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- 1850s
- The First Kindergarten in the U.S. established by Mrs. Karl Schurz in Wisconsin.
- 1852
- The Studebaker company became the world's largest producer of wagons. It later produced automobiles.
- 1860
- Carl Schurz won the German-American vte for Lincoln by going on a 21,000 mile speaking tour which took hime from the middle west to the Pennsylvania Germans.
- 1860-1965
- 516,000 German-Americans fight for the Union. 500 officers in the Union army were born in Germany;of the 2,213,363 soldiers in the Union army, over 23% were German-Americans.
- 1871
- Thomas Nast, the first great American Caricaturist, was intrumental in the destructin of Boss Tweed ring in New York City.
- 1874
- Alfalfa introduced to the U.S. by Wendelin Grimm.
- 1877
- Carl Schurz named Secretary of the Interior by President Hayes; first German-American to belong to the Cabinet. Alsp, the "original conservationist" because of efforts to prevent destruction of forests.
- 1884
- The Brooklym Bridge, desigend by Johann A. Roebling, was built.
- 1886
- Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype machine which revolutionized the printing industry.
- 1892-1893
- German-American slected as governors of Kentucy and Illinios.
- 1898
- Admiral Windfield Schley destroyed the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American war.
- 1917
- General John Persing, A German-American, commanded the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- 1928
- Herbert Hoover becomes frst president of German descent.
- 1929
- Some of the greatest stars of baseball history were German-Americans: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, and Frank Frisch, to mention afew.
- 1941-1945
- One-third of the eleven million soldiers in the U.S. armed forces in world War II were of German descent. Eisenhower was of Pennsylvania-German descent. Other German-Americans were General Carl Spaatz and Admiral Chester Nimitz, cammander-in-cheif of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. 700 admirals and generals were German-Americans
- 1950
- Wernher von Braun became head of the U.S. Army Ordinance Guided Missile Center and paved the way for the U.S. space program.
- 1958
- Formation of the German-american National Congress in Chicago.
- 1968
- Society for German-american Studies established in Youngstown, Ohio.
- 1974
- Association for German Language Authors in america formed to further German-american Literature.
- 1980
- 52 million Americans are of German descent, according to the to the 1980 U. S. census.
- 1983
- The German-American Tricentenniel celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of Germantown, the first German-American settlement.
- 1987
- German-American Day was proclaimed; has been celebrated nationally ever since.
- 2008
- The German-American Quadricentennial will celebrate the 400th annniversary of the arrival of the first Germans in America at Jamestown, Virginia.