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National and world timeline 1876-79

For the past ten years we have built a database of notable events not only in the Northwest, but nationwide and worldwide. We feel it is important for readers to have a resource for the context of the frontier years. Among hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, websites and books, our main sources are listed at the bottom of the article.

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1876

General: The nationwide financial panic that started in 1873 after the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. of Pennsylvania, the Northern Pacific Railway investor, was still stifling business. Democrats were confident of taking the White House after the scandals of President Ulysses S. Grant's second term. Grant was convinced by his party to not take a third term and Representative James G. Blaine was also foiled in getting the Republican nomination after scandals of his own. A major national issue was the argument between "hard-money" businessmen and "soft-money" farmers.
1875-1925: vaudeville is the popular entertainment of the masses
Henry M. Robert, an Army engineer, published his Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies.
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain published. Barred from libraries in Brooklyn, NY, Denver and elsewhere as being unfit for young readers.
First photograph of solar spectrum taken by William Draper at New York University. Draper credited in 1840 with first photograph of the moon.
American Chemical Society and American Library Association formed
Melvil Dewey originates Dewy decimal system of library classification.
Polo introduced in U.S. at Newport by James Gordon Bennett Jr.
Johns Hopkins University established at Baltimore for advanced study. Daniel Coil Gilman, president.
Thomas A. Edison establishes first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In this year, he invents the mimeograph, the first practical duplicating machine. Continues work on the "Edison effect," the capacity of electrical current to travel through space, which is the basis of electronics.
First free kindergarten established by Dr. Felix Adler in New York City in connection with his New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Central Park completed with design of planners Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. [Olmstead's sons would later design the campus of Northern State Hospital near Sedro-Woolley, Fairhaven Park in south Bellingham and Bingham Park at the east end of Cook road in Sedro-Woolley.]
Machine for cigarette manufacture patented
Canadian Indian Act bans the potlatch, a ritualized form of barter involving competitive gift exchange that is widely used by various Indian tribes, is banned by the Canadian government.
Johns Hopkins University opens in Baltimore.
The centennial celebration nationwide of the signing of the Declaration of Independence triggers four decades of cultural nationalism that is known as the American Renaissance.
Worldwide: Auguste Renoir paints Le Moulin de la Galette. First complete performance of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at his Festspielhaus that he opened in Bayreuth, Germany that year. Brahms composes Symphony No. 1, Opus 68. Heinrich Schliemann excavates Mycenae. First railroad in China completed. Liberal "Young Turks" install Abd al-Hamid II as Ottoman sultan after deposing his uncle and brother.
March 2: Impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Kelknap for malfeasance in office recommended by House committee. Adquitted Aug. 1 by Senate Court of Impeachment.
March 10: Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell's telephone transmits to adjoining room the first complete intelligible sentence, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." U.S. patent awarded on March 7. There were only 3,000 telephones nationwide by the end of 1876; by 1900, there were 1.4 million.
March 27: In U.S. v. Cruikshank, Supreme Court declares that 145h Amendment a negro only from state action, not from action of individuals, invalidating much of Enforcement and Ku Klux acts.
April 2: First official National League baseball game, Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5, Jim O'Rourke got the first hit. First no-hitter pitched by Joe Borden of Boston, who threw out his arm and ended the season as groundskeeper.
May 10: Centennial Exposition opened officially by President Grant at Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. Closes Nov. 10. Typewriter and telephone introduced to public there. On 450 acres, each state had its own building and 50 foreign nations sent exhibits. About ten million people visited and the latest technology was the big draw.
May 15: House Judiciary Committee begins investifation of James G. Blaine's acceptance of favors from Union Pacific and other railraods while Speaker of House. Jan. 10: Blaine proposes motion to deny amnesty to Jefferson Davis. June 5: Blaine makes speech of defense before House.
May 17: Prohibition party second national convention at Cleveland, Ohio. General Green Clay Smith of Kentucky nominated for president and Gideon T. Stewart of Ohio for vicepresident.
May 18: Independent or Greenback party holds first national convention at Indianapolis, Indiana. Nominates Peter Cooper of New York for President and Samuel F. Cary of Ohio for vice president.
June 14-16: Republican National Convention meets at Cincinnati. Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio nominated for president although James G. Blaine of Blaine is in lead until seventh ballot. William A. Wheeler of New York nominated for vice president.
June 16: The Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for the U.S. — the Shriners, organized by Dr. Walter Fleming.
June 25: General George Armstrong Custer and entire Seventh Cavalry force of 265 massacred near Little Big Horn river in Montana by Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Indians were angered by slaughter of buffalo by whites and the Black hills gold rush.
June 27-29: Democratic National Convention meets at St. Louis. Samuel J. Tilden of New York nominated for president and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana for vice president.
July 25: Richard P. Bland of Missouri introduces bill in House for free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Aug. 1: Colorado enters the Union
Nov. 7: Presidential election. In popular vote, Tilden wins in original count and new count after dispute, 250,000 plurality. Returns from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina — still under carpetbag rule, and Oregon still in dispute. Undisputed electoral vote gives Tilden 184, Hayes 163, 185 needed to elect.
Congressional results: Republicans hold 39-36 majority in Senate, with one minor party seat. Democrats hold 153-140 majority in House.
Nov. 23: William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, after being captured in Spain, delivered to authorities in New York City to serve his prison sentence.
Dec. 12: First prohibition amendment to Constitution proposed in House by Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire.

Capsule of President Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Hayes's father, who ran a successful whiskey distillery in Ohio, died ten weeks before his son was born. Young Hayes was raised by a single mother and his sister Fanny encouraged him to pursue law as a career. Helped by a wealthy uncle, Hayes graduated from Harvard Law School and went on to become a successful criminal defense lawyer. He married Lucy Ware Webb, a girl who came from a wealthy, liberal, and politically active family. As a father of three with a fourth on the way, Hayes volunteered as a major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteers. Although he was inexperienced, he captured an artillery position in hand-to-hand combat at the battle of Winchester and was wounded five times in subsequent battles. As a major general towards the end of the war, he was awarded a medal for "gallant and distinguished service," and was elected to Congress, but he responded that there was a war to be won. For the next few campaigns, Republicans ran war heroes and used that against Democratic foes. Hayes served two terms in the House and was then elected as governor of Ohio.
After his disputed election, Hayes quickly announced plans for election reform and began trying to heal the rift between North and South. Although he had generally supported Reconstruction, Hayes decided that interventionist policies bred more hatred among southerners, preventing the nation from healing itself in the aftermath of war. One of his legacies in office was to restore prestige in the Presidency after the assassination of Lincoln, the impeachment of Johnson and the scandals of the Grant administration. Lucy Hayes helped in that effort, gaining respect of the public. She was a strong believer in women's rights and in abolition and influenced her husband that way. Hayes himself did not drink or smoke and Lucy Hayes was a firm believer in the temperance movement, refusing to serve any alcohol at White House affairs. Nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy," she was college educated, politically astute and a champion of social causes. She dressed simply and wore no cosmetics and proving to be the equal of her husband, Lucy Hayes foreshadowed the modern president's wife.

1877

Anti-Chinese riots in California. In San Francisco, unemployed "Sand-Lotters" under Denis Kearney form Workingmen's party of California in protest against Chinese.
Silver rush to Leadville, Colorado, begins
Alexander Graham Bell with Watson, Thomas Sanders, and Gardiner Hubbard, forms Bell Telephone Company, a voluntary association. First telephone lines are established from Salem to Boston and from Chicago to Milwaukee.
The American by expatriate Henry James published.
Asaph Hall detects two satellites of Mars, the most important contribution to astronomy since the discovery of Neptune in 1846.
The Cakewalk becomes a popular feature of minstrel shows after the successful number, "Walking for Dat Cake" by New York musical comedy team of Harrigan and Hart, set to syncopated tunes taken from black sources. This later developed into ragtime.
First annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show held at Gilmore's Garden in New York.
Winslow Homer paints The Cotton Pickers.
Worldwide: Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India. Russia declares war on Turkey and invades Rumania. Hermann Hesse, German author, born (died 1962, Nobel prize 1946). French writer Emile Zola publishes The Drunkard. Ibsen writes play, The Pillars of Society. Gustave Courbet, French painter died (born 1819). Edouard Manet paints Nana. The Rijksmuseum constructed in Amsterdam. Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Age of Bronze shown in the Paris salon. Third exhibition of Impressionist paintings in Paris.Camille Saint-Saens composes opera Samson et Delila. Italian astronmer Giovanni v. Schiaparelli observes canals of Mars. First All-England Lawn Tennis championship is held at Wimbledon in London; Spencer Grove is champion. Frozen meat shipped for first time, from Argentina to Europe.
Jan. 2: Carpetbag government ends in Florida with inauguration of George F. Drew, Democratic governor.
Jan. 29: Electoral Count Act provides for commission of 15 to judge and decide "as to which is the true and lawful electoral vote" of states from which there is more than one return. Five members from each branch of Congress and five from the Supreme Court; final makeup 8 Republicans, 7 Democrats. Feb. 1: Count of Presidential electoral vote begins before two houses of Congress
March 1: In Peik v. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company, Granger case, Supreme Court declares that a state has power to fix rates for intrastate traffic and for interstate traffic originating within it. If acts appear unjust, legislature and not courts must be appealed to.
March 1: In Munn v. Illinois, important Granger case, Supreme Court declares that a state legislature has power to regulate warehouse and intrastate railroad rates.
March 2: 4:10 a.m. President of the senate announces to both houses of Congress the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler by vote of 185 to 184 for Samuel J. Tilden. Justice Bradley's vote decisive in Electoral Commission.
April 10: South Carolina passes into hands of its Democratic majority when Federal troops by order of the President quit Columbia and its carpetbag governor leaves for the North.
April 20: President Hayes orders withdrawal of Federal troops from vicinity of New Orleans State House. April 24: Federal troops withdrawn from barracks in New Orleans. Carpetbag rule in Louisiana ends with Democratic government taking control. Last Southern state has now returned to control of its citizens. These moves were seen as a payoff for the southern states quietly accepting the Presidential election results.
May 17: U.S. Grant sails from Philadelphia for trip around the world. [Grant sailed to the West Coast before the Civil War and was stationed at Fort Vancouver.]
June-October: War with Nez Perce Indians in Idaho. War ends with defeat of Chief Joseph by Colonel Nelson A. Miles and removal of Indians to a reservation.
June 14: Flag Day first observed, commemorating 100th anniversary of the Continental Congress's adoption of the U.S. flag.
June 15: Henry O. Flipper is the first black man graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
June 21: Ten "Molly Maguires" hanged, members of secret society of terrorists active for a decade in Pennsylvania mining towns. 1877 saw strikes on a national scale, with violence, for the first time in U.S. history.
Aug. 12: Thomas A. Edison hands the model of his first phonograph to John Kreusi with instructions on how to build it. Kreusi bets the inventor $2 and says that there is no way that the machine will ever work. He loses the bet and the first sound recording is made. Edison also invents the gramophone.
Dec. 26: Workingmen's party in convention at Newark, New Jersey, reorganized as Socialist Labor party, for political action.

1878

Thomas Edison patents the recording of sound onto discs and cylinders. David Hughes invents the carbon microphone.
Milk delivered in bottles for first time
The most important national legislation to affect the Northwest this year was passed on June 8: Timber and Stone Act, known by a longer name, allows people in the territories of California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington to prove up on public land that "is more valuable for the timber or stone than for agricultural purposes."
Henry James publishes The Europeans, reversing the plot of his prior novels by introducing European characters into American setting. Through the Dark Continent by explorer Henry M. Stanley. History of American Literature, 1607-1765, pioneering study of early American literature by Moses Colt Tyler. Carl Sandburg born in Chicago. Upton Sinclair born. Charles Pierce writes his philosophy of pragmatism, How to make our ideas clear.
James A. M. Whistler, American painter, sues English critic John Ruskin for malice in the latter's critical essay, Nocturne in Black and Gold: A Falling Rocket. Ruskin wrote that Whistler had "flung a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler won the case but received only one farthing in damages.
First bicycle manufactured in U.S. by A.A. Pope this year after introduction at 1876 Centennial Exposition
Albert A. Michelson invents interferometer to measure vast distances by light wave lengths.
First photographic dry plate manufactured after invention by George Eastman, patented 1879.
Worldwide: Gilbert & Sullivan compose H.M.S. Pinafore (Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan). Victor Emmanuel II, Kind of Italy, died, succeeded by son Humbert I. Turks capitulate and appel to Russia for armistice; British fleet arrives at sultan's request in Constantinople, armistice signed. The term jingoism is applied to war fever in Britain; derived from barroom phrase, "by jingo," which stood for Jesus. Thomas Hardy, English novelist, writes Return of the Native. Pope Pius IX died, Cardinal Count Pecci succeeds him as Leo XIII. German historian Heinrich Treitschke begins racial anti-Semite movement. Mannlicher produces the repeater rifle. Karl Benz, German engineer, builds the motorized tricycle with a top speed of seven miles per hour. New Scotland Yard established in London. Electric street lighting introduced in London. World Exhibition in Paris.
Jan. 1: Knights of Labor established, the first labor union attempting to organize all workers into a single union.
Jan. 10: Women's suffrage amendment introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent of California. Defeated 34-16, the amendment was reintroduced in each succeeding Congress until accepted in the original version in xx.
Jan. 14: In Hall v. De Cuir, Supreme Court declares unconstitutional any state law requiring a railroad to provide equal accommodations for all passengers regardless of race or color, citing interstate travel
Jan. 17: Pago Pago Harbor acquired for coaling station and use of naval vessels and treaty of amity and commerce signed with Samoa. Senate consents Jan. 30.
Jan. 28: First commercial telephone exchange opened at New Haven, Connecticut, with eight lines and 21 subscriber telephones.
Feb. 28: Bland-Allison Bill passed over Present Hayes's veto; authorizes purchase of from 2-4 million dollars of silver each moth for coinage into dollars at old ration of 16 to 1.
March 25: In Pensacola Telegraph Company v. Western Union Telegraph Company, Supreme Court declares expansion of regulation of interstate commerce, including the telegraph
May 31: Greenbacks in circulation halted at $346,681,016 as of this day by act of Congress
June 11: District of Columbia given new government by Congress and permanent constitution. Residents have no direct voice in either local or national government.
July 11: President Hayes opposes New York bosses by firing Chester A. Arthur as collector of the Port of New York, and Alonzo B. Cornell, a naval officer. Arthur would get his revenge in two years.
Aug. 21, 1878, American Bar Association formed at Saratoga, New York.
Oct. 15: Edison Electric Light Company, first such company, formed in New York City.
Oct. 27: "Western George" Leslie, thought to have staged more than half the bank robberies in the U.S., robs the Manhattan Savings Institution in New York of $3 million.
November: In congressional elections, Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1858, 42-33 in the Senate with one seat for a minor party, 149-130 in the House with 14 Greenback Party seats.
Compromise reached between the Greenback Party and its opponents fixes the Greenback circulation at its existing level. The silver lobby pushes through the Bland-Allison Act, forcing the US Treasury to buy between $2 million and $4 million of silver each month for coinage and fixes the relative prices the mint pays for gold and silver. France abandons bimetallism and in practice adopts the gold standard. By the end of the 1870s the gold standard becomes international standard with London as the world's main financial center.
Dec. 9: Joseph Pulitzer buys the St. Louis Dispatch, bankrupt newspaper for $2,500. He soon merges it with the St. Louis Post, forming the new Post-Dispatch, and becomes the most influential publisher in the U.S.
Dec. 17: The term, "Solid South," coined in a speech in the Senate by Senator Morgan of Alabama.
Dec. 17: Wall street — Greenbacks reach face value in gold for first time since 1862. By the end of the Civil War the Greenbacks are only worth half as much in gold as their nominal value. Under the terms of the Contraction Act of 1865 the government begins to withdraw greenbacks from circulation. By 1868, the withdrawal was exacerbating a depression in the economy.

1879

The era of Finance Capitalism is said to begin in 1879 through 1933.
Albert Einstein born (died 1955)
European crop failure raises wheat prices for American farmers, a key factor in the return of prosperity, leading to increased acreage and increase of railroad track mileage.
Archaeological Institute of America organized and Art Institute of Chicago founded
Arc-lamp street-lighting installed in Cleveland and San Francisco by Charles F. Brush of Wabash, Indiana
William Deering's twine grain binder appears.
Cash register invented by Ritty
Lincoln county, New Mexico, cattle war erupts and ended by Federal troops. William "Billy the kid" Bonney involved.
Blacks move in large numbers from the South to Kansas
Madison Square Garden opened to public in New York City, a converted railroad structure at 26th street, replaced in 1890 by the more elegant structure that became famous.
Henry James publishes Daisy Miller, the story of a young American heroine pitted against the complexities of Continental society; became the most popular of his early novels. Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty, a landmark book on economics that celebrated the value of land and advocated a single tax to replace all other forms of taxation. William Dean Howells publishes A Lady of Aroostook. The Aroostook area of Maine was home to two famous Skagit county pioneers, Samuel S. Tingley and Amasa "Pegleg" Everett. Darwinism by John Fiske published. Robert Louis Stevenson writes Travels with a donkey.
Frank W. Woolworth opened a five-and-ten-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which becomes the first in his thousand such outlets, the beginning of the chain store in the U.S. Local merchants hated them but the public approved.
Church of Christ, Scientist, organized by Mary Baker Eddy of Lynn, Massachusetts, who authored Science and Health and Key to the Scriptures.
Fox hunts and "coaching," parades of horse-drawn vehicles including phaetons and four-in-hands, are popular forms of recreation this year in the U.S.. National Archery Association founded at Crawfordsville, Indiana; first national tournament held at Chicago with Will Thompson the first champion.
Anglo-American moving-picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge designs a crude movie projector known as a zoopraxiscope.
Worldwide: Britain-Zulu war begins. Alsace-Lorraine declared an integral part of Germany. French Panama Canal Company organized under Ferdinand de Lesseps [went bankrupt in 1889]. Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky born (died 1953 and 1940). Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist, writes A Doll's House, first portrayal of a woman leaving an unhappy marriage for a life of her own. George Meredith, English novelist, wrote The Egoist after a period of obscurity. Johan Strindberg, Swedish dramatist, writes The Red Room, his satirical novel about Stockholm society. Anti-Jesuit laws introduced in France. Herbert Spencer, English philosopher, publishes Principles of Ethics. Paul Klee, Swiss painter, born (died 1940). Auguste Renoir paints Mme. Charpentier and her children in France. Auguste Rodin sculpts John the Baptist. First electric tram exhibited by E.W. Siemens at Berlin Trade Exhibtion. London's first telephone exchange established. Australian frozen meat sold in London. Public granted unrestricted admission to the British Museum. First large-scale skiing contest at Huseby Hill, Oslo, Norway.
Jan. 1: Specie payment or coin money resumed by U.S. for first time since suspended in 1861. That suspension was partly blamed for the panic of 1873. Mints kept open after hours to produce coins but little currency was presented by the public for redemption.
Feb. 4: In open letter to E.A. Merritt, Chester Arthur's successor, President Hayes directs him to conduct office according to Civil Service Commission rules.
Feb. 18: Women attorneys won right to argue cases before U.S. Supreme Court by act of Congress.
March 3: U.S. Geological Survey, established act of Congress, assigned to Department of the Interior. This led to the Geological Survey of California, which employed Amos Bowman, future founder of Anacortes.
May 7: California adopts new constitution that forbade employment of Chinese laborers. In February, Congress passed a bill to restrict Chinese immigration. President Hayes vetoed it March 1 because it violated the Burlingame Treaty of 1868, which established free immigration between the two countries. About 300,000 Chinese laborers brought in between 1850-82, most remaining on the Pacific coast. Discrimination seems to have been more economic than racial since Chinese worked for less.
Aug. 23: Charles De Young, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, shoots mayoral candidate Isaac S. Kalloch with a Traflon self-cocking pistol but Kalloch survives and wins the election on Sept. 3. After one two-year term, Kalloch leaves politics and moves to Whatcom, Washington territory in December 1883, where he died in December 1887.
Summer 1879: Ute Indians uprising in Colorado. They are removed, by treaty, to reservation in Utah in 1880
Sept. 20: General Grant arrives at San Francisco on world tour
Nov. 15: U.S. end of French Atlantic cable landed at North Eastham, Massachusetts
Oct. 21, Thomas Edison invents the first incandescent electric lamp. The first model burns for 40 hours using a carbonized cotton thread filament. Dec. 31: Public demonstration at Menlo Park laboratories. Jan. 27, 1880: patent awarded for lamp with filament made with carbonized cotton thread. First commercial installation of lamps made on steamship Columbia of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co.

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