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Yorktown Surrender
The British military under the command of General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington's Colonial Army, and ended the American Revolutionary war. -
Corps of Discovery
Starting on May 14th, 1804, the Corps of Discovery went out into the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase, under the commission of President Thomas Jefferson, and the leadership of Lewis and Clark. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
After the long, bloody, yet successful Civil war for the Union, John Wilkes Booth, one of many upset confederate supporters, shot the president in the back. -
Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad
The golden spike driven at Promontory Summit Utah symbolized the finishing of the Union Pacific and Western Pacific transcontinental railroad. -
National Woman's Suffrage Association was Founded
The National Woman's Suffrage Association was founded founded partly by Susan B. Anthony, laying some of the first solid stepping stones towards the 19th amendment. -
Panic of 1893
Due to the overbuilding of railroads, and the investing collapse of banking, the United States suffered a major recession. -
November 16th, 1896: Niagara Powers Buffalo
Nikola Tesla's childhood vision of the Niagara Falls power plant gives Buffalo, New York the first majorly produced AC electricity.
