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217 : Year of oldest Pueblo roof beam that can be dated
400 : Heyday of Moundbuilders in Mississippi valley
725 : Casa Grande, an Indian fort and large irrigation works built - Arizona
850 : Norsemen defeat Irishmen, eject them from Iceland
985 : Eric the Red colonizes Greenland
1000 : Leif, Eric's son, builds dwelling on NE coast of Newfoundland
1000 : Tiahuanaco civilization in Peru, widespread planting of potatoes, corn
1056 : Beginning of the democratic Pataria movement in Milan
1100 : Mayan civilization reaches it's height in Central America
1215 : King John seals Magna Carta at Runnymede. But not made law until 1297
1225 : Magna Carta reissued for third time in definitive form
1254 : Birth of Marco Polo, explorer who will bring pasta to Italy from China
1297 : Magna Carta confirmed by Edward I, enters English statute rolls as law
1325 : Toltec empire defeated by Aztecs in Mexico
1327 : Aztecs establish Mexico City
1332 : Parliament divides into two houses
1347 : Bubonic plague in Europe; originated in India, 1332. 75 million deaths
1364 : Aztecs build their capital at Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1438 : Inca rule begins in Peru
1441 : Portuguese sailors enter slave trade with African Negroes at Cape Blanc
1450 : The League of Nations established at Onondaga, NY. 1st true democracy
1451 : Birth year of both Cristoforo Columbo and Amerigo Vespucci
1492 : Columbus departs Palos, Spain, in Santa Maria. Hopes to find Indies
1494 : Spain and Portugal divide New World in Treaty of Tordesillas
1497 : John Cabot makes landfall in Newfoundland, claims it for England
1498 : Cabot's explore as far south as Hatteras
1499 : Ojeda explores Venezuelan coastline
1500 : Fernandes explores Labrador
1500 : Pedro Alvarez Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal
1501 : Gaspar Corte-Real kidnaps 57 Indians in Newfoundland
1501 : Rodrigo de Bastidas explores Central American coast & Caribbean
1507 : Lands of the New World named for Amerigo Vespucci by Waldseemuller
1510 : Spain begins settlements in Jamaica. Two years later in Cuba
1513 : Vasco Nunez de Balboa names large body of water as "Pacific"
1513 : Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida
1519 : Cortes brings Arabian horses to America from Spain
1519 : Hernando Cortes begins assault on Mexico, defeats the Aztecs
1519 : Domenico de Pineda explores Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Vera Cruz
1520 : Magellan navigates through the straits from Atlantic to Pacific
1521 : Guam, where America's day begins, explored by Magellan
1524 : Giovanni da Verrazano explores Hudson River and New York harbor waters
1526 : Spanish attempt colonization of Cape Fear; it lasts only a few months
1528 : Panfilo de Narvaez invades Florida from Cuba, wars with Indians
1531 : Spain invades Peru
1534 : Jacques Cartier explores coast of Labrador
1535 : Jacques Cartier explores St. Lawrence River, trades with Huron Indians
1536 : Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aries
1538 : Bogota settled by Quesada
1539 : First printing press set up in the New World - at Mexico City
1540 : Coronado begins trek north from Mexico to Zuni territory
1540 : Coronado's troops discover the Grand Canyon
1541 : Hernando de Soto explores Mississipi River valley and Gulf Coast
1542 : Cabrillo explores in area of San Diego
1544 : Sebastian Cabot publishes map of the world with remarkable detail
1555 : First tobacco taken from America to Spain
1555 : Rio de Janeiro colony established by the French
1558 : Start of Reign of Elizabeth I
1562 : John Hawkins begins slave trade between Guinea and West Indies
1562 : French establish trading post in South Carolina, erect monument in FL
1564 : French Huguenots try to start colony at Jacksonville; are killed by Spain
1565 : Spanish found St. Augustine, FL. First European colony in the west
1572 : Francis Drake attacks Spanish harbors in the Americas
1576 : Martin Frobisher puts his name on Frobisher's Bay, Canada
1577 : Sir Francis Drake begins explorations of west coast
1581 : Franciscan friars begin missionary work in "New Mexico"
1584 : Walter Raleigh knighted by Virgin Queen for naming new colony for her
1585 : English attempt colony at Roanoke Island, NC, but have Indian trouble
1587 : New colony established at Pamlico Sound. It disappeared within 2 yrs
1588 : English defeat Spanish armada of King Philip II
1590 : Galileo describes the law of falling bodies
1598 : Don Juan de Onate claims all of New Mexico for Spain
1598 : Colonists landed on Sable Island
1601 : Colony of Tadoussac founded
1602 : Cape Cod named by Bartholemew Gosnold, English navigator who found it
1603 : End of Reign of Elizabeth I
1604 : Trading post established at Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1606 : First charter granted to the Virginia Company, named after Virgin Queen
1607 : Captain John Smith first encounters Iroquois in Chesapeake Bay
1607 : Jamestown founded
1608 : Champlain founds village of Quebec
1609 : East Anglia Puritans leave England for Leiden, Holland for 10 year stay
1609 : Dutch establish Fort Orange, now known as Albany, NY
1609 : Champlain makes war against the Iroquois, 1st use of guns on Indians
1609 : Henry Hudson explores river valley named for him
1609 : Kepler describes planetary motions and laws
1609 : Santa Fe, New Mexico settled
1609 : Henry Hudson explores east coast for Netherlands
1610 : Thomas West, 3rd Lord de la Warr rescues Jamestown colony from starvation
1610 : Henry Hudson discovers Hudson's Bay
1612 : French explorers discover Lake Huron
1612 : England colonizes Bermuda
1613 : John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas, cross-breeds tobacco successfully
1614 : Captain John Smith explores New England coasts
1614 : Thomas Hunt kidnaps 24 Indians from Cape Cod area, sells them as slaves
1615 : French trade with local Indians on Georgian Bay
1616 : Pocahontas visits England, poses for portrait; dies on homeward voyage
1616 : Captain John Smith publishes "A Description of New England"
1616 : White settlers introduce small pox to New England. Many Indians die
1619 : First legislative assembly in America, in Virginia, July 30
1619 : Black slavery introduced at Jamestown by Dutch traders
1620 : Slide rule invented by Oughtred, in England
1620 : Puritan Pilgrims land at Plymouth Colony, write Mayflower Compact
1621 : Pilgrims have first contact with Indian, who greets them in English!
1623 : Champlain's expedition trades for furs with Indians on Lake Superior
1624 : Indians barter away Manhattan for about $24.00
1624 : Virginia becomes a royal colony
1628 : English Parliament enacts Petition of Right
1629 : Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions for New Netherland granted
1629 : Puritans settle Boston area, call themselves The Massachusetts Bay Co.
1630 : Puritans hang John Billington, a murderer; a first for the colony
1630 : Boston founded as a town by English Puritans
1632 : "Oyster War" begins between VA and MD; continues today
1634 : Jean Nicolet explores Lake Michigan shore and Wisconsin
1635 : Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts for espousing democracy
1636 : First college in the colonies, later named after Rev. John Harvard
1636 : Providence Plantations founded in Rhode Island by Roger Williams
1637 : Pequot War in Connecticut and Rhode Island
1638 : Swedish colony, near Wilmington, DE, introduces log-cabin building
1639 : The Fundamental Orders unite three communities in "Connectecotte"
1639 : Harvard College sets up first printing press in colonies
1640 : First English book published in colonies is Bay Psalm Book; Cambridge
1641 : "Body of Liberties" adopted in Massachusetts; precursors Bill of Rights
1642 : Pascal invents an adding machine
1643 : Invention of the barometer
1643 : New England Confederation founded. These are first 4 colonies to unite
1644 : First bicameral legislature formed in Massachusetts
1645 : First ironworks, at Saugus, MA
1647 : Massachusetts School Law requires schoolmaster in towns of 50 families
1648 : Iroquois defeat the Hurons, drive them into Canada, north of the Lakes
1649 : First Assembly in Maryland. Enacts Toleration Act, freeing religion
1653 : Iroquois defeat the Erie Nation, extend influence into o-he-you. (Ohio)
1656 : New Netherland Council passes ordinance restricting religion
1657 : Rhode Island Assembly adopts freedom of religion
1657 : John Washington jumps ship in Virginia, buys land
1661 : William Penn deceives Delaware Indians, effectively steals Pennsylvania
1664 : Dutch give up control of New Amsterdam, it is renamed New York
1669 : LaSalle explores Ohio River valley
1670 : Newton gives the world The Calculus
1670 : Grant from Charles II leads to settlement of Charleston, SC
1673 : Iroquois drive Mosopelea Indians from Southwestern Ohio
1673 : Marquette and Jolliet explore northern part of Mississippi valley
1675 : Indian "King Phillip" begins retaliatory war against white invaders
1676 : Bacon's Rebellion wages vigilante war against Indians in Virginia
Monday June 29 1676 : First formally declared Day of Thanksgiving
1679 : Settlements in what is now New Hampshire proclaimed a royal colony
1679 : Habeas Corpus Amendment Act in England
1680 : Pueblo Indians get horses from Spanish; first Plains Indians to do so
1681 : Province of Pennsylvania chartered
1682 : LaSalle explores Mississippi River, claims river valley for France
1684 : Charles II annuls 1629 charter of Massachusetts colony
1684 : Cotton Mather coins the term "Americans" for colonists
1685 : Louis XIV cancels Edict of Nantes, thousands flee to the colonies
1688 : First written protest against slavery, by Mennonites in Germantown, PA
1689 : English Parliament enacts Bill of Rights, provides religious freedom
1690 : First newspaper banned in the colonies is Publick Occurrences, in Boston
1691 : Plymouth becomes part of royal colony of Massachusetts
1692 : Witch hunts in Salem, MA; 19 die
1693 : William and Mary becomes second college in the colonies
1695 : Freedom of the press comes to England. Censorship abolished
1696 : Habeas Corpus Act suspended in England
1697 : Penn proposes a Plan of Union for the English Colonies in America
1699 : Woolens Act.
1701 : French establish new trading post, call it "Ponchartrain" on de Troit
1701 : Yale becomes the third college in the colonies
1703 : Benjamin Franklin born in Boston
1707 : Scotland and England join to become Great Britain
1709 : First Copyright Act, in Britain
1713 : Treaty of Utrecht; French Acadians (Cajuns) driven from Nova Scotia to LA
1714 : Shawnee establish themselves in western Ohio, driven there from MD
1715 : Tuscarora Indians join League of Five Nations, making it Six Nations
1720 : Birth of Ottawa Indian war chief Pontiac, near Detroit
1721 : Dr. Zabdiel Boylston introduces smallpox vaccinations, in Boston
1723 : Benjamin Franklin leaves Boston for Philadelphia
1728 : Vitus Bering explores straits which now bear his name
1728 : First American steel made in Hartford, CT
1732 : Hat Act forbade manufacture in colonies of hats made with local fur
1732 : Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanac
1732 : First stagecoach route connects Burlington to Perth Amboy
Friday February 22 1732 : George Washington born in Virginia; dies in 1799
1733 : Sugar Act, a revenue enhancement scheme for Britain
1733 : Georgia becomes 13th colony; founded by James Oglethorpe
1734 : Hamilton defends Zenger in freedom of the press landmark case
Sunday October 30 1735 : John Adams, 2nd President, born
Tuesday May 29 1736 : Patrick Henry born
Wednesday January 23 1737 : John Hancock born
1738 : British traders begin working shores of Lake Erie, compete with French
1738 : The Great Awakening begins, reshaping religious policies everywhere
1738 : Future King George III born. Declaration of Independence mentions him
1739 : In North Carolina, there is large insurrection by blacks
1740 : English Parliament allows naturalization of colonists after 7 years
1740 : Philadelphia is largest city in America. Population 13,000
1741 : Vitus Bering claims Alaska for his native Russia
1743 : American Philosophical Society founded by Benjamin Franklin
Saturday April 13 1743 : Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, born
1744 : King George's War begins. France joins war effort against England
1746 : College of New Jersey, now called Princeton Univ., founded
1747 : New York State Bar Association is first in this continent
1748 : "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" appears in New England Primer
1748 : Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends King George's War
1749 : England recognizes slavery and plantation system in the south
1749 : George Washington becomes land surveyor at age 17
1750 : First American coal mine opens in Virginia
1750 : Cumberland Gap discovered, named by Thomas Walker. Westward ho begins
1750 : Iron Act.
1751 : James Madison, father of our Constitution & 4th President, born. d.1836
1751 : Liberty Bell ordered from England. 50th anniversary Charter of Privs
1752 : Benjamin Franklin goes out to "fly a kite". A shocking experience!
1752 : First general hospital opens in Philadelphia
1753 : George Washington explores western Pa; delivers ultimatum to French
1754 : French and Indian War begins
1754 : Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union remarks on Iroquoian League
1754 : Major Washington loses battle of Fort Necessity
1755 : Braddock's defeat at Pittsburgh; Washington makes Lt Colonel
1755 : Irish immigrant, Jackson, born at sea, will become 7th President
1757 : Daniel P. Custis dies, leaves his White House plantation to wife Martha
1758 : James Monroe, 5th President, born in Virginia; dies in 1831
1759 : George Washington weds Martha Custis, honeymoons at The White House
1760 : Final subjugation of Canada by England
1760 : George III becomes King of England. Colonial population 1.6 million
1762 : Benjamin Franklin redesigns the harmonica, making it a musical instrument
1762 : Spain acquires Louisiana from France
1763 : Pontiac begins siege of Detroit, now a British fort
1763 : French and Indian War ends
1763 : Treaty of Paris. England gains Canada and most French land east of MS
1763 : Vigilantes known as Paxton Boys massacre peaceful Conestoga village
1764 : Currency Act.
1764 : Mozart writes his first symphony, at age eight
1764 : Revenue Act. Taxation without representation introduced in Boston
1765 : Stamp Act Congress meets in Albany, NY; first inter-colony Congress
1765 : Britain tries to raise funds with The Stamp Act
1765 : Quartering Act requires housing British troops in private homes
1766 : Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon draw the line at MD & PA border
1766 : Stamp Act repealed by England in response to Colonial boycotts
1767 : Daniel Boone crosses Appalachians, keeps heading west
1767 : Townshend Duties pile it on higher and deeper, create Customs Office
Saturday July 11 1767 : John Quincy Adams, 6th President, born; dies 1848
1768 : Birth of Tecumseh, near Dayton, OH
1768 : Colonies circulate letter complaining of taxation; Assemblies dissolved
1768 : New York Chamber of Commerce established
1769 : Pontiac murdered by another Indian, near St. Louis
1770 : Boston Massacre. Five dead, six wounded on March 5
1770 : Townshend Acts repealed, except for that on tea
1772 : Samuel Adams at Boston Town Hall Meeting publishes list of rights
1773 : To save nearly bankrupt East India Company, Parliament tries a Tea Act
1773 : Boston Tea Party. 342 chests of tea go into the drink
Sunday December 5 1773 : Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President, born in VA, moves to OH; d. 1841
1774 : British close the port of Boston in retaliation for tea party
1774 : Intolerable Acts include the Coercive Acts
1774 : Virginia Conventions begin. Lead to First Continental Congress
Monday September 5 1774 : First Continental Congress convenes, in Philadelphia
Friday October 14 1774 : Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress
1775 : Battle of Breed's Hill mistakenly named after nearby Bunker Hill
1775 : Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death!"
1775 : Of the 3,500 physicians in the colonies, only 400 are MD by degree
1775 : Postal system created. Benjamin Franklin is first Director
1775 : Virginians defeat British at Great Bridge; British bombard Norfolk
1775 : Second Continental Congress, again in Philadelphia
Tuesday April 18 1775 : Fights at Lexington and Concord follow "the 18th of April, in '75"
Friday June 16 1775 : Washington accepts promotion to General & Commander In Chief
Thursday July 6 1775 : Declaration on Taking Up of Arms, issued
Tuesday November 7 1775 : Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, declares Martial Law
1776 : Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12; written by George Mason
1776 : Common Sense written by Thomas Paine
1776 : General Court of Massachusetts fires Governor, requests he leave
1776 : Christmas present for Washington at Trenton: 918 German prisoners
1776 : Declaration of Independence drafted by Tom Jefferson, with John Adams
Saturday June 29 1776 : Virginia State Constitution adopted, will be model for all states
Sunday September 22 1776 : Nathan Hale regrets having "but one life to lose"
1777 : Congress adopts the American flag with thirteen stars and stripes
1777 : General Gates defeats General Burgoyne at Saratoga, NY
1777 : Washington's Continental Army winters at Valley Forge
1778 : France declares war on England, becomes ally of America
1778 : Englishman Capt. James Cook explores west coast of North America
1779 : British surrender to Americans at Vincennes
1779 : Capt. Cook explores Hawaii until his murder by natives there
1779 : John Paul Jones, in Bon Homme Richard, defeats Pearson, in Serapis
1780 : Death of John Logan, Cayuga Indian Chief. Who will mourn for Logan?
1780 : Benedict Arnold attempts to betray West Point
1781 : Articles of Confederation go into effect; were drafted in 1777
1781 : Cornwallis surrenders to Washington and the allies at Yorktown, VA
1782 : Ninety-six Moravian Christian Indians massacred at Gnaddenhutton, OH
Thursday December 5 1782 : First U. S. President born in "The United States" is Van Buren
1783 : First daily newspaper is Pennsylvania Evening Post
Wednesday September 3 1783 : Treaty of Paris signed. Borders of The United States established
1784 : Treaty of Ft. Stanwix; Iroquois cede rights north and west of Ohio R.
1784 : Benjamin Franklin invents bifocals
1784 : Taylor, 12th President, born; dies 1850
1786 : Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts forcibly closes court systems
Thursday September 14 1786 : Annapolis Convention concludes, suggests Phila convention
1787 : United States Constitution framed, sent to Congress and states
1787 : Federalist Papers begin publication in newspapers
Friday May 25 1787 : Start of Constitutional Convention
Friday July 13 1787 : Northwest Ordinance adopted by Continental Congress
Monday September 17 1787 : End of Constitutional Convention
1788 : New Hampshire is 9th state to ratify Constitution. It is now the law
1788 : First settlement in Ohio is Marietta, named for Marie Antoinette
1789 : The Judiciary Act specifies numbers of federal courts and judges
1789 : George Washington & John Adams elected as first President & VP
1789 : Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty; survivors establish Pitcairn Is. colony
Wednesday August 26 1789 : French Revolution, Declaration of Rights
1790 : First national census finds 3,929,214 persons eligible to be counted
1790 : Tyler, 10th President, born; dies 1862
1790 : Supreme Court meets for the first time; John Jay is Chief Justice
Saturday April 17 1790 : Death of Benjamin Franklin
1791 : Federal capital to be established in swamplands on the Potomac
1791 : John Carroll of Baltimore made first Roman Catholic Bishop in U.S.A.
1791 : First ten Amendments are Bill of Rights that go into effect this year
1792 : New York Stock Exchange organized
1792 : Congress names the Dollar as our unit of currency; proposor: Jefferson
1792 : Political parties formed; Republicans (to be Democrats) & Federalists
1793 : General Anthony Wayne begins campaign against Indians in SW Ohio
1793 : Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney
1793 : War between England and France. U.S.A. declares neutrality
Tuesday October 8 1793 : John Hancock dies
1794 : Jay's Treaty requires withdrawal of British troops from U.S.A.
1794 : Battle of Fallen Timbers, near Toledo, OH. General Wayne v. Indians
1794 : Whiskey Rebellion over excise tax in western Pennsylvania
1795 : Treaty of Greenville, OH opens up much of Ohio to settlement by whites
1795 : Pinckney's Treaty with Spain opens navigation on Mississippi River
1795 : 11th Amendment limits some Federal Judicial power somewhat
1795 : Polk, 11th President, born; dies 1849
1795 : Washington poses for Stuart's portrait, which is now on our dollar bill
1796 : John Adams President, Tom Jefferson Vice President, 71-68 vote margin
1796 : Washington retires, gives Farewell Address to the nation
1796 : E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One; added to American coins
Friday July 22 1796 : Moses Cleaveland reaches mouth of Cuyahoga River
1798 : Department of the Navy established after 4 years of having a Navy
1798 : Alien and Sedition Acts. Soon to be repealed
1798 : Washington comes out of retirement to be Commander In Chief of Army
1798 : XYZ Affair, so named after three anonymous French trouble makers
1799 : French Revolution ends. Napoleon becomes ruler of France
Thursday June 6 1799 : Patrick Henry dies
Saturday December 14 1799 : George Washington dies in Mount Vernon, from quinsy
1800 : Spain returns Louisiana to France
1800 : House elects President Jefferson after electoral college tie with Burr
1800 : Congress establishes Library of Congress
1800 : Fillmore, 13th President, born; dies 1874
1801 : First stone building in Northwest Territory is Ohio capitol, Chillicothe
1801 : Tripolitan War begins; ends in 1805
1803 : Ohio enters the Union. Paperwork completed 1953
1803 : Louisiana Purchased for $15 million. Lewis & Clark to begin exploration
1803 : Atomic theory first published
1804 : Osceola born in Tallassee village in Alabama; will lead 2nd Seminole War
1804 : 12th Amendment changes Presidential election rules
1804 : Ohio University at Athens is first institute of higher learning in NWT
1804 : Pierce, 14th President, born; dies 1869
1804 : Vice President Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel
1807 : Robert Fulton, in "Clermont", steams up Hudson River
1808 : Andrew Johnson, 17th President, born; dies 1875
1808 : Congress outlaws importing slaves from Africa
Sunday February 12 1809 : Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, born in Kentucky; dies 1865
1810 : Census counts 7,239,881 persons in United States
1811 : Madison allows 20-year charter of Bank of the United States to lapse
1811 : Wm. H. Harrison fights Indians at Tippecanoe, near Indianapolis
Monday December 16 1811 : New Madrid, MO earthquake, forecast months before by Tecumseh
Thursday June 18 1812 : War declared on England, day after England repealed the cause
1813 : Tecumseh defeated in battle near Detroit, in Ontario
Friday September 10 1813 : Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry "meets" British in Lake Erie
1814 : City of Washington captured and burned by British
Wednesday September 14 1814 : Francis Scott Key observes battle of Fort McHenry at Baltimore
Saturday December 24 1814 : Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812
1815 : Village of Cleaveland officially incorporated in Ohio
Sunday January 8 1815 : Andrew Jackson defeats British at New Orleans, after war ends
Sunday June 18 1815 : Napoleon meets his "Waterloo"
1816 : Capitol of Ohio moves to Columbus
1816 : Second Bank of the United States chartered
1817 : Work begins on Erie Canal
1818 : Anglo-American Convention fixes 49th parallel as border with Canada
1819 : SS Savannah makes transatlantic crossing under steam propulsion, a first
1819 : Florida ceded by Spain to the United States
1820 : Missouri Compromise forbids slavery above 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude
1820 : Federalist Party dissolves; without opposition, Jefferson Dems disband
1822 : Grant, 18th President, born in Ohio; dies 1885
1822 : Hayes, 19th President, born in Ohio; dies 1893
Tuesday December 2 1823 : Monroe Doctrine given to Congress
1824 : House of Representatives elects John Q. Adams president
1825 : Erie Canal completed
Tuesday July 4 1826 : Jefferson, then Adams, die on 50th anniversary of Declaration
1827 : Ohio Canal opened for business
1828 : George Worthington Co. founded in village of Cleaveland
1828 : Noah Webster publishes "American Dictionary of English Language"
1828 : Baltimore & Ohio railroad, first designed for passengers & freight
1829 : Arthur, 21st President, born; dies 1886
1829 : Estate of James Smithson funds Smithsonian Institution
1831 : Nat Turner leads slave revolt at Southampton
1831 : Samuel F. Smith writes "My Country, 'tis of Thee"
1831 : Garfield, 20th President (and 3rd in a row from Ohio), born; dies 1881
1832 : Jackson vetoes rechartering of 2nd Bank, causes birth of Whig Party
1832 : Abe Lincoln enlists in Illinois militia to fight Sac and Fox Indians
1832 : Jackson supporters counter with rebirth of Jefferson Democratic Party
1833 : City of Cleveland buys its first fire engine for $285
1833 : Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President, born; dies 1901
1834 : Death of Lafayette, Revolutionary War hero on two continents
1834 : Charles Babbage demonstrates "analytic engine", a computer
1835 : U.S.A. becomes debt free (briefly) for only time in history
Sunday March 6 1836 : The Alamo. 6000 Mexicans defeat 190 Americans in 12 days
1837 : Sitting Bull born, dies in 1890
1837 : Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, born; dies 1908
1837 : Concord Hymn, by Emerson, commemorates battle of Concord NH in 1775
1837 : Rush-Bagot Treaty with Canada creates world's longest open border
1838 : Trail of Tears. Thousands of Indians forced from their homes & die
1838 : Osceola dies in prison after being tricked by false white flag
1838 : Black Hawk, famous Sac warrior, dies of old age
1839 : Railway Express Co. founded in Boston
1839 : Abner Doubleday invents baseball at Cooperstown, NY
1840 : Chief Joseph born near Wallowa, OR. Becomes great chief of Nez Perce'
1841 : Wm. H. Harrison catches cold at Inauguration, dies a month later
1842 : Plain Dealer Publishing Co. founded in Cleveland
1842 : Crazy Horse born in South Dakota
1842 : Webster-Ashburton Treaty defines Canadian-U.S. frontier
1843 : McKinley, 25th President (5th from Ohio), born; dies 1901
1843 : Nearly 1000 people complete the Oregon Trail to begin the great migration West - 400,000 to follow
1844 : Samuel F. B. Morse opens telegraphic link between Baltimore and D.C.
1845 : U. S. Naval Academy opens at Annapolis, MD
1845 : Texas is annexed; war with Mexico follows
1846 : Large crack in Liberty Bell gets too bad to permit ringing any more
1846 : Potato famine in Ireland. Many flee to America for survival
1847 : Brigham Young leads his followers into Salt Lake City, UT area
1847 : American troops fight their way into the Halls of Montezuma in Mexico
Thursday February 11 1847 : Thomas Alva Edison born in Milan, OH; dies in 1931
1848 : Treaty of 1848 gets CA, NM, AZ, NV UT, parts of CO and WY for the Union
1848 : Cornerstone laid for the Washington Monument
1849 : There's G O L D in them thar hills! Invasion of California begins
1849 : Eastern Michigan University founded
1853 : Gadsden Purchase brings some Mexican territory into U.S.A.
1853 : Commodore Matthew Perry opens trade routes with Japan
1854 : Kansas - Nebraska Act. Provides springboard for Abe Lincoln
1854 : War between Cleveland and Ohio City settled by annexation of latter
1854 : George Boole writes on theories of logic and probabilities
Tuesday February 28 1854 : Republican Party formed in Ripon, WI, under John Fremont
1855 : Soo Canal opens upper Great Lakes to commercial navigation
1855 : Longfellow uses name of real Six Nation's hero Hiawatha in mythical poem
1856 : Western Union Telegraph Co. established in Cleveland
1856 : Wilson, 28th President, born; dies 1924
1856 : Cocaine extracted from cocoa beans, but has no legitimate use
1857 : Transatlantic cable begins; completed in 1866
1857 : Dred Scott decision handed down by Supreme Court
1857 : Taft, 27th President (7th from Ohio), born; dies 1930
1858 : Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, born; dies 1919
1859 : Colonel Robert E. Lee, U. S. Army, commands troops at Harpers Ferry
1859 : Abolitionist John Brown leads assault on armory at Harper's Ferry
1859 : Drake puts down first oil well in U.S.A., Titusville, PA
1860 : Annie Oakley born in Darke County, Ohio log cabin
1860 : Edwin C. Higbee opens store on Cleveland Public Square
Thursday December 20 1860 : South Carolina becomes first state to secede from Union
1861 : Ohioan Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan ride off to war
1861 : First Congressional Medals of Honor awarded, to Union Navy men
Friday February 8 1861 : Confederate States adopt Provisional Constitution
Friday April 12 1861 : Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
Friday August 2 1861 : Congress enacts first income tax, on incomes more than $800
Saturday August 3 1861 : U. S. Navy's first aircraft carrier launches hot air balloon
1862 : The Homestead Act.
1862 : Ohioans LTC R. B. Hayes and Sgt Wm. McKinley saw action at Antietam
Saturday March 8 1862 : Duel between Merrimac and the Virginia (formerly the Monitor); CSS Merrimac withdrew
1863 : The Emancipation Proclamation.
1863 : The Gettysburg Address dedicated to more than two score thousand dead
1864 : Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek, CO
1864 : Lincoln proclaims last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day
Tuesday February 9 1864 : Lincoln posed for photograph which appears on $5 bill
Friday April 22 1864 : "In God We Trust" put on American coins for the first time
1865 : 13th amendment abolishes slavery
1865 : Harding, 29th President (8th from Ohio), born; dies in 1923
Sunday April 9 1865 : Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox on Palm Sunday
Friday April 14 1865 : Lincoln shot by Boothe, dies next day
Friday May 26 1865 : Confederate Army surrenders at Shreveport, LA; Civil War ends
Thursday June 22 1865 : Last shot of Civil War fired by CSS Shenandoah in Bering Sea
1866 : Congress recognizes the Metric system of measurements
1866 : Ohio briefly adopts state motto: "Imperium in Imperio"
1866 : Alfred Nobel invents something that is "dynamite"
1867 : British North American Act creates the Dominion of Canada
1867 : US buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
1868 : 14th amendment prohibits voting discrimination, among other things
1868 : House impeaches President Johnson. Senate acquits him by one vote
1869 : Transcontinental railroad completed; Ogden, UT wins the golden spike
1869 : Cleveland's first professional baseball team is The Forest City's
1870 : 15th Amendment gives blacks the right to vote
1870 : "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in a nuclear submarine
1870 : John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company, in Cleveland, OH
Wednesday October 12 1870 : Robert E. Lee dies
1871 : Mrs. O'Leary's cow blamed for Chicago fire
1872 : Coolidge, 30th President, born; dies 1933
1874 : Hoover, 31st President, born; dies 1964
1876 : Liberty statue presented by France, construction requires ten years
1876 : Custer makes history books at Little Big Horn in Montana
1876 : Does the name "Alexander Graham" ring a bell? Telephone invented
1877 : Crazy Horse dies in a Nebraska prison from stab wounds
1878 : First electric street lighting anywhere is on Cleveland Public Square
1880 : Case School of Applied Science established in Cleveland
1881 : Garfield assassinated. Arthur moves into the presidency
1882 : F. D. Roosevelt, 32nd President, born; dies 1945
1883 : First American skyscraper soars into Chicago skies, 10 stories
1883 : Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blows it's top; 35,000 die
1884 : Truman, 33rd President, born; dies 1972
1884 : First "World Series" played
Friday December 6 1889 : Jefferson Davis dies at age 81
1890 : Eisenhower, 34th President, born; dies 1969
1890 : Massacre at Wounded Knee
1892 : Pledge of Allegiance published. Changes made in 1954
1895 : "America the Beautiful" written by Katherine Lee Bates
1898 : Spanish - American War. Teddy Roosevelt rough-rides his way into Cuba
1900 : Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China begins
1901 : McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt moves into presidency
1902 : First 4-H Club anywhere is in Springfield, OH
Friday May 9 1902 : State of Ohio authorizes a state flag
1903 : Wright brothers prove they are right for aviation at Kitty Hawk, NC
1904 : Chief Joseph dies in exile in Washington state, fighting no more, forever
1904 : Ohio adopts Scarlet Carnation as state flower to honor McKinley
1908 : L. B. Johnson, 36th President, born; dies 1973
1909 : NAACP founded by W. E. B. DuBois
1911 : Reagan, 40th President, born
1912 : Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invents the gas mask
1912 : SS Titanic hits iceberg, 1503 lives lost
1913 : Ford, 38th President (1st non-elected), born
1913 : Nixon, 37th President, born
1913 : Harriet Tubman, heroine of underground railroad, dies; buried in Ohio
1913 : 17th Amendment changed election rules for Senators
1913 : 16th Amendment establishes income tax
1914 : World War I begins
1915 : SS Lusitania sunk
1917 : Kennedy, 35th President, born; dies 1963
1917 : Russian Revolution; they enjoy brief democracy for only time in history
Wednesday April 3 1918 : The American's Creed adopted
Monday November 11 1918 : Armistice ends WW I on 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month
1919 : 18th Amendment introduces prohibition of intoxicating liquors
1920 : 19th Amendment brings women the vote
1923 : Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invents traffic signals
1924 : Carter, 39th President, born
1924 : Bush, 41st President, born
1925 : First municipal airport in the world is Hopkins, at Cleveland, OH
1929 : Great Depression begins after bank and stock failures
Tuesday March 3 1931 : The National Anthem finally adopted by Congress
1932 : 20th Amendment established starting date for Presidency & Congress
1933 : 21st Amendment repeals prohibition amendment
1933 : Ohio adopts the Cardinal as the "Official Bird"
1939 : Bill of Rights finally ratified by Massachusetts, Georgia & Connecticut
Sunday December 7 1941 : The Day of Infamy, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI
1945 : World War II ends; first in Europe, then in Japan
1945 : United Nations chartered in San Francisco; later moves to NYC
1947 : Transistor invented at Bell Labs, in New Jersey
1950 : North Korea invades South Korea
1951 : 22nd Amendment limits president to two terms. 1st proposer: Jefferson
1953 : Most hostilities end in Korea, 38th parallel becomes DMZ
1953 : Ohio adopts the Buckeye as the "Official Tree"
1959 : Ohio adopts new Official Motto: "With God, All Things Are Possible"
1960 : 23rd Amendment granted Electoral College representation to DC
1962 : Ohioan John Glenn is first U. S. astronaut to orbit earth
1962 : Military aid begins in South Vietnam
1963 : John F. Kennedy assassinated, Johnson moves into presidency
Wednesday August 28 1963 : Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. announces "I Have A Dream"
1964 : 24th Amendment killed "poll taxes"
1965 : Ohio Flint adopted as the Official Gem Stone of the state
1967 : 25th Amendment allows President to step aside temporarily, then resume
1968 : Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered in Memphis
1969 : Ohioan Neil Armstrong took one small step for a man, onto the moon
1971 : 26th amendment gives 18 year olds the vote
1973 : Vice President Agnew forced to resign, Ford becomes 1st non-elected VP
1974 : Nixon resigns in disgrace, Ford moves into the presidency
1975 : The fall of Saigon, South Vietnam
1980 : Mount St. Helens volcano erupts
1981 : First female Supreme Court Justice is Sandra Day O'Connor
1984 : Geraldine Ferraro is first serious female Vice Presidential candidate
1986 : Rutan and Yeager took a one-tank-trip around the world
1986 : First true community computer system goes online in Cleveland, Ohio
1986 : Shuttle "Challenger" exploded on takeoff, 7 astronauts perished
1989 : Ohio adopts new words to official State Song
1990 : Norplant is the first implant contraceptive approved by the FDA.
1990 : Smoking on Domestic Airplane Flights is Banned
1990 : Iraq invades Kuwait: US who sends in 500,000 troops to defend Saudi Arabia against Saddam Hussein and prepare for an invasion.
1990 : The Hubble space telescope is launched into orbit. However, one of the mirrors was discovered to be incorrectly ground, resulting in blurred pictures.
1990 : Mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. is arrested by the FBI iand later convicted of misdemeanor drug possession.
January 16 1991 : Signalled the start of an air campaign against Iraq.
February 27 1991 after 100 hours of ground fighting, Kuwait was liberated, and a ceasefire was declared. 200,000 Iraqis were dead, including hundreds of civilians, 148 UN allies were killed.
1991 : The Soviet Union Ends
1991 : USA Sanctions Against South Africa lifted
May 16, 1991 : First address to US Congress by a British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II gives a speech in the US Congress.
1991 : US President Zachary Taylor is exhumed in order to discover whether his death was caused by arsenic poisoning instead of acute gastrointestinal illness. No arsenic was found.
1991 : Serial killer Jeffery Dahlmer is arrested. Over a 13 year period he was responsible for at least 17 deaths.
November  1992 : President Clinton elected . Democrat Bill Clinton becomes 42nd president of the United States.
1992 : Hurricane Andrew hits Florida Killing 14, it left 250,000 people homeless, and was one of the costliest hurricanes in history.
1992 British Monarchy Divorces Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson divorced first, then Princess Anne divorced her husband. The final and most noticeable divorce was Princess Di and Prince Charles.
1992 : Dr. Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman astronaut
1993 : Waco Tragedy : Fire breaks out  killing most of the cult members including leader David Koresh and several children.
February 26 1993 : Explosion at the World Trade Center in New York, Muslim fundamentalists tried to destroy the World Trade Center
1993 : President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce United Nations trade sanctions against the military-led regime in Haiti.
1994 : Los Angeles suffers massive earthquake
November 1994 : Jackie Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest along side John F Kennedy.
April 19 1995: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals, were killed in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
June 27th 1996: US Military barracks destroyed in Saudi Arabia. A truck bomb exploded outside the barracks, killing 19.
Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars. The little remote control rover landed and took pictures and samples of the planet surface.
1996 : Divorce! Princess Diana and Prince Charles are divorced. She has her 'HRH' removed.
1997 : Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars  taking pictures and samples of the planet surface.
1997 : Princess Diana's Funeral.  Diana was later laid to rest at the Spencer family plot.
1998 : President Clinton admits to Lewinsky affair after denying the affair for close to a year.
1998 : 1998 was a severe weather season, with  Hurricane Mitch devastating the Caribbean Coast, and Hurricane Georges did severe damage to the Florida coastline. Tornadoes also do a lot of severe damage in the Southeast. A severe heat-wave kills almost 90 people. It all had to do with El Nino.
1999 : Texas Governor George W. Bush announced that he would be running for president in the 2000 primaries.
1999 : On September 17, Hurricane Floyd devastated the coast of North Carolina
2000 : YK2 Computer bug does not cause international devastation as was predicted by some.

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