US History Timeline

Events - Non Wars | Presidents/Vice-Presidents | States/Capitals
Wars

Events - Non Wars

1492 - Columbus Discovers America

1607 - Jamestown, VA is established at the first permanent English colony.

1620 - Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock

1755 - U.S. Postal Service Established

1773 - Boston Tea Party (Dec 16)

1776 - Declaration of Independence

1778 - Captain James Cook Discovers Hawaii

1787 - Constitution of the United States signed

1791 - U.S. Bill of Rights ratified

1803 - Louisiana Purchase from France for $15,000,000

1804-1806 - Lewis & Clark expedition explored from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

1823 - Monroe Doctrine

1836 - The Alamo (Feb-Mar) 1863 - Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address (Nov 19)

1886 - Statue of Liberty accepted by Grover Cleveland (Oct 28)

1892 - Pledge of Allegiance, First Published (Sept 8 - Francis Bellamy is the credited author)

1928 - Woman obtain full voting privelages

1929-1940 - The Great Depression

1941 - Bombing of Pearl Harbor (Dec 7)

1954 - The words "Under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance (June 14)

1962 - Cuban Missle Crisis

1963 - John F. Kennedy assassinated

Presidents/Vice Presidents

Term	##	President	Vice-President(s)
1789-1797	01	George Washington	John Adams
1797-1801	02	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809	03	Thomas Jefferson	Aaron Burr (1801-05) - George Clinton (1805-09)
1809-1817	04	James Madison	George Clinton (1809-12) - Elbridge Gerry (1813-14)
1817-1825	05	James Monroe	Daniel D. Tompkins
1825-1829	06	John Quincy Adams	John C. Calhoun
1829-1837	07	Andrew Jackson	John C. Calhoun (1829-32) - Martin Van Buren (1833-37)
1837-1841	08	Martin Van Buren	Richard M. Johnson
1841-1841	09	William Henry Harrison	John Tyler. Died 1 month after inauguration.
1841-1845	10	John Tyler	None
1845-1849	11	James Knox Polk	George M. Dallas
1849-1850	12	Zachary Taylor	Millard Fillmore
1850-1853	13	Millard Fillmore	None
1853-1857	14	Franklin Pierce	William R. King (1853)
1857-1861	15	James Buchanan	John C. Brekinridge
1861-1865	16	Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)	Hannibal Hamlin (1861-65) - Andrew Johnson (1865)
1865-1869	17	Andrew Johnson	None
1869-1877	18	Ulysses Simpson Grant	Schuyler Colfax (1869-73) - Henry Wilson (1873-75)
1877-1881	19	Rutherford Birchard Hayes	William A. Wheeler
1881	20	James Abram Garfield (assassinated)	Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885	21	Chester Alan Arthur	None
1885-1889	22	Grover Cleveland	Thomas A. Hendricks
1889-1893	23	Benjamin Harrison	Levi P. Morton
1893-1897	24	Grover Cleveland	Adali E. Stevenson
1897-1901	25	William Mckinley	Garret A. Hobert (1897-99) - Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
1901-1909	26	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-09)
1909-1913	27	William Howard Taft	James S. Sherman
1913-1921	28	Woodrow Wilson	Thomas R. Marshall
1921-1923	29	William Gamaliel Harding	Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929	30	Calvin Coolidge	Charles G. Dawes
1929-1933	31	Herbert Clark Hoover	Charles Curtis
1933-1945	32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	James N. Garner (1933-41) - Henry A. Wallace (1941-45) Harry S. Truman (1945)
1945-1953	33	Harry S. Truman	Alben W. Barkley
1953-1961	34	Dwight David Eisenhower	Richard M. Nixon
1961-1963	35	John Fitgerald Kennedy	Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1969	36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-69)
1969-1974	37	Richard Milhous Nixon	Spiro T. Agnew (1969-73) - Gerald R. Ford (1973-74)
1974-1977	38	Gerald Rudolph Ford	Nelson A. Rockefeller
1977-1981	39	Jimmy Carter	Walter F. Mondale
1981-1989	40	Ronald Wilson Regan	George H. W. Bush
1989-1993	41	George Hebert Walker Bush	J. Danforth Quayle
1993-2001	42	William Clinton	Albert Gore, Jr.
2001	43	George W. Bush	Dick Cheney

States/Capitals

Year	##	State	Capital	Date admitted to the Union
1787	01	Delaware	Dover	Dec 7
	02	Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	Dec 12
	03	New Jersey	Trenton	Dec 16
1788	04	Georgia	Atlanta	Jan 2
	05	Connecticut	Hartford	Jan 9
	06	Massachusetts	Boston	Feb 6
	07	Maryland	Annapolis	Apr 28
	08	South Carolina	Columbia	May 23
	09	New Hampshire	Concord	Jun 21
	10	Virginia	Richmond	Jun 25
	11	New York	Albany	Jul 26
1789	12	North Carolina	Raleigh	Nov 21
1790	13	Rhode Island	Providence	May 29
1791	14	Vermont	Montpelier	Mar 4
1792	15	Kentucky	Frankfort	Jun 1
1796	16	Tennessee	Nashville	Jun 1
1803	17	Ohio	Columbus	Mar 1
1812	18	Louisiana	Baton Rouge	Apr 30
1816	19	Indiana	Indianapolis	Dec 11
1817	20	Mississippi	Jackson	Dec 10
1818	21	Illinois	Springfield	Dec 3
1819	22	Alabama	Montgomery	Dec 14
1820	23	Maine	Augusta	Mar 5
1821	24	Missouri	Jefferson City	Aug 10
1836	25	Arkansas	Little Rock	Jun 15
1837	26	Michigan	Lansing	Jan 26
1845	27	Florida	Tallahassee	Mar 3
	28	Texas	Austin	Dec 29
1846	29	Iowa	Des Moines	Dec 28
1848	30	Wisconsin	Madison	May 29
1850	31	California	Sacramento	Sep 9
1858	32	Minnesota	St. Paul	May 11
1859	33	Oregon	Salem	Feb 14
1861	34	Kansas	Topeka	Jan 29
1863	35	West Virginia	Charleston	Jun 20
1864	36	Nevada	Carson City	Oct 31
1867	37	Nebraska	Lincoln	Mar 1
1876	38	Colorado	Denver	Aug 1
1889	39	North Dakota	Bismark	Nov 2
	40	South Dakota	Pierre	Nov 2
	41	Montana	Helena	Nov 8
	42	Washington	Olympia	Nov 12
1890	43	Wyoming	Cheyenne	Jul 3
	44	Idaho	Boise	Jul 10
1896	45	Utah	Salt Lake	Jan 4
1907	46	Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	Nov 16
1912	47	New Mexico	Santa Fe	Jan 6
	48	Arizona	Pheonix	Feb 14
1959	49	Alaska	Juneau	Jan 3
	50	Hawaii	Honolulu	Aug 21

Wars

1775-1783 - Revolutionary War

1812-1815 - War of 1812

1846-1848 - Mexican War

1861-1865 - Civil War

1898 - Spanish American War

1914-1918 - World War I

1939-1945 - World War II

1950-1953 - Korean War

1950-1975 - Vietnam War

1991- Gulf War