Glorious Moments And Unforgettable Times By facebooker_1781386202172237 2330 BCE Sargon Becomes World's First Leader (Akkadians) 1792 BCE Code of Hammurabi (1st Code of Laws - Babylonia) 450 BCE Democracy Established in Ancient Greece (Pericles) 44 BCE Julius Caesar Becomes Dictator of Rome 27 BCE Augustus Caesar Becomes First Emperor of Rome Jun 15, 1215 Magna Carta Aug 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus Reaches America Sep 8, 1565 1st American Colony in St. Augustine, Florida (Spanish) Jul 7, 1585 Formation of Roanoke Island May 14, 1607 1st British Colony (Virginia) Dec 21, 1620 Formation of Plymouth Rock Jun 7, 1628 Petition of Rights Dec 16, 1689 English Bill of Rights (Glorious Revolution) Feb 12, 1733 13th British Colony (Georgia) Jul 10, 1754 Albany Plan of Union (Benjamin Franklin) May 15, 1756 French and Indian War Begins Feb 10, 1763 French and Indian War Ends Mar 22, 1765 Stamp Act (Tax on Printed Materials) Mar 5, 1770 Boston Massacre Propaganda Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party Jun 14, 1774 1st American Army Established Sep 5, 1774 1st Continental Congress (George Washington Named Confederate Army General) Apr 19, 1775 American Revolution Begins (Lexington/Concord, Massachusetts) May 5, 1775 2nd Continental Congress (1st American government - John Hancock president) Oct 13, 1775 Naval Department Established by the Second Continental Army Nov 10, 1775 U.S. Marine Corps Established Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson - Father) Oct 19, 1781 American Revolution Informal End (Cornwallis Surrenders at Yorktown) Sep 3, 1783 Revolutionary War Official Ending (Treaty of Paris) Aug 29, 1786 Shay's Rebellion (Daniel Shay, Massachusetts) Oct 18, 1787 Anti-Federalist Papers Oct 27, 1787 Federalist Papers Jul 26, 1788 New York Ratifies the Constitution Feb 4, 1789 George Washington Elected First president (VP John Adams) May 29, 1790 Rhode Island Ratifies the Constitution Dec 15, 1791 Bill of Rights (James Madison, 1st 10 Amendments) Feb 17, 1801 Election of Thomas Jefferson; Democratic Domination Begins Feb 24, 1803 Marbury vs. Madison (Government Limitations) Dec 20, 1803 Louisiana Purchase (Thomas Jefferson - France) Jun 18, 1812 War of 1812 (War with Great Britain, Part 2) Sep 13, 1814 Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key) May 28, 1830 Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears – Andrew Jackson) Nov 24, 1835 Formation of Texas Rangers (First Organized Law Enforcement) Nov 6, 1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln (First Republican) Apr 12, 1861 Civil War Begins (North vs. South) Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation (Abraham Lincoln) Jun 20, 1863 West Virginia Admitted into the Union (Result of the Civil War) Apr 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe May 9, 1865 Civil War Ends Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment (Abolition of Slavery) Dec 24, 1865 Ku Klux Klan Formed Jul 9, 1868 14th Amendment (Citizenship to All Individuals) Feb 3, 1870 15th Amendment (No Discrimination in Voting) Feb 4, 1877 Jim Crow Law Enacted Sep 8, 1892 Pledge Allegiance (Francis Bellamy) May 18, 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson (Civil Rights) Apr 25, 1898 The Spanish American War (U.S. – Spain – Cuba) Sep 6, 1899 Open Door Policy (China) Nov 18, 1903 Panama Canal (Central America Trade Route) Jul 26, 1908 FBI Established Apr 15, 1912 Titanic Sinks in Newfoundland Aug 7, 1912 Bull Moose Party - Theodore Roosevelt Feb 3, 1913 16th Amendment: Income Tax Jun 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand Assassinated (WWI Begins in Europe) May 18, 1917 Selective Service Established the Draft; the U.S. Enters WWI Nov 11, 1918 Germany Surrenders (Armistice - WWI Ends) Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Signed (Official End of WWI) Aug 8, 1920 19th Amendment: Women's Suffrage Oct 29, 1929 Great Depression Begins (Stock Market Crashes) Nov 8, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President Sep 1, 1939 WWII Begins (Europe) Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act (FDR - Foreign Aid) Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor (U.S. Enters WWII) Jun 14, 1943 West Virginia BOE vs. Barnette (Pledge of Allegiance) Apr 12, 1945 Death of Franklin Roosevelt Aug 9, 1945 Atomic Weapons on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Japan (Truman) Sep 2, 1945 WWII Ends (V-R Day / V-J Day) Oct 24, 1945 Establishment of the United Nations Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine (Act of Containment/ Communism) Apr 16, 1947 Cold War Begins Sep 18, 1947 CIA Established Sep 18, 1947 Creation of the Air Force Jun 3, 1948 Marshall Plan (Foreign Aid) Apr 4, 1949 Establishment of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Aug 10, 1949 Defense Department Established Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins Feb 27, 1951 22nd Amendment (Limit on Presidential Terms) Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Ends May 17, 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education (Civil Rights) May 17, 1954 Jim Crow Law Terminated Dec 5, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks) Jun 29, 1956 Interstate Highway System Created (Dwight Eisenhower) Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launched (Russian Satellite) Jul 29, 1958 Creation of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Jan 3, 1959 Alaska Admitted Into the Union Aug 21, 1959 Hawaii Admitted Into a Union May 4, 1961 Freedom Riders (Segregation Protest) Jun 19, 1961 Mapp vs. Ohio (4th Amendment) Jun 25, 1962 Engel vs. Vitale (1st Amendment) Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Mar 18, 1963 Gideon vs. Wainright (Criminal Rights) Aug 28, 1963 MLK March on Washington Speech Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assassination (Lee Harvey Oswald) May 23, 1964 24th Amendment (No Discrimination in Voting) Mar 8, 1965 Vietnam War Begins Jun 13, 1966 Miranda vs. Arizona (Criminal Rights) Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assassination (James Earl Ray) Jun 5, 1968 Robert Kennedy Assassination (Sirhan Sirhan) Feb 24, 1969 Tinker vs. Des Moines School District (1st Amendment) Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin Become First Human Beings to Walk on the Moon Jul 1, 1971 26th Amendment (Voting 21-18) Jan 22, 1973 Roe vs. Wade (Abortion) Aug 15, 1973 Vietnam War Ends Jun 28, 1978 University of California vs. Bakke (Reverse Discrimination) Jan 15, 1985 New Jersey vs. T.L.O. (4th Amendment) Jun 18, 1990 United States vs. Eichman (Flag Burning) Aug 2, 1990 Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm) Apr 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Terrorist Bombing Apr 20, 1999 Columbine Shooting Jan 12, 2000 Illinois vs. Wardlow (Criminal Rights) Nov 8, 2000 Bush vs. Gore (Electoral College) Sep 17, 2001 Twin Towers Terrorist Attack (New York City) Oct 7, 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom (Response to September 11, 2001) Nov 25, 2002 Department of Homeland Security Established Mar 19, 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom (Securing the Middle East) Dec 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein Execution Apr 16, 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting Nov 5, 2009 Fort Hood Shooting Mar 19, 2011 Operation Odyssey Dawn (Overthrown Dictatorship in Libya) May 2, 2011 Assassination of Osama Bin Laden Dec 14, 2012 Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Jun 20, 2013 West Virginia Celebrates 150th Anniversary (Statehood) Aug 26, 2015 WDBJ 7 Shooting (Roanoke, VA) Nov 8, 2016 Jim Justice Elected 36th West Virginia Governor Nov 8, 2016 Donald Trump Elected 45th United States President
