Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1886
Haymarket Affair
May 4, 1886
At a labor rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb thrown into a line of advancing police killed seven officers. The police opened fire; several workers died. Eight anarchists were arrested, tried in a carnival atmosphere, and four were hanged on shaky evidence. International Workers' Day, May 1, commemorates them.
In context
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Before and after in North America
- Before: 1885: Canadian Pacific Completed
- After: February 8, 1887: Dawes Act
Before and after in Politics
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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