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John Smith founds the James Town colony in Modern-day Virginia.
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Slavery begins when 20 Africans are brought to Jamestown for sale as indentured servants.
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The Great Plague of London kills 75,000.
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The Treaty of Paris cedes Canada to Great Britain.
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George Washington becomes the first president.
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The War of 1812 breaks out between the american and the British.
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Slavery Is abolished in the British Empire
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Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
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The U.S. government buys Mexican land, Which later becomes known as the Gadsden Purchase
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France and England declare war on China in the second Opium War.
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John Wilkes booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln
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President Andrew Jackson is Impeached; he avoids expultion from the office by one vote in the U.S. Senate
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The Transcontinental Railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the fist telephone
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German inventor Karl Benz constructs the first gasoline-powered automobile.
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A bomb was during a labor union rally in Chicago, resulting in the Haymarket Riot.
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Ellis Island begins excepting immigrants into the United States.
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New Zealand was the first Country to grant women voting rights.
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The Wright Brothers make the first controlled airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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The Sedition Act was passed and making it illegal to speak against the government.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chair man of the Nazi Party.
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Hitler commits suicide on April 30th; Germany surrenders on May 7th.
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President Roosevelt suddenly and Harry Truman assumes the presidents.
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Long- Time soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies.
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Elvis Presley becomes the best selling musical artist in the United States.
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The Civil rights act of 1964 outlaws discrimination
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Richard Nixon is elected president.
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Hundreds are killed in mexico during the Tlatetlolco Massacre
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The Paris Peace Accords formally puts an end to U.S involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Jimmy Carter is elected president.
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
