History By Nintendo Lucas Oct 9, 1651 The 1651 Act was passed Sep 13, 1660 The 1651 Act was reissued as the Navigation Act Dec 25, 1733 The Molasses Act was passed Sep 14, 1752 The British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calender May 28, 1754 The Battle of Jumonville Glen (French and Indian War) Jul 3, 1754 The Battle of Fort Necessity Jul 9, 1755 The Battle of Monongahela Nov 1, 1755 Lisbon Earthquake May 1, 1756 The Diplomatic Revolution Aug 29, 1756 The Seven Years' War May 5, 1762 The Treaty of St. Petersburg was signed Feb 10, 1763 The Treaty of Paris (1763) was signed May 7, 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion (Pontiac's War) Apr 5, 1764 The Molasses Act was renewed as the Sugar Act Apr 19, 1764 The Currency Act was passed Mar 22, 1765 The Stamp Act was passed May 15, 1765 the Quartering Act was passed May 29, 1765 The Virginian Resolution Aug 14, 1765 The Sons of Liberty were organized Mar 18, 1766 The Declaratory Act was passed Jun 29, 1767 The Townshend Acts were passed Mar 5, 1770 The Boston Massacre May 10, 1773 The Tea Act was passed Dec 16, 1773 The Boston Tea Party Mar 31, 1774 The Intolerable Acts were passed Sep 5, 1774 The First Continental Congress was established Apr 19, 1775 The Battles of Lexington and Concord (the Revolutionary War) May 10, 1775 The Second Continental Congress was established Jun 17, 1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill Jul 5, 1775 The Olive-Branch Petition was adopted Dec 31, 1775 The Battle of Quebec Jul 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was adopted Aug 2, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was signed Aug 27, 1776 The Battle of Long Island Oct 11, 1776 The Battle of Valcour Island Oct 28, 1776 The Battle of White Plains Dec 25, 1776 George Washington crossed the Delaware River Jan 3, 1777 The Battle of Princeton Sep 19, 1777 The Battle of Saratoga Nov 15, 1777 The Articles of Confederation were adopted Sep 16, 1779 The Battle of Savannah, Georgia Mar 29, 1780 The Battle of Charleston Aug 16, 1780 The Battle of Camden Oct 7, 1780 The Battle of King's Mountain Jan 17, 1781 The Battle of Cowpens Mar 15, 1781 The Battle of Guilford Court House Sep 3, 1783 The Treaty of Paris (1783) was signed Apr 15, 1786 The Northwest Indian War Sep 17, 1787 The Constitution was adopted Dec 7, 1787 Delaware became a state Dec 12, 1787 Pennsylvania became a state Dec 18, 1787 New Jersey became a state Jan 2, 1788 Georgia became a state Jan 9, 1788 Connecticut became a state Feb 6, 1788 Massachusetts became a state Apr 28, 1788 Maryland became a state May 23, 1788 South Carolina became a state Jun 21, 1788 New Hampshire became a state Jun 25, 1788 Virginia became a state Jul 26, 1788 New York became a state Apr 30, 1789 George Washington became president Jul 14, 1789 The French Revolution Nov 21, 1789 North Carolina became a state May 29, 1790 Rhode Island became a state Jul 16, 1790 Washington D.C. became the capital of the nation Feb 25, 1791 The First Bank of the United States was established Mar 4, 1791 Vermont became a state Sep 11, 1791 The Whiskey Rebellion Dec 15, 1791 The Bill of Rights was ratified Jun 1, 1792 Kentucky Became a state Aug 21, 1793 The Yellow Fever outbreak Nov 19, 1794 The Jay Treaty was signed Feb 7, 1795 The 11th Amendment was ratified Aug 3, 1795 The Treaty of Greenville was signed Oct 27, 1795 The Pinckney's Treaty was signed Jun 1, 1796 Tennessee became a state Mar 4, 1797 John Adams became president May 16, 1797 The XYZ Affair Jul 4, 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed Jul 7, 1798 The Quasi-War Jan 30, 1799 The Logan Act was passed Nov 9, 1799 End of the French Revolution Apr 24, 1800 The Library of Congress was established Mar 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson became president Mar 1, 1803 Ohio became a state Apr 30, 1803 The Louisiana Purchase Jun 15, 1804 The 12th Amendment was ratified Jun 22, 1807 The Chesapeake Affair Dec 22, 1807 The Embargo Act was passed Jun 8, 1808 Ellis Island was purchased Mar 4, 1809 James Madison became president Apr 30, 1812 Louisiana became a state Jun 18, 1812 The War of 1812 Sep 10, 1813 The Battle for the Great Lakes Sep 6, 1814 The Battle of Plattsburgh Dec 24, 1814 The Treaty of Ghent was signed Jan 8, 1815 The Battle of New Orleans Dec 11, 1816 Indiana became a state Mar 4, 1817 James Monroe became president Dec 10, 1817 Mississippi became a state Dec 3, 1818 Illinois became a state Dec 14, 1819 Alabama became a state Mar 6, 1820 The Missouri Compromise was signed Mar 15, 1820 Maine became a state Aug 10, 1821 Missouri became a state Mar 4, 1825 John Quincy Adams became president Mar 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson became president May 28, 1830 The Indian Removal Act was passed Oct 2, 1835 Texas Revolution Feb 23, 1836 The Battle of Alamo Apr 21, 1836 The Battle of San Jacinto May 14, 1836 The Treaty of Velasco was signed Jun 15, 1836 Arkansas became a state Jan 26, 1837 Michigan became a state Mar 4, 1837 Martin van Buren became president May 23, 1838 Beginning of the Trail of Tears Mar 26, 1839 End of the Trail of Tears Mar 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison became president Apr 4, 1841 John Tyler became president Mar 3, 1845 Florida became a state Mar 4, 1845 James Knox Polk became president Dec 29, 1845 Texas became a state Apr 25, 1846 The Mexican-American War Jun 19, 1846 Baseball was established Dec 28, 1846 Iowa became a state Feb 22, 1847 The Battle of Buena Vista Jan 24, 1848 The California Gold Rush Feb 2, 1848 The Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo May 29, 1848 Wisconsin became a state Mar 4, 1849 Zachary Taylor became president Jan 29, 1850 Compromise of 1850 Jul 9, 1850 Millard Fillmore became president Sep 9, 1850 California became a state Sep 18, 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act was passed Mar 4, 1853 Franklin Pierce became president May 30, 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed May 21, 1856 The Bleeding Kansas Mar 4, 1857 James Buchanan became president May 11, 1858 Minnesota became a state Feb 14, 1859 Oregon became a state Apr 3, 1860 The Pony Express was developed Jan 29, 1861 Kansas became a state Mar 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln became president Apr 12, 1861 The Civil War Jul 21, 1861 The First Battle of Manassas Feb 6, 1862 The Battle of Fort Henry Feb 11, 1862 The Battle of Fort Donelson Mar 8, 1862 The Battle of Hampton Roads Apr 6, 1862 The Battle of Shiloh May 20, 1862 The Homestead Acts were passed Aug 30, 1862 The Second Battle of Manassas Sep 7, 1862 The Battle of Antietam Dec 11, 1862 The Battle of Fredericksburg Jan 1, 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation Apr 30, 1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville May 18, 1863 The Siege of Vicksburg Jun 20, 1863 West Virginia became a state Jul 1, 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg Sep 18, 1863 The Battle of Chickamauga Nov 19, 1863 The Gettysburg Address May 31, 1864 The Battle of Cold Harbor Jun 9, 1864 The Siege of Petersburg Jul 22, 1864 The Battle of Atlanta Oct 31, 1864 Nevada became a state Nov 29, 1864 The Sand Creek Massacre Apr 9, 1865 The Battle of Appomattox Court House Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson became president Dec 6, 1865 The 13th Amendment was ratified Dec 24, 1865 The Ku Klux Klan Jun 14, 1866 The Austro-Prussian War Mar 1, 1867 Nebraska became a state Mar 30, 1867 Seward's Folly Jul 9, 1868 The 14th Amendment was ratified Mar 4, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant became president May 10, 1869 The First Transcontinental Railroad was built Nov 6, 1869 Football was established Feb 3, 1870 The 15th Amendment was ratified May 31, 1870 The Enforcement Acts were passed Jun 25, 1876 The Battle of Little Bighorn Aug 1, 1876 Colorado became a state Mar 4, 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes became president Mar 4, 1881 James Garfield became president May 21, 1881 The American Red Cross was founded Jul 4, 1881 Tuskegee University was founded Sep 20, 1881 Chester Arthur became president May 24, 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge was built Dec 6, 1884 The Washington Monument was built Mar 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland became president Oct 28, 1886 The Statue of Liberty was given to America Feb 8, 1887 The Dawes Act was passed Mar 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison became president Nov 2, 1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became states Nov 8, 1889 Montana became a state Nov 11, 1889 Washington became a state Apr 8, 1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed Jul 3, 1890 Idaho became a state Jul 10, 1890 Wyoming became a state Dec 29, 1890 The Wounded Knee Massacre Dec 21, 1891 Basketball was established Mar 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland became president again Feb 24, 1895 The Cuban War of Independence Jan 4, 1896 Utah became a state Mar 4, 1897 William McKinley became president Apr 21, 1898 The Spanish-American War Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Rosevelt became president Sep 14, 1903 Hollywood was founded Jul 1, 1904 The Olympics were established in America Nov 16, 1907 Oklahoma became a state Jul 26, 1908 The Bureau of Investigation was established Mar 4, 1909 William Taft became president Jan 6, 1912 New Mexico became a state Feb 14, 1912 Arizona became a state Apr 14, 1912 The Titanic sunk Feb 3, 1913 The 16th Amendment was ratified Mar 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson became president Apr 8, 1913 The 17th Amendment was ratified Jul 28, 1914 World War I began Aug 5, 1914 The Battle of Liege Aug 26, 1914 The Battle of Tannenberg Sep 5, 1914 The First Battle of Marne Feb 19, 1915 The Gallipoli Campaign Feb 21, 1916 The Battle of Verdun May 31, 1916 The Battle of Jutland Jul 1, 1916 The Battle of Somme Mar 8, 1917 The Bolshevik Revolution Jul 31, 1917 The Third Battle of Ypres Oct 24, 1917 The Battle of Caporetto Nov 7, 1917 The Russian Revolution Nov 20, 1917 The Battle of Cambrai Mar 4, 1918 The Spanish Flu Aug 8, 1918 The Battle of Amiens Nov 11, 1918 World War I ended Jan 16, 1919 The 18th Amendment was ratified Jan 19, 1919 The Paris Peace Conference Jun 28, 1919 The Treaty of Versailles Jan 10, 1920 The League of Nations was founded Aug 18, 1920 The 19th Amendment was ratified Mar 4, 1921 Warren Harding became president Nov 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire dissolved Aug 2, 1923 Calvin Coolidge became president Oct 16, 1923 Disney was founded Jul 21, 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial Mar 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover became president Oct 24, 1929 The Great Depression Jan 23, 1933 The 20th Amendment was ratified Jan 30, 1933 The Holocaust Mar 4, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt became president (the New Deal) Dec 5, 1933 The 21st Amendment was ratified Sep 1, 1939 World War II began Sep 3, 1939 The Battle of the Atlantic Jul 10, 1940 The Battle of Britain Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed Feb 8, 1942 The Battle of Singapore May 4, 1942 The Battle of Coral Sea Jun 4, 1942 The Battle of Midway Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 19, 1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima Apr 12, 1945 Harry Truman became president Apr 16, 1945 The Battle of Berlin May 8, 1945 VE Day Sep 2, 1945 World War II ended Oct 24, 1945 The United Nations were organized Feb 14, 1946 Computers were invented Mar 12, 1947 The Cold War Jun 25, 1950 The Korean War Feb 27, 1951 The 22nd Amendment was ratified Jan 20, 1953 Dwight Eisenhower became president May 14, 1955 The Warsaw Pact was signed Aug 2, 1955 The Space Race Nov 1, 1955 The Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 The Civil Rights Movement Jan 3, 1959 Alaska became a state Aug 21, 1959 Hawaii became a state Jan 20, 1961 John Kennedy became president Mar 29, 1961 The 23rd Amendment was ratified Apr 17, 1961 The Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 13, 1961 The Berlin Wall was built Oct 16, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 Lyndon Johnson became president Jan 23, 1964 The 24th Amendment was ratified Feb 9, 1964 The British Invasion Jul 2, 1964 The Civil Rights Act was passed Feb 10, 1967 The 25th Amendment was ratified Jan 20, 1969 Richard Nixon became president Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon Jul 1, 1971 The 26th Amendment was ratified Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford became president Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy Carter became president Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan became president Jan 20, 1989 George H. W. Bush became president Aug 2, 1990 The Gulf War Aug 6, 1991 The World Wide Web was invented Dec 26, 1991 The Soviet Union dissolved Jan 20, 1993 Bill Clinton became president Jan 20, 2001 George W. Bush became president Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Oct 7, 2001 The War in Afghanistan Mar 20, 2003 The War in Iraq Jan 20, 2009 Barack Obama became president Jan 20, 2017 Donald Trump became president