165709491 | 1492 | Columbus sailed to the New World | |
165709492 | 1607 | Jamestown Established | |
165709493 | 1763 | French and Indian War ended | |
165709494 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | |
165709495 | 1787 | Constitutional Convention | |
165709496 | 1789 | Washington became the first president | |
165709497 | 1815 | Era of Good Feelings began | |
165709498 | 1824 | Era of Good Feelings ended | |
165709499 | 1865 | Reconstruction Era began | |
165709500 | 1877 | Reconstruction Era ended | |
165709501 | 1901 | Progressive Era began | |
165709502 | 1917 | Progressive Era ended | |
165709503 | 1929 | Great Depression began | |
165709504 | 1941 | Great Depression ended | |
165709505 | 1946 | Cold War began | |
165709506 | 1991 | Cold War ended | |
165709507 | 1801 | Jefferson became president | |
165709508 | 1829 | Jackson became president | |
165709509 | 1861 | Lincoln became president | |
165709510 | 1901 | T. Roosevelt became president | |
165709511 | 1933 | F.D Roosevelt became president | |
165709512 | 1961 | JFK became president | |
165709513 | 1775 | American Revolution began | |
165709514 | 1783 | American Revolution ended | |
165709515 | 1812 | War of 1812 began | |
165709516 | 1815 | War of 1812 ended | |
165709517 | 1846 | Mexican-American War began | |
165709518 | 1848 | Mexican-American War ended | |
165709519 | 1861 | Civil War began | |
165709520 | 1865 | Civil War ended | |
165709521 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (began and ended) | |
165709522 | 1914 | WWI began in Europe | |
165709523 | 1917 | U.S entered WWI | |
165709524 | 1918 | WWI ends | |
165709525 | 1939 | WWII began in Europe | |
165709526 | 1941 | U.S enters WWII | |
165709527 | 1945 | WWII ends | |
165709528 | 1950 | Korean War began | |
165709529 | 1953 | Korean War ended | |
165709530 | 1965 | LBJ sent U.S. ground troops to Vietnam | |
165709531 | 1973 | U.S. troops pulled out of Vietnam | |
165709532 | 1991 | Persian Gulf War | |
165709533 | 1840 | William Henry Harrison elected | |
165709534 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln elected | |
165709535 | 1880 | James Garfield elected | |
165709536 | 1900 | William McKinley reelected | |
165709537 | 1920 | Warren Harding elected | |
165709538 | 1940 | F.D Roosevelt elected to a third term | |
165709539 | 1960 | JFK elected | |
165709540 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan elected | |
165709541 | 1620 | Mayflower Compact | |
165709542 | 1636 | Roger Williams established Rhode Island | |
165709543 | 1681 | William Penn established Pennsylvania | |
165709544 | 1692 | Salem witch trials | |
165709545 | 1732 | James Oglethorpe established Georgia | |
165709546 | 1734 | Great Awakening sparked | |
165709547 | 1773 | Boston Tea Party | |
165709548 | 1774 | First Continental Congress | |
165709549 | 1775 | Lexington and Concord | |
165709550 | 1775 | Second Continental Congress | |
165709551 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown | |
165709552 | 1786-87 | Shays' rebellion | |
165709553 | 1791 | Bill of Rights | |
165709554 | 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion | |
165709555 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase | |
165709556 | 1814 | Hartford Convention | |
165709557 | 1815 | Battle of New Orleans | |
165709558 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | |
165709559 | 1830 | Indian Removal Act | |
165709560 | 1832-33 | Nullification Crisis | |
165709561 | 1837 | Panic of 1837 | |
165709562 | 1838 | Trail of Tears | |
165709563 | 1848 | Seneca Falls convention | |
165709564 | 1849 | California gold rush | |
165709565 | 1854 | Creation of the Republican party | |
165709566 | 1859 | John Brown's raids on Harper Ferry | |
165709567 | 1861 | Battle of Fort Sumter | |
165709568 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation | |
165709569 | 1867 | Purchase of Alaska | |
165709570 | 1868 | 14th amendment ratified | |
165709571 | 1876 | Battle of Little Big Horn | |
165709572 | 1886 | Haymarket Square Riot | |
165709573 | 1887 | Jane Addams founded Hull House | |
165709574 | 1890 | Wounded Knee massacre | |
165709575 | 1893 | Panic of 1893 | |
165709576 | 1894 | Pullman Strike | |
165709577 | 1903 | Wright brothers fly first airplane | |
165709578 | 1904 | Roosevelt Corollary | |
165709579 | 1909 | NAACP organized | |
165709580 | 1913 | 16th amendment ratified | |
165709581 | 1913 | 17th amendment ratified | |
165709582 | 1919 | 18th amendment ratified | |
165709583 | 1920 | 19th amendment ratified | |
165709584 | 1935 | Dust Bowl | |
165709585 | 1957 | Sputnik | |
165709586 | 1961 | Bay of Pigs | |
165709587 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | |
165709588 | 1968 | MLK assassinated | |
165709589 | 1969 | Neil Armstrong walks on the moon | |
165709590 | 1972 | Watergate Scandal | |
165709591 | 1974 | Nixon resigns | |
165709592 | 2001 | September 11th terrorist attacks | |
166921231 | 1793 | Edmon Genet challenges U.S neutrality | |
166921232 | 1978 | Camp David Accords signed | |
166921233 | 1869 | Transcontinental railroad completed | |
166921234 | 1887 | Dawes Indian Severalty Act | |
166921235 | 1857 | Dred Scott v Sanford | |
166921236 | 1969 | Vietnamization begins | |
166921237 | 1920 | Scopes Trial | |
166921238 | 1831 | Nat Turner's revolt | |
166921239 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | |
166921240 | 1914 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act | |
166921241 | 1778 | Franco-American Treaty of Alliance signed | |
166921242 | 1814 | Treaty of Ghent signed | |
166921243 | 1918 | Fourteen points introduced | |
166921244 | 1948 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed | |
166921245 | 1987 | INF Treaty signed | |
166921246 | 1819 | Adams-Onis Treaty signed | |
166921247 | 1832 | President Jackson destroyed the Bank of the U.S | |
166921248 | 1869 | Knights of Labor created | |
166921249 | 1886 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) created | |
166921250 | 1935 | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) created | |
166921251 | 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act | |
166921252 | 1941 | Atlantic Charter signed | |
166921253 | 1949 | NATO created | |
166921254 | 1947 | Marshall Plan announced | |
166921255 | 1927 | The Jazz Singer (Movie) | |
166921256 | 1991 | Soviet Union dissolved | |
166921257 | 1776 | Thomas Paine published Common Sense | |
166921258 | 1765 | Stamp Act | |
166921259 | 1865 | 13th amendment ratified | |
166921260 | 1933 | Good Neighbor Policy announced | |
166921261 | 1862 | Homestead Act | |
166921262 | 1789 | John Adams appoints "midnight judges" | |
166921263 | 1964 | Lyndon Johnson signed Civil Rights Act | |
166921264 | 1954 | Joseph McCarthy censured by the U.S Senate | |
166921265 | 1955 | Rosa Parks sets off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama | |
166921266 | 1930 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |
166921267 | 1896 | Plessy v Ferguson | |
166921268 | 1945 | Yalta Conference | |
166921269 | 1986 | Iran-Contra scandal | |
166921270 | 1968 | Tet Offensive | |
166921271 | 1944 | Invasion of Normanday | |
166921272 | 1969 | Apollo 11 landed on the moon | |
166921273 | 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions | |
166921274 | 1932 | Bonus March of WWI veterans on Washington, D.C | |
166921275 | 1963 | Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique | |
166921276 | 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowed published Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
166921277 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair published The Jungle | |
166921278 | 1798-99 | Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | |
166921279 | 1913 | Federal Reserve System created | |
166921280 | 1927 | Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean | |
166921281 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine announced | |
166921282 | 1947 | Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
166921283 | 1954 | Brown v Board of Education | |
166921284 | 1957 | Little Rock High School integrated by federal troops | |
166921285 | 1965 | Malcolm X assassinated | |
166921286 | 1973 | American Indian Movement (AIM) created | |
166921287 | 1963 | Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech |
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