- 1400'S
- First Discovery of North America
- 1587
- Start of the Hawaiian Society
- 1587
- Start of Filipino American History
- 1600'S
- First Arrival in North America
- 1763
- First Arrival in United States
- 1781
- Antonio Miranda
- 1781
- 1st Chinese Men in the U.S.
- 1781
- 1st Chinese in Hawaii
- 1790
- Naturalization Act
- 1818-1825
- Foreign Mission School (Chinese College)
- 1829
- Siamese Twins - Chang and Eng Bunker
- 1830's
- Immigration Policy: Physical Examinations
- 1830's
- Chinese Arrives in Hawaii and New York
- 1840-1870
- Chinese Laborers Arrive / "Six Companies" Formed
- 1847
- History of San Francisco's Chinatown
- 1847
- Arrival of First Chinese Graduates
- 1848
- Chinese in California
- 1848
- First Chinese Servants
- 1847
- Chinese in Cuba
- 1848
- Chinese in California
- 1848
- 1st Asian Women in the U.S.
- 1848
- 1st Asian Vs. Asian Lawsuit
- 1848
- Ah Toy - Independent Chinese Madam
- 1849
- Chun Afong - 1st Chinese Millionaire in Hawaii
- 1849
- Chinese Camp
- 1850s
- Chinese Became California Farmers & Influential
- 1850
- L.A.'s Chinatown is Founded
- 1850
- Lue Gim Gong (Father of Florida's Citrus Industry)
- 1850
- Early Chinese Immigrants Come from South China
- 1850
- California's Foreign Miner's Tax
- 1851
- L.A. Star (1st Newspaper Supports Slavery)
- 1850
- 1st California Census with Chinese Americans
- 1852
- "China Boys" / Chinese & Gold Mining
- 1852
- First Major Wave of Immigration
- 1853
- Polly Bemis is Born
- 1853
- Chinese Can't Vote in Washington
- 1854
- Bok Kai Temple - Oldest in California
- 1854
- 1st Chinese American Graduate
- 1854
- First Chinese Women in the United States
- 1855
- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
- 1854
- Chinese Can't Give Court Testimony
- 1855
- Chinese Protest Discrimination
- 1855
- 1st Civil Marriage of Chinese Americans
- 1857
- Chinese in San Francisco
- 1858
- Immigration Ban
- 1858
- First Japanese Citizen in the U.S.
- 1860
- Oakland's Chinatown
- 1860
- Chinese Arrive in Jamaica
- 1860s
- 1st Chinese Restaurants in L.A.
- 1860
- Public School Discrimination
- 1861
- Gump's - Store Integrates Asian & European Styles
- 1861
- Japanese Arrives in the United States
- 1861
- Chinese Soldiers in Louisiana Infantry
- 1862
- Chinese Civil War Soldier - Joseph Pierce
- 1863
- Chinese Can't Testify
- 1863
- Chinese "Police Tax"
- 1863
- Chinese/Asian American Soldiers in the Civil War
- 1864
- Asian Racism in the Jim Crow South
- 1864
- Chinese Poll Tax
- 1864
- First Korean Citizen
- 1865
- Chinese in the Mississipi Delta
- 1865
- Central Pacific Railroad Co's Recruiting
- 1866
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birth
- 1867
- Joseph Franklin Dye - Patrolled L.A.'s Chinatown
- 1867
- Workers' Strike
- 1868
- Burlingame - Seward Treaty
- 1869
- Pastor S.P. Aheong Starts Preaching
- 1869
- Central Pacific Railroad is Completed
- 1869
- Wakamatsu Tea & Silk Co.
- 1869
- Chinese in Utah
- 1869
- 1st Japanese Immigrants in the U.S.
- 1869
- Chinese Labor
- 1870s
- Anti-Coolies Ass. / Supreme Order of the Caucasians
- 1870s
- 35 Chinese Miners Killed in Cerro Gordo Disaster
- 1870s
- Idaho: Highest Percentage of Chinese
- 1870
- Southerns & "Chinese Coolies"
- 1870
- Trade Card Racism
- 1870
- Ah Fung / Al Lung - 1st "Legally" Executed Chinese
- 1870
- Chinese 1% of Washington
- 1870
- Debate Over Chinese Rights
- 1870
- Prostitution Laws / Work Wages Struggles
- 1870
- Fifteem Passenger Bill
- 1870
- Civil Rights Act of 1870
- 1870
- American Union Labor's Opposition to Chinese Workers
- 1870
- 172 Chinese Americans in California
- 1871
- Musical Racism
- 1871
- Chinese Railroad Workers
- 1871
- Anti-Asian Violence & Killings
- 1872
- Chinese Can Testify in California Courts
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- 1875
- "Page Law" Bars Entry to the U.S.
- 1875
- Spread of a "Chinese" Syphilis
- 1875
- L.A's True Light Presbyterian Church
- 1876
- China Theater Tragedy
- 1876
- Mark Twain & Brett Harte's "Ah Sin"
- 1877
- Fukuin Kai - The Gospel Society
- 1877
- Anti-Chinese Violence
- 1878
- Targeting Chinese Cigar Makers
- 1878
- Chinese College - Hartford, Connecticut
- 1878
- Chinese Not Eligible for Citizenship
- 1879 - Chinese Cannot
be Employed in California
- 1879
- Chinese Owns Famous Tombstone Eatery / Hoptown
- 1879
- Racism in Tucson Arizona
- 1879
- Agriculture Success of Japanese Americans
- 1879
- Sit Moon (Founder of Chinese YMCA)
- 1879 - Bok Eye Temple
- 1880 - US to "Limit"
Chinese Immigration
- 1880s
- L.A.'s "Little Tokyo" Established
- 1880
- Chien Lung (Chinese Potato King)
- 1880
- Lynching of Look Young
- 1880
- Charlie Soong - Duke's 1st International Student
- 1882
- Congress Passes Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1882
- Anti-Chinese Demonstration Day
- 1883
- Wong Chin Foo / 1st Bi-Lingual Newspaper
- 1882
- Anti-Chinese Demonstration Day
- 1884
- Labor Unions Boycott Chinese-Owned Businesses
- 1884
- Chinese Exclusion Act Amendment
- 1885
- Japanese Immigratin Begins
- 1885
- Anti-Chinese Congress Meeting
- 1885
- Canada Imposes "Head Tax" on Chinese Immigrants
- 1885
- Segregated "Oriental School" Established
- 1886 - Chinese Are
Booted Out in West Coast
- 1886
- Yick Wo Vs. Hopkins
- 1886 - Snake River
Massacre
- 1887
- Chinese in Los Angeles (California)
- 1887
- Chinese Shoemakers Strike
- 1888
- Racist Cartoon
- 1888
- Hawaii Limits Chinese Immigration
- 1888
- Oldest Chinese American Monument
- 1888
- Chinese Reentry Certificates are Nullified
- 1889
- Lynching of Katsu Goto
- 1889
- Exclusion Act is Constitutional
- 1889
- Asian American in the Spanish American War
- 1890 - Anti-Discrimination
Organizations Formed
- 1890 - Aliens' Testimony
Are Not Necessary
- 1890
- Markham's Vow to Keep Chinese Out of California
- 1890
- Arrival of Japanese Immigrants
- 1891
- Chinese Prejudice in Tucson Arizona
- 1891
- Pyon Su: 1st Korean Graduate
- 1891
- Oldest Business in New York's Chinatown
- 1891
- Stanford University with Japanese Students
- 1892
- Exclusion Laws of Chinese Laborers
- 1893
- Hawaii is Conquored
- 1893
- First Trade Association
- 1894
- Japanese are Ineligible for Naturalization
- 1895
- Ping Yang Bombings
- 1895
- Mixed Race Marriages Illegal
- 1895
- Chinese Habeas Corpus Denied
- 1897
- Fong See's Interracial Marriage / Lisa See
- 1897
- Lisa See
- 1897
- "The Driving Out" (of Chinese)
- 1897
- U.S. Vs. Wong Kim Ark
- 1898
- First Chinese American Newspaper
- 1898
- Wong Kim Ark Vs. United States
- 1898
- Hawaii Joins the United States
- 1898
- "Mother of Chinatown" Saves Chinese Girls
- 1898
- Philippines Belongs to the United States
- 1899
- James Wong Howe is Born
- 1899
- Japanese in Santa Monica, California
- 1899
- Dalip S. Saund is Born
- 1899
- 1st Korean Organization in the United States
- 1899
- Medical Panic and Ellis Island
- 1899
- North American Buddhist Mission
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