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POLITICAL

- 1783 - Peace Treaty ends Revolutionary War

- 1788 -    Constitution        ratified

- 1791 -     Vermont     admitted

- 1792 - Kentucky admitted

- 1796 -             Tennessee              admitted

- 1803 -      Ohio   admitted

- 1812 -   Lousiana   admitted

- 1814 -   Treaty of     Ghent

- 1816 - Indiana admitted

- 1817 - Mississippi   admitted

- 1818 -   Illinois admitted

- 1819 - Alabama admitted

- 1820 -   Maine admitted

- 1821 - Missouri admitted

- 1823 - Monroe Doctrine

- 1836 - Arkansas admitted

- 1837 - Michigan admitted

- 1845 -   Florida admitted

- 1845 -    Texas admitted

- 1846 -    Iowa admitted

- 1848 - Wisconsin   admitted

- 1850 - California admitted

- 1858 - Minnesota   admitted

- 1859 -   Oregon   admitted

- 1861 -   Kansas admitted

- 1861 - 1865 - CONFEDERACY

- 1863 - West Virginia     admitted

- 1864 - Nevada admitted

- 1867 - Nebraska admitted

- 1876 - Colorado admitted

- 1889 - North Dakota admitted

- 1889 - South Dakota admitted

- 1889 - Montana admitted

- 1889 - Washington admitted

- 1890 - Idaho admitted

- 1890 - Wyoming admitted

- 1896 - Utah admitted

- 1907 - Oklahoma admitted

- 1912 - New Mexico admitted

- 1912 - Arizona admitted

- April 6, 1917 - U.S. declares war against Germany

- December 8, 1941 - U.S. declares war against Japan

- 1959 - Alaska admitted

- 1959 - Hawaii admitted

 

TERRITORIAL

- 1783 -             Britain cedes all lands            west to Mississippi River

- 1787 - Northwest Ordinance

- 1790 - Seat of government moves from NYC to Philadelphia

- 1800 - Seat of government moves from Philadelphia to Washington, DC

- 1803 -    Lousiana    Purchase

- 1804 - 1806 - Lewis and Clarke      Expedition

Lousiana Territory         reorganized as     Missouri Territory

- 1818 - Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel

- 1819 - Treaty with Spain   sets boundaries

- 1820 -    Missouri Compromise

- 1822 -   Florida Territory

- 1822 - Stephen Austin founds     colony in Texas

- 1834 -   Indian Territory        founded

- 1836 -     Texas Revolution

- 1838 - Iowa Territory     organized

- 1840 - 1860 -      Oregon       Trail

- 1846 - Oregon boundary with Canada   established at 49th parallel

- 1848 - Mexican Cession

- 1850 - Utah and New Mexico          Territories

- 1853 - Gadsden Purchase

- 1854- Nebraska and Kansas          Territories

- 1857-        Kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution

- 1861 - 1868- Western territories reorganized      by Republican Congresses

- 1867 - Alaska Purchased

- 1867 - Midway annexed

- 1878 - U.S.-Samoa treaty makes Pago Pago a navy coaling station

- 1884 - Alaska Territory organized

- 1890 - Oklahoma Territory organized

- 1898 - Hawaii annexed

- 1899 - Guam, Phillipines, Puerto Rico annexed

- 1900 - American Samoa annexed

- 1903 - U.S. behind "uprising" separating Panama from Columbia; Panama leases canal zone to U.S.

- 1917 - Virgin Islands annexed

- 1920 - Panama Canal completed

- 1933 - TVA develops resources of Tennessee River

- 1946- Phillipines given independence

- 1947 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, captured from Japan, administered by U.S.

- 1950- Guam Territory organized

- 1999- Panama Canal transferred to Panama

PRESIDENTIAL

1789 - 1797   George Washington      Federalist from            Virginia

1797 - 1801 John Adams Federalist from Massachusetts

1801 - 1809   Thomas Jefferson   Republican from         Virginia

1809 - 1817   James Madison   Republican from         Virginia

1817 - 1825    James Monroe   Republican from          Virginia

1825 - 1829 John Quincy Adams Republican from Massachusetts

1829 - 1837   Andrew Jackson   Democrat from       Tennessee

1837 - 1841 Martin Van Buren Democrat from New York

1841 Wm. Harrison Whig-IN           1841 - 1845 John Tyler Whig-VA

1845 - 1849 James Polk Democrat from Tennessee

1849 - 1850 Zachary Taylor Whig-LA                  1850 - 1853 Millard Fillmore Whig

1853 - 1857 Franklin Pierce Democrat from New Hampshire

1857 - 1861 James Buchanan Democrat from Pennsylvania

1861 - 1865 Abraham Lincoln Republican from Illinois

1865 Abrahan Lincoln Repub.             1865 - 1869 Andrew Johnson Democrat

1869 - 1877   Ulysses S. Grant   Republican from          Ohio

1877 - 1881 Rutherford Hayes Republican from Ohio

1881 James Garfield Repub.             1881 - 1885 Chester Arthur Repub.

1885 - 1889 Grover Cleveland Democrat from New York

1889 - 1893 Benjamin Harrison Republican from Ohio

1893 - 1897 Grover Cleveland Democrat from New York

1897 - 1901 William McKinley Republican from Ohio

1901 William McKinley Repub.             1901 - 1905 Theodore Roosevelt Repub.

1905 - 1909 Theodore Roosevelt Republican from New York

1909 - 1913 William H. Taft Republican from Ohio

1913 - 1921   Woodrow Wilson    Democrat from      New Jersey

1921 - 1923 Warren Harding Repub.                 1923 - 1925 Calvin Coolidge Repub.

1925 - 1929 Calvin Coolidge Republican from Massachusetts

1929 - 1933 Herbert Hoover Republican from Iowa

1933 - 1945   Franklin Delano Roosevelt          Democrat from               New York

1945 Franklin Roosevelt Democ.             1945 - 1949 Harry Truman Democ.

1949 - 1953 Harry S. Truman Democrat from Missouri

1953 - 1961   Dwight D. Eisenhower        Republican from               Kansas

1961 - 1963 John Kennedy Democ.-MA                 1963 - 1965 Lyndon Johnson Democ.-TX

1965 - 1969 Lyndon Johnson Democrat from Texas

1969 - 1973 Richard Nixon Republican from California

1973 - 1974 Richard Nixon Repub.-CA                 1974 - 1977 Gerald Ford Repub.-MI

1977 - 1981 Jimmy Carter Democrat from Georgia

1981 - 1989   Ronald Reagan   Republican from        California

1989 - 1993 George Bush Republican from Texas

1993 - 2001   William J. Clinton   Democrat from        Arkansas

2001 - 2005 George W. Bush Republican from Texas

POPULAR

80,000 Loyalists     emigrate north        to Canada

- 1789 - Bill of Rights adopted

- 1792 - First U.S. Trade Union        of shoemakers

- 1793 - Fugitive Slave          Act

- 1798 - Alien and Sedition              Act

- 1800 - Jefferson's election begins Virginia Dynasty

- 1808 - Congress prohibits importing            of African slaves

- 1820 - Fed offers land at $1.25 an acre

- 1829 - Jackson introduces    spoils system

- 1830 -   Joseph Smith founds Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)

- 1842 -   10-hour day for children under 12 in Massachusetts

- 1846 - 1847 - Mormon trek from Navoo      to Salt Lake City

- 1848 -   Gold discovered     in California

- 1854 - Republican Party formed   for abolition of slavery

- 1857 - Dred Scott   decision

- 1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves

- 1868 - 8-hour day for federal employees

- 1865 - 1877 - Reconstruction in old South

- 1876 - National League founded (baseball)

- 1879 - Women lawyers permitted to argue cases before Supreme Court

- 1883 - Civil Service established

- 1886 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago kills eleven people

- 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act

- 1892 - Strikers at Carnegie steel kill 10 Pinkerton detectives

- 1896 - Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" legal

- 1901 - Pres. McKinley shot by anarchist

- 1902 - Roosevelt begins conservation of forests

- 1904 - Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene in Latin America

- 1909 - NAACP formed in NYC

- 1917 - Selective Service Act creates draft

- 1917 - Blacks migrate north and west

- 1920 - Amendments 18 & 19 give women vote and prohibit alcohol

- 1929 - Stock Market crashes

- 1933 - Roosevelt begins "New Deal"

- 1935 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance

- December 7, 1941 - Japan surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

- 1945 - U.S. A-bombs Japan

- 1947 - Marshall Plan

- 1950 - 1953 - Korea first "undeclared" war

- 1955 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery

- 1955 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation

- 1961 - Peace Corps

- 1960-65 - Civil Rights movement

- 1963 - Kennedy assassinated

- 1965-70 - Demonstrations against Vietnam War

- 1966-69 - Hippie movement

- 1972 - Supreme Court rules death penalty unconstitutional

- 1973-74 - Nixon resigns over Watergate

- 1975 - Feminism takes off

- 1983 - Reagan proposes Star Wars and increases military funding

- 1980s - "War on Drugs" jails 1/5 of young black men

- 1991 - Gulf War is first U.S. reduction of a regional power

- 1996 - Welfare reform

- 1997 - Robust economy creates longest prosperity in U.S. history

- 1999 - Budget goes into surplus

- 2001 - 9/11 terror attack alerts America

NATIVE AMERICAN

- 1811 -    Indians defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory

- 1814 - Creek Indian      War

- 1817 - 1818 - First Seminole        War

- 1830 -        Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi

- 1835 - Second Seminole   War in Florida

- 1842 -   Seminoles moved to Indian Territory

- 1851 - Sioux give all land   in Iowa to U.S.

- 1864 -     Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado

- 1869 - 1876 - 200 pitched battles between   Indians and U.S. Calvary

- 1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer   at Little Big Horn, Montanna

- 1877 - Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada

- 1886 - Geronimo (Apache) surrenders after 15 years

- 1890 - Massacre at Wounded Knee, SD

- 1892 - Cherokee land in Indian Territory opened to settlement

- 1901 - Five Civilized Tribes granted U.S. citizenship

- 1907 - Indian Territory becomes eastern half of Oklahoma

- 1942 - 1945 - Navaho Windtalkers

- 1973 - Members of AIM seize trading post at Wounded Knee, S. Dak.

- 1990s - Native American reservations sport casinos

PLANETARY

- 1783 -       William Pitt II becomes English Prime Minister at 24

- 1789 - French Revolution          begins

- 1793 -       French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette executed

- 1795 -   French Directory

- 1799 -       Napoleon becomes Consul

- 1804 -         Napoleon becomes Emperor

- 1805 - Nelson wins at Trafalger

- 1808 -    Napoleon occupys Spain

- 1810 - Separatists movements     in Latin America

- 1812 - Napoleon defeated      in Russia

- 1815 - French Monarchy   re-established

- 1810 - 1824 - Revolutions in Latin America   lead to independent nations

- 1821 -     Mexican Independence

- 1828 - Greeks win War of Independence           from Ottoman Empire

- 1833 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico

- 1834 - Slavery abolished in British Empire

- 1840- Upper and lower Canada united

- 1848 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Republic

-1853 - 1856 -   Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia

- 1861 - Unification of Italy

-1863 - French troops occupy Mexico City Maximilian of Austria proclaimed Emperor of Mexico

- 1867 - Dominion of Canada formed

- 1870 - 1871 - Franco-Prussian War unifies Germany

- 1871 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain

- 1875 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence

- 1884 - 1885 - 15 European nations partition Africa for "spheres of influence"

- 1893 - France adds Laos to "protectorate" of Indochina

- 1894 - Dreyfus case splits France

- 1898 - 1902 - Cuba occupied by U.S. and released

- 1904-05 - Russia and Japan at war

- 1905 - mini-revolution in Russia

- 1910 - British Empire covers 1/5th of world land area

- August 3, 1914 - World War One begins: Germany invades Belgium

- 1917 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed

- 1919 - Versailles Peace Treaty

- 1919 - League of Nations

- 1923 - Italy becomes first fascist state

- 1927 - Civil war in China

- 1930 - Worldwide depression begins

- 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Fueher of Germany

- 1936-39 - Spanish Civil War

- September 1, 1939 - World War Two begins: Germany invades Poland

- 1944 - Normandy landings

- 1945 - United Nations formed

- 1947 - British India becomes Pakistan & India

- 1948 - Israel created

- 1948 - NATO formed; Cold War begins

- 1947 - 1977 British & French Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations

- 1947 - 1990 - U.S. contains spread of communism

- 1962 - Cuban missile crisis

- 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident

- 1967 - Israeli 6-day war

- 1968 - May Days mini-revolution

- 1970 - U.S. invades Cambodia

- 1975 - South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam

- 1979 - Revolution in Iran; Americans held hostage

- 1980 - Solidarity in Poland

- 1979 - 1988 - Soviets lose war in Afganistan

- 1985 - 1989 - Gorbachev unravels Soviet system

- 1989 - 1991- U.S.S.R dissolves into republics; Cold War over

- 1990 - 1993 - South Africa accepts racial equality

- 1992 - NAFTA formed

- 1992 - 1999 - Yugoslavia breaks up; Serbia contained

- 2001 - Taliban removed

- 2003 - Iraq War

TECHNOLOGICAL

- 1784 - Ben Franklin invents   bifocal eyeglasses

- 1786 - First ice cream made commercially in NYC

- 1793-        Eli Whitney invents cotton gin; revives dying slave economy of South

- 1800 -    Volta invents electric battery

- 1803 -    Dalton devises table of elements

- 1807 -       Sir Humphry Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium

- 1811 -    First steamboat to sail down Mississippi reaches New Orleans

- 1817 - Construction begins on Erie Canal in New York

- 1821 - Michael Faraday discovers   electromagnetic rotation

- 1827 -    Audubon publishes     Birds of America

- 1832 -       Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph

- 1839 - Daguerre invents first   form of photography

- 1847 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth

- 1851 -   Singer patents sewing machine

- 1854 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver

- 1859 - Charles Darwin Origin of Species

- 1862 - Foucault measures speed of light

- 1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

- 1869 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific

- 1869 - Suez Canal opens

- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

- 1879 - Thomas Edison invents incandescent light

- 1883 - Maxim invents machine gun

- 1885 - Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccination

- 1888 - Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography

- 1895 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays

- 1899 - Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dreams

- 1903 - Wright Bros. first airplane

- 1905- Albert Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity

- 1908 - GE patents electric toaster

- 1911 - Robert A Millikan measures electron's charge

- 1916- Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity

- 1918 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy

- 1924 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics

- 1928 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

- 1931 - Lawrence invents cyclotron

- 1934 - Fermi creates plutonium

- 1937 - Dow Chemical develops plastics

- 1940 - Radar wins Battle of Britian

- 1941 - 1945 - Benchley Park computers sabotage German Enigma

- 1948 - Bell Labs invent transistor

- 1949 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb

- 1951 - Teller tests H-bomb

- 1953 - Watson & Crick DNA=double helix

- 1954 - U.S. Nautilus first nuclear submarine

- 1957 - Soviets launch Sputnik, first artificial satellite

- 1960 - Maiman makes first laser

-1961- First ICBM

- 1961 - 1969 - Kennedy launches Apollo project; man lands on the moon

- 1970 - EPA established to enforce Clean Air Act

- 1971 - Soviet Salyut 1 space station

- 1972- DDT is banned

- 1973- Endangered Species Act

- 1976- Viking 1 & 2 land on Mars

- 1978- personal computer

- 1980s- CD, VCR, & cable become common

- 1987- Ozone "hole" found over Antartica

- 1991- Japan is world's largest automaker

- 1993- Internet expands with World Wide Web

- 1997- NASA spacecraft lands on Mars

- 1998- International Space Station begins construction

CULTURAL

- 1788 - The Federalist      published

- 1789 - Wm. Blake publishes  Songs of Innocence

- 1791 -        Tom Paine The Rights of Man

- 1793 - J.-L. David paints The Dead Marat

- 1798 - Haydn composes  The Creation

- 1800 - Library of Congress          founded

- 1806 - Noah Webster publishes Compendious    Dictionary of the English Language

- 1808 - Beethoven composes    Fifth Symphony

- 1811 -       Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

- 1818 - John Keats Endymion

- 1820 - Percy Bysshe Shelly Prometheus Unbound

- 1825 -   Thomas Cole establishes Hudson   River school of landscape painting

- 1829 -      Delacroix paints Death of Sardanapalas

- 1831 -           Victor Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame

- 1837 - Charles Dickens   Oliver Twist

- 1840 -    Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

- 1844 -     Alexander Dumas The Three Muskateers

- 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels   publish Communist Manifesto

- 1850 - Nathanial Hawthorne   The Scarlet Letter

- 1851 -    Melville Moby Dick

- 1854 - Thoreau Walden

- 1855 - Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

- 1863 - Edouard Manet paints Luncheon on the Grass

- 1865 - Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

- 1866- Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

- 1872 - Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

- 1874 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris

- 1876 - Richard Wagner Ring of the Nibelung

- 1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan H.M.S Pinafore

- 1883 - Fredrich Nietzche Thus Spake Zarathustra

- 1889 - First U.S. film: Fred Ott's Sneeze

- 1895 - H.G. Wells The Time Machine

- 1896 - Anton Chekhov The Seagull

- 1904 - Jack London The Sea Wolf

- 1905 - Matisse begins Fauves with Woman With a Hat

- 1907 - Picasso begins cubism with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

- 1909 - Ezra Pound Personae

- 1915 - D.W. Griffith directs Birth of a Nation

- 1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring

- 1916 - T. Tzara DADA

- 1922 - James Joyce Ulysses

- 1922 - T.S. Eliot The Waste Land

- 1923 - Arnold Schonberg atonal Piano Suite

- 1925 - S. Eisenstein Potemkin

- 1924 - 1940 - Int'l School of surrealisn

- 1932 - William Faulkner Light in August

- 1935 - Hitchcock The 39 Steps

- 1940 - Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

- 1943 - Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness

- 1945 - Roberto Rosselini's neorealist Open City

- 1949 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC

- 1954 - Television thrives; radio switches to music

- 1957 - Jack Kerouac On the Road

- 1959 - Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave Breathless

- 1962 - Pop Art

- 1962 - Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind

- 1967 - The Beatles Sgt. Pepper

- 1968 - Kubrick 2001

- 1973 - Billy Friedkin The Exorcist

- 1973 - Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago

- 1974 - Reiner Werner Fassbinder Ali-- Fear Eats the Soul

- 1977 - George Lucas Star Wars

- 1978-84 - Punk Rock

- 1980s - Hollywood remakes B-movies and comix

- 1989-92 - World cable markets deregulated; Hollywood gains world film market

- 1984-? - Rap music

- 1993 - Steven Spielberg Schindler's List

- 1990s - Book retail chains abound

- 2003 - Mathew Barney finishes The Cremaster Cycle