January
Congress sets up an Electoral Commission of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, to adjudicate the deadlocked election.
February
March
2 Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner by a vote of 8 to 7.>
5 Hayes is inaugurated.
April
President Hayes withdraws Federal troops from South Carolina.
24 President Hayes withdraws Federal troops from Louisiana, the last Confederate state to be governed under military law. Reconstruction is officially over.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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