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1457
Creation of Golf
Early forms of golf can be traced back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. Golf traditionally became a sport in 1457 in Scotland.
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IGF.com (International Golf Federation)
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1492
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the trade of foods, crops, goods, materials, diseases, ideas, and weapons from the old world, Europe, to the new world, America. This began in the 15th and 16th century. This exchange caused lots of death, but in the end, further civilization and life in America. Site- Columbian Exchange Slides on PSL
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Jamestown Colony
The Jamestown Colony was one of the first colonies in the Americas. It was also one of the first permanent settlements. It is still standing today. It was also home to cannabilism when it was first created.
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Creation of Lacrosse
Lacrosse was started by the Native American Indians and was originally known as stickball. The game was initially played in the St. Lawrence Valley area by the Algonquian tribe and they were followed by other tribes in the eastern half of North America, and around the western Great Lakes.
Cite- filacrosse.com -
Creation of Boxing
The first documented "boxing match" took place in 1681 in Britain when the Duke of Albemarle engineered a fight between his butler and his butcher. In the coming years, bare-knuckle boxing contests would be held in stadiums all over England. Jack Boughton, also known as "the Father of Boxing," developed the first set of rules for the sport and published them in 1743.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forced colonists to stay on the east part of the Ohio River Valley because the British did not want to fight with the Natives. This also might of happened because the British wanted to keep the east coast of America secure.
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America
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Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions of 1765
Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions. Patrick Henry, at a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, proposed seven resolutions against the Stamp Act.
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was caused when the British put taxes on tea without representing why they are doing it. The Americans responded by dumping as much as they could into the ocean.
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Declaration of Independence
This was a paper signed by many Americans that told Britain the U.S. wanted to be its own nation and also declared war. The war fought after this was one by the U.S. and they got what they wanted, independence.
Cite- History: Story of Us -
Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the trade of African American slaves that were used as the workforce for the American economy. Slaves were mistreated, and this trade was the start of racism.
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Missouri Compromise
In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state.
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Indian Removal Act
Made way for Americans to get prime land and expand. This moved Natives of their land and to land that was not very good.
Cite- Removal Ws -
Invention of Saline
Thomas Latta first used IV saline in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Saline prevents fluid depletion. Cite- http://historyofnephrology.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-invention-of-iv-fluid-therapy.html -
Creation of Baseball
Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America's beloved national pastime. -
Creation of medical cast
"This earlier adaptation of plaster for orthopedic cast making was unknown by European and American doctors. The use of plaster of Paris in the modern medical field began in earnest during the 1800s. By the 1850s bandages were rubbed with a plaster of Paris powder and then dampened and applied around the injury."
Cite-https://redwoodsmedicaledge.com/2013/01/.../author-question-when-were-casts-invented -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was a three day battle between the north and the south that ended as a win for the Union after the Confederacy made an offensive all-out final assault.
Cite- 533, America Story of Us -
Reconstuction act
the reconstruction act showed the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War (1861–65). The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
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First Football Field
The date was November 12, 1892, a day that would forever be etched in sports history, although no one involved that day could possibly have recognized the importance of the occasion. It was the day that the Allegheny Athletic Association football team defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
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Creation of X-ray
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) who was a Professor at Wuerzburg University in Germany. Working with a cathode-ray tube in his laboratory, Roentgen observed a fluorescent glow of crystals on a table near his tube. ... He concluded that a new type of ray was being emitted from the tube.
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Creation of the Marathon
The marathon race was created in 1896 to honor the legendary run of Greek messenger Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens. Though the story is almost certainly a myth, it is based on an even more impressive feat of endurance. It can be trace back to dates in the B.C. area.
Cite- http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/sports/2010/april/Myth-of-Pheidippides-and-the-Marathon.html -
Creation of Pool
Eight-Ball was invented shortly after 1900; Straight Pool followed in 1910. Nine-Ball seems to have developed around 1920. While the term "billiards" refers to all games played on a billiard table, with or without pockets, some people take billiards to mean carom games only and use pool for pocket games.
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Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Creation of football
Football was created in 1920. it was created in America and based off of football and rugby together. The man most responsible for the transition from this rugby-like game to the sport of football we know today was Walter Camp, known as the “Father of American Football.”
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Creation of Bowling
A British anthropologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, discovered in the 1930's a collection of objects in a child's grave in Egypt that appeared to him to be used for a crude form of bowling. If he was correct, then bowling traces its ancestry to 3200 BC but its official name was given in the 1930's. -
Executive Order 9066
On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.
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Vietcong
Viet Cong (VC), in full Viet Nam Cong San, English Vietnamese Communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973). The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres.
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Creation of CT-Scan
The CT scan was invented in 1972 by two scientists working independently. British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI laboratories invented the CT scan in England, and South African-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University invented it in the United States.
Cite- https://www.decodedscience.org/ct-scan-computed-axial-tomography-cat-scan/772 -
End of Cold War
December 25, 1991. Cold war ends. USSR changes to Russia. Cite- Notes, Friday 11, 2019 -
Attacks on Twin Towers (9/11)
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C.
