1. August Scholz opened Scholz Garten after buying the building and land in 1862 from Sam Norville for $2400.
2. Congress approves the Fourteenth Amendment , which extends full citizenship rights to former slaves.
3. Texas rejects the 14th Amendment.
4. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 , which declares that blacks are citizens and grants them equal.
rights, and a measure extending the life of the Freedmen's Bureau , an organization that provides schooling, food, medical care, and jobs to recently freed African Americans. President Johnson vetoes both bills; both vetoes are overridden.
5. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), an organization dedicated to white supremacy, holds its first meeting in Pulaski, Tennessee.
6. The U. S. Secret Service begins an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan
7. Congress approves the creation of six new all-black regiments. The regiments, nick
named " Buffalo Soldiers ," are assigned to territories in the West.
8. Race riots break out in Memphis, Tennessee. The riots last for three days. At least forty-six blacks are killed.
Race Riots in New Orleans are blamed on President Johnson.
9. Butch Cassidy, outlaw is born.
10. Australian Rules Football is created.
11. Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000).
12. Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US.
13. Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over.
14. World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI.)
15. Texas repeals the actions of the Secessionist Convention.
16. A proclamation of peace with Texas is issued by President Andrew Johnson.
17. Texas rejoins the United States with repeal of the secession amendment.
16. Texas Population was approx. 800,000 (1870 Census 818,579).
17. Indian Battles continue in Texas. Austin is considered the edge of the frontier.
18 Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drive cattle from Texas to New Mexico.
19. George Custer is assigned to Austin and is stationed two blocks from Scholz's.
20. The rail line between East U.S. and West U.S. are three years from being finished.
21. First appearance of a 5-cent coin, soon called "the nickel.
22. Congress appropriates $100,000 to buy Ford's Theater.
23. Congress establishes "general of the armies" and Ulysses S. Grant is immediately promoted to 4-star general.
and put in this position. William Tecumseh Sherman assumes the rank of Lt. General.
24. Paraguayan canoes sank 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.
25. Andrew Rankin patented the urinal.
26. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
27. German premier Otto von Bismarck was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
28. Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a free man after spending two years in prison for his role in the American Civil War.
29. Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.
30. Beatrix Potter, author of children’s stories, wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," was born.
31. Frederick Douglass became the 1st US black delegate to a national convention.
32. Manuelito, the last Navaho chief, turned himself in at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
33. H.G. Wells, English novelist and historian was born as Herbert George Wells in Bromley, Kent, England. His work included the novel "Marriage" and "The Time Machine" (1895). The science fiction writer is best known for "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds."
34. In Mississippi a fifth of the state’s revenues were spent on artificial arms and legs for Confederate veterans.
35. Alfred Nobel patented "Dynamite" or kiselguhr in Sweden.
36. Gregor Mendel, began interpret heredity in plants as dominant or recessive units.
37. Huggins made the first spectroscopic observations of a nova.