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           - 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 - 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

                        - 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

        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 - 2008
George W. Bush
Republican from
Texas

80,000 Loyalists
    emigrate north
       to Canada - 1787 -
Constitutional
Convention - 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 - 1821 -
Missouri
Compromise - 1823 -
Monroe
Doctrine          - 1829 -
Jackson introduces
   spoils system - 1830 -
Joseph Smith founds Church of
Jesus Christ 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 - 1865 -
Lincoln
assassinated - 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 -
AFL founded
by S Gompers - 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
in NYC - 1910 -
Fundamentalism begins
with "Five Points" - 1917 -
Selective Service Act
creates draft - 1917 -
Blacks migrate
north and west - 1920 -
18th Amendment
prohibits alcohol - 1920 -
19th Amendment gives
women right to vote - 1927 -
Lindbergh crosses
Atlantic non-stop - 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 - 1948 - 1954 -
Communism
quashed in US - 1955 -
Blacks boycott buses
in Montgomery - 1955 -
Supreme Court orders
school desegregation - 1955 -
AFL and
CIO merge - 1961 -
Peace
Corps - 1960-65 -
Civil Rights
movement - 1963 -
Kennedy
assassinated - 1965-70 -
Demonstrations
against Vietnam War - 1966-69 -
Hippie
movement - 1973 -
War Powers
Act - 1973-74 -
Nixon resigns
over Watergate - 1970s -
Sixties energy wins smaller
battles: feminism, ecology... - 1978 -
Jerry Falwell founds
the Moral Majority - 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 - 2005 -
US labor squeezed
by global forces

- 1776 - 1783 -
Many Native Americans side with
British against American colonists                          - 1811 -
Native Americans defeated in Battle
of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory                    - 1814 -
    Andrew Jackson crushes
   Creek Resistance in South - 1817 - 1818 -
First Seminole
       War                      - 1830 -
       Indian Removal Act moves
eastern Indians west of Mississippi          - 1835 -
Second Seminole
War in Florida          - 1838 -
     Cherokee
"Trail of Tears"             - 1850 - 1870 -
    Plains Indians cede land
in exchange for reservations                      - 1854 -
    Upper half of Indian Territory
becomes part of Kansas Territory                          - 1864 -
    Cheyenne and Arapaho families
massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado           - 1869 - 1876 -
200 pitched battles between
Indians and U.S. Calvary - 1874 - 1875 -
    Red River
         War                        - 1876 -
Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer
at Little Big Horn, Montanna          - 1877 -
Nez Perce leave
Idaho for Canada       - 1878 - 1879 -
Northern Cheyenne
escape Indian Territory - 1886 -
Geronimo (Apache)
surrenders after 15 years - 1887 -
Dawes Severality Act
creates allotment system - 1890 -
Massacre at
Wounded Knee, SD - 1892 -
Cherokee Outlet in Indian
Territory opened to settlement - 1901 -
Five Civilized Tribes
granted U.S. citizenship - 1907 -
Indian Territory becomes
eastern half of Oklahoma - 1924 -
Citizenship Act makes Indians citizens
without impairing status as tribal members - 1933 -
Bureau of Indian Affairs reformed;
sales of Indian lands halted - 1942 - 1945 -
Navaho
Windtalkers - 1954 - 1962 -
Congress terminates more than
60 tribes as political units - 1964 -
Civil Rights Act restores
tribal law to reservations - 1973 -
Members of AIM seize trading
post at Wounded Knee, S. Dak. - 1978 -
American Indian Religious Freedom Act
makes native religious practices legal - 1988 -
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
allows gambling on reservations - 1990s -
American Indians attempt
to collect trust fund revenues - 2004 -
National Museum of the American Indian
established on mall in Washington DC

                    - 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 Trafalgar     - 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 - 2000s -
China emerges
as economic giant

            - 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 - 2000s -
Animals
cloned - 2000s -
Oceans warming
and rising

         - 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 Sardanapalus               - 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 - 1965 -
Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone - 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 - 2000s -
US television
increasingly morbid