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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus First voyage
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Jan 1, 1521
The Protestant Reformation
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Sep 9, 1541
Discovery of the Mississippi River
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Jan 1, 1558
Queen Elizabeth Ascends the throne
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English founded Jamestown,Virginia
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Bach Created Music to God's Glory
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston. In November, South Carolina establishes the Anglican Church as its official church.
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Royal Navy 4 ships sank - 2,000 lives lost - public outcry results.
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George II succeeded his father George I
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Britain adopts Gregorian calendar - 11 days "lost"
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The Fall of Quebec - Battle of the "Plains of Abraham" - British defeat French, thus gaining control of Canada
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A mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as Hutchinson and his family narrowly escape.
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The Boston Massacre occurs as a mob harasses British soldiers who then fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three instantly, mortally wounding two others and injuring six.
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About 8000 Bostonians gather to hear Sam Adams tell them Royal Governer Hutchinson has repeated his command not to allow the ships out of the harbor until the tea taxes are paid.
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Bostonians at a town meeting call for a boycott of British imports in response to the Boston Port Bill.
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the First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia with 56 delegates, representing evefry colony, except Georgia.
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Ignatius Sancho dies at his home and shop in Charles Street, Westminster
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Uranus discovered by Sir William Herschel
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An anonymous letter circulates among Wahington's senior officers camped at Newburgh, New York.
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General Wahington gathers his officers and talks them out of a rebellion against the authority of Congress, and in effect preserves the American democracy.
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In New Hampshire, an armed mob marches on the state assembly and demands enactment of an issue of paper money.
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New York passes Emancipation Act
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Population 5.3 million (1 million of African decent)
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Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey.
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Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans. He escapes but is recaptured and improsined.
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British burn Capitol building in Washington.
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Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo.
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Alabama admitted as slave statem bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers.
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New York gives free Blacks the right to vote
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Mexico becomes a republic - outlaws slavery
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Slavery illegal in New York
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Underground Railroad established
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Texas declares independence from mexico
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Depression begins with "Panic of 1837"
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James K. Polk elected President
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War with Mexico
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Zachary Taylor elected President
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Compromis of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
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Theodore Roosevelt AND KAISER WILHELM BORN
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Oregon admitted as State
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Lincoln Elected President
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Lincoln Inaugurated
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Virginia Secedes
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KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi.
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Civil Rights Act passed
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"Jim Crow" laws enacted in Tennessee
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Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
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Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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Five standard time zones are established by the United States and Canadian railroad companies to end the confusion over thousands of local time zones.
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The Statue of Liberty arrived for the first time in New York harbor.
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The statue of Abraham Lincoln, "Standing Lincoln," by Augustus Saint-Gaudens is unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.
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The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright print the "Dayton Tattler" in their print shop in Dayton, Ohio.
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The 51st Congress of the United States passes the International Copyright Act of 1891.
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Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, opens as the main east coast immigration center, and would remain the initial debarkation point for European immigrants into the United States until its closure in 1954. More than 12 million immigrants would be processed
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The General Electric Company is formed, merging the Edison General Electric Company with the Thomson-Houston Company.
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Women in Colorado are granted the right to vote.
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the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is founded
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Theodore Roosevelt entered office
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Oklahoma becomes a state
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NAACP founded
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In San Francisco harbor, Eugene B. Ely lands his plane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania for the first landing of a plane on a ship.
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The American Girl Guides, renamed the Girl Scouts one year later, is formed.
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Grand Central Station, the world's largest rail terminal, opens in New York City.
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Babe Ruth makes his major league debut.
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By the middle of 1918, the United States military forces had over one million troops in Europe fighting in World War I.
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The first performance of the play, "Beyond the Horizon" is held. The play by Eugene O'Neill, would win the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes.
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The Limitation on Armaments Congress convened in Washington, D.C.
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Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace.
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Time Magazine is published for the first time.
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J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.
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Cartoonist Chester Gould creates the debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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The United States pulls its troops from Haiti.
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Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
