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Important dates in U.S. history

By whitneylavo

  • regulate waste disposal and water pollution

    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The declaration explains why the 13 colonies at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 independent states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence?scrlybrkr=87012e41
  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    The Whiskey Rebellion

    It was a violent tax protest in the U.S. beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington, untimely under the command of American revolutionary War veteran major James McFarlane.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    the purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the US from Napoleonic France in 1803.
  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    Fought on January 8, 1815 between the British army under major general sir Edward Pakenham and the US army under brevet major general Andrew Jackson.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    a principle of US policy, originated by president James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americans is potentially hostile act against the US.

  • publishing of Walden

    Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg

    This battle was fought July 1-3, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania by union confederate forces during the American Civil War.

  • the term ecology

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

  • The term acid rain is coined

    The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
  • The Battle of the Little Bighorn

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn

    This battle was known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custers Last Stand.

  • 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
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    The RMS Lusitania was a UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial Germany Navy U-boat during the first World War on May 7, 1915, 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland

  • National park service

    US Congress created the National Park Service

  • publishing of silent spring

    Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • Earthrise picture

    The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    He was an American baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the Civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

  • First earth day

    First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • Montreal Protocol

    Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • 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

  • Us rejection of Kyoto protocol

    U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol
  • 9/11 attacks

    9/11 attacks

    A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant islamist terrorist group al-qaeda against the U.S. on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

  • US announcement of ceasing participation to Paris agreement

    U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • US rejoins the Paris agreement

    U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation