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Magna Carta was issued in 1215 and was the first document to put into writing that the king and his government was not above the law. -
Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, sparking European exploration. -
The Founding of Jamestown in 1607 was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Established in Virginia by the Virginia Company, it faced early challenges like disease, famine, and conflict with Native Americans. -
The U.S. doubled its size by buying land from France. -
Sparked mass migration and economic growth in the U.S. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist group, the Black Hand. Thus sparking World War I. -
Contributed to the U.S. entering WWI. -
This event triggered the Great Depression. This day also became known as "Black Tuesday". -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor happened when the Japanese military launched a surprise air strike on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. It shocked the nation and led the United States to officially enter World War II the next day by declaring war on Japan. -
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history during World War II. Allied forces, Britain and Canada landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to begin liberating Western Europe from Nazi control. It marked a major turning point in the war, leading to the defeat of Nazi Germany. -
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people, eventually ending WWll. -
This sparked the Space Race. The space race was a period of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States over who could conquer space exploration first -
Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. -
A standoff in 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union, where the Soviets secretly deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba, prompting the US to enact a naval blockade of the island and brink the world to the edge of nuclear war -
Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. -
Apple, IBM, and Microsoft revolutionized home and office tech. -
The Chernobyl Disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union. Within 10 days, trace amounts of radiation were detected across the U.S., especially in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. -
This was the fear that computers would crash as the year turned to 2000. -
9/11 was a terrorist attack by the terroirst group al-Qaeda, where four hijacked planes were used as weapons. Two planes hit the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one hit the Pentagon, and one crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. Nearly 3,000 people died, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. -
Widespread illness and death. Millions infected, entire countries shut down schools, businesses, and travel to slow the spread.
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