20 January 1887Rule of Pearl HarborStephen Grover Cleveland
The US Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base
Historical records for United States of America in 1887, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The US Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base
Congress creates the Electoral Count Act to avoid disputed national elections
Congress creates the Electoral Count Act to avoid disputed national elections
Congress creates the Electoral Count Act to avoid disputed national elections
Congress creates the Electoral Count Act to avoid disputed national elections
The Interstate Commerce Act creates federal regulation of railroad rates and practices.
The Dawes Act authorizes division of reservation land into individual allotments.
Senator Henry Dawes sponsors the General Allotment Act, authorizing allotment of tribal lands to individual Native Americans.
The General Allotment Act is named for Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts.
Senator Henry Dawes sponsores the Dawes Severalty Act that authorizes the survey of Indian territories in the West, in order that the commonly held tribal lands might be broken up into property allotments of 40 to 160 acres
The Dawes Act seeks assimilation through individual landholding and changes in tribal land tenure.
The Dawes Act permits reservation land to be broken into allotments while surplus land can pass from tribal control.
The 49th US Congress passes the Edmunds-Tucker Act which womens suffrage
The 49th US Congress passes the Edmunds-Tucker Act which womens suffrage
The 49th US Congress passes the Edmunds-Tucker Act which womens suffrage
Birth of Mary Ellen Chase
William Randolph Hearst appointed "Proprietor" of the SF Examiner newspaper
Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2m
Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2m
The Germans are able to hold the region until they launched their final major, last-ditch offensive on the Western Front, into the Ardennes
The Germans are able to hold the region until they launched their final major, last-ditch offensive on the Western Front, into the Ardennes
Frank Brownell, the maker of George Eastmans roll holder, creates for Eastman a simple box camera, Eastman names it "Kodak" and patents the name with the camera
Michelson carries out interferometer measurements that challenge the idea of a stationary luminiferous ether
Morley works with Michelson on the ether drift experiment later treated as an important background to special relativity
Reelected to a third Senate term from Massachusetts.
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