Historical Time Line, By Mel

Columbus arrives in South America

Aug 3, 1492

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-lands-in-south-america#:~:text=On%20August%203%2C%201492%2C%20Columbus,day%2C%20claiming%20it%20for%20Spain.

Plague outbreak

1708

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

George Washington dies

Dec 14, 1799

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-mysterious-death-of-george-washington/

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

Apr 16, 1865

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/abraham-lincoln-assassination

The Spanish American war begins

Apr 21, 1898

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/spanish-american-war

United States is attacked in the Philippines

Feb 4, 1899

https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/united-statesphilippines-1898-1946/

William McKinley’s Second Election to the Presidency

Nov 6, 1900

https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2020/11/william-mckinley-wins-second-presidential-election/

William McKinley assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz

Sep 6, 1901

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-william-mckinley-is-shot

United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone Treaty

Nov 18, 1903

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/panama-canal#:~:text=President%20Theodore%20Roosevelt%20therefore%20supported,that%20stretched%20across%20the%20isthmus.

Theodore Roosevelt’s Election as President of the United States

Nov 8, 1904

https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1904

Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established

Jul 26, 1908

https://www.fbi.gov/history/history-publications-reports/the-birth-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation

William Howard Taft Elected President of the United States

1912

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/william-howard-taft

The Titanic sinks

Apr 14, 1912

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/titanic-sinks

Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

Apr 8, 1913

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=58

Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Jun 28, 1914

https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand

World War I Begins

Jul 28, 1914

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history#:~:text=World%20War%20I%20Begins,-Convinced%20that%20Austria&text=On%20July%2028%2C%20Austria%2DHungary,World%20War%20I%20had%20begun.

Panama Canal opens to Traffic

Aug 15, 1914

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-canal-open-to-traffic#:~:text=On%20August%2015%2C%201914%2C%20the,the%20end%20of%20the%20century.

First Long Distance Telephone Service between New York and San Francisco

Jan 25, 1915

https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/this-day-in-history-january-25-1915/

Sinking of the Lusitania

May 7, 1915

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/lusitania

Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1916

https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/RANKIN,-Jeannette-(R000055)/

Woodrow Wilson elected President

Nov 7, 1916

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/

Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth

1917

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/03/100-years-of-puerto-rico-puerto-rico-becomes-a-u-s-territory/

United States Entry into World War I

Apr 2, 1917

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/wwi#:~:text=NOTE%20TO%20READERS-,U.S.%20Entry%20into%20World%20War%20I%2C%201917,declaration%20of%20war%20against%20Germany.

Worldwide Spanish flu epidemic strikes (20 million dead worldwide and 500,000 in the US)

1918

Armistice Ended World War I

Nov 11, 1918

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-armistice-germany-allies#:~:text=The%20German%20delegation%2C%20at%20left,on%20November%2011%2C%201918.%20.

Charles Lindbergh first nonstop transatlantic flight, Spirit of the St. Louis

1919

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lindbergh-lands-in-paris#:~:text=Lindbergh%20lands%20at%20Le%20Bourget,33%201%2F2%20hours%20before.

Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

Jan 16, 1919

https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/18th-and-21st-amendments#:~:text=On%20January%2016%2C%201919%2C%20the,into%20effect%20the%20following%20January.

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919

http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/treaty-versailles-1919#:~:text=Almost%20half%20a%20century%20after,First%20World%20War%20was%20over.

League of Nations joining of the US is denied in the US Senate

Nov 19, 1919

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/senate-rejects-league-of-nations-nov-19-1919-113006

Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

Aug 18, 1920

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment-1

President Harding dies

Aug 2, 1923

https://www.history.com/news/the-unexpected-death-of-president-harding

President Calvin Coolidge becomes President

Aug 2, 1923

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/calvin-coolidge

Herbert Hoover elected President

1928

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/herbert-hoover/

Stock market Crash of 1929 marks the beginning of the Great Depression

1929

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes#:~:text=Stock%20prices%20began%20to%20decline,October%2018%20the%20fall%20began.&text=The%20stock%20market%20crash%20of,it%20was%20also%20a%20symptom.

Al Capone is convicted on Tax Evasion

Jun 16, 1931

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/10/17/al-capone-sentenced-to-prison-for-tax-evasion-on-this-day-in-1931/?sh=26c5fcd67c4c

Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the United States

1933

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/

Hitler comes to power in Germany

1933

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hitler-comes-to-power

First New Deal Programs enacted by FDR

Mar 3, 1933

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal

Civilian Conservation Corps Begins

Mar 31, 1933

https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/civilian-conservation-corps.htm#:~:text=The%20Civilian%20Conservation%20Corps%20(CCC,about%203%20million%20men%20nationwide.

Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

Dec 5, 1933

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xxi/interps/151

John Dillenger’s Shootout at Little Bohemia

Apr 23, 1934

http://littlebohemialodge.com/index.php/history

Bonnie and Clyde are Killed

May 23, 1934

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde#:~:text=Clyde%20Champion%20Barrow%20and%20his,seen%20up%20to%20that%20time.

Works Progress Administration begins

Apr 8, 1935

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-08/#:~:text=Created%20by%20President%20Franklin%20Roosevelt,it%20was%20disbanded%20in%201943.

Fair Labor Standards Act is passed

1938

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa

Kristallnacht in Germany

Nov 9, 1938

https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/kristallnacht

WWII begins with Germany’s Invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland#:~:text=On%20September%201%2C%201939%2C%20German,World%20War%20II%20had%20begun.

U.S. declares neutrality at the beginning of WWII

Sep 5, 1939

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/09/05/On-This-Day-FDR-declares-US-neutrality-in-WWII/5071567463567/

Tripartite pact is signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Sep 27, 1940

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tripartite-Pact

United States entry into WWII

1941

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/world-war-2.cfm#:~:text=Although%20the%20war%20began%20with,%2C%20on%20December%207%2C%201941.&text=The%20war%20ended%20with%20the%20Axis%20powers'%20unconditional%20surrender%20in%201945.

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor

D-Day Invasion by American, British, and Canadian Troops

Jun 6, 1944

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day#:~:text=Codenamed%20Operation%20Overlord%2C%20the%20battle,coast%20of%20France's%20Normandy%20region.

Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Yalta

1945

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference#:~:text=The%20Yalta%20Conference%20was%20a,coast%20of%20the%20Crimean%20Peninsula.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman succeeded him as President

Apr 12, 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-dies

Victory in Europe Day

May 8, 1945

https://www.defense.gov/Experience/VE-Day/#:~:text=On%20May%208%2C%201945%20%2D%20known,%2C%20on%20June%206%2C%201944.

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-nagasaki

Victory over Japan Day (End of WWII)

Aug 14, 1945

https://www.defense.gov/Experience/VJ-Day/#:~:text=Victory%20Over%20Japan%20Day%20End%20of%20WWII&text=Truman%20announced%20on%20Aug.,the%20world%20erupted%20in%20celebration.

Unconditional surrender of Japan

Aug 15, 1946

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders

Cold War is termed and begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

1947

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history

Presidential Succession Act signed by President Truman

Jul 18, 1947

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Presidential_Succession_Act.htm

Korean War begins

Jun 25, 1950

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/korean-war-begins

Twenty Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

Feb 27, 1951

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Twenty-second-Amendment#:~:text=Twenty%2Dsecond%20Amendment%2C%20amendment%20(,the%20United%20States%20may%20serve.&text=It%20was%20formally%20proposed%20by,27%2C%201951.

President Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur as head of the Far East Command

Apr 11, 1951

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-relieves-macarthur-of-duties-in-korea

US detonates its first hydrogen bomb

Nov 1, 1952

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-announces-development-of-h-bomb#:~:text=On%20November%201%2C%201952%2C%20the,in%20the%20Pacific%20Marshall%20Islands.

President Eisenhower elected President

Nov 4, 1952

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower/

Korean War ends in an Armistice

Jul 27, 1953

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=85#:~:text=This%20armistice%20signed%20on%20July,ended%20on%20July%2027%2C%201953.

Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin accuses people of Communist activities and hearings begin

1954

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/joseph-mccarthy

Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision ended segregation

May 17, 1954

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka#:~:text=Sources-,Brown%20v.,in%20public%20schools%20was%20unconstitutional.

Russia detonates its first hydrogen bomb

Nov 22, 1955

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb

Rosa Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama

Dec 1, 1955

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

Martin Luther King, Jr and others set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Jan 10, 1957

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/sclc.htm#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20Jr.%2C,protest%20activities%20across%20the%20South.

President John F. Kennedy is Elected President

Nov 8, 1960

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-elected-president

Bay of Pigs in Cuba

1961

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion

Berlin wall is built in Germany

Aug 13, 1961

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated

Civil Rights Act signed

Jun 2, 1964

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/07/02/day-history-president-lyndon-b-johnson-signed-civil-rights-act-1964#:~:text=Civil%20Rights%20Act-,On%20June%202%2C%201964%2C%20President%20Lyndon%20B.,civil%20rights%20legislation%20since%20Reconstruction.&text=Kennedy%20decided%20it%20was%20time,civil%20rights%20legislation%20to%20date.

March at Selma, Alabama

Mar 7, 1965

https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement

Voting Rights Act signed

Aug 6, 1965

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100#:~:text=This%20act%20was%20signed%20into,as%20a%20prerequisite%20to%20voting.

Edward W. Brooke becomes first African American U.S. Senator

1966

https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9905

Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination

Richard Nixon Elected President

Jan 20, 1969

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/richard-nixon-elected-president

The first landing on the moon

Jul 20, 1969

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html

Watergate investigation begins

Jun 17, 1972

https://www.history.com/topics/1970s/watergate

House recommends impeachment of Nixon

Jul 27, 1974

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/house-begins-impeachment-of-nixon

Nixon resigns as President

Aug 8, 1974

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-resigns

Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States

1977

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-carter/

The Islamic revolution

1978

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

Ronald Reagan elected president of the United States

1981

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/ronald-reagan/

Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court Justice

Sep 25, 1981

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oconnor-nominated-to-supreme-court#:~:text=Nevertheless%2C%20at%20the%20end%20of,justice%E2%80%94in%20Supreme%20Court%20history.

Chernobyl disaster

Apr 26, 1986

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx

Berlin Wall torn down

Nov 9, 1989

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048

Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War)

Aug 2, 1990

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/operation-desert-storm-25-years-since-the-first-gulf-war/424191/

Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait

Aug 2, 1990

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iraq-invades-kuwait#:~:text=On%20August%202%2C%201990%2C%20at,tiny%2C%20oil%2Drich%20neighbor.&text=Iraqi%20dictator%20Saddam%20Hussein%2C%20meanwhile,Kuwait%20to%20about%20300%2C000%20troops.

U.S.S.R. collapses and Communism comes to an end

1991

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union

Terror of 9/11

Sep 11, 2001

https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/world-trade-center-history

Obama elected

Nov 4, 2008

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/barack-obama-elected-president-video

Boston marathon bombing

Apr 15, 2013

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/boston-marathon-bombings

Trump is impeached

Dec 18, 2019

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-trump-impeached-house-of-representatives

George Floyd is murdered

May 25, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html

Joe Biden elected as potus

Nov 7, 2020

https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/joe-biden