Chinese American History Timeline
| 1848
| 1852 | 1854
| 1862 | 1865
| 1867 | 1868
| 1869 | 1870
| 1871 | 1875
| 1877 | 1878
| 1880 | 1882
| 1885 | 1886
| 1888 | 1892
| 1893 | 1894
| 1898 | 1899
| 1900
| 1902 | 1904
| 1905 | 1906
| 1910 | 1911
| 1943 | 1948
| 1957 | 1965
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1865
Central Pacific Railroad Co. recruits Chinese workers for the first
transcontinental railroad
1867
2,000 Chinese railroad workers stage a one week strike
1868
Burlingame-Seward
Treaty
1869
First transcontinental railroad completed
Transcontinental
Railroad
1870
California passes a
law against the importation of Chinese, Japanese, and "Mongolian"
women for the purpose of prostitution
1871
Los Angeles, CA: anti-Chinese violence
1875
Page Law
1877
Chico, CA: anti-Chinese violence
1878
In re Ah Yup rules Chinese ineligible for naturalized citizenship
1880
US and China sign treaty
giving the US the right to limit but "not absolutely prohibit" Chinese
immigration
California's Civil Code passes anti-miscegination law
1882
1882 Chinese
Exclusion Act
1885
Rock Springs
Wyoming Anti-Chinese Violence
1886
Yick Wo v.
Hopkins
1888
Scott Act
1892
Geary Act
1893
Fong Yue Ting v.
U.S.
1894
Sun Yat Sen
Xingzhonghui established by Sun Yat-sen in Honolulu
1898
United
States v. Wong Kim Ark
1899
Baohuanghui established by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in Vancouver
1900
San Francisco Chinatown quarantined during bubonic plague scare
San Francisco Chinatown
1902
Chinese exclusion
extended for another 10 years
1904
Chinese exclusion
made indefinite
1905
boycott of American products by Chinese in the US and China
1906
San Francisco
earthquake and fire
1910
Angel Island
opens as an offical immigration station
1911
October 10 Manchu rule overthrown in China
1943
Chinese Exclusion
Repeal Act
1948
Displaced Person's
Act Act of 1948
1957
Immigration and Nationality Act
of 1957
1965
Immigration Act of
1965