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This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899.
Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff. 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature. 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific.
July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, third Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1840 to 1844 (born 1785) August 15 – William S. Fulton, United States Senator from Arkansas 1836 till 1844. (born 1795) September 14 – Oliver Holden, composer (born 1765) See also. Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) References
October 24 – Boston Beaneaters win their Fifth National League Pennant by defeating Cleveland Spiders 5 games to 0. 1892 U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms. The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.
September 3 – Ho-Chunk leader Red Bird surrenders to U.S. officials, ending the Winnebago War. J. J. Audubon 's The Birds of America commences publication in the United Kingdom. The original Delmonico's restaurant opens in Manhattan. The first English translation of Christopher Columbus' journal by Samuel Kettell is published in Boston.
May 10 – Astor Place Riot occurs in Manhattan. June 6 – Fort Worth, Texas is founded. September 1 – The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewistown, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service. September 17 – Harriet Tubman emancipates herself.
June 1: The Patent Office formed. March 16 – Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. April 19 – The Judiciary Act of 1802 is enacted, reorganizing the federal court system. April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets ...
