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The United States Army is established.
The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Second Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. -
The US Marine Corps is established
responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations with the United States Navy as well as the Army and Air Force -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 American Colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonist motivations for seeking independence. -
The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
The Articles of confederation created a loose confederation of states and a weaker central government, giving the people more power. -
French join the war against British
The French navy entered the warfighting of the British along the American coast. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War. -
The delegates at the Philadelphia convention approve the Constitution
The Committee worked on the Constitution until September 17th when the convention voted to approve the Constitution -
The Bill of Rights is ratified by 3/4ths of the states
Virginia was the final state to ratify on December 15, 1791. Massachusetts, Georgia, and Connecticut ratified in 1939 on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights by the First Congress. -
George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States
Washington took office after the 1788–89 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidential election, in which he was elected unanimously. -
Louisiana Purchase
he Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
Slave trade ended
On 25 March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books. Nevertheless, although the Act made it ill -
War With England
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, -
Trail of Tears
he Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
Texas Revolution
he Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico. -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian and immigrant occupiers. -
Telegraph invented
the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Gold rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. ... -
The civil war
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between the northern United States and the southern United States. The civil war began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. -
Emancipation Proclamation
resident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era was the period in American history which lasted from 1863 to 1877. It was a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 -
The United States annexes Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million. -
Civil Rights Act of 1785
Civil Rights Act of 1875, U.S. legislation, and the last of the major Reconstruction statutes, which guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation and public accommodations and service on juries -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. -
World War I (WWI)
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
The Panama Canal opens for Bussiness
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened for business, with the passage through of the Ancon, an American cargo-passenger ship. The Canal was built primarily to make a faster way to the West Coast for American settlers in the 19th Century. -
The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. -
Black Tuesday
On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
ww2
a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor -
DDay
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
the bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
Baby Boom
Baby boom, in the U.S., the increase in the birth rate between 1946 and 1964; also, the generation born in the U.S. during that period. The hardships and uncertainties of the Great Depression and World War II led many couples to delay marriage and many married couples to delay having children -
The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union
e Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart -
Korean War
The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Brown Vs Educaton
the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Vietnam War
the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Sputnik Satellite
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, -
NASA Formed
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote. -
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
Watergate
The Watergate scandal was a major federal political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 which resulted in the end of Nixon's presidency. -
Fall of Berlin wall
German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. -
Gulf war
The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition -
september 11
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
