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Champlain maps the coast of New England
This Portulan navigation chart on vellum was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), the founder of New France, and was originally intended as a gift to the King of France. -
The Dutch build Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island
Joan Vinckeboons (1617-1670) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver from a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West Indies Company and made maps for over 30 years for use in Dutch commercial and military transport. -
First book printed in the United States, the Bay Psalm, produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Bay Psalm Book, as this work is known, is the first book printed in British North America. Reverend Jesse Glover imported the first printing press to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, some 18 years after the first English settlers landed on Plymouth Rock. -
Outbreak of the Franco-Indian War
This pen and ink handwritten map shows the disposition of the troops at the beginning of the Battle of Monongahela, which took place on July 9, 1755, in the second year of the Franco-Indian War. -
The Boston Massacre
In Boston in the late 1760s, movements for what later became the American Revolution began because residents were angered by heavy taxes. -
Declaration of Independence
John Dunlap, impresor oficial del Congreso Continental, produjo las primeras versiones impresas de la Declaración de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos en su local de Filadelfia en la noche del 4 de julio de 1776. -
George Washington chairs the Constitutional Convention, meeting in Philadelphia
The Federal Convention was convened to solve the problems of government of the young republic under the existing Articles of Confederation. The convention responded by drafting the document that would become the Constitution of the United States. -
Construction of the United States Capitol begins
Construction of the Capitol, the building that houses the US Congress, began in 1793 and was largely completed in 1865, when its second dome was completed. -
Thomas Jefferson is elected to serve as the third president of the United States
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States of America and one of the founding fathers of the republic. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected to serve as President
He received less than a year of formal education, but reading the King James Bible and other English classics made him a skilled writer. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
In the entry made on March 10, 1876 in his own notebook, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) described the first successful experiment with the telephone: he spoke through the apparatus with his assistant, Thomas A. Watson -
The Wright brothers successfully complete the first flight
This photograph shows the first controlled and sustained powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft, which took place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at approximately 10:35 a.m. on December 17, 1903. -
The United States enters World War II
In view of the extreme shortage of resources during the war, women were needed in the defense industries, the civil service, and even the armed forces. -
Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon
The Apollo 17 mission, which took place between December 7 and 19, 1972, was the last of the missions to the moon carried out in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the National Aeronautics and Administration Administration. US Space (NASA) -
Gulf war
The Gulf War was a warlike conflict fought by a United Nations-authorized coalition force of 34 countries and led by the United States, against the Iraqi Republic in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait. -
Los Angeles riots
also known as the Rodney King Riot or the Rodney King Riots, when an almost entirely white jury acquitted the four police officers who appeared on recordings taken by video fan George Holliday as they beat up the black taxi driver Rodney King.04 -
Twin towers in New York
In an act of terrorism the twin towers fall in New York -
Mark Zuckerberg founds the social network Facebook
founds the social network Facebook -
Death of Qasem Soleimani
The death of the Iranian general during an air attack by the United States in January, raised the tension between Washington and Tehran -
COVID-19
With more than two million coronavirus cases, the United States has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world. About a quarter of the global number.