Decade of record

1890s

The 1890s contain 36 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

36 events From Jan 1, 1890 To Sep 6, 1899 Open in filter view →
Activity over time Events per year
1890 · 4 events1891 · 2 events1892 · 7 events1893 · 4 events1894 · 3 events1895 · 3 events1896 · 2 events1897 · 2 events1898 · 6 events1899 · 3 events18901899
DateEventLanesStatus
1899-09-06Open Door Policy Announced - Corporate Imperialism Disguised as Free Trade 3 src
William McKinley
confirmed
1899-02-04Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation 3 src
William McKinley
confirmed
1899-01-01Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak 3 src
John D. Rockefeller
confirmed
1898-11-10Wilmington Coup d'État Overthrows Elected Biracial Government Through Mass Racial Violence
1898-11-10Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens 3 src
Democratic Party
confirmed
1898-07-07Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy 3 src
William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines
confirmed
1898-05-01Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence 3 src
William McKinley
confirmed
1898-04-25Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext 3 src
William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire
confirmed
1898-02-15USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever 3 src
William McKinley
confirmed
1897-09-10Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse 5 src
United Mine Workers
confirmed
1897-07-24Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield 3 src
William McKinley · Republican Party
confirmed
1896-11-03McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model 3 src
William McKinley · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · Republican National Committee
confirmed
1896-07-09William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power 3 srcconfirmed
1895-05-27Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes 5 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · Corporate interests
confirmed
1895-01-21U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
1895-01-01J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems 4 src
J.P. Morgan · Northern Pacific Railroad
confirmed
1894-07-03Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike, Imprison Eugene Debs 3 src
Eugene V. Debs · Grover Cleveland
confirmed
1894-05-11Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions 6 src
Eugene V. Debs · Grover Cleveland · U.S. Army
confirmed
1894-02-07Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention 3 src
Western Federation of Miners
confirmed
1893-11-07Colorado Voters Approve Women's Suffrage Through Referendum in Historic First 3 srcconfirmed
1893-05-15Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre 3 src
Western Federation of Miners
confirmed
1893-03-03Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence 3 src
U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency
confirmed
1893-01-17U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup 5 src
Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines · Grover Cleveland
confirmed
1892-11-08New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory 3 src
American Federation of Labor
confirmed
1892-07-11Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial 3 src
Western Federation of Miners · Pinkerton Detective Agency · U.S. Army
confirmed
1892-07-06Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead 7 src
Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Carnegie Steel Company
confirmed
1892-07-01Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation 3 src
Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Carnegie Steel Company
confirmed
1892-06-25Ida B. Wells Publishes "Southern Horrors" Documenting Lynching as Collective Punishment System
1892-01-04Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad v. Gibbes: Corporate Personhood Reaffirmed 2 src
U.S. Supreme Court · South Carolina Legislature
confirmed
1892-01-01Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions 3 src
Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · Labor unions
confirmed
1891-08-18People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement 3 src
Knights of Labor
confirmed
1891-07-15Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System 3 srcconfirmed
1890-12-29Wounded Knee Massacre - U.S. 7th Cavalry Kills 250+ Lakota, Primarily Women and Children, Ending Ghost Dance Movement 3 src
U.S. War Department
confirmed
1890-07-02Sherman Antitrust Act Passed but Designed for Non-Enforcement Against Monopolies 5 src
U.S. Congress
confirmed
1890-02-18National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed as Merger Heals 21-Year Split 3 src
Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Susan B. Anthony
confirmed
1890-01-01Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities 3 src confirmed