1606 - The English establish Jamestown, Virginia
1610-1730 - The establishment of the 13 Colonies
1766 - The Seven Year’s War ends, Britain introduces taxes on the colonies
1770 - The Boston Massacre: First deaths of the Revolution
1774 - The Continental Congress meets for the first time
1775 - The Shot Heard Around The World is fired at Lexington, Massachusetts
1776 - The Declaration of Independence is signed
1777 - The turning point of the Revolution
1783 - British surrender at Yorktown
1784 - The Articles of Confederation are signed
1787 - The Constitution is signed
1789 - George Washington is elected the first President
1790 - The first political parties are organized
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the nation
1812 - The US declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812
1820 - The Missouri Compromise: Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state, no more slave states above the line
1830s - Jacksonian democracy is established
1846 - Mexican American War begins, US gets much of the West
1840s - Immigrants from Europe start fleeing to America
1849 - California Gold Rush
1850 - Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law
1856 - Bleeding Kansas
1859 - John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected, South Carolina secedes
1861 - The Confederacy fires upon Fort Sumter, the Civil War begins
1865 - Lincoln assassinated, the Civil War ends
1865-1876 - Reconstruction
1876 - The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition celebrates 100 years of American independence
1881 - James Garfield assassinated
1899 - Hawaii annexed
1901 - William McKinley assassinated
1914 - Outbreak of World War 1
1917 - The US joins WW1
1918 - WW1 ends
1921-1929 - The Roaring Twenties
1919 - Prohibition enacted
1929 - The Great Depression begins
1933 - Prohibition ends, FDR begins presidency
1937 - The Depression ends
1939 - World War 2 begins
1941 - Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan, the US joins WW2
1944 - D-Day
1945 - World War 2 ends
1949 - The Cold War begins
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis almost ends the world
1963 - JFK assassinated
1969 - The United States becomes the first country to land humans on the Moon
1974 - Apollo 17, last moon landing
1979-1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis
1991 - The Cold War ends with the collapse of the USSR
2001 - Terrorists attack the World Trade Center on 9/11
2009 - First black president
2017 - First mentally insane president
2021 - The War on Terror ends
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