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Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
1539 May 30 Hernando De Soto Lands At Tampa Bay
1608 Sep 10 Jamestown, Virginia Elects John Smith As Council President
1614 Apr 05 Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe In Virginia
1620 Sep 16 English Mayflower Sets Sail
1620 Nov 09 Pilgrims Land At Cape Cod Massachusetss
1634 Mar 25 The First Settlers Arrive In Maryland
1642 Mar 01 Gorgeana, Massachusetts First U.S. Incorporated City
1653 Feb 02 New Amsterdam Is Incorporated
1679 Sep 18 New Hampshire Becomes A County
1772 Jun 09 Britch Schooner Gaspee Burned Near Rhode Island
1774 Sep 01 Colonists Revolt In The Powder Alarm
1775 Apr 20 Boston Siege Followed Lexington And Concord Battles
1775 May 17 Continental Congress Bans Trade With Quebec
1775 Jul 05 The Olive Branch Peition Is Adopted
1775 Jul 08 Colonies Sign Olive Branch Petition
1775 Nov 10 USMC Tun Tavern Philadelphia Samuel Nicholas Founded
1776 May 19 Continentals Surrender At Battle Of The Cedars
1776 Jun 12 Adoption Of Virginia Declaration Of Rights
1776 Sep 09 Continental Congress Names New Union United States
1776 Nov 16 Unite Provinces Recognize Independence
1777 Jun 14 The Stars And Strips Is Our Flag
1777 Sep 27 Lancaster, Pennsylvania Capital For One Day
1777 Dec 17 France Recognizes U.S. Independence
1778 Jun 18 American Revolution: British Abandon Philadelphia
1778 Sep 19 Continental Congress Passes First Federal Budget
1779 Jun 24 Great Siege Of Gibraltar Begins
1779 Sep 16 Franco American Siege Of Savannah Begins
1782 Jan 07 1st American Commercial Bank Opens
1782 Jul 01 American Privateers Attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
1783 Nov 03 Disbanded American Army
1787 Sep 17 US Constitution Signed In Philadelphia
1787 Dec 18 New Jersey: 3rd State To Ratify Constitution
1788 Jul 26 New York Becomes 11th State United States
1789 Sep 22 Office Of US Postmaster General Established
1789 Sep 29 First Ever U.S. Congress Adjourns
1789 Nov 06 First Catholic Bishop Of Us Appointed
1789 Nov 21 North Carolina Admitted As 12th US State
1790 Mar 01 The First United States Census Is Authorized
1790 Jul 16 Residence Act Establishes United States Capital
1790 Aug 02 The First United States Census Is Conducted
1790 Aug 04 Act Creates Coast Guard Forerunner
1791 Mar 04 Vermont Admitted As 14th State
1791 Nov 15 Georgetown (1st US Catholic College) Opens
1791 Dec 15 Virginia GA Ratifies Bill Of Rights
1794 Feb 11 US Senate Session Opens To Public
1795 Feb 07 11th Amendment Ratified
1795 Aug 03 Treaty Of Greenville Is Signed
1796 Apr 13 First Elephant In US Arrives From India
1796 Jul 11 Jay Treaty Gives US Detroit
1801 Jan 31 John Marshall Made US Chief Justice
1801 Feb 04 John Marshall Takes U.S. Chief Justice Oath
1801 May 10 Tripoli Pirates Declare War On U.S
1803 Mar 01 Ohio Is Admitted As The 17th U.S. State
1803 Dec 20 Louisiana Purchase Completed In New Orleans
1804 May 13 Yusuf Karamanli Of Tripoli To Retake Derna
1804 Jul 12 Alexander Hamilton Dies After Duel
1805 Jan 11 The Michigan Territory Is Created
1805 Apr 26 US O'Bannon Captures Derne In First Barbary War
1805 Jun 11 Fire Consumes Part Of Detroit
1807 May 22 Aaron Burr Is Indicted For Treason
1810 Oct 27 United States Annexes Florida, Spanish Colony
1812 Feb 11 Massachusetts Governor ""Gerrymanders"" For First Time
1812 Apr 04 President Madison Enacts U.K. Embargo
1812 Apr 30 Louisiana Becomes 18th State
1812 Jul 12 The U.S. Invades Windsor, Ontario
1813 Oct 05 Tecumseh Killed As Americans Win Battle Of Thames
1816 Apr 10 Federal Government Approves Second Bank
1816 Dec 11 Indiana Becomes The 19th U.S. State
1817 Dec 10 Mississippi Becomes The 20th U.S. State
1818 Apr 16 Congress Ratifies The Rush-Bagot Treaty
1818 Dec 03 Illinois Becomes The 21st U.S. State
1819 Feb 17 U.S. House Passes Missouri Compromise
1819 Dec 14 Alabama Becomes The 22nd U.S. State
1820 Mar 15 Maine Becomes The 23rd U.S. State
1821 Aug 10 Missouri Becomes 24th US State
1822 Mar 30 US Florida Territory Created
1822 Nov 09 USS Aligator And Pirates Act Off Cuba
1825 Oct 26 Erie Canal: Passage From Albany To Lake Erie
1829 Jul 23 William Austin Burt Patents Typographer
1833 Jun 06 Jackson Becomes First President To Ride Train
1834 Jul 07 Abolitionists Begin Four Nights Of Rioting
1835 Dec 28 Osceola, Seminoles Begin Fight Against U.S
1836 Jun 15 Arkansas Is Admitted As The 25th U.S. State
1838 Jan 26 Tennessee Enacts Prohibition Law
1838 Jul 04 The Iowa Territory Is Organized
1841 Apr 06 U.S. President John Tyler Sworn In
1845 Mar 03 Florida Is Admitted As The 27th U.S. State
1846 Jan 05 Voting By U.S. House Of Representatives
1846 May 13 United States Declares Mexican-American War
1846 Dec 28 Iowa Is Admitted As The 29th U.S. State
1847 Sep 12 Beginning Of Mexican–American War
1848 Feb 02 Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ends War
1848 May 29 Wisconsin Is Admitted As The 30th U.S. State
1848 Aug 22 The United States Annexes New Mexico
1849 Sep 17 Harriet Tubman Escapes From Slavery
1850 Jan 29 Compromise Of 1850 Introduced To Congress By Clay
1850 Apr 04 Los Angeles Is Incorporated As A City
1850 Oct 23 First Women's Rights Convention In Worcester, Massachusetts
1852 Aug 21 Tlingit Indians Destroy Fort Selkirk
1853 Dec 30 U.S. Buys Gadsden Land From Mexico
1855 Jul 01 Quinalt And Quileute Cede Land To US
1858 May 11 Minnesota Is Admitted As The 32nd U.S. State
1859 Feb 14 Oregon Becomes The 33rd State
1860 Jun 23 Government Printing Office Established By American Congress
1861 Jan 11 Alabama Secedes From The United States
1861 Jan 29 Kansas Is Admitted As The 34th U.S. State
1861 Apr 27 Habeas Corpus Suspended By American President Lincoln
1861 Aug 29 United States Captures Forts At Hatteras Inlet
1862 Sep 15 Confederate Forces Capture Harpers Ferry, VA
1863 Jan 09 Battle Of Fort Hindman Fought
1863 Feb 24 Arizona Organizes As A United States Territory
1863 Jul 07 United States Begins Military Draft
1864 Mar 15 Civil War: Navy Arrives In Louisiana
1864 Oct 31 Nevada Becomes The 36th U.S. State
1865 Feb 01 President Lincoln Signs 13th Amendment
1865 Apr 14 Seward And Family The Victims Of A Home Invasion
1866 May 05 Memorial Day First Celebrated In New York
1867 Mar 02 U.S. Congress Passes First Reconstruction Act
1867 Dec 28 The Midway Atoll Is Annexed
1868 Jul 25 Wyoming Becomes A United States Territory
1870 Jul 01 Formation Of U.S. Department Of Justice
1871 Apr 20 The Civil Rights Act Of 1871 Becomes Law
1874 Feb 16 Silver Dollar Becomes Legal US Tender
1874 Mar 18 Hawaii Grants Exclusive Trade Rights
1876 Aug 01 Colorado Is Admitted As The 38th U.S. State
1877 Aug 09 Indians Clash With United States
1881 Jul 14 Billy The Kid Killed Near Fort Sumner
1883 Feb 23 Alabama First State To Enact Anti-trust Laws
1884 May 01 Eight-hour Workday Proclamation In U.S
1887 Nov 09 U.S. Receives Rights To Pearl Harbor
1888 Oct 09 Washington Monument Officially Opens
1888 Dec 09 Herman Hollerith Device At US War Dept
1889 Oct 06 Edison Shows His First Motion Picture
1889 Nov 08 Montana Admitted As 41st State
1890 Jul 03 Idaho Is Admitted As The 43rd U.S. State
1890 Jul 10 Wyoming Is Admitted As The 44th U.S. State
1890 Sep 25 U.S. Congress Established Sequoia National Park
1890 Oct 11 D.C.: Daughters Of American Revolution Founded
1892 Jun 07 Benjamin Harrison First Attended A Baseball Game
1892 Sep 08 Pledge Of Allegiance Is First Recited
1894 Jun 28 Labor Day Becomes An Official US Holiday
1896 Jan 04 Utah Is Admitted As The 45th U.S. State
1897 May 14 Philadelphia: Stars And Stripes Forever First Performed
1898 Apr 25 Spanish-American War: U.S. Declares War
1898 Jun 10 U.S. Marines Arrive In Cuba
1898 Jun 17 Navy Hospital Corps Established In US
1898 Jun 21 The United States Captures Guam From Spain
1898 Jul 07 President McKinley Signs Newlands Resolution, Annexing Hawaii
1898 Oct 18 U.S. Takes Possession Of Puerto Rico
1899 Feb 04 Battle Of Manila Begins
1899 Sep 13 Henry Bliss: First US Automobile Fatality
1900 Jun 14 Hawaii Becomes A United States Territory
1901 Apr 25 NY First To Require Automobile Plates
1901 Aug 06 Contiguous Kiowa Reservation Dissolves In Oklahoma
1901 Oct 12 President Roosevelt Names The White House
1901 Nov 27 U.S. Army War College Established
1902 Apr 02 1st Full-Time ""Electric Theatre"" Opens In L.A
1902 Aug 22 Roosevelt Rides In Automobile
1903 Mar 14 President Roosevelt Established Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge
1907 May 27 Plague Breaks Out In San Francisco, California
1909 Apr 09 Payne-Aldrich Act Passed
1912 Feb 14 Arizona Admitted As 48th U.S. State
1912 Mar 12 Founding Of Girl Scouts Of USA
1912 Oct 03 Nicaraguan Rebels Are Defeated By U.S. Forces
1913 Jul 10 Highest U.S. Temp In Death Valley, CA, 134 °F
1914 Sep 26 US FTC Established
1914 Nov 16 The US Federal Reserve Bank Is Open
1914 Nov 28 Stock Exchange Re-opens After July's War Closing
1915 Jan 12 US House Of Representatives Rejects Womens Voting Rights
1916 Aug 25 U.S. National Park Service Created
1916 Aug 29 U.S. Passes The Philippine Autonomy Act
1917 Dec 07 WWI: U.S. Declares War On Austria-Hungary
1918 Jan 09 Battle Of Bear Valley Ends Indian Wars
1918 Mar 19 U.S. Time Zones, Daylight Savings Established
1919 Feb 17 Ukraine Asks US For Fighting Help
1919 Jun 02 Simultaneous Anarchist Explosions In 8 Us Cities
1919 Sep 11 U.S. Marines Invade Honduras
1919 Sep 16 The American Legion Is Incorporated
1919 Sep 28 Race Riots Erupt In Omaha, Nebraska
1920 Aug 26 19th Amendment Allows Women To Vote
1922 Feb 08 Harding Installs First White House Radio Set
1922 May 10 The United States Annexes The Kingman Reef
1924 Jun 26 American Forces Leave The Dominican Republic
1928 Sep 27 Republic Of China Recognized By U.S
1933 Oct 17 Einstein Fless Germany For U.S
1933 Nov 17 United States Recognizes Soviet Union
1934 Feb 02 Export-Import Bank Of The U.S. Incorporated
1936 Aug 14 Hanging Is Last Public Execution In United States
1940 Apr 07 Booker Washington Is Depicted On Stamp
1941 May 27 US Proclaims An 'unlimited National Emergency'
1941 Sep 04 WWII: German Sub Attacks USS Greer
1941 Oct 31 Mount Rushmore Is Completed
1941 Dec 01 Emperor Hirohito, Japan, War Against USA
1941 Dec 13 In WWII Hungary And Romania Fight Against United States
1941 Dec 23 Japanese Army Occupies Wake Island
1941 Dec 25 Admiral Nimitz Takes Command At Pearl Harbor
1942 Jan 26 WWII: US Forces Arrive In Ireland
1942 Apr 03 Japan Attacks US And Philippines Attack Bataan Peninsula
1942 May 06 WW2 American Forces Surrend To Japanese At Corregidor
1942 May 15 WAAC Created In United States
1942 Jun 05 U.S. Declares War On Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania
1942 Nov 08 US And UK Land In French North Africa
1943 Mar 02 Americans And Australians Sink Japanese Ships
1943 Oct 24 India Declares War
1943 Nov 23 WWII: Tarawa And Makin Fall To US
1944 Jan 30 Americans Arrive On The Marshall Islands
1944 Jan 31 American Forces Land On Kwajalein Atoll
1944 Jun 19 First Day Of Battle Of Philippine Sea, WWII
1944 Sep 19 Hürtgen Forest Battle: US Vs. Nazis Begins
1945 Jan 01 30 SS Prisoners Massacred At Chenogne
1945 Jan 09 World War II: US Invades Luzon, Philippines
1945 Jan 25 Battle Of The Bulge Ends In WWII
1945 Mar 26 Iwo Jima Officially Secured By Americans
1945 Apr 01 Iceberg: American Troops Land On Okinawa
1945 Apr 09 US Atomic Engergy Commission Is Formed
1946 Jan 22 Central Intelligence Group Preceded Central Intelligence Agency
1946 Jul 07 Mother Francesca Cabrini Becomes First Canonized American
1946 Aug 03 Indiana: Santa Claus Land Opens
1947 Sep 18 US Air Force Is Its Own Branch
1947 Oct 20 First Diplomacy Between U.S. And Pakistan
1948 Apr 03 President Truman Signs Marshall Plan For Foreign Aid
1948 May 23 Wasson, US Gonsul-General Assassinated In Jerusalem
1950 Jan 31 Truman Announces Development Of Hydrogen Bomb
1950 Jun 27 U.S. To Send Troops To Korea
1950 Jul 05 American, NK Forces In Battle Of Osan
1950 Nov 19 Eisenhower Becomes Commander Of NATO-Europe
1950 Dec 17 F-86 Sabre Has Its First Mission
1951 Feb 27 22nd Ammendment Limits Presidents To Two Terms
1952 Mar 20 The U.S. Senate Ratifies Peace Treaty
1952 May 03 Colonels Land Plane At North Pole
1952 Sep 19 Charlie Chaplin Is Banned From The US
1953 Jan 19 Lucy Gives Birth And American Tunes In
1953 Feb 11 President Eisenhower Refuses Clemency Appeal For Rosenberg's
1953 May 25 The U.S. Conducts Nuclear Artillery Test
1954 Feb 10 U.S. President Eisenhower Warns Against Vietnam Intervention
1954 Feb 18 Los Angeles: First Church Of Scientology Established
1954 May 17 Supreme Court Unanimous On Brown Decision
1954 Dec 02 Mutual Defense Treaty Signed In Washington
1955 Aug 19 Hurricane Diane Flooding Kills 200
1957 Oct 01 First Appearance Of In God We Trust
1958 Jan 31 Explorer 1 Was Launched Into Orbit
1958 Oct 07 U.S Space Project Renamed To Mercury
1959 Jan 03 Alaska Is Admitted As The 49th U.S. State
1959 Sep 18 Vanguard 3 Is Launched Into Orbit
1960 Apr 25 USS Triton Traverses Globe While Submerged
1960 Jul 11 Harper Lee's Novel Is Published In The US
1961 Jan 03 U.S. Ends Diplomatic Ties With Cuba
1961 Mar 01 U.S. President Kennedy Establishes Peace Corps
1962 Feb 07 U.S. Bans Cuba Trade
1962 Sep 24 Mississippi University Forced To Admit James Meredith
1962 Dec 09 Arizona: Petrified Forest National Park Established
1965 Jan 04 Proclamation Of 'Great Society' By U.S. President
1965 Mar 08 First Combat Forces Committed To Vietnam
1965 Apr 11 256 Dead In Midwestern Tornado Outbreak
1966 Mar 16 Gemini 8 In First Space Docking
1966 Jun 30 Feminist Organization ""NOW"" Is Founded
1967 Feb 10 US Ratifies 25th Constitutional Ammendment
1967 Apr 01 The U.S. Department Of Transportation Begins
1967 Aug 30 Marshal First African American Justice
1967 Dec 04 US, South Vietnamese Versus Viet Cong, Mekong
1969 Apr 05 Anti Vietnam War Demonstrations Across U.S
1969 Dec 17 USAF Closes UFO Studies
1970 Dec 02 The EPA Begins Operations In The USA
1971 Feb 20 US Emergency Broadcast System Accidentally Activated
1971 Jun 17 President Nixon Declares War On Drugs
1972 Mar 22 Congress Sends ERA Out For Ratification
1972 Apr 10 B-52 Bombers Begin Bombing North Vietnam
1972 May 15 Okinawa Reverts To Japanese Control From U.S
1972 Aug 03 The United States Ratifies The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
1972 Aug 11 Last US Ground Unit Leaves Vietnam
1973 May 29 Los Angeles Elects The First Black Mayor, Tom Bradley
1973 Dec 28 US Passes Endangered Species Act
1974 Feb 22 Nixon Survives Assasination Attempt By Byck
1974 Mar 18 OPEC Oil Embargo Ends
1974 Jun 27 President Nixon Visits The Soviet Union
1976 Jul 10 Mercenaries Executed In Angola Following Luanda Trial
1977 May 31 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Completed
1977 Aug 04 Carter Creates Department Of Energy
1977 Sep 05 Voyager 1 Is Launched
1979 Jun 18 SALT II Signed By U.S
1979 Jul 11 Skylab Explodes Over The Indian Ocean
1979 Aug 21 Godunov Defects To US
1979 Oct 06 Pope John Paul To Visit White House
1983 Dec 31 ATT Bell System Broken U. S
1984 Nov 02 Barfield First Woman Executed Since 1962
1986 Jun 04 Rollard Sells American Secrets To Israel
1987 May 05 Congressional Hearings In Iran-Contra Affair
1989 Jul 17 First Flight Of B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber
1990 Mar 27 U.S. Begins Broadcasting TV Marti
1993 Mar 12 Janet Reno Is First Female Attorney General
1994 Oct 01 Palau Gains Independence From U.N. Trusteeship
1996 Feb 01 US Passes Communications Decency Act
1996 Oct 02 Clinton Signs Electronic Freedom Of Information Act Amendments
2001 Oct 07 US Invasion Of Afghanistan Begins
2001 Dec 27 China Granted Trade With U.S
2002 Jan 08 Bush Signs No Child Left Behind Act
2002 Jun 13 US Withdraws From Missile Treaty
2002 Oct 02 The Beltway Sniper Attacked Again
2003 Aug 14 Blackout Across US Northeast And Canada
2003 Sep 12 Fallujah: US Forces Kill 8 Iraqi Officers
2005 Dec 15 Martin F-22 Raptor Active In USAF
2006 Feb 16 Last MASH Decommissioned By Army
2006 Apr 02 Over 60 Tornadoes Break In US
2013 Jan 02 Obama Signs Taxpayer Relief Act
2014 Dec 17 U.S., Cuba Re-establish Diplomatic Relations
2015 Jan 26 A Giant Snow Storm Hits Northeast