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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS
1799-1800 Combination Acts, Great Britain
1799-1827 Owen Model Communities, Great Britain,
United States
1800
Gabriel’s Rebellion, United States
1811-1813 Luddites Destroy Woolen Machines, Great
Britain
1814
Power Loom Invented, United States
1819
Peterloo Massacre, Great Britain
1820s-1850s Ten-Hour Day Movement, United States
1859
Harpers Ferry Raid, United States
1860
1860s-1900s Eight-hour Day Movement, United States
1861
1825
United Tailoresses Society, United States
1827
Mechanics’ Union of Trade Associations,
United States
Tailors’ Strike, United States
1828
Dover Textile Strike, United States
Workingmen’s Party, United States
1831
Liberator Founded, United States
1863
General Trades’ Union, United States
Factory Act, Great Britain
1834
1863-1865 Abolition of Slavery, United States
1864
Strike Ban Lifted, France
Act to Encourage Immigration, United States
First International, Great Britain
1865
European Strike Wave, Europe
1865-1877 Black Codes, United States
1866
National Labor Union, United States
1867
Second Reform Act, Great Britain
Chinese Rail Workers Strike, United States
1867, 1869 St. Crispin Organizations, United States
Abolition of Slavery, British Empire
1868
Charleroi Confrontation Between Miners and
the Military, Belgium
National Trades Union, United States
Trades Union Congress, Great Britain
1834-1836 Factory Girls’ Association, United States
1836
Working Women’s Protective Union, United
States
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, United
States
1831, 1834 Silk Workers’ Revolts, France
1833
Abolition of Serfdom, Russia
1861-1869 Bans on Labor Unions Lifted, Germany
Pawtucket Textile Strike, United States
Repeal of Combination Acts, Great Britain
Shoemaker’s Strike, United States
1860-1879 Molly Maguires, United States
1823-1836 Lowell Industrial Experiment, United States
1824
National Union of Iron Molders, United States
Workingman’s Benevolent Association, United
States
Equal Rights Party, United States
London Workingmen’s Association, Great
Britain
1869
1838
Chartist Movement, Great Britain
1870
Coal Mine Contract Signed, United States
1840
Strikes of Journeymen and Workers, France
1871
Trades Union Act, Great Britain
1842
Commonwealth v. Hunt, United States
1844
Colored National Labor Union, United States
Paris Commune, France
Dorr Rebellion, United States
1873
Panic of 1873, United States
Weavers’ Revolt, Silesia
1874
Union Label Movement, United States
1845-1851 Potato Famine, Ireland
1848
Knights of Labor, United States
June Days Rebellion, France
Communist Manifesto Published, England
Tompkins Square Rally, United States
1875-1902 Organized Labor Established, Argentina
1876
Revolutions in Europe, Europe
Workers’ Congress, Mexico
1848-1854 Free Soil Party, United States
1851
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Great
Britain
1852
National Typographical Union, United States
1853-1854 Lancashire Textile Strikes, Great Britain
Workingmen’s Party of the United States,
United States
1877
Railroad Strike of 1877, United States
1878
International Labor Union, United States
1878-1911 Taylor and Scientific Management, United
States
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1879
Carlisle Indian School, United States
1880-1964 Jim Crow Segregation and Labor, United States
1881
1882
1883
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor
Unions of the United States and Canada
(FOTLU), United States and Canada
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LABOR HISTORY WORLDWIDE
1898-1900 Shop Steward Movement Originates, Great
Britain
1900
International Ladies Garment Workers Union,
United States
National Civic Federation, United States
Labor Day Established, United States
1900-1901 Taff Vale Case, United States
Chinese Exclusion Act, United States
1900-1910 Anarchists Lead Argentine Labor Movement,
Argentina
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, United States
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, Canada
1900-1920 Union Federations Split Along Ideological Lines,
South America
1884
Bureau of Labor Established, United States
1885
Foran Act, United States
1886
American Federation of Labor, United States
U.S. Steel Defeats the Amalgamated Association,
United States
Haymarket Riot, United States
United Textile Workers of America, United States
1887
1901
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, United States
1902
Anthracite Coal Strike, United States
Knights Break Color Line, United States
1903
Teamsters Union, United States
National Women’s Trade Union League, United
States
General Allotment Act, United States
Interstate Commerce Commission, United States
1888
Department of Commerce and Labor, United
States
Arbitration Act of 1888, United States
Burlington Railroad Strike, United States
1889
1890
March of the Mill Children, United States
Second International, France
1904
National Child Labor Committee, United States
Miners’ Strike, Germany
1905
Industrial Workers of the World, United States
Dockers’ Strike, Great Britain
Lochner v. New York, United States
International Federation of Miners, Worldwide
American Association for Labor Legislation,
United States
Maritime Strike, Australasia
Bloody Sunday, Russia
United Mine Workers of America, United States
General Strike, Spain
1906
1890-1900 Trade Union Formation and Suppression, Japan
1890s-1920s Syndicalist Movement, Worldwide
Cananéa Strike, Mexico
1907
Longshoremen and Miners Strike, Chile
1908
Muller v. State of Oregon, United States
Homestead Lockout, United States
Agriculture Workers Strike, Italy
New Orleans General Strike, United States
Christian Trade
Switzerland
People’s Party, United States
Lodz Uprising, Poland
1909
National Congress of German Trade Unions,
Germany
1893
Charter of Amiens, France
Sinclair Publishes The Jungle, United States
Sherman Antitrust Act, United States
1892
Socialist Party of America, United States
Unionists
Conference,
Osborne Judgment, Great Britain
Barcelona Workers’ Rebellion, Spain
Western Federation of Miners, United States
Widowed Mother’s Fund Association, United
States
Panic of 1893, United States
McKees Rocks Strike, United States
1894
Pullman Strike, United States
1895
Confédération Générale du Travail, France
1896
International Transport Workers’ Federation,
Europe
1897
Bituminous Coal Strike, United States
1898
Erdman Act, United States
Milan Barricade Fights, Italy
1910
Protocol of Peace, United States
1910s-1930s Minimum Wage Movement, United States
1911
Gompers v. Bucks Stove, United States
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, United States
Transport Workers’ Strike, Worldwide
1912
Lloyd-LaFollette Act, United States
Lawrence Textile Strike, United States
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