Important Dates in U.S. History

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  • Regulating Waste Disposal

    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War

    Colonists leave England to create a new country

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes his first book

    Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle between the Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, PA during the civil war

  • Ecology

    The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • Acid Rain

    The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined

    The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution.
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    The first World War that started after the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand.

  • National Park service

    US Congress created the National Park Service
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression started after the stock market crashed in 1929. The depression lasted until 1933
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    World War 2 started after Germany invaded Poland. The war ended in 1945.
  • Civil rights Movement

    Civil rights Movement

    The civil rights movement started when black people started fighting for the same rights that white people had at the time.

  • Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson published Silent Spring
  • JFK Assasination

    JFK Assasination

    President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding a motorcade in downtown Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald

  • Earthrise

    Apollo 8 pictures Earthrise`
  • The Moon Landing

    The Moon Landing

    This was the first time at any human as been to the moon and to step foot on the moon.

  • First Earth Day

    The first Earth day was on April 22, 1970. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency was established.

  • Depleted Ozone Layer

    Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer into forces.

  • The Kyoto Protocol

    The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in december. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide.

  • Kyoto Protocol is rejected

    The United States rejects the Kyoto Protocol.
  • September 11,2001

    September 11,2001

    2 terrorist hijacked american planes and flew them into the North and South world trade towers.
  • First African American President in America

    First African American President in America

    Barack Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States

  • Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

    The United States announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. rejoins the Paris Agreement

    The United States announces that it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation