American History By Flaniel 2011 BCE Osama Bin Laden get killed by US forces. 2008 BCE Lehman collapse, sends crisis shockwaves throughout the world. 2008 BCE Barack Obama elected as first black president 2002 BCE After 9/11. Us leads massive campaing of air strikes against afghanistan. 2001 BCE 9/11 occurs. 1998 BCE Scandle over Bill Clintons sexual relationship 1992 BCE Bill Clinton elected as president 1991 BCE US forces play dominant role in war against Iraq 1974 BCE Nixon announces his resignation due to watergate scandal. 1973 BCE Cease fire in Vietnam is announced 1969 BCE Richard Nixon is elected as president, and is trying to stop the vietnam war 1969 BCE Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. 1968 BCE Black civil rights leader MLK assassinated 1964 BCE Civil Rights signed into law, aims to stop discrimination 1963 BCE Assasination on JFK in Dallas 1962 BCE USforces the Soviet Union to remove missels from Cuba 1945 BCE US drops 2 atmoic boms on Nagasaki and Hiroshima 1941 BCE Attach on Pearl Harbor 1933 BCE Frankling D Roosevelt launches "New Deal" recovery program 1929 BCE Great depression hits 1920 BCE Women given the right to vote under the 19th amendment 1898 BCE US gains Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Cuba. 1865 BCE Confederates defeated, slavery abolished under the 13th amendment 1863 BCE Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamtion 1861 BCE Start of the Civil War 1860 BCE Eleven pro slave states secede from Union and form Confederate States 1854 BCE Opponentes of slavery, set up Republican Party 1808 BCE Atlantic slave trade abolished 1804 BCE Corps of Discovery 1803 BCE France sells Louisana territories to USA 1791 BCE Bill of Rights guarantees indivdual freedom 1789 BCE George Washington elected first president of USA 1783 BCE Britain accepts loss of colonies by virtue of Treaty of Paris 1776 BCE Decleration of independnce was endorsed by Congress 1775 BCE American Revolution, led by George Washington 1750 BCE Hundreds of thousands of Africans bought for slavery 1607 BCE Jamestown, Virgina, founded by English settelers 1565 BCE First European settlement in North America.