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US History Timeline

By US History User721
  • Period: Aug 20, 1490 to

    US History Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • The 13th Admentment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The 14th Admendment

  • The 15th Admendment

  • The invention of the Telephone

  • The invention of Edison's Electric Light

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    Teddy became president following William McKinley's assasination in September of 1901

  • The invention of the Airplane

  • The Invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight over the Atlantic

  • Black Thursday

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Period: to

    The New Deal

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • The formation of United Nations

  • D-Day

  • Period: to

    Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • The Long Telegram

  • The Formation of NATO

  • Russians Explode An Atomic Bomb

  • Period: to

    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education Court Case (end date)

  • Period: to

    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • Period: to

    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • ARPANET adopts TCP/IP ("Invention of the internet")

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The World Wide Web Announced

  • The 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Centers

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