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Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine. It is not very useful though, but the use of using steam to make machines go will be important to the Industrial Revolution.
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James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invents the spinning jenny. The machine spins more than one ball of yarn or thread at a time, making it easier and faster to make cloth
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire. By 1860, telegraph wires stretch from the east coast of the United States west of the Mississippi River.
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when a bunch of soidlers decided to shoot at a bunch of people that were boycotting and voicing there opinoin
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ostend Manifesto issued by U.S. ministers to Europe. The ministers write up a document that urges the U.S. to annex Cuba for the security of slavery, and that if Spain refuses to sell the island, it should be taken by force.
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Congress acts to authorize the U.S. annexation of any small island that is unclaimed by other governments. In 1857, they will annex Jarvis Island and Bakerís Island, located in the mid-Pacific, and in 1858, Howardís Island.
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Great Britain signs a treaty to give up its land in Central America
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On June 16, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln made one of his rare wartime departures from Washington. He spoke in Philadelphia at a fund-raising fair for the United States Sanitary Commission, a national soldiers' aid society.
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robert e. lee surrendered to grant at the war appromattox
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white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and making rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South.
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divides the south into diffrenet zones to be held by the us.
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john D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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After visiting Henry Bessemer's steel plant in England, and in Britain for steel rails, Andrew Carnegie returns to America 2 expand his steel business.
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a court case that was very important in the civil rights movement and made it easy to see thst there were still racil isuess in1896
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Wright brothers make first powered flight.
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Britain declared war on Germany
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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In Paris, diplomats representing the combatant nations of World War I sign the Treaty of Versailles, which promises to sustain peace through the creation of the League of Nations but also plants the seed of future conflict by imposing mercilessly stiff reparations upon Germany.
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The United States Census reports, for first time, that more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas. However, "urban" is defined as any town with more than 2,500 people.
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The stock market crashes, marking the end of six years of unparalleled prosperity for most sectors of the American economy. The "crash" begins on October 24 Black Thursday. By October 29, stock prices will plummet and banks will be calling in loans. An estimated $30 billion in values will disappear"
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President Herbert Hoover says, Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is stupied
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More than 3.2 million people are unemployed, up from 1.5 million before the October, 1929 crash.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement
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The leaders of the terrorist Ustasa movement proclaim the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Recognized immediately by Germany and Italy, the new state includes the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatia joins the Axis powers formally on June 15, 1941.
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US troops land in the Philippines.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Yalta. The Allies took Köln and liberated Buchenwald. President Roosevelt died, and Truman became president. The Russians reached Berlin, and Hitler committed suicide. The first and the second atomic bombs were dropped. Churchill, Clemet Atlee, Stalin, and Truman met in Postdam. V-J Victory Day.
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Russia tested its first atomic bomb
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USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan
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cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
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The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
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The militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
