| May 1, 1886 | Industrial workers across the U.S. go on strike, demanding an 8-hour workday. |
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| May 3, 1886 | During a strike at McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago, demonstrators clash with police, and several of the strikers are wounded or killed. |
| May 4, 1886 | A bomb is detonated after police break up a meeting of labor activists near Haymarket Square in Chicago. One police officer is killed by the blast, and several men, both strikers and police officers, die or are wounded in the ensuing violence. |
| May 27, 1886 | Thirty-one men are indicted and 8 men—Albert Parsons, August Spies, Oscar Neebe, Louis Lingg, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden—are arrested and charged as accessories to murder. |
| July 16, 1886 | The eight men go to trial. On August 19th, the men are found guilty, and seven are sentenced to death by hanging. The eighth man, Oscar Neebe is given a lighter sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary. |
| September 14, 1887 | After an appeal is filed, the Illinois Supreme Court upholds the lower court’s ruling. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in November is denied. |
| November 10, 1887 | Louis Lingg commits suicide in prison. |
| November 11, 1887 | Parsons, Spies, Engel, and Fischer are executed. Their funeral is witnessed by over 150,000 people. |
| June 26, 1893 | Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld pardons Neebe, Fielden, and Schwab. |
- "Illinois - The anarchist-labor troubles in Chicago The police charging the murderous rioters in old Haymarket Square on the night of May 4th"
- Two page spread showing police charging rioters on May 4th in Haymarket Square, Chicago
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