Timeline: American History

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Augustine of Hippo

Period: 500 to Oct 4, 1350

Middle Ages 500-1350

Middle Ages. Schooling became more personal. Corporal punishment.

Period: 500 to Oct 4, 600

Bubonic Plague

Period: Oct 4, 1340 to Oct 4, 1400

Black Death

Period: Oct 4, 1350 to Oct 4, 1500

European Renaissance 1350's-1500's

A period of education for the wealthy, particularly boys. Girls would be educated until marriage or convent. The peasant class was not educated

Sep 15, 1450

Printing Press

Sep 15, 1492

Columbus discovers America

Sep 15, 1517

Martin Luther

Sep 15, 1561

Francis Bacon

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo

Sep 15, 1632

John Locke

Sep 15, 1686

Newton

Sep 15, 1689

Locke

Sep 15, 1694

Voltaire

Sep 15, 1729

Adam Smith

Sep 15, 1762

Rousseau

Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783

Revolutionary War

Jul 4, 1776

Signing Of The Decleration Of Independence

Oct 5, 1784

Ben Franklin Invents Bifocal eyeglasses

Apr 30, 1788

George Washington Elected for President

Oct 5, 1789

Start of the French Revolution

Oct 4, 1791

Vermont Admitted

Oct 4, 1792

Kentucky Admitted

Sep 15, 1796

Rights of Infants

Oct 4, 1796

Tennessee Admitted

Period: Oct 4, 1797 to Oct 4, 1801

John Adams as President

Oct 5, 1800

Library Of Congress Founded

Oct 5, 1800

Volta Invents the Electric Battery

Period: Oct 4, 1801 to Oct 4, 1809

Thomas Jefferson as President

Oct 4, 1803

Ohio Admitted

Period: Oct 4, 1804 to Oct 4, 1806

Lewis & Clark / Corps of Discovery Expodition

Period: Oct 4, 1809 to Oct 4, 1817

James Madison as President

Oct 4, 1812

Lousiana Admitted

Period: Oct 4, 1812 to Oct 4, 1815

War of 1812

Period: Oct 5, 1814 to Oct 5, 1845

W.M. Harrison / John Tyler as President

Oct 4, 1816

Indiana Admitted

Oct 4, 1817

Mississippi Admitted

Period: Oct 4, 1817 to Oct 4, 1825

James Monroe as President

Oct 4, 1818

Illinois Admitted

Oct 4, 1819

Alabama Admitted

Oct 4, 1820

Maine Admitted

Oct 4, 1821

Missouri Admitted

Period: Oct 5, 1825 to Oct 5, 1829

John Quincy Adams as President

Period: Oct 5, 1829 to Oct 5, 1837

Andrew Jackson as President

Period: Oct 5, 1837 to Oct 5, 1841

Martin Van Buren as President

Period: Oct 5, 1845 to Oct 5, 1849

James Polk as President

Sep 17, 1848

women's Right Movement

Period: Oct 5, 1849 to Oct 5, 1853

Z. Tyler / Millard Fillmore as President

Sep 15, 1853

Children's Aid Society

Sep 15, 1859

Darwin

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865

Civil War

Apr 15, 1865

Lincoln Assasination

Sep 15, 1890

Child Labor Law Committee

Oct 4, 1897

Indian Boarding Schools 1890's to 1920's

Indian Boarding Schools are initiated and work under the principle of "kill the indian and save the man". Assimilation into white culture and the death of indian culture.

Oct 4, 1899

Plage Hits Hawaii

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War I

Oct 29, 1929

Start of The Great Depression

Period: Sep 17, 1936 to Sep 17, 1945

World War II

Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor bomming

May 17, 1954

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Landmark civil rights case that decided that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975