Modern Time

  • Baptist Church Was Created

    Founded by John Smyth
  • Plymouth Plantation

    English separatists, known as Pilgrims left England to come to the colonies to escape persecution from religious authorities. Pilgrims wanted to practice their own religion so they came to the 13 colonies. (religious event)
  • American Revolution

    War between the 13 colonies and Great Britain. The colonies wanted to be free from Great Britain and start it's own nation. Ended Sep. 3 1783
  • Declaration of Independence

    The document that stated that the 13 colonies (or sovereign states as they called themselves) were to be free from the king of Great Britain.
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    French Revolution

    The French Revolution was fought between the lower classes of people in France and royalty. The people defeated King Louis XVI and they executed him. The idea of revolution came from the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Great Awakening

    It was a Protestant revival movement. Teachings of Christianity were everywhere. (religious event)
  • Great Britain and Ireland become the United Kingdom

    Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom. It later separated into two kingdoms, Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland on April 12, 1927.
  • Louisiana Purchase, US purchased France's North America Colonies

    It was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    UK defeated French and Spanish fleets and dominated the seas. This battle was off of coast of Spain. One of the most decisive battles in history
  • First Steamboat

    Invented by Robert Fulton. It was named Clermont.
  • Edgar Allan Poe birthday

    Famous poet
  • Birth of Abraham Lincoln

    16th Us President
  • Birthday of Charles Darwin

    Creator of evolution of theory
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    War of 1812

    War fought between The United States of America and Great Britain and it's Native American allies. It ended February 18, 1815
  • End of Napoleonic Era

    Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by Duke of Wellington in Waterloo, Belgium in an invasion. He was exiled in St. Helena off the coast of Africa.
  • Discovery of Antartica

    Antartica was discovered. It was discovered by William Smith and James Bransfield during an expedition.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that made an imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory, making a boundary between free and slave regions. This was done to bring peace within the Union
  • Mexico becomes a country

    After 11 years of the Mexican War of Independence, Spain grants Mexico its independence
  • American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded

    the goal of the organization was to promote temperance ( drinking in moderation) while letting drunkards “die off and rid the world of ‘an amazing evil.’ (religious event)
  • Joseph Smith establishes Mormon Church

    religious event
  • Nat Turner's Rebllion

    Rebellion by Nat Turner and other slaves against the slave owners in the US. It took place in Virginia and the rebels killed about 65 people.
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    Mexican-American War

    War fought between Mexico and the United States. The United States gained more land in the southwest when the country won the war
  • Pope Pius Becoming Pope

    Became pope in 1846 and ended reign in 1878. He is known for creating the dogma for Immaculate Conception of Mary and the Papal Infallibility.
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    Crimean War

    War fought between Russia and British, French, and Ottoman Turkish.
  • Dogma of Immaculate Conception

    Document that stated all to all Catholics that Mary is pure of sin and that this should be believed.
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    American Civil War

    War between the Union and the Confederacy(rebelling states) of the United States of America.
  • Emancipation of Proclomation

    Document written by Abraham Lincoln that declared that all slaves should be free in the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
  • First Vatican Council

    Council held by Pope Pius to refute various ideas associated with liberialism and materialism
  • First Transcontinental Railroad completed in US

  • Papal of Infallibilty

    Document that stated that Pope is preserved from error
  • First telephone

    Alexander Bell Graham is said to have invented the first telephone in the world
  • Albert Einstein birthday

    Theoretical Physicist, created theory of relativity one of the two pillars in modern physics
  • Neitzsche Declares That God is Dead

    Nietzsche, a German philospher stated in many of his works that God has died and that there is no point in following Christian morals. This caused some uprisings by people. (religious event)
  • The Five Fundamentals

    The five fundamental truths of Christian faith were created. 1. The inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture
    2. The deity of Jesus Christ
    3. The virgin birth of Christ
    4. The substitutionary, atoning work of Christ on the cross
    5. The physical resurrection and the personal bodily return of Christ to the earth.
  • Olympic Games revived in Greece

  • San Francisco Earthquake

  • Death of Harriet Tubman

    Abolitionist. Helped 300 slaves escape from the South
  • World War I

    ended in 1918
  • 19th Amendment

    Gives women the right to vote
  • Hitler Becomes Germany's Leader

  • End of World War 2

  • Korean War

    Ended on July 27, 1953. War between North Korea and South Korea
  • Cameroon Gains Independence

    Cameroon gains independence from France.
  • 26th Amendment

    Changed voting age from 26 to 18
  • Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

    On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John Hinckley Jr. tried to kill President Ronald Reagan just outside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
  • Bill Clinton Becomes President

    from 1993-2001
  • 9/11

    Terrorist attack on Twin Towers; killed 3,000 people
  • Baltimore Riots

    Riots begin in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, a black man, in police custody.