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2 September – Henry B. Anthony, U.S. senator from Rhode Island from 1859 to 1884 (born 1815) 26 September – John W. Garrett, banker, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and philanthropist (born 1820) 6 November – William Wells Brown, African American writer (born 1814) 9 December – Mary Bell Smith, educator, social reformer ...
1884 in the United States by state or territory (49 C) 1884 disestablishments in the United States (17 C, 8 P) 1884 establishments in the United States (51 C, 18 P)
U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race.
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of ...
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1887 The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888 Prices and Wages by Decade, 1880–1889 – Guide published by the University of Missouri Library points to pages in digital libraries (freely available online) that show average ...
For this reason, 1884 is a significant election in U.S. political history, marking an interruption in the era when Republicans largely controlled the presidency between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention.
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The Panic of 1884 was an economic panic during the Depression of 1882–1885. [1] It was unusual in that it struck at the end rather than the beginning of the recession. The panic created a credit shortage that led to a significant economic decline in the United States, turning a recession into a depression.