| Ulysses Grant Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
 | 1869 | His inauguration as 18th President of the United States |
| 1869 | March 10, 1869: The Transcontinental Railroad was completed joining the eastern and western halves of the United States |
| 1869 | September 24, 1869: The Black Friday Scandal that involved James Fisk and Jay Gould and the collapse of the U.S. gold market |
| 1869 | The Knights of Labor, the first major American labor union, was founded |
| 1870 | The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution was ratified stating that a citizen's right to vote cannot be taken away because of race, the color of their skin, or because they were previously slaves. |
| 1870 | The President vetoes the Private Relief Bill |
| 1871 | The Indian Appropriation Act is passed with an amendment ending tribal recognition and the treaty system |
| 1871 | The Ku Klux Klan Act, one of the Enforcement Acts, is passed |
| 1871 | KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. |
| 1871 | The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 |
| 1871 | The Treaty of Washington is signed between the United States and Britain |
| 1872 | The Credit Mobilier Scandal involved the illegal manipulation of contracts by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier construction company |
| 1872 | The Modoc War (1872 - 1873) in California and Oregon led by Captain Jack |
| 1872 | Yellowstone Park was established |
| 1873 | Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, one of Strauss's customers and inventor of the first pair of riveted denim pants, patent their new style of denim blue jeans. |
| 1873 | The Panic of 1873, a financial crisis that triggered a depression |
| 1873 | Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire. |
| 1875 | The Whiskey Ring Scandal involved whiskey distillers who conspired to defraud the government of taxes |
| 1875 | The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was passed but it was not enforced, and the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1883. This led to the establishment of the Jim Crow Laws. |
| 1875 | The 'Long Strike of 1875' by the Molly Maguires a secret society of Irish coal miners who fought against the coal companies |
| 1876 | June 25: March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone |
| 1876 | June 25: The Battle of Little Bighorn, part of the Great Sioux War, when General George Custer and the 7th Cavalry were defeated by Native American warriors led by Chief Sitting Bull. |
| 1876 | The Belknap Bribery Scandal in which William W. Belknap, secretary of war, was charged with receiving bribes |
| 1877 | The Cuban Rebellion, the Ten Year War (1867-1877), against Cuban Rebels and Spain came to an end. Grant applied pressure on Spain after the Virginius affair and the two sides made peace |
| 1877 | His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Ulysses Grant Timeline of important Events |
