us history By facebooker_712114832227147 Period: Jan 15, 1400 to Jan 15, 2017 us history 2 Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Dec 31, 2015 us history Oct 12, 1492 columbis fined the mother lode! May 4, 1607 jamestown Jan 1, 1754 French and Indian War (begins) Dec 31, 1763 French and Indian War (ends) Dec 16, 1773 The Boston Tea Party Apr 19, 1775 The Battles of Lexington and Concord Jul 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence Oct 19, 1781 Battle of Yorktown Sep 17, 1787 constitutional convention Jul 29, 1794 cotton gin Aug 28, 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts Feb 7, 1803 The Louisiana Purchase Jun 18, 1812 The War of 1812 Mar 10, 1820 The Missouri Compromise Mar 15, 1829 Andrew Jackson Apr 30, 1830 the Trail of Tears Oct 21, 1832 Telegraphy May 10, 1837 The Panic of 1837 Aug 21, 1846 The Mexican–American War Sep 1, 1850 the Compromise of 1850 Apr 12, 1861 The Battle of Fort Sumter Jul 1, 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation Apr 9, 1865 The Battle of Appomattox Court House Apr 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination Feb 24, 1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Feb 3, 1870 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments Jun 30, 1892 The Homestead Strike Jul 30, 1898 The Spanish-American War Mar 4, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president Oct 1, 1908 The invention of the Model T Aug 28, 1911 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust Jan 15, 1917 The Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 The WWI Armistice Jul 23, 1920 invention of the electric light Aug 18, 1920 The 19th Amendment Jul 11, 1927 Charles Lindbergh’s Flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday Jan 15, 1933 The New Deal Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor Sep 29, 1938 The Munich Pact Aug 15, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jan 15, 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Jan 15, 1945 The formation of United Nations Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Jan 15, 1949 The formation of NATO Aug 29, 1949 Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb Jun 25, 1950 The Korean War May 17, 1954 Brown v Board of Education Nov 1, 1955 The Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Oct 14, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1962 JFK’s Assassination Aug 10, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Aug 10, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jul 20, 1969 The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Jan 15, 1972 The Watergate Break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon’s Resignation Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Jan 15, 1990 The invention of the Internet Sep 11, 2001 9/11