Important dates in U. S. history

By James Lucas

  • The American Revolution.

    ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America

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

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental
  • Constitution of the United States of America

    Constitution of the United States of America

    it delineates the national frame and constraints of government.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi in Middle America.

  • The War of 1812

    the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America

  • Battle of New Orleans

    the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.

  • Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere.

  • Era of the Common Man

    Andrew Jackson, despite his high office, became emblematic of the common man because he came from humble beginnings.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

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

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

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

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

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

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • The Moon Landing

    The Moon Landing

    A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.

  • 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 on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

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

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