1865-present

  • Abraham Lincoln Death

    Abraham Lincoln Death

    Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's theater by John Wilkes Booth
  • End of Civil War

    End of Civil War

  • First Airplane Flight

    First Airplane Flight

    The Wright Brothers fly their first successful airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • Model T Ford

    Model T Ford

    The first production of the Model T Ford was completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit
  • US enters World War I

    US enters World War I

    The United States enters WWI on the side of the Allies
  • WWI Ends

    WWI Ends

    Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Women get the right to vote and the 19th amendment is added to the constitution
  • John Baird Transmits the First TV Image

    John Baird Transmits the First TV Image

  • Great Depression Begins

    Great Depression Begins

    The stock market crashes indicating the beginning of the depression
  • Franklin Roosevelt Becomes President

    Franklin Roosevelt Becomes President

    Creates the New Deal to help the US get out of the Depression
  • TV Becomes Commercialized

    TV Becomes Commercialized

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor which then results in the US joining WWII
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces infiltrate Nazi occupied land
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

  • WWII Ends

    WWII Ends

  • ENIAC Announced

    ENIAC Announced

    One of the earliest computers was introduced
  • Korean War Begins

    Korean War Begins

  • Korean War Ends

    Korean War Ends

  • Vietnam War Begins

    Vietnam War Begins

  • President John F. Kennedy Dies

    President John F. Kennedy Dies

    JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while on a political trip
  • First Cell Phone Call

    First Cell Phone Call

    Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, makes the first cell phone call
  • Richard Nixon Resigns as President

    Richard Nixon Resigns as President

  • Microsoft is Founded

    Microsoft is Founded

  • Vietnam War Ends

    Vietnam War Ends

  • Apple is Founded

    Apple is Founded

  • Apple I released

    Apple I released

    Apple I, a desktop computer, was the first product released by Apple
  • VHS Comes to the US

    VHS Comes to the US

  • Epson HX-20 Announced

    Epson HX-20 Announced

    Regarded as the first laptop computer
  • CD Production Began

    CD Production Began

  • "Classic" Mac OS

    "Classic" Mac OS

    First Mac OS
  • Nintendo Entertainment System Released

    Nintendo Entertainment System Released

  • Microsoft Windows 1.0 Released

    Microsoft Windows 1.0 Released

    Windows 1.0 was the first version of the Windows os released
  • The Internet Became Available to the Public

    The Internet Became Available to the Public

  • Apple Powerbook 100 Released

    Apple Powerbook 100 Released

  • DVD Player Introduced

    DVD Player Introduced

  • Blackberry 850 Released

    Blackberry 850 Released

    First phone released under the Blackberry name
  • 9/11

    9/11

    Terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers in NYC
  • War in Afghanistan Begins

    War in Afghanistan Begins

  • First Ipod Released

    First Ipod Released

  • First Xbox Released

    First Xbox Released

  • iPhone Released

    iPhone Released

    The first generation iPhone is released
  • Great Recession Begins

    Great Recession Begins

  • HTC Dream

    HTC Dream

    First android cell phone
  • First iPad Released

    First iPad Released

  • Samsung Galaxy S Released

    Samsung Galaxy S Released

  • Siri Released

    Siri Released

    Apple's personal assistant
  • Amazon Echo Released

    Amazon Echo Released

    The Echo is a smart speaker that uses a personal assistant that responds to the user
  • War in Afghanistan Ends

    War in Afghanistan Ends

  • Apple Watch Released

    Apple Watch Released