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1899
The modern American League is founded
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April 25, 1898
Spanish-American War
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January 1, 1898
Hawaii is annexed
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1896
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) publishes Lyric of Lowly Life
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1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
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June 2, 1895
George Herman "Babe" Ruth is born in Baltimore, MD
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July 1894
The Pullman strike ends in defeat for workers
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May 1, 1894
Coxey's Army arrived in Washington, DC
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1892
Organized labor suffers defeats in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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December 29, 1890
The Battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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October 8, 1890
(1890-1973) Edward Vernon (Eddie) Rickenbacker, American aviator, born in Columbus, Ohio.
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July 2, 1890
Congress enacted the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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January 22, 1890
Founding of the United Mine Workers of America
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January 1, 1890
The National American Woman Suffrage Association is organized
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1887
Professional baseball creates a color barrier
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January 1, 1887
Dawes Act is passed
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December 1886
The AFL was formed under the leadership of Samuel Gompers
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May 4, 1886
The Haymarket strike in Chicago
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May 1, 1886
National demonstrations called for an eight-hour workday
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January 1, 1886
The Statue of Liberty Dedication
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1885
John Montgomery Ward creates the Brotherhood of Baseball Players
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1884
Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black professional baseball player
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1882
The American Baseball Association founded
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January 1, 1881
The American Red Cross founded
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March 14, 1879
1879-1955 Albert Einstein
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January 1, 1879
Edison Invents the Electric Light
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March 1877
The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
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1877
Railroad strikes spark the Great Uprising of 1877
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February 2, 1876
Club owners consolidate control of professional baseball
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January 1, 1874
Barbed Wire is patented
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January 1, 1874
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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March 17, 1871
National Association of Professional Baseball Players is established
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January 1, 1870
John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil Company (Ohio)
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November 1, 1869
Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States
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May 10, 1869
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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1869
The Knights of Labor is established
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1869
The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professions baseball team
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January1, 1868
First President to be Impeached
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1867
Amateur baseball becomes racially segregated
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January 1, 1867
U. S. Purchases Alaska from Russia
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January 1, 1866
The Ku Klux Klan is established.
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April 28, 1865
Lincoln Funeral Train in Columbus
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April 14,1865
President Lincoln is assassinated.
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April 9, 1865
The End of the Civil War
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November 1, 1863
General Sherman's March to the Sea
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July 13, 1863
The New York Draft Riots
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July 8, 1863
Morgan's Raiders Invade Ohio
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July 1, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg
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1863
Ned Cothbyrd steals the first stolen base in baseball history.
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January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation Issued
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January 1, 1862
Federal Land Grant College Act (Morrill Act)
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April 12, 1861
Confederates fire on Fort Sumter beginning the Civil War
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November 1, 1860
Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln is elected president
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January 1, 1859
John Brown's Raid, Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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August 5, 1858
The First Successful Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Message
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1857
The National Association of Baseball Players is formed
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January 1, 1857
The Dred Scott Decision
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April 5, 1856
Booker T. Washington was born
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1854
John Mercer Langston becomes the first African American lawyer in Ohio
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January 1, 1854
Founding of the Republican Party
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1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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January 1, 1852
1820-1909 Susan B. Anthony.
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Spring 1851
Simon Lazarus opens his first store in Columbus
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September 1850
Compromise of 1850
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January 1, 1850
The John Rankin House and the Underground Railroad
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March 17, 1849
Diplomatic relations opened with Egypt.
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January 1, 1849
California Gold Rush
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July 19--20, 1848
The Seneca Falls Convention
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September 23, 1845
The modern incarnation of baseball is established
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January 1, 1845
The Irish Potato Famine
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January 1, 1839
The Construction of the Ohio Statehouse
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January 1, 1839
George Armstrong Custer
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February 1, 1836
Texas War for Independence.
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1832
The Supreme Court rules in Worcester v. Georgia
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January 1, 1832
The Invention of the telegraph
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February 1831-January 1838
Mormons relocated to Kirtland, OH
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January 1, 1831
1831-1865 The Liberator is published.
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1830-1860
The Underground Railroad
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January 1, 1827
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered
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January 1, 1825
The Completion of the Erie Canal
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December 2, 1823
The Monroe Doctrine
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1822
North Union Shaker community is established in Cuyahoga County, OH
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1820
Missouri Compromise
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1817
First Separatist settlers arrive at what would become the Village of Zoar
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January 1, 1815
The Battle of New Orleans
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October 1814
Thomas Worthington elected 6th governor of Ohio
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September 14, 1814
Francis Scott Key Composes The Star Spangled Banner
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1814
First State Building constructed in Columbus, OH.
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January 1, 1814
The British Burn Washington, D. C.
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October 5, 1813
Battle of the Thames, the Death of Tecumseh
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October 3, 1813
The Death of Tecumseh
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June 1812
The United States declares war on Britain
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January 1, 1812
The War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie
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1807
Rev. David Bacon founds the community of Tallmadge, OH
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January 1, 1807
The first successful Steamboat
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1804-1857
Ohio law mandates the registration of all free black persons
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January 1, 1804
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
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April 1803
Louisiana Purchase
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March 3, 1803
Ohio becomes the 17th state.
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1803
Marbury v. Madison
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January 1, 1803
Marbury v. Madison
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January, 1803
Successful expedition against Barbary Pirates
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November 29, 1802
Ohio adopts its first state constitution
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January, 1802
Failed Naval expedition against Barbary Pirates
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1800
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, Virginia
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