Shaka Zulu unifies the Nguni people and sets up an army.
1819 January 8. Joseph Hunger Dickenson invents the record player arm.
1820 January 6. The first organized emigration to Africa begins and 86 freed slaves leave New York for Sierra Leone.
1821 March 3. Thomas L. Jennings is the first African-American to be given a patent in the United States.
Thomas L Jennings Patents the technique to ‘dry- scour’ clothes.
1822
African Americans settlers found Monrovia, (capital of Liberia).
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed to send free African-Americans to Africa.
1823 October 9. Mary Ann Shadd is born. She was the publisher of Canada's first antislavery newspaper, ‘The Provincial Freeman’ and the first woman in North American to publish and edit a newspaper.
1827
John Parker, the ‘Underground Railroad Conductor’ is born.
March 16. The first Black newspaper, ‘Freedom's Journal’ is published in New York City.
1829 September. The militant antislavery pamphlet, ‘An Appeal to the Colored People of the World’ was put into circulation in the South by David Walker's.
September 20-24. The first ‘National Negro Convention’ met in Philadelphia.
1830-1834
Henry Blair patents the mechanical seed planter and mechanical corn harvester in 1830.
1831 August 21-22. The Nat Turner revolt ends in Southampton County, Virginia.
November 11. Nat Turner is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1832
Augustus Jackson invents ice cream. 1836 January 8. Fannie M Jackson (first Black woman college graduate in the US) is born.
1837 March 23. African-Americans win the right to vote in Canada.
1839 June 27. The slaves on the Spanish ship, ‘Amistad’, took it over and sailed it to Montauk, Long Island. The Supreme Court later granted them their freedom.
1874 July 31. Father Patrick Francis Healey becomes the first African American man to earn a PhD (from University of Louvain in Belgium) and he becomes President of Georgetown University.
November 30. Alexander P. Ashbourne patents the biscuit cutter.
1876 July 25. Thomas Carrington patents the range oven (stove).
November 7. Edward A. Bouchet earns his Ph.D. degree in physics at Yale University and he becomes the first African American to receive a doctorate at an American University.
1877 March 4. Garrett A. Morgan (Scientist/Inventor) is born.
1878 May 7. J.W. Winters patents the fire escape ladder.
December 10. O. Dorsey patents the door knob and stop.
1879 August 1. Mary Eliza Mahoney becomes the first African American to graduate from a nursing school (at the ‘New England Hospital for Women and Children’).
The Zulus defeat the British in ‘The Battle of Isandlwana’.
Dr. Felkin (a European) is present at a caesarean operation by Banyoro surgeons in Uganda.
1879-1880, about six thousand African Americans leave Louisiana and Mississippi counties for Kansas.
1880 November 2. P. Johnson patents the eye protector.
US Census of 1880
Total population: 50,155,783
African American population: 6,580,793 (13.1%)
Elbert R. Robinson patents the electric railway trolley c.1880
Ellen Elgin patents the clothes wringer c.1880
1881 April 11. Spelman College, (the first college for black women in the U.S.), is founded by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles.
July 4. Booker T Washington opened Tuskegee Institute.
August 13. The first African American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
British and Ottoman troops gain control of Egypt and Sudan.
W.S. Campbell patents the self-setting animal trap.
1882
The British take over of Egypt.
1883 November 26. Sojourner Truth dies.
December 15. William A.Hinton is born. He invented the Hinton test for diagnosing syphilis.
H.H. Reynolds patents the window ventilator for railroad cars.
Jan Matzelinger patents the automatic shoe making machine.
1884 August 19. Sarah Boone patents the ironing board.
December 2. Granville Woods patents the telephone, (more superior to Alexander Bell’s).
Granville Woods patents the steam boiler/radiator. He also invented third rail (Subway).
J. W. Reed patents the dough kneader and roller.
M.C. Harney patents the lantern/lamp.
February 5. W. Johnson patents the egg beater.
1885 July 29. The First National Convention of Black Women held in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 7. L.S. Burridge and N.R. Marsham patent the typewriter.
Mohammed-Ahmed, (a Sudanese) triumphs over the Anglo-Arab army.
