101 Dates

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Pre-Columbian Era

Before 1492

Columbus Sights Land

Oct 12

Henry VII Established the Angliscan Church

1534

Colonial Era

1607-1754

Jamestown was Established

1607

Pilgrims Arrived at Plymouth Rock

1620

First African Slaves Arrived in British America

1619

William Tucker was the First African American to be Born in the British Colonies in America

1624

Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion

1676

King Phillip's War/Metacomet's Death

1675-1676

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Revolutionary Era

1754-1789

French and Indian War

1754-1763

Pontiac's War

1763-1766

Lexington and Concord

April 18th+19th

Declaration of Independence was Approved

July 4th

Revolutionary War

1775-1783

U.S. Under the Articles of Confederation

1777-1789

Federalist Era

1788-1824

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Marbury vs. Madison

1803

Lewis and Clarke Expedition

1804-1806

War of 1812

1812-1815

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1824

Treaty of Paris

1783

Age of Jackson

1824-1840

Black Hawk's War

1831-1832

Texan War of Independence

1835-1836

Mexican War

1845-1848

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

1857

Civil War

1861-1865

Firing on Fort Sumter

April 12th+13th

Battle of Gettysburg

July 1-3

Lee Surrendered to Grant

April 9th

Lincoln's Assassination

April 14th

Reconstruction

1865-1876 (sometimes 1877)

Gilded Age

1865-1900

First Transcontinental Railroad was Completed

May 10

Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer was defeated)

Jun 25

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Agrarian (aka Populist) Revolt

1890-1900

Wounded Knee Massacre (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

SD)

Homestead Steel Workers Strike (Carnegie)

1892

Pullman Strike

1894

Plessy vs. Ferguson (legalizes segregation)

1896

Spanish-American War

1898-1901

Wright Brothers Made their First Sustained Flight

Dec 17

Progressive Era

1890-1919

World War I (Entire years)

1914-1918

World War I (US Involvement)

1917-1918

Armistice Day (End of WWI)

Nov 11

Prohibition is in Effect

1919-1933

Second KKK Movement

1920s

Charles Lindbergh's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic

May 20-21

Great Depression

1929-1941

Black Thursday

Oct 24

Black Tuesday

Oct 29

World War II Began

Sep 1

Command of Army Act (Ended the Civil War)-Same Date that Lee Surrendered to Grant

Apr 9

Amelia Earhart's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic

May 20

Amelia Earhart Disappears

Jul 2

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7

World War II (US Involvement)

1941-1945

FDR Died

Apr 12

Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima (first one)

Aug 6

Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki (second one)

Aug 9

Cold War

1945-1989

Jackie Robinson Breaks the Race Barrier Line in MLB

1947

Second Red Scare Movement

1950s

Korean War

1950-1953

French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu

Vietnam

Rosa Parks' Montgomery Bus Incident

Dec 1

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Civil Rights Movement

1955-1968

October Surprise (Sputnik was Launched)

Oct 4

Fidel Castro Took Over Cuba

Jan 1

US Placed Economic Embargo on Cuba

1960

U-2 Spy Plan was Shot Down Over the Soviet Union

1960

Berlin Wall was Built

August 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

October 1962

MLK's March on Washington

JFK's Assassination

Nov 22

Malcolm X's Assassination

Feb 21

Miranda vs. Arizona

1966

Thurgood Marshall was Appointed to the Supreme Court

1967

Tet Offensive (Beginning of the End of Involvement in Vietnam)

Jan 30

MLK's Assassination

Apr 4

RFK's Assassination

Jun 6

First Moon Landing

Jul 20-21

Vietnam War (Ground Troops Committed)

1965-1973

Kent State University Killings (Ohio)

May 4th

Nixon Defeats George McGovern

1972

Nixon Visits China

1972

Cease Fire in Vietnam

Jan 27

Wounded Knee Occupation

Feb-May

Roe vs. Wade (Legalized Abortion)

1973

Watergate Scandal (Nixon Resigns)

1972-1974

Nixon Resigned

Aug 9

Gerald Ford Becomes US President

1974-1976

Ford Pardons Nixon

Sep 8

University of CA vs. Allan Bakke (Gave US Affirmative Action)

1978

Iranian Revolution

1979

Cold War Ended+Berlin Wall Came Down

1989