1750 – First Asians to settle in the US
1788 – Chinese in Hawaii
[The 1800’s] – Chinese Immigration begins
1844 – US and China sign the Wangxia (“peace, amity, and commerce”) Treaty
1848 – Gold Rush
1852 – Foreign Miners Tax
1854 – People v. Hall
1865 – Chinese Workers hired to work on the Transcontinental Railroad
1868 – The Transcontinental Railroad is completed
1868 – Burlingame Treaty
1876 – Queue Ordinance
1880 – Angell Treaty of 1880
1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act
1892 – Geary Act
1892 – The Chinese Equal Rights League
1913 – California passes a law prohibiting “aliens” from owning land
1929 – “Chinese wives of American citizens are denied entry”
1933 – NYC council passes ordinances targeting Chinese laundry’s
1943 – All Chinese exclusion laws are repealed