| Year | Bingham’s Life | America’s History |
| 1811 | 20 March – George Caleb Bingham born near Weyer’s Cave in Augusta County, Virginia | 7 November – William Henry Harrison defeats Native American coalition at Battle of Tippecanoe; 16 December – New Madrid earthquake |
| 1812 | 18 November – sister Elizabeth born | 12 June -United States declares war on Britain |
| 1813 | 5 October – Native American leader Tecumseh is killed at Battle of the Thames in Canada | |
| 1814 | 27 June 18 – brother Isaac Newton born | 24 August – British burn Washington, DC |
| 1815 | 8 January – Andrew Jackson wins Battle of New Orleans | |
| 1816 | Second Bank of the United States chartered: Indiana enters union as the 19th state | |
| 1817 | 11 January – brother Henry Vest, Jr. born | 2 August – Steamboat Zebulon M. Pike arrives in St. Louis, beginning a new era of transportation to Missouri |
| 1818 | 4 November – sister Frances Louisa born | 28 April – US and Canada agree on boundary at 49th parallel |
| 1819 | Autumn – Bingham family moves to Franklin, Howard County, Missouri | Panic of 1819 |
| 1820 | Spring – Father Henry V. Bingham opens Square and Compass Tavern in Franklin | 3 March – Missouri Compromise – Maine enters Union as a free state; Missouri, as a slave state |
| 1821 | 14 September – sister Amanda born; Henry Bingham serves as Justice of the Peace; opens a tobacco factory in Franklin with William Lamme | 1 September – William Becknell leads a successful trading party to Santa Fe, which opens the Santa Fe Trail |
| 1822 | Henry V. Bingham builds a tobacco storage warehouse in Franklin and serves as Howard County Court Judge; maternal grandfather Matthias Amend drowns while trying to cross the Missouri River; George Caleb Bingham observes artist Chester Harding at work | 7 January – Americans found Liberia as a colony for freed slaves; 16 June – Denmark Vesey leads unsuccessful slave uprising in Charleston, South Carolina, which leads to more restrictive slave codes |
| 1823 | 26 December – Henry V. Bingham, Sr. dies at the age of 38 | April – Stephen Austin leads 300 settlers to Texas |
| 1824 | Mother, Mary Amend Bingham, opens a school for girls in Franklin, Missouri | 11 March – US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| 1825 | Bingham family struggles to survive | 26 October – Erie Canal completed |
| 1826 | John Bingham, Henry’s brother, donates land to help found the town of Arrow Rock in Saline County, Missouri | National Academy of Design founded |
| 1827 | Masonic Lodge secures Bingham property in Arrow Rock and helps family move from Franklin; George Caleb Bingham (GCB) apprentices with Arrow Rock cabinetmaker, Reverend Jesse Green who later becomes a teaching missionary to the Shawnee | 28 February – America’s first railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, incorporated; Workingmen’s Party founded in Philadelphia |
| 1828 | Apprentices with Boonville cabinetmaker Reverend Justinian Williams | 22 May – “Tariff of Abominations” passes Congress, forcing a secession crisis |
| 1829 | Apprentices with Boonville cabinetmaker Reverend Justinian Williams | 6 April – Mexican government abolishes slavery and bans further American colonization of Texas |
| 1830 | Apprentices with Boonville cabinetmaker Reverend Justinian Williams | 26 May – Congress passes Indian Removal Act |
| 1831 | Brother Isaac Newton Bingham, 17, drowns in the Missouri River; apprentices with Boonville cabinetmaker Reverend Justinian Williams; | 21 August – Nat Turner leads slave rebellion in Southampton, Virginia. |
| 1832 | Apprentices with Boonville cabinetmaker Reverend Justinian Williams | 14 May – Black Hawk war begins; 2 August – Black Hawk War ends at Battle of Bad Axe |
| 1833 | GCB begins career as portrait artist | 1 October – Andrew Jackson ends the Second National Bank |
| 1834 | As an itinerant portrait artist, GCB paints in Arrow Rock and Columbia, Missouri | 4 April -Whig party founded by coalition opposed to Andrew Jackson; 1 August – Great Britain abolishes slavery |
| 1835 | Paints in Columbia, Missouri; May – travels to Liberty, Missouri, but delayed two weeks en route by a form of small pox that caused him to his hair (he will wears a wig the rest of his life), Liberty, paints portraits; November – opens a studio in St. Louis | 2 October – Texas revolts against Mexico, 29 October – New York City workingmen found the Loco-Foco party, a radical branch of the Democratic party; 28 December – Osceola leads Second Seminole War |
| 1836 | In Saint Louis; 14 April – marries Sarah Elizabeth Hutchison in Boonville, Missouri; November – returns to St. Louis; winters in Natchez, Mississippi | 6 February – Congress passes a gag rule on anti-slavery petitions; 3-6 March – Battle of the Alamo; 4 December – Whig party holds first national convention |
| 1837 | In Natchez, Mississippi, 26 March – son Isaac Newton born; 27 May – in Columbia, painting portraits; 27 July – purchases lot in Arrow Rock where GCB eventually builds a home and studio for himself and his family | 10 May – Panic of 1837 begins; 5 June – Houston, Texas incorporated; 7 November – a pro-slavery mob kills the publisher of an Illinois abolitionist newspaper, Elijah Lovejoy |
| 1838 | In Columbia through February; March and early June, studies in Philadelphia and probably visits New York City and introduces himself at the Apollo Gallery; July, August – in Missouri; September – exhibits Western Boatmen Ashore at the Apollo Gallery in New York City; November, December – paints portraits in Missouri | James Herring opens Apollo Gallery in New York City; 26 May – 15,000 Cherokee forcibly removed south on 800-mile “Trail of Tears”; Underground Railroad founded |
| 1839 | Paints in central Missouri; Mid-March – returns to St. Louis where he spends most of the year; 5 December – fire in St. Louis studio destroys paintings | 22 June – Louis Daguerre patents the camera; 814 people subscribe to the Apollo Association in order to receive prints by American artists; 27 October – Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs signs “Extermination Order” to force Mormons from the state |
| 1840 | January – in St. Louis; mid-February – in Fayette, Missouri – painting portraits; May – in Arrow Rock – paints political banner for the Saline County delegation to the state Whig convention; Mid-June – attends state Whig convention in Rocheport, Missouri; Autumn – after Whig victory of William Henry Harrison, moves family to Washington DC | Apollo Association renamed as the American Art-Union whose goal is to encourage American art by supporting artists through painting purchases and by widening audiences through regular print distribution and an annual lottery of original works; 7 May – Great Natchez tornado kills 317 |
| 1841 | 13 March – son Newton dies; 15 March – son Horace born; April – August – paints portraits in Petersburg, Virginia; September – visits family home in Virginia; October – returns to Washington, DC | 9 March – Supreme Court frees Amistad mutineers; 16 August – President John Tyler vetoes re-establishment of Second US Bank — Whigs riot outside capitol |
| 1842 | Throughout year – GCB paints portraits in Washington, DC.; November – Elizabeth and Horace travel to Boonville, Missouri | March – Massachusetts declares labor unions legal; 19 May – Dorr Rebellion for universal white male suffrage squelched in Rhode Island |
| 1843 | January – May – paints portraits in Washington, DC; Elizabeth and Horace return in March; June – visits Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibition; July – December – paints portraits in Washington, DC | January – Dorothea Dix presents research on mental institutions and poor houses conditions that lead to reforms; 22 May – first wagon train to the Northwest territories; 1 June – Quakers buy freedom for Sojourner Truth for $25 |
| 1844 | January – May – in Washington, DC; September – Bingham family resides in Boonville, Missouri; October – GCB attends state Whig convention in Boonville; November & December – in Jefferson City painting political portraits | 12 April – Texas becomes a US Territory; 1 May – Whig Convention nominates Henry Clay for president; 24 May – Samuel F. B. Morse successfully sends telegraph message; 27 June – Joseph Smith killed by mob in Nauvoo, Illinois |
| 1845 | January – paints in St. Louis and in central Missouri; 14 March – daughter Clara born; 4 June – exhibits paintings in St. Louis; sells home in Arrow Rock, convinced that though he loves the region, he cannot support his family there; returns to St. Louis | Irish potato famine bringsIrish immigrants to America; 28 March – Mexican government breaks diplomatic ties with the United States; 4 July – Native American party holds national convention in Philadelphia with anti-immigrant platform |
| 1846 | June – nominated by Whig party as candidate for state legislator from Saline County; August 14 – wins popular vote by three ballots defeated; 20 November – electoral opponent Erasmus Sappington contests vote in the legislature; 12 December – through Democratic party chicanery, seat given to Sappington | 25 April – War with Mexico begins; 15 June – Oregon treaty signed with Great Britain with border at 49th parallel; 28 December – Iowa joins Union as 29th state |
| 1847 | Works in Arrow Rock and St. Louis, Missouri | American Art-Union creates a subsidiary, the Western Art Union, in Cincinnati; 29 March General Winfield Scott takes Mexico City |
| 1848 | April – son Joseph Hutchison born; 14 April – GCB participates in Whig convention in Boonville; July – accepts nomination to run for state legislature; 11 August – wins election to state legislature; 24 November – wife Elizabeth dies of consumption; GCB considers resigning seat, but J.S. Rollins convinces him serving will take his mind off his grief; December – son Joseph dies; late December; Legislature appoints GCB to Committee on Federal Relations | 24 January – Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California; 2 February – Mexico cedes most of what is now the American Southwest, ending the war, but renewing debate on expanding slavery; 19 July – Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights; 1 November – Boston Female Academy opens as the first medical school for women in the United States |
| 1849 | January/ February in Jefferson City; Spring – opens a studio at the Western Art Union in Cincinnati; July – August – paints in New York City and travels to Philadelphia; October 5, in Liberty, Missouri; 2 December 1849 – marries Elizabeth Keller Thomas in Columbia, Missouri | 3 March – President Taylor creates the Home Department with Offices of Census, Indian Affairs, Land, and Pensions; 3 May – Mississippi River floods New Orleans; 17 May – a steamboat fire in St. Louis Fire nearly burns down the city; December – American Art-Union boasts 18,960 subscribing members |
| 1850 | January – November – works in Columbia and St. Louis; November – travels to New York to submit paintings to the American Art-Union | 9 September – California admitted to the Union as a free state based on Compromise of 1850; 18 September – Fugitive Slave Law enacted |
| 1851 | January – April – paints in New York; Early May – returns to Arrow Rock; May – mother, Mary Bingham, dies in Arrow Rock; June – November – GCB paints at a studio in Columbia, Missouri, and then travels to St. Louis | 4 March – Indiana Constitution prohibits any further African-Americans in state; 1 August – Virginia enacts universal white male suffrage; 17 September – Fort Laramie Treaty – brings peaceful settlement of the West for several years |
| 1852 | January – April – paints in St. Louis, Columbia, and Jefferson City, Missouri; 19 April – attends state Whig convention in St. Louis; May – in Boonville and Columbia, Missouri; 3 June – serves as delegate to the Whig national convention in Baltimore; travels to Philadelphia and New York; 27 June – arrives in Philadelphia to make arrangements for John Sartain to engrave The County Election; 28 October – returns to Columbia; November and December – in Glasgow and St. Louis | New York State Supreme Court declares the American Art-Union’s yearly lottery illegal, effectively ending the organization. Artists turn to personal print sales to help support themselves; 20 March – Harriett Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin; 1 July – Henry Clay lies in state in the United States Capitol rotunda, which initiates a tradition; 23 December – first train travel west of the Mississippi from St. Louis to Cheltenham, Missouri |
| 1853 | January and February – in St. Louis; 10 March – travels to New Orleans and Kentucky to exhibit and to sell subscriptions for prints of The County Election; 15 September – travels to New York and then Philadelphia to direct John Sartain’s engraving of The County Election; 30 September, travels to New York, views the Crystal Palace exhibit; then travels to Philadelphia where he stays through the winter to work with Sartain. | 3 March – Congress approves $150,000 in funds for the transcontinental railroad survey; 14 July – US Naval Commodore Matthew Perry sets foot in Japan; 22 December – a railroad route from Chicago to the east coast is completed; 30 December – The Gadsden Purchase of Mexican lands strengthens talk of a transcontinental railroad |
| 1854 | January – August – GCB in Philadelphia; September – December – in Missouri | 28 February – Republican Party founded in Ripon, Wisconsin; 30 May – Congress passes Kansas-Nebraska Act, which will begin escalating violence at the Missouri-Kansas border |
| 1855 | Late January – GCB returns to Philadelphia; late in June – returns to Missouri; paints portraits in the Independence/ Liberty /Kansas City region; Mid-September – works in Columbia, Missouri; 14 November – in Jefferson City painting and involved with Whig politics; 1 December – speaks before the Missouri legislature | 27 January – Panama Railroad connects the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean; 12 February – Michigan opens first land grant college; 30 March – in the elections to choose whether Kansas will be a free or slave territory, Missourians cross the border and vote pro-slavery. Northern newspapers name the ballot stuffers, Border Ruffians; November 21 – pro-slavery proponent Franklin Coleman kills Charles Dow, a free-stater, which begins Kansas’ Wakarusa War |
| 1856 | January – May – in Columbia; 6 May – arrives in St. Louis; 2 June – in Louisville, Kentucky; Summer – GCB in Boston and Philadelphia preparing historic portraits for Missouri capitol; 14 August – travels with family to France; 1 November – arrives in Düsseldorf | 18 February – the American, or Know-Nothing, Party nominates Millard Fillmore for president; May 22 – Senator Charles Sumner delivers “Crimes Against Kansas” speech. Sen. Preston Brooks canes him into unconsciousness; May 26 – John Brown leads massacre of five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas; 30 August – Battle of Osawatomie – John W. Reid of Independence, Missouri, leads pro-slavery to defeat free-soilers. Among the dead were Frederick Brown, a son of John Brown; Four more wars occur between pro-slavery and free-state supporters in Kansas and Missouri by the end of the year: Black Jack, Franklin, Fort Titus, Osawatomie, and Hickory Point. More casualties on each side |
| 1857 | GCB paints in Dusseldorf | 6 March – Dred Scott Decision; 28 May, Utah Mormon War begins; 24 August – Panic of 1857 begins |
| 1858 | GCB paints in Dusseldorf | 19 May – Missourians kill five Kansas free state men at the “Marais des Cygnes Massacre”; 5 August – Cyrus Field completes trans-Atlantic cable; 21 August-15 October – Lincoln-Douglas Debates; 20 December – Battle of the Spurs in Holton, Kansas between 45 pro-slavery men and John Brown and 20 men |
| 1859 | 12-14 January – attends the National Art Association meeting in Washington, DC; late January – delivers completed Washington and Jefferson portraits to Jefferson City. During acceptance ceremony, gives speech in support of Union; February – April – travels to St. Louis, Columbia, Jefferson City, Kansas City, St, Joseph, Brunswick, and St. Louis, Missouri; Early June – sails for Europe; 12 June 1859 – Father-in-law Robert Stewart Thomas dies in Kansas City; by September – Bingham family has returned to the United States; December – Baptist Female College (later Stephens College) in Columbia appoints Eliza Bingham chair of the music department | 14 February – Oregon admitted to Union as 33rd state; 27 August – oil first drilled in United States in Titusville, Pennsylvania; 4 October – Kansas voters ratify a free state constitution; 16 October – John Brown leads Raid on Harper’s Ferry; November – December – Abraham Lincoln visits Kansas; 2 December – John Brown hanged in Charleston, Virginia. |
| 1860 | 12-13 January, attends National Art Association meeting in Washington, D.C.; early March – returns to Columbia, Missouri; late April – St. Louis; mid-September – in Lexington, Kansas City, and Independence, Missouri | 3 April – Pony Express begins; 20 April – Free-stater John Ritchie kills U.S. Marshall Leonard Arms as he hunts for slaves in Topeka, Kansas; 6 November – Lincoln elected president; 20 December – South Carolina secedes from Union |
| 1861 | 7 January – in Jefferson City to set up portraits of Clay and Jackson in the House of Representatives; 12 January – older brother Matthias Amend Bingham dies near Houston, Texas; 6 March – GCB travels to Harris County, Texas, to settle Matthias’s estate; Mid-May – returns to Kansas City; 29 June – GCB volunteers with the U.S. Volunteer Reserve Corps, Van Horn’s Battalion and is given rank of captain; 21 September – son James Rollins Bingham born | 29 January – Kansas admitted to the Union as a Free State; 21 April – South Carolina’s secessionist troops fire on Fort Sumter; Civil War begins; 26 July – First Battle of Bull Run; 5 August – Congress passes nation’s first income tax; 24 October – Western Union connects first transcontinental telegraph |
| 1862 | 4 January – Governor Hamilton Gamble appoints Bingham state treasurer; family moves to Jefferson City | 6-15 February – Battles for Fort Henry and Donelson in Tennessee; 6-8 March – Union Army forces secessionist troops out of Missouri at Battle of Pea Ridge; 7 April – Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; 25 April – Union forces led by Daniel Farragut capture New Orleans, Louisiana; 4 June – Confederate troops led by Nathan Bedford Forrest massacre black troops at Fort Pillow, Tennessee; 8 June – Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia; 26 June – Battle of Mechanicsville, Virginia; 17 August – Lakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota; 28 August – Second Battle of Bull Run; 17 September – Battle of Antietam; 13 December – Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia; 26 December – Confederates defeat Union troops in first battle of Vicksburg Campaign; Congress passes legislation establishing land grant colleges, the Department of Agriculture, the Homestead, Pacific Railroad and Morrill Acts |
| 1863 | GCB works as State Treasurer of Missouri | 1 January – Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation; 1 – 4 May – Battle of Chancellorsville; 1-3 July – Battle of Gettysburg; 4 July – Battle of Vicksburg; 13 – 16 July – Anti-draft riots in New York; 13 August – the Bingham townhouse in Kansas City, which was confiscated by General Thomas Ewing and used as a prison for wives and sisters of Confederate irregulars, collapses, killing five women and maiming two; 21 August – William Quantrill leads a band of Missouri vigilantes, some relatives of women killed or injured in the prison collapse, to Lawrence, Kansas and kills all men and boys (~200) and burns town; 25 August – General Thomas Ewing issues Order No. 11 to depopulate western Missouri counties; 19 – 20 September – Battle of Chickamauga; 19 November – Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address |
| 1864 | 10 June – daughter Clara marries Thomas Benton King; August – GCB purchases home in Independence, Missouri | 3 June – Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia; 4 November – Forrest wins Battle of Johnsonville; 15 November – Sherman begins March to the Sea |
| 1865 | GCB completes term of office as state treasurer; moves to Independence, Missouri | 3 March – Freedmen’s Bureau created; 9 April – Robert E. Lee surrenders; 14 April – John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln; 29 May – President Andrew Johnson issues Proclamation of Reconstruction and Amnesty; 4 December – Congress refuses to seat southern congressman from states reconstructed through Andrew Johnson’s plan; 18 December – Congress passes 13th Amendment, which abolishes slavery |
| 1866 | 1 June – GCB announces candidacy for Congress from Sixth District; 6 October – loses congressional bid at nominating convention | 13 February -James Gang robs bank in Liberty, Missouri; April 9 – Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1866 over Johnson’s veto |
| 1867 | GCB in Independence; completes equestrian portrait of General Lyon in late March | 2 March – Congress passes Reconstruction Act |
| 1868 | 28 May – GCB serves as elector at Democratic state convention | 24 February – President Johnson impeached |
| 1869 | March – in Columbia; October 1 – Independence voters elect GCB as school board director; Son Horace leaves for California and is never seen again | 10 May – Transcontinental Railroad completed Near Ogden, Utah; 15 May – Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman’s Suffrage Association; 24 September – Fisk-Gould Scandal causes Panic of 1869. |
| 1870 | April – GCB sells home in Independence, Missouri; 6 May – moves to Kansas City and opens studio over Shannon Dry Goods Store at 3rd and Main | 3 February – Congress passes 15th Amendment, granting civil rights to all people regardless of color; 31 May – Congress passes first of four Force Acts which help control vigilantism in South |
| 1871 | January – February – Jefferson City; March – August – in Kansas City; September – November – Columbia; November – Kansas City; Late December – Philadelphia with John Sartain about the engraving of Order No. 11 | 20 April – U.S. Grant signs the Civil Rights Act of 1871; Summer – William Henry Jackson photographs Yellowstone; 8 October – Chicago Fire; 27 October – Boss Tweed arrested in New York for embezzling $40 million |
| 1872 | Late January – GCB in Philadelphia supervising John Sartain as he engraves Order No. 11; 10 May – in Kansas City selling prints of Order No. 11; July – in Baltimore; August – October – vacationing in Colorado with wife Eliza; 20 November – in Kansas City and surrounding towns painting portraits | 20 February – Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City; 1 March – Congress creates Yellowstone National Park; July – Freedmen’s Bureau terminated; 11 September -Credit Mobilier scandal exposed and extends to Grant’s cabinet; 5 November – Susan B. Anthony votes and is arrested two weeks later |
| 1873 | April – GCB in Houston and Austin, Texas, completing settlement of brother Matthias’ estate; May – Kansas City; July -Marshall and Arrow Rock, Missouri; August – in Kansas City; 3 September in Columbia, Missouri; September – in Louisville, Kentucky – exhibits Order No. 11 and Washington Crossing the Delaware at Louisville Industrial Exposition; October – in Kansas City painting portraits, with so much work that he cancels a planned trip to New York | 3 March – Congress passed Timber Culture Act intended to increase numbers of trees in Great Plains; 21 July – James-Younger gang rob the Rock Island Express of $3,000 at Adair, Iowa; 18 September – stock market crashes causing Panic of 1873; 15 December – Women’s Christian Temperance Union founded |
| 1874 | 11 May – state authorities appoint GCB president of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners; 31 July – accepts Democratic candidacy for Congress from 8th District; 24 August – withdraws name from congressional race; September – attends Democratic convention in Kansas City; December – in St. Louis exhibiting The Puzzled Witness | 31 January – James Gang robs a train for the first time; 29 June – Freedman’s Saving Bank terminated; 1 July – first public zoo opens in Philadelphia; 4 August – the Chautauqua movement begins in New York state; 25 November – Greenback Party founded |
| 1875 | January – Governor Charles H. Hardin appoints GCB Adjutant-General of Missouri; 19 January – GCB in Jefferson City; February – in Clay County, Missouri – investigating the Pinkerton attack in on the Samuels family: mother, stepfather, and half-brother of Frank and Jesse James; March – April – in Stone County, Missouri enforcing judicial order in an area overtaken by the Ku Klux Klan. After his visit, vigilantism ends | 1 March – Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1875; 11 May – Whiskey Ring exposes further corruption in the Grant administration; 1 September – the Molly Maguires, an Irish Labor Organization in the Pennsylvania coal mines, comes to an end; 30 October – American Theosophical Society founded |
| 1876 | 23 February – April – in Washington, DC to present war claims for state; May and June – in Jefferson City; October 24 – resigns position of Adjutant-General due to ill health; 3 November – Eliza Thomas Bingham dies at Fulton State Mental Hospital | 7 March – Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; 10 May – United States celebrates Centennial in Philadelphia with national fair; 25 June – Battle of Little Big Horn; 7 November – contested Presidential Election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden eventually places Republican Hayes in power in exchange for permanent pull-out of federal troops in the South, effectively ending Reconstruction |
| 1877 | 19 January – University of Missouri board of curators appoints GCB professor of art; March – state legislature authorizes GCB to paint historical picture of Jackson before Civil Court of Louisiana; June – GCB appointed professor of art of University of Missouri’s newly established School of Art; July – September – GCB in Boonville and Columbia painting portraits; November – in Kansas City | 6 May – Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to federal troops; 16 July – Great Railroad Strike extends from Baltimore to St. Louis; 9 August – Nez Perce War begins in Montana; Late August – Great Railroad Strike ends; 29 November – Thomas Edison demonstrates the phonograph |
| 1878 | January – St. Louis and Kansas City; February and March – in Washington, D.C.; May – visits daughter Clara (Mrs. Thomas Benton King) and her family in Stephensville, Texas; 18 June – Kansas City – marries Mrs. Martha Livingston Lykins; Summer – honeymoons in Colorado; November 8 – Kansas City – Robert E. Lee Monument Association appoints GCB a commissioner; 21 November – GCB arrives in Richmond, Virginia for Lee Monument meeting; 6 December – in Columbia and Kansas City | 14 January – U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional; 28 February – Congress authorizes large-size silver certificate; 9 April – First Lady Lucy Hayes inaugurates egg rolling on the White House lawn; 10 April – California Cable Cars begin operation; 12 July – in New Orleans a fever epidemic begins that will kill 4,500; 21 August – American Bar Association formed; 15 October – Edison Electric Light Company organized; 26 December – Philadelphia stores install electric light bulbs |
| 1879 | 28 February – ill with pneumonia and unable to give promised lecture on art at University of Missouri; 1 March – J. S. Rollins reads speech; 7 July – George Caleb Bingham dies of cholera morbus in Kansas City | 22 February – Frank Woolworth opens five and dime store in Utica, New York; 25 February – Congress passes Timberland Protection Act |
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