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1489
Leonardo Da Vinci dissects corpses
Vinci dissected corpses and wrote about them in books for the future to learn from. http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus' Arrival
Columbus arrived to the Caribbean and was looking to find gold, conquer land, and find a shorter route to Asia -
Plymouth
Puritans from England traverse the Atlantic Ocean and arrive to Plymouth, Massachusetts to create a new community where they are free to express their own culture and practice their own religion. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/plymouth-colony -
William Harvey publishes book
William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals. http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm -
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses that slaves from the South used to attempt to escape, to the North, slavery. -
Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Treaty of Paris of 1763
This treaty ended the French-Indian war and allowed France to give up all claims to land in the US. -
Declaration of Independence
This is the date that England received the DEclaration of Independence from the colonies. -
Edward Jenner- Vaccination
Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm -
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Louisiana Purchase
President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France for the want of more land and power, to eradicate the threat of the French, and to acquire access to the grand port of New Orleans. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Marking the end of the Mexican-America war, which ended in America's favor, this treaty apportioned the US territory and "distributed" it to Mexico and Texas. Also, Mexico gave up all claims to Texas. https://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm -
Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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The Civil War
The Civil War was fought between the North and South in the United States Union on a number of issues, such as slavery and other political and cultural differences between the two regions. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad was built in order to connect the country and to help businesses grow from local to national, allowing the overall economy of America to develop. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln passed a law that set all slaves, that were in rebellious states, free. -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister develops the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery. http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/10-history-of-medicine-timeline.htm -
Congress passed the 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment allowed African American men to vote (“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”)It was adopted into the Constitution in 1870 -
Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease
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Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph - ECG
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Luistania Sinks
An American passenger ship sinks due to German unrestricted warfare(torpedo "bombings") -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was when African-Americans were being discriminated against in the South migrated to the North in big cities, such as Detroit and Chicago, and found cities where they felt comfortable and were treated decently. -
First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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Immigration Act of 1924
This was an act that limited the number of immigrants that entered the United States through National Origins Quotas. The reason for this act was that the native-born Americans feared that the immigrants, especially the Chinese, were taking away the good-paying jobs and that they should be limited. -
First vaccine developed for influenza
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was when European powers came together post World War II to discuss ways to finally defeat Nazi Germany -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
The US dropped their newly made weapon on Japan in order to finally end their war with them -
John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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First vaccine developed for rubella
