50 Important Dates in US History

By Perisa
  • The United States Army is established.

    The United States Army was established to fight war with Great Britain with George Washington appointed as commander.
  • The United States Marine Corps is established

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence was created after America gained their Independence from Great Britain,and for them to start their own country.
  • The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation

    The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
    The first Constitution of the United States
  • French join the war against the British

    French join the war against the British
    Through The Treaty of Alliance France and The United States became Alliances which made the French involved in the war.
  • The Treaty of Paris 1783

    The Treaty of Paris 1783
    The Treaty of Paris was the peace treaty between America and Great Britain which ended the Revolutionary War
  • The delegates at the Philadelphia convention approve the Constitution

    The delegates at the Philadelphia convention approve the Constitution
    When 41 Delegates attended the Constitutional Convention to sign and approve the constitution
  • George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States

    George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States in the first presidential election and was voted for unanimously
  • The Bill of Rights is ratified by 3/4ths of the states

    The last state was Rhode Island to ratify the Bill of Rights
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France causing a total of 15 Million dollars for 828,000 sq mi.
  • Slave trade ended

    The Slave Trade Act that made it illegal to engage in slave trade through the colonies.
  • War with England (1812)

    a War between England and the United States over British Violations
  • Trail of Tears

    When Native Americans for forced to relocate by President Andrew Jackson.
  • Texas Revolution

    a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos for armed resistance to the government in Mexico
  • Telegraph Invented

    Samuel Morse revolutionized long distance communication.
  • The Civil War

    a war fought over controversy about enslaved African Americans
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Set enslaved African Americans in "rebellious states" free
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in a theater in D.C
  • Spanish American War

    an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba,
  • World War I (WWI)

    a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
  • The Panama Canal opens for business.

    the Panama Canal opened for business, with the passage through of the Ancon, an American cargo-passenger ship. The Canal was built primarily to make a faster way to the West Coast for American settlers in the 19th Century.
  • Nineteenth Amendment

    The Amendment that granted women the right to vote
  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

    The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. ... The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919.
  • World War II

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
  • Pearl Harbor

    A attack put on a U.S Army naval base in Hawaii by Japan
  • DDay

    The Allied forces invaded Normandy,France which was then where the German Army was.
  • 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

    the United States dropped two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 , which ended WWll
  • Baby Boom

    The generation in which there were a lot of babes being born
  • The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union

    The Cold War was a period of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States which were the allied superpowers after World War II.
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.As the United States and the Soviet Union as allies
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The court case that established that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
  • Vietnam War

    he Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam that was the deadliest war in History and ultimately the most unmoral and pointless
  • NASA formed

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the U.S government not is for space.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

    The act that established that voting laws cannot be based on the color of one's skin
  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    JFK was the 35th president of America until his assassination.
  • Watergate Scandal

    a series of crimes and illegal activities that that president Richard Nixon was convicted of and impeached for."This showed the public that Nixon was not to be trusted, and society began to view him in a different light.
  • Fall Of the Berlin Wall

    a wall in Germany that bordered off west Berlin in 1961
  • Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

    (called to operation by George H. W Bush) it was put into action to try to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait
  • 9/11

    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.