Gilded Age · event 4 of 14

26 October 1825

The Erie Canal opens. The canal connects the Hudson to the Great Lakes and makes New York the outlet for the entire American interior. Freight costs from Buffalo fall by around ninety per cent. The city’s commercial dominance over Boston and Philadelphia is settled permanently.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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