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1763
February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the Mississippi River added to the British empire. -
1770
“The Boston Massacre” A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. -
1773
The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. -
1775
The American Revolution, the American War of Independence, led by George Washingtonwas fought between Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. -
1776
Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence -
1777
Articles of Confederation - Congress is made sole authority of the new national government. -
1803
Louisiana Purchase -US agrees to buy the territory from France for a total of 15 million dollars. -
1804
Louis and Clark Expedition-Louis and Clark set out on their famous expedition were they explored the Louisiana territory. -
1809
Non-Intercourse Acts-Trade with all countries except Britain and France is acceptable. -
1809
Erskin Agreement-When signed, Britain said they would revoke their trade restrictions, making it okay for the US to trade with Britain. -
1812
Voted on the war, House of Representatives: 74/49 in favor of war.
Senate: 19/13 In favor of war. -
1814
Treaty of Ghent ,The treaty is signed officially ending the war. -
1820
Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts is admitted as a free state so Missouri could be formed as a slave state. This is to keep balance in the states. -
1865
End of Civil War ,when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. -
1869
Transcontinental Railroad completed,A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. -
1876
Battle of Little Bighorn ,fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
1877
Great Railroad strike ,sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. -
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act, was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
1889
Hull house opens ,was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
1890
wounded knee,The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
1893
U.S. acquires Hawaii, Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. -
1898
the Maine sinks,A slogan of the Spanish-American War. The United States battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in 1898. -
1901
TR becomes president, The rising young Republican politician Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley -
1906
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. -
1908
Taft elected, A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... In foreign policy, Taft advocated dollar diplomacy. He came in third in the election of 1912, running as a Republican, behind Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. -
1912
“bull moose" TR, The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. -
1913
Wilson's Inaugurated,The first inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as the 28th President of the United States was held on Tuesday, March 4, 1913, at the east portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. -
1914
U.S. declares neutrality, President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain “impartial in thought as well as in action. -
1915
Lusitania sinks, occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. -
1916
sussex pledge, was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered the war. -
1917
Zimmerman note, communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
1918
truce declared, an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a certain. -
1919
United States anarchist bombings. June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. -
1920
Versailles Treaty, was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
1923
Teapot Dome Scandal, a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration. -
1924
National Origins Act, A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. -
1926
League of Nations, was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
1927
Charles Lindbergh, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist -
1929
Great Depression, a long and severe recession in an economy or market. -
1931
Dust Bowl, an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice. -
1939
The Great Depression ended ! -
1941
US entry to WWII, Although the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. -
1945
World war 2 ends ! -
1946
Indochina War begins, Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the south dated from September 1945. -
1950
Korean War begins, war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
1953
The Korean War ends ! -
1959
Castro takes over Cuba, The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organisation, "The Movement". -
1963
Kennedy assassinated, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
1968
SALT 1 adopted, The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. -
1969
moon landing, was an American test pilot and astronaut, who was the commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969, in which he and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to land on the moon, and he was the first man to walk on the moon. -
1970
Kent state massacre, The Kent State shootings , were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
1972
Nixon visited China, U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China. -
1973
watergate hearings, An incident in the presidency of Richard Nixon that led to his resignation. In June 1972, burglars in the pay of Nixon's campaign committee broke into offices of the Democratic party. -
1978
Camp David Accords, a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter: signed in 1979. -
1979
SALT 2 adopted, SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
1986
Tax Reform Act, A law passed by the United States Congress to simplify the income tax code. The Tax Reform Act of 1986, commonly referred to as the second of two Reagan tax cuts, lowered the top tax rate from 50% to 28% and raised the bottom tax rate from 11% to 15%. -
1991
The Persian Gulf War began, A war between the forces of the United Nations, led by the United States, and those of Iraq that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. The United Nations forces, called the Coalition, expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait in March 1991. -
1992
Los Angeles Riots, Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and the Battle of Los Angeles, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles -
2001
September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
2003
U.S invaded Iraq, The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signalled the start of the Iraq War, which the United States dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom. -
2007
The Great Recession began, The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country. -
2008
Barack Obama was elected president, Obama won the presidency with 365 electoral votes to 173 received by McCain. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain's 45.7%. He became the first African American to be elected president.
