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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus Lands in the New Land
While he did not actually discover the Americas, he discovered the Bahamas, close to the Americas. He was once called the first European to find out because people already lived at the Americas, though it is known now that the Vikings did this earlier. Columbus landed on a small island in the Bahamas. The natives called it Guanahani; Columbus renamed it San Salvador. The landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World was on October 12, 1492. -
Plymouth and the Pilgrims
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Jamestown
WikipediaJamestown[1] was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 24, 1607 (O.S., May 14, 1607 N.S.),[2] and considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610, it followed several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699. -
French and Indian War
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First Continental Congress
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Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence,[N 1] or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands, Spain, and Mysore on the other. American independence was achieved and European powers recognized the independence of the United States, with mixed results for the -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.[1] They were between British soldiers, who wanted to take away the colonists' weapons and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and American colonists. They were fought in towns outside Boston, Massachusetts. -
Second Coninental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 25, 1774, also in Philadelphia. -
Declaration of Independance
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Constitution Created
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Pennsylvania Founded
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a US state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes region -
George Washington Becomes President
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Louisiana Purchase
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Indian allies. The outcome resolved many issues which remained from the American War of Independence, but involved no boundary changes. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's continuing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors -
Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson Became president
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was a General in the War of 1812 and was considered to be a war hero. He became the seventh President of the United States of America. He was the first Democrat[1] and is on the Twenty Dollar Bill. His nickname was "Old Hickory". -
Battle of Alamo
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Mexican American War
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California Gold Rush
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Colorado Gold Rush
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. An estimated 100,000 gold seekers took part in one of the greatest gold rushes in North American history -
Civil War Started
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States of America. It is sometimes called "The War Between the States". Eleven Southern states which allowed slaves wanted to separate from the United States of America. They formed the Confederate States of America, also called "the Confederacy". -
Abraham Lincoln Became president
Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 – April 15 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He served as president from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. Just six days after most of the Confederate forces had surrendered and the war was ending, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln. Lincoln has been remembered as the "Great Emancipator" because he worked to end slavery in the United States.[1]. Lincoln was the first president of the United States to be assassinated. -
Slavery Abolished
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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African American Men get the Righ to vote
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Fort Collins Founded
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Custer's Last Stand
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Colorado Becomes a State
Entering the Union on August 1, 1876, the year the U.S. celebrated its 100th birthday, the 38th state is known as the Centennial State. -
Telephone Invented
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Lightbulb Ivented
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Spanish American War
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Charles Lindbergh Glies Acrross the Atlantic
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Wright Brothers' First flight
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San Fransisco Earthquake
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Model T invention
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, T‑Model Ford, 'Model T Ford', or T) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908 to May 27, 1927.[1][2] It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.[3] The Ford Model T was named the world -
Titanic Sinks
The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the north Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest passenger liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time[a]) on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April resulted in the deaths of more th -
Panama Canal opened
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World War 1 (Starts)
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Women get the Right to Vote
I found the date for the United States. -
New York Founded
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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
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Hoover Dam Built
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Became President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He served as United States President longer than any other President. After his death, the twenty-second amendment came into effect and limited how long a person could be President. Before becoming President, he was Governor of New York from 1929 to 1932, Assistant Secretary of Navy from 1913 to 1920 and a state senator from the state of New York. -
World War 2 (Starts)
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Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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Pearl Harbor Attacked
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D-Day
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United Nations created
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CLP Was Built
Cache La Poudre Middle School is a grade 6-8 middle school located in Laporte, Colorado. The schools is often referred to as CLP Middle School or just “CLP”. It is part of the Poudre School District. CLP Middle School is located on the banks of the Cache La Poudre River. -
Korean War Starts
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Vietnam War
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Hawaii becomes a state
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John F. Kennedy Becomes President
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First McDonalds Opened
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Mr. Denise Born
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The Beatles Arrived in the United States
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luthat King Jr. assasinated
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Berlin Wall was torn down
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First men on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC -
Persian Gulf War started
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World Trade Center attacked
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Columbine High Schools Shooting
Columbine High School was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern United States history. It is the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history.[2] The shootings occurred on April 20, 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve students and a teacher, and wounded 23 others, before they both committed suicide. -
George W. Bush Became President
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Afgahanistan and Iraq (invasion)
The Iraq War 1] was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases.[41] The first was an invasion of Iraq starting on 20 March 2003 by an invasion force led by the United States.[42][43][44][45] It was followed by a longer phase of fighting, in which an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the newly formed Iraqi government.[41] The U.S. completed its withdrawal of military personnel in December 2011.[46][47] However, the Iraqi insurgency continues to cause thousands o -
FaceBook Started
WikipediaFacebook is a social networking service and website started in February 2004. It is owned by Facebook, Inc.[5]As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users.[6] -
Hurricane Katrina (Start)
It ended on Aug. 30, 2005 -
Barack Obama Becomes president
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African American Men Get the Right to Vote
