May 2nd 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.

May 10th 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.

Boo Hoo on Stone wall.  ::).    ...But nice thread, I am a bit of a Civil War buff. Chancellorsville was a win for the Confederates, but we know that in two months they will see Vicksburg and Gettysburg. 

Boo Hoo on Stone wall.  ::).    ...But nice thread, I am a bit of a Civil War buff. Chancellorsville was a win for the Confederates, but we know that in two months they will see Vicksburg and Gettysburg. 
I keep meaning to learn more about the Civil War and Lincoln, etc.

I keep meaning to learn more about the Civil War and Lincoln, etc.


The best introduction is the documentary "The Civil War" by Ken Burns.  It is fascinating and got a lot of people hooked on the war, including me.  I, also, would be glad to answer any questions.

Here are some youtube excerpts, though they are a pale example to the whole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsszvmuZBR4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSf2L7QYoI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MmfgEZnaE

The best introduction is the documentary "The Civil War" by Ken Burns.  It is fascinating and got a lot of people hooked on the war, including me. 



I'm with Danoota, I highly recommend it. It's a great series. I enjoyed it a lot.

The best introduction is the documentary "The Civil War" by Ken Burns.  It is fascinating and got a lot of people hooked on the war, including me.  I, also, would be glad to answer any questions.

Here are some youtube excerpts, though they are a pale example to the whole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsszvmuZBR4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSf2L7QYoI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MmfgEZnaE
The movie Lincoln has helped me towards this.

May 14th 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.

May 17th 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.

May 18th 1863 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

May 21st 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.

May 21st 1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.

May 22nd 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.

June 7th 1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.

June 9th 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.

June 14th 1863

– American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

– Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.

June 17th 1863 – Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

June 20th 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.

July 1st 1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

July 1st 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.

July 3rd 1863 – Pickett's Charge, a futile Confederate infantry assault against Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the American Civil War.

July 9th 1863 – American Civil War: the Siege of Port Hudson ends.

July 13th 1863 – Three days of rioting began in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by the United States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

July 18th 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal African American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina.
   

Something a little more down-home and personal!

The Pursuit – Sunday, July 19, 1863

Moving an entire army, most of it on foot, was a very slow process. It took almost three hours from the time the order was first given at 6 a.m. for other divisions and brigades to pass before the 1st Brigade joined the line of march at the very rear of the Fifth Corps.

Once again, the march wasn’t taxing, the 1st Brigade maintaining a speed of about a mile and a half an hour. At noon, with Purcellville five and a half miles in the rear view mirror, regiments picked their spots to make camp, the 18th situating itself in an oak grove outside the town of Philomont, Virginia until the following morning.

Assistant Surgeon Joshua Wilbur, whose mid-day meal consisted of bread, butter, and coffee, blamed the last ingredient for his apparent insomnia. “I don't think it is good to drink so much coffee and have no doubt it has something to do with my not sleeping nights as I slept very well last night after drinking tea. But when a person has been traveling all day and eating nothing, coffee does taste good.”

July 26th 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

July 30th 1863 – American Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

October 31st 1863 – The Maori Wars resumes as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.

November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous speech known as the "Gettysburg Address".

Fourscore and seven years ago...

November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous speech known as the "Gettysburg Address".

Fourscore and seven years ago...


So, seven score and 10 years ago he delivered four score and 7 years ago.

So, seven score and 10 years ago he delivered four score and 7 years ago.


;D

December 16th 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

March 12th 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.

April 25th 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate troops overwhelmed a small Union detachment, leading to Union abandonment of their position in Camden, Arkansas.

April 29th 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

May 7th 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

May 7th 1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

May 12th 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".

May 15th 1864 – American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

May 15th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.

May 20th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.

1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian–Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.

May 21st 1864 - Belgian missionary priest Father Damien, 24, was ordained on the Island of Hawaii. Born Joseph de Veuster, the Picpus Father began a work among the lepers on the island of Molokai in 1873. Contracting the disease in 1884, Father Damien succumbed to it five years later.

May 22nd 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.

May 29th 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.

June 5th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

June 10th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads - Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.

June 12th 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

July 19th 1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

July 28th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.

August 5th 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins – At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

August 22nd 1864 – The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially began when twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross.

1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.

January 31st 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.

January 31st 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

February 1st 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

February 8th 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)

1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.

1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.

1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.

1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.

1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.

1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.

1865- US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to US General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox, Virginia courthouse leading to a cease-fire and the end of the war, ushering in the era of Reconstruction and the 13th Amendment, freeing all remaining slaves.

1865- 16th US President Abraham Lincoln dies following his assasination to John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. 

1865 16th US President Abraham Lincoln dies following his assassination to John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. 

The first time that a U.S. President was assassinated. :\'(

He was replaced by Vice President Andrew Johnson.

1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.

1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.

1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.

1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.

May 10th 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.

May 10th 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.

May 12th 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.

May 13th 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.

May 26th 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

June 10th 1865 – Richard Wagner's revolutionary Tristan und Isolde received its premiere in Munich.

June 11th 1865 – The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.

June 19th 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.

June 23rd 1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.

July 4th 1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.

July 6th 1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine is published.

July 7th 1865 – American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

July 21st 1865 – In one of the few recorded instances of a "quick draw" gun duel in the American Old West, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt over a poker debt.

Damn, 150 years ago, it would've been a month since the Civil War had its last shots fired.

July 27th 1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

July 29th 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, US, the steamship Brother Jonathan, carrying a large shipment of gold coins that would not be retrieved until 1996, struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people.

January 18th 1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established.

February 16th 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.

February 25th 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

March 31st 1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.

April 6th 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.

April 8th 1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.

April 10th 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

May 8th 1866 - Australian Rules Football was created.

May 10th 1866 – Romania National Holiday 1866-1947, The Modern Monarchy Instauration of the Kingdom of Romania, Carol I of Romania.

May 16th 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.

May 31st 1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.

June 24th 1866 – Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.

July 25th 1866: The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first such person to be promoted to this rank.

July 30th 1866 – New Orleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

August 20th 1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.

September 12th 1866 - "The Black Crook" opened in New York City. It was the first American burlesque show.

September 14th 1866 - George K. Anderson patented the typewriter ribbon.

September 22nd 1866 – Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.

October 22nd 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.

March 11th 1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.

May 3rd 1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

August 12th 1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

September 2nd 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.

August 12th 1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.


IIRC, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

September 13th 1867 - General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors.

November 2nd 1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded.

November 3rd 1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).

February 24th 1868: Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. President to be impeached.

April 1st, 1868 - Edmond Rostand, French poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) is born.

October 10th 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.

October 31st 1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.

November 2nd 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

February 3rd 1869 - Edwin Booth opened his new theatre in New York City. The first production was "Romeo and Juliet".

February 5th 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

March 6th 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

March 13th 1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law.

April 28th 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

May 15th 1869 – Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

May 17th 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.

May 31st 1869 - Heavy rain postpones the Red Stockings baseball game against the Anioch Nine; first rain-out in professional baseball.

June 15th 1869 - Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout.

August 23rd 1869 - First train carload of freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston.

August 24th 1869 - A patent for the waffle iron was received by Cornelius Swarthout.

August 24th 1869 - A patent for the waffle iron was received by Cornelius Swarthout.
Hence, National Waffle Day (United States)!

August 29th 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

September 6th 1869: 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco.

September 6th 1869: 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
But how long before did the train commence the journey?

But how long before did the train commence the journey?

Probably several days beforehand. That's another question, where did it originate?

September 24th 1869: Gold prices plummet after President Useless Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

October 5th 1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.

October 16th 1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.

October 16th 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

October 16th 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

January 10th 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

January 10th 1870 - US Secretary of the Navy George Robeson directs Commander Thomas O. Selfridge to make a survey of the Isthmus of Darien, Nicaragua, to determine the best location for canal from Atlantic to Pacific oceans.

January 12th 1920 - Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues is agreed to be done in inverse order of the final standings.

February 12th 1870 - In the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote.

February 12th 1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as the last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada.

February 25th 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.

February 27th 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.

March 16th 1870 – The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.

March 18th 1870 - First US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland, California).

March 30th 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

March 30th 1870 - The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, was passed by the U.S. Congress.

March 31st 1870 - In Perth Amboy, NJ, Thomas Munday Peterson became the first black to vote in the U.S.

April 9th 1870 - The American Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved.

April 13th 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

April 15th 1870 - Last day US silver coins are allowed to circulate in Canada at par with Canadian coins.

May 10th 1870 - Jem Mace defends his heavyweight boxing crown against Irish champion Joe Coburn, it lasts one hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch.

May 12th 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.

May 14th 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

June 22nd 1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.

July 1st 1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.

August 16th 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

August 16th 1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that curve ball thrown in baseball isn't an optical illusion.

September 1st 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.

September 18th 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.

October 7th 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

January 3rd 1871 - In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.

Two days late... 23 January 1871, Giuseppe Garibaldi's group of French and Italian volunteer troops, in support of the French Third Republic, win a battle against the Prussians in Dijon.

March 21st 1871:

Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

March 22nd 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

March 28th 1871: The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.

March 29th 1871, the Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

July 29th 1871 - The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.

November 10th 1871 - Henry Moron Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

December 24th 1871: The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

March 16th 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

May 22nd 1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

September 18th 1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.

November 5th 1872 - Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Good for you, Susan!

March 3rd 1873 - Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.

May 9th 1873 – Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash heralds the Long Depression.

May 20th 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.