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Events · 1894 · 1750 – 1900

first US peacetime income tax was passed via the Revenue Act or the Wilson-Gorman tariff (1894)

first US peacetime income tax was passed via the Revenue Act or the Wilson-Gorman tariff took place in 1894, during the Industrial Age (19th century) — a moment that historians still return to for what it changed and what it revealed about its time.

Year

1894

Century

19th century

Era

Industrial Age

Category

Events

Age today

76 yrs ago

Context

Industrial Age — Steam, revolutions, and the modern world takes shape. That's roughly 76 years ago — still within living memory for many. Around the same time, the world was also seeing Norman Rockwell (1894) and Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894).

Why it matters

first US peacetime income tax was passed via the Revenue Act or the Wilson-Gorman tariff is remembered because its consequences outlasted the moment — the people affected, the decisions it forced, and the way it reset the story of what came next.

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Just 0 years after, Norman Rockwell (1894) was also making headlines — a reminder how much history can compress into a single decade.

Era

Industrial Age

Steam, revolutions, and the modern world takes shape.

Category

Events

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