Cultural Literacy Timeline By Rueckertr5144 Jun 15, 1215 Magna Carta Jan 1, 1453 Mehmed 2 takes Constantinople Jan 1, 1492 Columbus discover the Americans Jan 1, 1620 Laning of the Mayflower Dec 16, 1689 English bill of rights is signed Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of independence for the United States is signed Sep 17, 1787 ratification of the US COnstitution Jan 1, 1789 Start of French Revolution May 18, 1804 Napleon Declared Emperor Jun 18, 1815 Battle of Waterloo Apr 12, 1861 Start of the US civil war May 9, 1865 End of the Civil War Dec 17, 1903 Man's first powered flight Oct 1, 1908 Car is invented Jan 1, 1911 China: Republican Revolution Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archdicle Franz Apr 6, 1917 US enters World War 1 Nov 7, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution Nov 11, 1918 Armistice Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders Aug 8, 1945 first bombs are dropped Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders Mar 5, 1946 Churchill delivers :iron Curain" speech Jun 24, 1948 Berlin arilift May 1, 1950 communist take over China Jun 25, 1950 korean war starts Jul 27, 1953 Korean war ends Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam war starts Jan 1, 1961 Berlin Wall constructed Jul 26, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy assassinated Jan 30, 1968 the Tet offensive Jul 20, 1969 man first walks on the moon Aug 1, 1969 Woodstock Jan 1, 1972 watergate scandal Apr 30, 1975 Last American leaves Vietnam Dec 1, 1988 USSR ends Jan 1, 1989 Tiananmen square protest Jan 1, 1990 Re-unification of Germany Feb 11, 1990 End of Apartheid and Neson Mandela's RElease Sep 11, 2001 September 11th terrorist attack
