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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus “Discovers” America
came by a boat -
Aug 23, 1497
John Cabot claims North America for England
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Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
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Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh
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Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
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Mayflower Compact
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Proclamation of 1763 by King George II1
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Stamp Act
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Declaration of Independence
the decloration of independence was witten. -
1787 Articles of Confederation
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Constitution
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Delaware Dec. 7, 1787
state bird: blue hen chicken -
Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787
state bird: Ruffed grouse -
New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787
state bird: Eastern goldfinch -
Georgia Jan. 2, 1788
state bird: Brown thrasher -
Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788
sate bird: cod -
Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788
state bird: American Robin -
Maryland Apr. 28, 1788
state bird: Baltimore oriole -
South Carolina May 23, 1788
state bird: Carolina wren -
New Hampshire June 21, 1788
state bird: Purple finch -
Virginia June 25, 1788
state bird: Cardinal -
New York July 26, 1788
state bird: Eastern Bluebird -
Goerge washington
1st president of the United States. Presiing fact is dent from (April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797.)
One interesting fact is, Believing that shaking hands was beneath a president, Washington bowed to his visitors. -
North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789
state bird: Cardinal -
1790 Population
4 million -
Rhode Island May 29, 1790
state bird: Rhode Island Red -
Vermont Mar. 4, 1791
state flower: Red clover -
Bill of Rights
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Kentucky June 1, 1792
state bird: Cardinal -
11th Amendment
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Tennessee June 1, 1796
state bird: Mockingbird -
John Adams
The 2nd president of U.S.
One interesting fact about John Adams isThe only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier. -
1800 Population
5.3 million -
Tomas Jefferson
The Third President of the U.S.
One interesting fact about Tomas Jefferson is The only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence, Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier. -
Ohio Mar. 1, 1803
state animal: White-tailed deer -
12th Amendment
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1810 Population
7.2 million -
Louisiana Apr. 30, 1812
state bird: Eastern Brown Pelican -
Indiana Dec. 11, 1816
state bird: Cardinal -
James Monroe
5th president of the U.S.
One interesting fact about James Monroe is. In the election of 1820 Monroe received every electoral vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted Washington to be the only president elected unanimously.
Monroe's inauguration in 1817 was the first to be held outdoors. -
Mississippi Dec. 10, 1817
state bird: Mockingbird (also my b-day month and day) -
Illinois Dec. 3, 1818
state bird: Cardinal -
Alabama Dec. 14, 1819
state bird: Yellowhammer -
1820 Population
9.6 million -
Maine Mar. 15, 1820
state bird: Black-capped chickadee -
Missouri Aug. 10, 1821
state bird: Bluebird -
John Quincy Adams
President Adams regularly swam nude in the Potomac River. Anne Royall, the first American professional journalist, knew of Adams' 5 A.M. swims. After being refused interviews with the president time after time, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until she had her interview. Before this, no female had interviewed a president. -
Andrew Jackson
Jackson was the only president who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. -
1830 Population
12.8 million -
Indian Removal Act (1838 Trail of Tears)
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Arkansas June 15, 1836
state bird: Mockingbird -
Michigan Jan. 26, 1837
state bird: Robin -
1840 Populaton
17 million -
William Henry Harrison
Harrison was the only president who studied to become a doctor -
john tyler
Tyler was the first president whose wife died while he was in office. -
Florida Mar. 3, 1845
state bird: Mockingbird -
James Knox Polk
A week before he died, Polk was baptized a Methodist -
Texas Dec. 29, 1845
state bird: Mockingbird -
Iowa Dec. 28, 1846
state bird: Eastern goldfinch -
Wisconsin May 29, 1848
state bird: Robin -
Zachary Taylor
Taylor refused all postage due correspondences. Because of this, he didn't receive notification of his nomination for president until several days later. -
1850 Population
23 million -
Millard Fillmore
After Fillmore's term, he became the chancellor of the University of Buffalo -
California Sept. 9, 1850
state bird: California valley quail -
Franklin Pierce
Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853 -
James Buchanan
Member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1815-16 -
Minnesota May 11, 1858
state bird: Common loon -
Oregon Feb. 14, 1859
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
1860 Population
31.4 million -
Kansas Jan. 29, 1861
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination. -
West Virginia June 20, 1863
state bird: Cardinal -
Nevada Oct. 31, 1864
halloween day -
Andrew Johnson
Served as Alderman of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1830-33 -
Andrew Johnson
Served as Alderman of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1830-33 -
14th Amendment
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (1843) -
1870 Population
38.6 million -
15th Amendment
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Colorado Aug. 1, 1876
stae bird: Lark bunting -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes was the only one to be wounded. -
1880 Population
50.1 million -
James Abram Garfield
Garfield was the first left-handed president -
Chester Alan Arthur
Graduated from Union College (1848) -
Benjamin Harrison
Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1852) -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland discovered a cancerous growth on the roof of his mouth in the middle of the economic crisis of 1893. So that his illness would not cause a greater panic, he and several doctors snuck aboard a pleasure boat and removed the growth. The public thought he was on a fishing trip and never knew the truth until 1917. -
Nebraska Mar. 1, 1867
state bird:
Western Meadowlark -
North Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
South Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
State Bird: Chinese ring-necked pheasant -
Montana Nov. 8, 1889
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Washington Nov. 11, 1889
state bird: Goldfinch -
1890 Population
62.9 million -
Idaho July 3, 1890
state bird: Mountain Bluebird -
Wyoming July 10, 1890
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Wyoming July 10, 1890
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Wyoming July 10, 1890
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Wyoming July 10, 1890
state bird: Western Meadowlark -
Utah Jan. 4, 1896
state bird: California Sea gull -
William McKinley
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1877-91 -
1900 Population
76.2 million -
Theodore Roosevelt
Governor of New York, 1898-1900 -
Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907
state bird: Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher -
William Howard Taft
Graduated from Yale College (1878); Cincinnati Law School (1880) -
1910 Population
92.2 million -
New Mexico Jan. 6, 1912
state bird:Roadrunner -
Arizona Feb. 14, 1912
state bird: Cactus wren -
17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)
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Graduated from Yale College (1878); Cincinnati Law School (1880)
Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1879)
Occupation: Teacher, public official
Political Party: Democrat
Other Government Positions: -
1920 Population
106 million -
Warren Gamaliel Harding
While president, Harding played golf, poker twice a week, followed baseball and boxing, and sneaked off to burlesque shows. His advisors were known as the "Poker Cabinet" because they all played poker together. -
Calvin Coolidge
Northampton, MA City Councilman, 1899
City Solicitor, 1900-01
Clerk of Courts, 1904 -
Herbert Clark Hoover
Society of Friends (Quaker)
Education: Graduated from Stanford University (1895).
Occupation: Engineer
Political Party: Republican -
1930 Population
123 million -
16th Amendment (Income Tax)
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Society of Friends (Quaker)Education: Graduated from Stanford University (1895).Occupation: EngineerPolitical Party: Republican
From his 1941 inaugural address where he speaks of an enduring democracy: "Put away many evil things. -
1940 Population
132 million -
Harry S. Truman
The house where Truman lived from 1919 to his death is located in Independence, Missouri. The Truman Farm House, where Harry grew up, is located in Grandview, Missouri. Both are located in the Kansas City metropolitan area and both are part of the Truman NHS. -
1950 Population
151 million -
Dwight David Eisenhower
Graduated from U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. (1915) -
Alaska Jan. 3, 1959
state bird: Willow ptarmigan -
Hawaii Aug. 21, 1959
state bird: NeneThe Hawaiian goose -
1960 Population
179.3 million -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kennedy's speech to the students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on October 14, 1960 was the start of the Peace Corps. -
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (1930) (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos) -
Richard Milhous Nixon
Nixon resigned and was almost impeached over the Watergate Scandal, named for the burglaries at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. D.C by men found to be connected to Nixon's re-election campaign fundraising committee. -
1970 Population
203 million -
Gerald Rudolph Ford
Ford was the first president to be an Eagle Scout. -
James Earl Carter, Jr.
Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. (1946)
Occupation: Farmer, public official -
1980 Population
226.5 million -
Ronald Wilson Reagan
At 69 years old, Reagan was the oldest elected president. -
George Herbert Walker Bush
From his first State of the Union address in January of 1990. "...the beginning of a new era in the world's affairs." -
1990
248.7 million -
From his first State of the Union address in January of 1990. "...the beginning of a new era in the world's affairs."
President Clinton authorized American troops, but not ground troops, to take part in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) air strikes against the Serbian government. Although a United Nations (UN) courts ruled that a "genocide" was not taking place in Yugoslavia at this time, the UN court did conclude that Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's government had used a "systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments" in suppressing the ethnic Alb -
2000 Population
281.4 million -
George Walker Bush
Bush was one of two managing general partners of the Texas Rangers baseball club from 1989-1994. -
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama was the first African-American U.S. president. -
2010 Population
308.7 million -
Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was the first president born in the United States. All previous presidents were born before the United States became country, although all were born in places that would later be a part of the United States.
