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1440
Invention of the Printing Press
Knowledge is power and the printing press allowed knowledge to be passed on faster than any point before this -
1482
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista with a war against the Emirate of Granada that started in 1482 and ended with Granada's surrender in 1492 -
1492
Christopher Columbus discovers America
Columbus while sailing for an alternative to the silk road accidentally discovers America. who knew messing up could be that impactful -
The Great Epidemic
Colonists coming to the Americas brought over smallpox and infected many Native Americans -
Slavery begins
First slaves arrive in Virginia. They had deals to work for a certain time period and be rewarded with land -
Freedom of worship
Roger Williams founded Providence -
Immigration
The Dutch West India Company announces that Jews were permitted to emigrate to and live in New Amsterdam -
King Phillips War
The Native Americans last effort to stop English settlement on their lands -
Freedom of the press
Protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment -
The American Revolution
13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America -
The Boston tea party
The political protest against the cruel British taxes -
Declaring Independence
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain on this day -
The Battle of Saratoga
The crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
British acknowledged the sovereignty of the American colonies -
Shays’ Rebellion
An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis -
The Industrial Revolution
The transitions to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States -
The Election of 1800
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election -
Marbury v. Madison
a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and some government actions that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States. -
Transportation Revolution
The expansion of internal American trade greatly increased with the adoption of canals, steamboats, and railroads. -
Expanding Suffrage
In the early nineteenth century, political participation rose as states extended voting rights to all adult white men. -
The Second Great Awakening
A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The Second Great Awakening, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements -
Abolition
The movement to end slavery. -
The Communication Revolution
During the 19th century, communication changed from what was available at America's founding. From a society that communicated through voice, art, and the written word the country added a federal postal service, telegraphs, photographs, and telephones. -
Baseball
The first recorded Baseball game in Hoboken, New Jersey by fourteen members of the New York Knickerbockers Club -
The Mexican War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México, was a conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It was a war over the border of Texas and Mexico -
The Homestead Act
provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
The Battle of Antietam
Battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac -
The 14th Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
The Tet Offensive
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
The National Parks
The United States Congress established Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and on March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. -
Ending Reconstruction
The ending of an advancement of civil rights. -
Custer
George Armstrong Custer dies. -
Haymarket
The Haymarket massacre was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
War with Spain
Was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. reasons being "America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor" -
Spanish-American war
An armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
The Great Migration
Was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West. -
Theodore Roosevelt
An American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
The Second Transportation Revolution
Involved the development of the automobile. Europe was the hearth for the first automobiles which were powered by steam and could reach speeds as high as 15 miles per hour -
Hookworm
The Hookworm disease lasted from 1909-1914 and infect 40% of the population at one point. -
The 19th Amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex -
The Year of Upheaval
A massive wave of labor strikes mobilized a quarter of all American workers, but along with a wave of anarchist bombings, the strikes also generated an anti-leftist backlash that changed the trajectory of labor relations in the twenties -
The New Deal
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939 -
The Manhattan Project
A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada -
The Battle of Midway
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
Suburbanization
This happened after WW2 and mass migration happened because people wanted to live outside of cities due to war and bombings -
The Berlin Airlift and the Cold War
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–WWII Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
The Birth of Television
The number of households that adopted TV's took a sudden rise and soon 44 million Americans would own one compared to a million before this spike. -
The Pill
FDA approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control pill. -
Civil Rights
MLK and his "I have a dream speech" occurred. "1963 is not an end, but a beginning". This would the beginning of the end of legal segregation. -
The Birth of Environmentalism
The birth of modern-day environmentalism as we know it (The concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment) -
Watergate
A major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 led to Nixon's resignation. (Frank Wills, a security guard, discovered clues that former FBI and CIA agents broke into offices of the Democrats and George McGovern months before election. These people listened to phone lines and secret papers stolen. When found, it turned out that Nixon was involved and he had helped them cover it all up and might have even hired the men) -
The Personal Computer
The Altair 8800 was introduced in a Popular Electronics magazine article. This was considered the first real personal computer and would spark the market for them. -
The End of the Cold War
The last war of Soviet occupation ended in Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, and a series of mostly peaceful revolutions swept the Soviet Bloc states of eastern Europe in 1989 -
9/11
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
Space X
Space X is founded by Elon musk. The man you can only either hate or love. Space X has made significant leaps in space exploration since. -
2008
Barack Obama is elected as president of the United States. He would go on to be elected again in 2012. And be the first African American president -
2011
The world population reaches 7 billion -
Steve Jobs
An American businessman who founded Apple Inc. Ultimately starting a race involving technology. He died October 5, 2011 -
2016
Trump is elected. -
Australian Bushfires
From December 2019 into the new year, the Australian bushfires burned a record 47 million acres, displaced thousands of people and animals, and killed at least 34 people. -
COVID-19
The global pandemic cause that no one suspected. COVID-19 has killed millions and seemingly can mutate which makes it difficult to defeat. although there are multiple vaccines, immunity is not guaranteed. -
Black lives matter of 2020
Millions across the world are fed up with the treatment of people of color leading to peaceful protests, riots, murders, and broken souls. -
Qasem Soleimani
Thought to be the second most powerful person in Iran, a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport in early January killed the powerful General In response, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at military bases in Iraq, injuring U.S. service members, and mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger airplane killing all 176 people aboard. -
Kobe Bryant
An American professional basketball player known world wide died during a helicopter crash, the crash not only took him but also his daughter and 8 others -
Ahmaud Arbery
Was shot and killed by a white father and son while jogging in Georgia, the two men are arrested 2½ months later and charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. Cant even jog anymore. -
Beirut explosion
A massive explosion at a Beirut port on August 4th sparked by the accidental detonation of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, killed at least 190 people and injured thousands of others. -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Supreme Court Justice and advocate for gender equality died Sept. 18 at the age of 87. She was the second-ever woman appointed to the high court. -
2020 election
This controversial election sparked more problems than it solved. Joe Biden takes the role of Donald Trump in the presidential office after a heated and immature election. -
Alex Trebek
Jeopardy host Alex Trebek died Nov. 8 following his battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer -
Stop Asian Hate
This is the name of several anti-Asian-violence rallies which have been held across the United States in 2021 in response to racism against Asian Americans. Having the audacity to be so stupid that you believe Asians always have COVID-19 is both hilarious and disappointing. Seek the help you need.
