key dates in american history
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| 13739551721 | 1607 | Jamestown founded | 0 | |
| 13739551739 | 1620 | Mayflower Compact | 1 | |
| 13739551740 | 1675 | King Philip's War | 2 | |
| 13739551741 | 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion | 3 | |
| 13739551722 | 1692-1693 | Salem Witch Trials | 4 | |
| 13739551742 | 1739-1744 | FIrst Great Awakening | 5 | |
| 13739551743 | 1756-1763 | French and Indian War (Seven Year's War) | 6 | |
| 13739551744 | 1763 | Pontiac's Rebellion | 7 | |
| 13739551745 | 1765 | Stamp Act | 8 | |
| 13739551746 | 1766 | Declaratory Act | 9 | |
| 13739551747 | 1770 | Boston Massacre | 10 | |
| 13739551748 | 1773 | Boston Tea Party | 11 | |
| 13739551749 | 1774 | Coercive/Intolerable/Repressive Acts | 12 | |
| 13739551750 | 1775-1783 | Revolutionary War | 13 | |
| 13739551751 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 14 | |
| 13739551752 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown, end of Revolutionary fighting | 15 | |
| 13739551753 | 1781-1788 | Articles of Confederation | 16 | |
| 13739551754 | 1786-1787 | Shay's Rebellion | 17 | |
| 13739551755 | 1787 | Constitutional Convention | 18 | |
| 13739551723 | 1788 | Constitution ratified | 19 | |
| 13739551756 | 1788 | Ratification of the Constitution | 20 | |
| 13739551724 | 1789 | Washington sworn in as President | 21 | |
| 13739551757 | 1789 | Judiciary Act | 22 | |
| 13739551758 | 1791 | Bill of RIghts | 23 | |
| 13739551759 | 1793 | Cotton Gin invented | 24 | |
| 13739551760 | 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion | 25 | |
| 13739551761 | 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts | 26 | |
| 13739551762 | 1800-1840 | Second Great Awakening | 27 | |
| 13739551763 | 1801-1805 | Tripolitan War | 28 | |
| 13739551764 | 1803 | Louisana Purchase | 29 | |
| 13739551765 | 1804-1806 | Lewis and Clark expedition | 30 | |
| 13739551766 | 1812-1815 | War of 1812 | 31 | |
| 13739551767 | 1814 | Hartford Convention | 32 | |
| 13739551768 | 1817-1824 | Era of Good Feelings | 33 | |
| 13739551769 | 1819 | Adams-Onis Treaty | 34 | |
| 13739551770 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise | 35 | |
| 13739551771 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 36 | |
| 13739551772 | 1825 | Corrupt Bargain | 37 | |
| 13739551773 | 1831 | Nat Turner Rebellion | 38 | |
| 13739551774 | 1832 | Nullification Crisis | 39 | |
| 13739551775 | 1835-1836 | Texas War of Independence | 40 | |
| 13739551776 | 1838-1839 | Trail of Tears | 41 | |
| 13739551777 | 1830s-1840s | Transcendentalism | 42 | |
| 13739551778 | 1846-1848 | Mexican-American War | 43 | |
| 13739551779 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention | 44 | |
| 13739551780 | 1850s | Transportation Revolution | 45 | |
| 13739551781 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 46 | |
| 13739551782 | 1856 | Dred Scott case | 47 | |
| 13739551783 | 1859 | Harper's Ferry (John Brown's Raid) | 48 | |
| 13739551784 | 1861 | Fort Sumter- Civil War begins | 49 | |
| 13739551785 | 1862 | Emancipation Proclamation | 50 | |
| 13739551725 | 1862 | Homestead Act | 51 | |
| 13739551726 | 1865 | Pacific Railway Act | 52 | |
| 13739551786 | 1863 | Vicksburg and Gettysburg | 53 | |
| 13739551787 | 1865 | Assassination of Lincoln | 54 | |
| 13739551788 | 1867 | Reconstruction Acts | 55 | |
| 13739551727 | 1867 | Alaska Purchase | 56 | |
| 13739551789 | 1873 | Credit Mobilier scandal | 57 | |
| 13739551790 | 1874 | Barbed Wire Invented | 58 | |
| 13739551791 | 1876 | Telephone Invented | 59 | |
| 13739551792 | 1876 | Battle of Little BIg Horn/ Custer's Last Stand | 60 | |
| 13739551728 | 1881 | Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" published | 61 | |
| 13739551729 | 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 62 | |
| 13739551793 | 1886 | Haymarket Riot | 63 | |
| 13739551730 | 1887 | Dawes Severalty Act | 64 | |
| 13739551731 | 1887 | Interstate Commerce Act | 65 | |
| 13739551794 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | 66 | |
| 13739551795 | 1890 | Battle of Wounded Knee | 67 | |
| 13739551796 | 1894 | Pullman Strike | 68 | |
| 13739551732 | 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 69 | |
| 13739551797 | 1898 | Spanish American War | 70 | |
| 13739551798 | 1898 | Annexation of Hawaii | 71 | |
| 13739551733 | 1903 | Wright Brothers- first in flight | 72 | |
| 13739551799 | 1913 | Model-T released | 73 | |
| 13739551800 | 1917 | US declares war against Germany- WWI | 74 | |
| 13739551801 | 1919 | First Red Scare | 75 | |
| 13739551802 | 1919 | 18th Amendment (Prohibition) | 76 | |
| 13739551803 | 1920s | Harlem Renaissance | 77 | |
| 13739551804 | 1920 | 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) | 78 | |
| 13739551805 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 79 | |
| 13739551806 | 1933 | 21st Amendment (ends Prohibiton) | 80 | |
| 13739551807 | 1933 | Hundred Days | 81 | |
| 13739551808 | 1941-1945 | WWII | 82 | |
| 13739551734 | 1944 | D-Day invasion at Normandy | 83 | |
| 13739551735 | 1945 | U.S. uses nuclear bombs against Japan | 84 | |
| 13739551809 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 85 | |
| 13739551810 | 1954 | Brown v. Board of Ed | 86 | |
| 13739551811 | 1955-1956 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 87 | |
| 13739551812 | 1961 | Berlin Wall built | 88 | |
| 13739551813 | 1961 | Bay of Pigs invasion | 89 | |
| 13739551814 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 90 | |
| 13739551815 | 1963 | March on Washington-"I have a dream" speech | 91 | |
| 13739551816 | 1963 | JFK assassinated | 92 | |
| 13739551817 | 1964-1975 | Vietnam War | 93 | |
| 13739551818 | 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 94 | |
| 13739551736 | 1964 | LBJ's Civil Rights Act | 95 | |
| 13739551737 | 1965 | Voting Rights Act passed | 96 | |
| 13739551819 | 1968 | MLK Jr. assassinated | 97 | |
| 13739551820 | 1968 | My Lai Massacre | 98 | |
| 13739551821 | 1968 | Democratic Convention riot in Chicago | 99 | |
| 13739551738 | 1968 | Tet Offensive in Vietnam | 100 | |
| 13739551822 | 1969 | Neil Armstrong lands on the moon | 101 | |
| 13739551823 | 1972 | Watergate | 102 | |
| 13739551824 | 1972 | Nixon to China | 103 | |
| 13739551825 | 1973 | War Powers Act | 104 | |
| 13739551826 | 1973 | Paris Accord to end involvement in Vietnam | 105 | |
| 13739551827 | 1973 | Oil Embargo | 106 | |
| 13739551828 | 1978-1981 | Iranian Hostage Crisis | 107 | |
| 13739551829 | 1986-1987 | Iran Contra affair | 108 | |
| 13739551830 | 1989 | Berlin Wall falls | 109 | |
| 13739551831 | 1991 | USSR dissolves | 110 | |
| 13739551832 | 1991 | Persian Gulf War | 111 | |
| 13739551833 | 1994 | Newt Gingrich's Contract with America | 112 | |
| 13739551834 | 1991 | LA Riots (Rodney King) | 113 | |
| 13739551835 | 1995 | Oklahoma City Bombing | 114 | |
| 13739551836 | 1998 | Clinton Impeached | 115 | |
| 13739551837 | 1999 | NATO to Bosnia | 116 | |
| 13739551838 | 2001 | September 11th Attacks | 117 | |
| 13739551839 | 2003 | Invasion of Iraq | 118 |
