Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869 · Event
Promontory Summit, Utah — the golden spike linked the US coast to coast.
On these timelines: USA, Master, Industrial Revolution
More from USA
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)
- George Washington (1732)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743)
Around 1869
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)