Karl Heinrich Ulrichs‘ sexuality becomes known and he subsequently loses his job as legal advisor in the Kingdom of Hanover.
1862
Albert Cashier enlists in the Union army, joining the 95th Illinois Infantry.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs officially comes out to his family as an “Urning” — the term he coined for homosexual men — declaring that his feelings are both biological and natural.
1865
August 17: The 95th Illinois Infantry disbands, and Albert Cashier returns to Belvidere, Illinois.
1867
After briefly being imprisoned in Prussia, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs moves to Munich. There he will speak to the German Association of Jurists on behalf of LGBT rights.
May 8: Karl-Maria Kertbeny first uses the term “homosexual” in a private letter.
1869
Karl-Maria Kertbeny publishes to pamphlets arguing against the Prussian anti-sodomy law Paragraph 143.
1870
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs publishes “Araxes: a Call to Free the Nature of the Urning from Penal Law” where he calls sexuality a “right established by nature.”
1876
June 17: Osch-Tisch and The Other Magpie fight in the Battle of Rosebud.
1879
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs publishes his twelfth book, entitled “Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love” and then sends himself into a self-imposed exile in Naples.
September: Gertrude Pridgett may have been born in Alabama in this year, according to the U.S. Census.
1884
Muteesa I dies, and Mwanga II becomes kabaka of Buganda.
1885
October 29: Mwanga II has the archbishop James Hannington assassinated.
January 31: Mwanga II begins the executions of the 30 Christians who will become the Uganda Martyrs.
1886
Richard von Krafft-Ebing borrows the word “homosexual” from Karl-Maria Kertbeny‘s works, and the term begins to enter mainstream usage.
April 26: Gertrude Pridgett may have been born in Georgia on this day.
1887
January 27: Mwanga II executes the last of the Uganda Martyrs.
1888
A rebellion stoked by the British usurps the throne of Mwanga II. His brother Kiweewa becomes the new kabaka — for forty days. A second rebellion installs his half-brother Kalema on the throne.
1889
Mwanga II deals with the British in order to get his throne back — he is the kabaka of Buganda again by the end of the year.
1890
December 26: Mwanga II formalizes a treaty with the British and Buganda becomes part of the the British Protectorate of Uganda.
1894
The British Protectorate of Uganda formally criminalizes homosexual behavior between men.
