Complete American History

 1492 - Christopher Columbus - Discovered the new world thinking it was India.

1501 - Amerigo Vespucci recognizes America as a New Continent 

1513 Ponce De Leon - First discovered La Florida
Hernando De Soto - Explorer of Southern USA
Fransisco Pizzaro - defeated the Inca to dominate South America
Hernan Cortez - defeated the Aztec to dominate Central America
1585 Roanoke Colony (Sir Walter Raleigh)

1607 Jamestown
1607 -Thirteen Colonies
1620 - Pilgrims travel on the Mayflower
1621 First Thanksgiving
1655 - Anthony Johnson Suit - first slave held in servitude for life = first slave
1692 - Salem Witch Trials

1753 - Philadelphia Independence Hall finished
1763 – Britain defeats France in the Seven Years War
1773  - Boston Tea Party
1775-1783 - Revolutionary war
1776 – Declaration of independence signed
1777 – First American Flag
1783 – Treaty of Paris (British recognize USA)
1787 – Shay’s Rebellion (USA Tax protest)
1789 - Washington as first president
1791 – Whiskey Rebellion (USA Tax protest)
1791 – Vermont joined USA
1795 – Won the Chickamunga War to make Tennessee a USA territory
1797 – John Adams as second president
1798 – 1800 Quasi-War with British against the French (USA claimed not to owe French debt)

1800 - John Adams moves into the White House
1801 – Thomas Jefferson as third president
1801 – 1805 First Barbary wars in North Africa (War against Pirating)
1803 – After the battle of Fallen Timbers, during the Northwest Indian War, Ohio becomes a state.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase (included majority of Midwestern states)
1804-1806 Lewis & Clark & Sacadewea Expedition
1804 Hamilton Vs Aaron Burr Duel
1809 – James Madison as fourth president
1812 – Louisiana becomes a state
1812-1815 - War of 1812 (Part of the Napoleonic wars)
1814 - White House burned down by the British
1815 Second Barbary War (see 1801)
1816 – 1821 Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine & Missouri become states
1816-1819 First Seminole War
1817 – James Monroe as fifth president
1820 - Missouri Compromise 
1820 – 1875 Texas-Indian Wars
1823 - Monroe Doctrine 

1825 – John Quincy Adams as sixth president
1826 – Last of the Mohicans is published
1828 - Georgia Law takes Cherokee Land
1829- Andrew Jackson as seventh president
1831 – 1850 Trail of Tears (Native forced migration)
1836 - Battle of the Alamo 
1835 – 1942 Second Seminole War
1835-1836 Texas Revolution
1836 – 1837 Arkansas & Michigan become a States
1837- Martin Van Buren as eighth president
1838 - Mormon War
1841- William Henry Harrison as ninth president
1841- John Tyler as tenth president
1845 James K. Polk as eleventh president
1845 Florida & Texas become a States
1846 – 1848 Mexican-American War over Texas
1846 Iowa Becomes a State
1847 – 1855 Cayuse Indian war in Oregon
1848 Wisconsin becomes a State 
1849 Zachary Taylor as twelfth president
1850 Millard Fillmore thirteenth president
1850 The Scarlett Letter is published
1850 California becomes a state

1851 Moby Dick Published
1851- 1900 Apache Wars
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin Written
1853 Franklin Pierce as fourteenth president
1854 - Missouri Compromise Repealed 
1855 – 1858 Third Seminole War
1855 - 1858 Yakima War (Washington)
1856 – 1860 Second Opium War
1857 James Buchanan fifteenth president
1857 - Dred Scott Case
1858 - 1866 Navajo Wars (New Mexico)
1858- Minnesota becomes a state
1859 - Oregon becomes a State
1861 - Kansas becomes  a State
1861 Abraham Lincoln sixteenth president 
1861-1865 American Civil War
1863 - West Virginia becomes a State
1864 - Nevada becomes a state
1865 - Andrew Johnson seventeenth president 
1867 Nebraska becomes a state
1869 - Ulysses S Grant eighteenth president
1870 - Jehovah's Witnesses founded
1876 - Colorado becomes a state
1877 Rutherford Hayes nineteenth president
1881 James Garfield twentieth president
1881 James Garfield assassinated
1881 Chester Arthur twenty first president
1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published
1885 Grover Cleveland twenty second president
1883 - Brooklyn Bridge built 
1886 - Statue of Liberty Dedicated
1889 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington & Montana become states
1889 - Benjamin Harrison twenty third president 
1890 - Idaho & Wyoming become states
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre 
1893 Grover Cleveland president again, twenty forth 
1896 - Utah becomes a state
1897 William McKinley, twenty fifth president 
1898 - Spanish American War
1898 - Puerto Rico becomes part of the united states
1898 Named protectorate over Cuba
1898 -1934 Banana Wars

1901 William McKinley assassinated
1901 Theodore Roosevelt, twenty sixth president
1903 The Wright Brothers first flight
1907 - Oklahoma becomes a state
1909 - Howard Taft, twenty seventh president
1912 - New Mexico & Arizona become states
1912 - Titanic Sinks
1913 - Woodrow Wilson, twenty eighth president 
1914 - Panama Canal Opens
1915 Sinking of the Lusitania
1915- birth of a nation released 
1917 - USA enters World War One
1921 - Warren Harding, twenty ninth president 
1923 - Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president 
1925 - The Great Gatsby published
1927 - Mount Rushmore finished
1929 Herbert Hoover, thirty first president
1929 - Stock market crash causing the great depression worldwide
1931 - Empire State Building opens
1931- star spangled banner written
1933 FDR, thirty second president 
1933 Golden Gate bridge finished
1934- Alcatraz opens
1934- bonnie and clyde 
1934- john dillinger 
1935 - Hoover Dam Finished
1935- babe ruth retires 
1937- snow white released 
1939- wizard of oz released 
1939- gone with the wind released 
1940- FDR unprecedented 3rd term 
1941 - Pearl Harbor Bombed - USA enters World War Two
1942- Japanese internment 
1943- Pentagon complete 
1944- FDR fourth term but dies in 1945
1945 Hiroshima 
1945 Harry Truman, thirty third president 
1947- Jackie Robinson joins MLB
1950 - 1953 Korean War

1951- The Catcher in the Rye published
1953 Dwight Eisenhower, thirty forth president
1955 - Emmett Hill Murder
1955-1975 Vietnam War
1955- Disneyland opens
1955- first McDonald's opens
1955- in god we trust added to money
1956- first song by elvis 
1957 - Little Rock Nine - Black School Integration 
1959 - Alaska & Hawaii become states
1960 - Greensboro Sit-Ins
1960 - To Kill A Mockingbird published
1961 - Freedom Riders
1961 - JFK, thirty fifth president 
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962- first Walmart opens 
1963 JFK assassination
1963 Lyndon Johnson, thirty sixth president  
1963 - MLK- I Have a Dream Speech 
1966 - Austin Texas Tower Shooter
1967- first superbowl
1968 MLK assassinated 
1969- Richard Nixon, thirty seventh president 
1969 - Moon Landing
1974 - Gerald Ford, thirty eighth president  
1977 - Jimmy Carter, thirty ninth president 
1981 - Ronald Reagan, fortieth president
1989 - George Bush SR, forty first president 
1990 - Internet Invented
1990 - Gulf War
1993 - Bill Clinton, forty second president 
1999 - Columbine Shooting

2001 - George Bush Jr, forty third president 
2001 - September 11th attacks
2001-2021 - War in Afghanistan 
2002 DC Sniper Attacks
2003-2011 Iraq War
2007 Virginia Tech Shooting
2008 Barack Obama, forty forth president 
2012 - Sandy Hook Shooting
2013- Edward Snowdon 
2016 - Donald Trump, forty fifth president 
2016 - Orlando Nightclub Shooting
2017 - Las Vegas Shooting
2018 - Parkland Shooting
2020 - Covid 19 Pandemic 
2021- Joe Biden, forty sixth president 








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