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First colony founded in the New World
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On this date the Mayflower lands in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with 101 colonists
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Mayflower Compact signed by 41 men. The compact established a local form of government.
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John Winthrop leads a puritan migration of 900 colonists to Massachusetts Bay.
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Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island. Williams had been banished from Massachusetts for "new and dangerous opinions" calling for religious and political freedoms, including separation of church and state, not granted under the Puritan rules.
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French establish a settlement in Detroit
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Tea is first introduced to the colonies
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The population of black slaves reaches 75,000
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Benjamin Franklin publishes The Pennsylvania Gazette which becomes most popular in the colonies
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Benjamin Franklin founds the first public library in Philadelphia
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Iron Act is passed limiting the production of American iron industries so English industries can proper
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Banned issue of paper money in the New England colonies
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The start of the French and Indian War
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King George III of England signed this to move settlements west of the Appalachians to ease tensions with the Native Americans
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The Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament imposing the first direct tax on the American colonies, to offset the high costs of the British military organization in America.
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This act requires colonists to house British troops.
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A mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as Hutchinson and his family narrowly escape
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The Boston Massacre occurs as a mob harasses British soldiers who then fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three instantly, mortally wounding two others and injuring six.
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Adams is inagurated as President and Jefferson is inagurated as Vice President
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The U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
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Jefferson purchases the Louisiana Territory from France
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Jefferson nominates James Monroe and William Pinckney as joint commissioners to Great Britain
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James Maddison is elected to President of the U.S.
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32-month military conflict
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The British burn the Capital in Washington
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Alabama is admitted as a slave state
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This admits Missouri as a slave state
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Slavery is made illegal in New York
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Andrew Jackson is elected as President
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The Underground Railroad is established
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Texas declares its independence from Mexico
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The Depression begins with "The Panic of 1837"
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Santa Anna Presidency is overthrown in Mexico
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The U.S. declares war with Mexico
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Peace Treaty between Mexican Republic and The U.S.
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America and Mexico the Gadsden Treaty
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Makes a process that allows the mass production of steel
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Theodore Roosevelt is born
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Lincoln is inagurated as President
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Lincol shot in theather and dies the next day
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The remaining confederate troops surrender
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KKK members are tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi
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"Jim Crow" laws are enacted in Tenessee
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The Civil Rights Act is passed
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The Tuskegee institute was founded by Booker T. Washington
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The Brooklyn Bridge is opened to the public
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The leader of the Nazi's is born this day
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Johnstown floods and kills an estimated 5,000 people
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Washington is Admitted as a state
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Two hundred Sioux are killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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Hawaii becomes U.S. protectorate even against President Cleveland's opposition after Queen Liliuokalani's government is overthrown
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World's Columbian Exhibition opens in Chicago and is nicknamed the "White City" for its lights and architecture
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The first use of X-rays to cure breast cancer
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Assisstant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt sends the Pacific fleet to the Philippines
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President McKinley was assasinated this day
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The first state-issued license plates were issued in Massachusetts, beginning in 1903. The very first plate, featuring the number "1," was issued to Frederick Tudor
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The Wright Brothers made the first flight at Kitty Hawk
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A large earthquake hit San Francisco. Even greater than the damage caused directly by the earthquake, the city was ravaged by fire for four days.
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The SOS signal becomes the universal distress symbol.
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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, was stolen right off the wall of the Louvre
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The first Oreo cookie looked very similar to the Oreo cookie of today, with only a slight difference in the design on the chocolate disks
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The Titanic or "Unsinkable Ship" sinks after hitting an iceburg
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World War 1 begins with the assasination of Austia's Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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The Russian Revolution starts with International Woman's Day when woman entered the streets to protest
