History

  • The 1651 Act was passed

  • The 1651 Act was reissued as the Navigation Act

  • The Molasses Act was passed

  • The British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calender

  • The Battle of Jumonville Glen (French and Indian War)

  • The Battle of Fort Necessity

  • The Battle of Monongahela

  • Lisbon Earthquake

  • The Diplomatic Revolution

  • The Seven Years' War

  • The Treaty of St. Petersburg was signed

  • The Treaty of Paris (1763) was signed

  • Pontiac's Rebellion (Pontiac's War)

  • The Molasses Act was renewed as the Sugar Act

  • The Currency Act was passed

  • The Stamp Act was passed

  • the Quartering Act was passed

  • The Virginian Resolution

  • The Sons of Liberty were organized

  • The Declaratory Act was passed

  • The Townshend Acts were passed

  • The Boston Massacre

  • The Tea Act was passed

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Intolerable Acts were passed

  • The First Continental Congress was established

  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord (the Revolutionary War)

  • The Second Continental Congress was established

  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

  • The Olive-Branch Petition was adopted

  • The Battle of Quebec

  • The Declaration of Independence was adopted

  • The Declaration of Independence was signed

  • The Battle of Long Island

  • The Battle of Valcour Island

  • The Battle of White Plains

  • George Washington crossed the Delaware River

  • The Battle of Princeton

  • The Battle of Saratoga

  • The Articles of Confederation were adopted

  • The Battle of Savannah, Georgia

  • The Battle of Charleston

  • The Battle of Camden

  • The Battle of King's Mountain

  • The Battle of Cowpens

  • The Battle of Guilford Court House

  • The Treaty of Paris (1783) was signed

  • The Northwest Indian War

  • The Constitution was adopted

  • Delaware became a state

  • Pennsylvania became a state

  • New Jersey became a state

  • Georgia became a state

  • Connecticut became a state

  • Massachusetts became a state

  • Maryland became a state

  • South Carolina became a state

  • New Hampshire became a state

  • Virginia became a state

  • New York became a state

  • George Washington became president

  • The French Revolution

  • North Carolina became a state

  • Rhode Island became a state

  • Washington D.C. became the capital of the nation

  • The First Bank of the United States was established

  • Vermont became a state

  • The Whiskey Rebellion

  • The Bill of Rights was ratified

  • Kentucky Became a state

  • The Yellow Fever outbreak

  • The Jay Treaty was signed

  • The 11th Amendment was ratified

  • The Treaty of Greenville was signed

  • The Pinckney's Treaty was signed

  • Tennessee became a state

  • John Adams became president

  • The XYZ Affair

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed

  • The Quasi-War

  • The Logan Act was passed

  • End of the French Revolution

  • The Library of Congress was established

  • Thomas Jefferson became president

  • Ohio became a state

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The 12th Amendment was ratified

  • The Chesapeake Affair

  • The Embargo Act was passed

  • Ellis Island was purchased

  • James Madison became president

  • Louisiana became a state

  • The War of 1812

  • The Battle for the Great Lakes

  • The Battle of Plattsburgh

  • The Treaty of Ghent was signed

  • The Battle of New Orleans

  • Indiana became a state

  • James Monroe became president

  • Mississippi became a state

  • Illinois became a state

  • Alabama became a state

  • The Missouri Compromise was signed

  • Maine became a state

  • Missouri became a state

  • John Quincy Adams became president

  • Andrew Jackson became president

  • The Indian Removal Act was passed

  • Texas Revolution

  • The Battle of Alamo

  • The Battle of San Jacinto

  • The Treaty of Velasco was signed

  • Arkansas became a state

  • Michigan became a state

  • Martin van Buren became president

  • Beginning of the Trail of Tears

  • End of the Trail of Tears

  • William Henry Harrison became president

  • John Tyler became president

  • Florida became a state

  • James Knox Polk became president

  • Texas became a state

  • The Mexican-American War

  • Baseball was established

  • Iowa became a state

  • The Battle of Buena Vista

  • The California Gold Rush

  • The Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo

  • Wisconsin became a state

  • Zachary Taylor became president

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Millard Fillmore became president

  • California became a state

  • The Fugitive Slave Act was passed

  • Franklin Pierce became president

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed

  • The Bleeding Kansas

  • James Buchanan became president

  • Minnesota became a state

  • Oregon became a state

  • The Pony Express was developed

  • Kansas became a state

  • Abraham Lincoln became president

  • The Civil War

  • The First Battle of Manassas

  • The Battle of Fort Henry

  • The Battle of Fort Donelson

  • The Battle of Hampton Roads

  • The Battle of Shiloh

  • The Homestead Acts were passed

  • The Second Battle of Manassas

  • The Battle of Antietam

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Battle of Chancellorsville

  • The Siege of Vicksburg

  • West Virginia became a state

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

  • The Battle of Chickamauga

  • The Gettysburg Address

  • The Battle of Cold Harbor

  • The Siege of Petersburg

  • The Battle of Atlanta

  • Nevada became a state

  • The Sand Creek Massacre

  • The Battle of Appomattox Court House

  • Andrew Johnson became president

  • The 13th Amendment was ratified

  • The Ku Klux Klan

  • The Austro-Prussian War

  • Nebraska became a state

  • Seward's Folly

  • The 14th Amendment was ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant became president

  • The First Transcontinental Railroad was built

  • Football was established

  • The 15th Amendment was ratified

  • The Enforcement Acts were passed

  • The Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Colorado became a state

  • Rutherford B. Hayes became president

  • James Garfield became president

  • The American Red Cross was founded

  • Tuskegee University was founded

  • Chester Arthur became president

  • The Brooklyn Bridge was built

  • The Washington Monument was built

  • Grover Cleveland became president

  • The Statue of Liberty was given to America

  • The Dawes Act was passed

  • Benjamin Harrison became president

  • North Dakota and South Dakota became states

  • Montana became a state

  • Washington became a state

  • The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed

  • Idaho became a state

  • Wyoming became a state

  • The Wounded Knee Massacre

  • Basketball was established

  • Grover Cleveland became president again

  • The Cuban War of Independence

  • Utah became a state

  • William McKinley became president

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Rosevelt became president

  • Hollywood was founded

  • The Olympics were established in America

  • Oklahoma became a state

  • The Bureau of Investigation was established

  • William Taft became president

  • New Mexico became a state

  • Arizona became a state

  • The Titanic sunk

  • The 16th Amendment was ratified

  • Woodrow Wilson became president

  • The 17th Amendment was ratified

  • World War I began

  • The Battle of Liege

  • The Battle of Tannenberg

  • The First Battle of Marne

  • The Gallipoli Campaign

  • The Battle of Verdun

  • The Battle of Jutland

  • The Battle of Somme

  • The Bolshevik Revolution

  • The Third Battle of Ypres

  • The Battle of Caporetto

  • The Russian Revolution

  • The Battle of Cambrai

  • The Spanish Flu

  • The Battle of Amiens

  • World War I ended

  • The 18th Amendment was ratified

  • The Paris Peace Conference

  • The Treaty of Versailles

  • The League of Nations was founded

  • The 19th Amendment was ratified

  • Warren Harding became president

  • The Ottoman Empire dissolved

  • Calvin Coolidge became president

  • Disney was founded

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Herbert Hoover became president

  • The Great Depression

  • The 20th Amendment was ratified

  • The Holocaust

  • Franklin Roosevelt became president (the New Deal)

  • The 21st Amendment was ratified

  • World War II began

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

  • The Battle of Britain

  • Pearl Harbor was bombed

  • The Battle of Singapore

  • The Battle of Coral Sea

  • The Battle of Midway

  • D-Day

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

  • Harry Truman became president

  • The Battle of Berlin

  • VE Day

  • World War II ended

  • The United Nations were organized

  • Computers were invented

  • The Cold War

  • The Korean War

  • The 22nd Amendment was ratified

  • Dwight Eisenhower became president

  • The Warsaw Pact was signed

  • The Space Race

  • The Vietnam War

  • The Civil Rights Movement

  • Alaska became a state

  • Hawaii became a state

  • John Kennedy became president

  • The 23rd Amendment was ratified

  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • The Berlin Wall was built

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Lyndon Johnson became president

  • The 24th Amendment was ratified

  • The British Invasion

  • The Civil Rights Act was passed

  • The 25th Amendment was ratified

  • Richard Nixon became president

  • Neil Armstrong landed on the moon

  • The 26th Amendment was ratified

  • Gerald Ford became president

  • Jimmy Carter became president

  • Ronald Reagan became president

  • George H. W. Bush became president

  • The Gulf War

  • The World Wide Web was invented

  • The Soviet Union dissolved

  • Bill Clinton became president

  • George W. Bush became president

  • 9/11

  • The War in Afghanistan

  • The War in Iraq

  • Barack Obama became president

  • Donald Trump became president