| Grover Cleveland Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
 | 1885 | His inauguration as 22nd President of the United States on March 4, 1885, aged 47 |
| 1886 | January Presidency: Presidential Succession Act (1886) |
| 1886 | The 48 year old President makes the announcement of his intention to marry 22 year old Frances Folsom |
| 1886 | The Dedication of the Statue of Liberty |
| 1886 | The devastating Charleston Earthquake reached between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter scale. |
| 1886 | The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago |
| 1886 | Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle. |
| 1886 | The President marries Francis Folsom on June 2, 1886 |
| 1886 | The Klondike gold rush begins in Alaska when George Carmack discovers Klondike gold |
| 1887 | The Crow War and the Ute War |
| 1887 | The Interstate Commerce Act to regulate the railroads which became the first industry subject to Federal regulation. |
| 1887 | The Dawes Severalty Act designed to break up Native Indian Tribes and make them into small farmers. |
| 1887 | February: Act passed turning the territories of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington into states |
| 1889 | His first presidency and first term in office ends on March 4, 1889. He was still popular but lost the electoral vote to Benjamin Harrison 233 to 168. His wife predicted they would return to the White House in 4 years. The next US President was Benjamin Harrison |
| 1893 | His inauguration as 24th President of the United States on March 4, 1893 aged 55. He becomes the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms in office |
| 1893 | The Panic of 1893. The Panic of 1893 lasted from May to November and was a national economic crisis started by the collapse of two of the largest employers in the US, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company. This led to a stock market crash, bankruptcies and high unemployment |
| 1893 | Chicago World's Fair: The World's Columbian Exposition (aka Chicago World's Fair), celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in America. 26 million visitors flocked to Chicago visiting fairgrounds including the first Ferris Wheel and exhibitions showing new technology such as the dishwasher and fluorescent light bulbs |
| 1893 | The Navajo war against settlers in Northwestern New Mexico and Northeastern Arizona |
| 1894 | The Pullman's Strike was a widespread railroad strike caused by the Panic of 1893 when workers wages were cut by 25% |
| 1895 | February: Cuba rebels against Spanish rule, the US remains neutral. |
| 1895 | The Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe |
| 1896 | Utah is admitted to the union as the forty-fifth state. |
| 1896 | The Radio: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi sent and received Morse code-based radio signals |
| 1897 | His presidency and second term in office ends on March 4, 1897. The next US President was William McKinley |
| Presidential Timeline of important Events |
