February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president.
May 29 – Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War
William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and
impeachment, despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.
November 23 – Corrupt
Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as
Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in
New York City after being captured in
Spain.
December – The first American edition of
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his first individual extended work of fiction, is published by the
American Publishing Company; a British edition has appeared in early June in London with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine.
Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the
Sioux chief
Sitting Bull in the region of the
Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the
Great Plains.
^Bell, John L. Hard Times : Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1982. Print.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 12.
ISBN080-5-7723-08.
February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president.
May 29 – Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War
William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and
impeachment, despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.
November 23 – Corrupt
Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as
Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in
New York City after being captured in
Spain.
December – The first American edition of
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his first individual extended work of fiction, is published by the
American Publishing Company; a British edition has appeared in early June in London with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine.
Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the
Sioux chief
Sitting Bull in the region of the
Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the
Great Plains.
^Bell, John L. Hard Times : Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1982. Print.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 12.
ISBN080-5-7723-08.