes. His invention wins swift acceptance and soon supplants hand methods of production. 1887 Florida A&M University is founded as the State Normal (teacher-training) School for Colored Students. 1887 Journalist T. Thomas Fortune begins editing the New York Age. His well-known editorials defend the civil rights of blacks and condemn racial discrimination. 1892 The offices of the Memphis Free Speech are destroyed following editorials of part-owner Ida B. Wells denouncing the lynching of three of her friends. c. 1895 Cornetist Buddy Bolden, semi-legendary founding father of jazz, leads a band in New Orleans. 1895 A merger of three major black Baptist conventions leads to the formation of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., in Atlanta, Ga. 1895 At the Atlanta Exposition, educator Booker T. Washington delivers his "Atlanta Compromise" speech, stressing the importance of vocational education for blacks over social equality or political office. 1896 Believing African-Americans to be the descendants of the "lost tribes of Israel," Prophet William S. Crowdy founds the Church of God and Saints of Christ. 1896 Mary Church Terrell becomes the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, working for educational and social reform and an end to racial discrimination.

ITEM	DATE	REMARKS	SOURCE
	1880		Return To Top
The Wall Street Journal	1889	begins publication
Adolph Hitler	1889	born April 20, Braunau, Austria
Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix	1889	Cris Rutt, St. Joseph, Missouri
Eiffel Tower	1889	completed in Paris
Oklahoma Land Rush	1889	12 noon on 22 April; opened for settlement
First electric sewing machine	1889	U.S.; Singer Manufacturing Company
Kaiser Wilhelm II	1888	becomes ruler of Germany
Electromagnetic Waves	1888	Heinrich Hertz; Germany
First camera to use flexible film	1888	invented; U.S.; George Eastman
Guncotton	1888
Anti-perspirants	1888		Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
First Steel Skeleton Building	1888
National Geographic	1888	begins publication, Washington, DC
Kodak Camera	1888
Softball	1887
Speed of Light	1887	discovered
Press-stud buttons	1886	invented; Pierre-Albert Raymond
Cosmopolitan	1886	begins publication, New York
Coca-Cola	1886
Geronimo	1886	4 September; surrenders
Smokeless Powder	1886	first used in the French Lebel rifle
Aluminum cookware	1886	by Charles M. Hall, Oberlin, Ohio	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Dishwashing Machine	1886	by Josephine Cochrane	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Statue of Liberty	1886	dedicated Oct. 28
The Haymarket Affair	1886	4 May The Haymarket Affair (bombing) occurs in Chicago during a labor rally. Eight people die and seventy-six are wounded when a bomb explodes at a labor rally, and police open fire on the crowd
Gold discovered	1886	Transvaal (South Africa)
Avon Cosmetics	1886	David McConnell	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
First Tournament of Roses Parade	1886	Jan 1, Pasadena, California	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Sunglasses	1885	introduced
Good Housekeeping	1885	begins publication, Massachusetts
Fingerprinting	1885	used as identification
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1885	Robert Louis Stevenson
Rebellion in Canada	1885	Metis; Louis Riel
General Gordon	1885	killed at Khartoum, Egypt
Inoculation	1885	Louis Pasteur
Motorcycle	1885	Gottleib Daimler, Germany
Gasoline powered vehicle	1885	Karl F. Benz, Germany
Linotype typesetting machine	1884	patented
First Roller Coaster	1884	Coney Island
Cocaine	1884	used as anesthetic
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1884	Mark Twain
Artificial Silk	1884	patented; Hilaire Bernigaud
Machine Gun	1884	Hiram Maxim
Suffragettes	1884	6 March; demonstrate in Washington DC
Ladies' Home Journal	1883	begins publication, Pennsylvania
Brown Paper Bag	1883	by Chales Stillwell, Philadelphia, PA	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Treasure Island	1883	Robert Louis Stevenson
Krakatoa	1883	28 August; erupts
Life	1883	begins publication
Malted Milk	1883	Wisconsin; James & William Horlick
Electric iron	1882	patented
Frederic Remington's first nationally published illustration	1882	Cowboys of Arizona, appeared in Harper's Weekly.
Killing of Jesse James	1882	3 April; killed by Robert Ford
Brooklyn Bridge	1882	completed
Internal Combustion Gasoline Engine	1882
Telephone Service in Arizona	1881	Tucson, Arizona Territory- a telephone company is established in town
Billy the Kid	1881	killed by Pat Garrett
Pogroms	1881	Russia
OK Corral gunfight	1881	26 October; Tombstone, AZ
Photographic Roll Film	1881
A Century Of Dishonor	1881	Helen Hunt Jackson
Portrait of a Lady	1881	Henry James
Cigarette machine	1880	The first cigarette machine patent is granted to the Bonsack machine
Women’s underpants	1880
Listerine	1880		Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Peanuts popularized as a snack	ca 1880	P.T. Barnum
Boer Revolt	1880	Transvaal, S. Africa
Prohibition	1880	Kansas prohibits alcohol use
Nana	1880	Emile Zola
Sarah Bernhardt	1880	debuts in America
Ready-Mixed Paint	1880	Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Heidi	1880	Johanna Spyri
Ben Hur	1880	Lew Wallace
Rubber condoms	1880

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1870 Joseph Hayne Rainey is the first black elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. This congressman from South Carolina will enjoy the longest tenure of any black during Reconstruction. 1870 Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi takes the former seat of Jefferson Davis in the U.S. Senate, becoming the only black in the U.S. Congress and the first elected to the Senate. 1872 John R. Lynch, speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, is elected to the U.S. Congress. 1877 Reconstruction ends as the last Federal troops are withdrawn. Southern conservatives regain control of their state governments through fraud, violence, and intimidation. 1879 Author Joel Chandler Harris' "Tar-Baby," an animal tale told by the Uncle Remus character, popularizes the sticky tar doll figure of black American folktales.

ITEM	DATE	REMARKS	SOURCE
	1870		Return To Top
Vaseline	1879	Robert Chesebrough, Brooklyn, New York	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Isandlhwana	1879	Zulus defeat British
Electric Lightbulb	1878	Thomas Edison
Burpee Seeds	1878	by W. A. Burpee, Philadelphia, PA.	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Contact Lenses	1877	Dr. A.E. Fick, Switzerland	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
American flag with 38 stars	1877	Colorado
Double Action Revolver	1877		Colt Firearms Co.
Anna Karenina	1877	Leo Tolstoy
Phonograph	1877	Thomas Edison
The Washington Post	1877	begins publication
"Granula"	1877	James Harvey Kellogg
Porfirio Diaz	1877	takes power and rules Mexico until 1911
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	1876	Mark Twain
Heinz Tomato Catsup	1876	Henry Heinz
"Wild Bill" Hickock	1876	killed
Player Piano	1876
Empress of India	1876	Queen Victoria takes the title
Ring Cycle	1876	Richard Wagner; the first performance of the entire cycle
Little Big Horn	1876	25 June; Geo. A Custer
Telephone	1876	Alexander Graham Bell
Electric Tatoo Machine	1875	Samuel F. O’Reilly
Blue Jeans	1873	Levi's	E-Mail from Levi Strauss Co.
Canvas shoes first called sneakers because of quiet tread	1873
Dewey Decimal System	1873
Celluloid plastics	1872	invented; used for shirt collars and cuffs; U.S.; John Wesley Hyatt
Margarine	1871
DNA	1870	discovered
All-Metal Bicycle	1870	patented
Franco-Prussian War	1870
Rubber Hoses, Gaskets, Bottle Stoppers &c.	1870	Charles F. Goodrich	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Harper & Row, 1987
Jules Leotard	1870	trapeze artist and inventor of the leotard, dies in France
First mail-order catalog	1870