American History

By Flaniel
  • 2011 BCE

    Osama Bin Laden get killed by US forces.

  • 2008 BCE

    Lehman collapse, sends crisis shockwaves throughout the world.

  • 2008 BCE

    Barack Obama elected as first black president

  • 2002 BCE

    After 9/11. Us leads massive campaing of air strikes against afghanistan.

  • 2001 BCE

    9/11 occurs.

  • 1998 BCE

    Scandle over Bill Clintons sexual relationship

  • 1992 BCE

    Bill Clinton elected as president

  • 1991 BCE

    US forces play dominant role in war against Iraq

  • 1974 BCE

    Nixon announces his resignation due to watergate scandal.

  • 1973 BCE

    Cease fire in Vietnam is announced

  • 1969 BCE

    Richard Nixon is elected as president, and is trying to stop the vietnam war

  • 1969 BCE

    Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.

  • 1968 BCE

    Black civil rights leader MLK assassinated

  • 1964 BCE

    Civil Rights signed into law, aims to stop discrimination

  • 1963 BCE

    Assasination on JFK in Dallas

  • 1962 BCE

    USforces the Soviet Union to remove missels from Cuba

  • 1945 BCE

    US drops 2 atmoic boms on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

  • 1941 BCE

    Attach on Pearl Harbor

  • 1933 BCE

    Frankling D Roosevelt launches "New Deal" recovery program

  • 1929 BCE

    Great depression hits

  • 1920 BCE

    Women given the right to vote under the 19th amendment

  • 1898 BCE

    US gains Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Cuba.

  • 1865 BCE

    Confederates defeated, slavery abolished under the 13th amendment

  • 1863 BCE

    Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamtion

  • 1861 BCE

    Start of the Civil War

  • 1860 BCE

    Eleven pro slave states secede from Union and form Confederate States

  • 1854 BCE

    Opponentes of slavery, set up Republican Party

  • 1808 BCE

    Atlantic slave trade abolished

  • 1804 BCE

    Corps of Discovery

  • 1803 BCE

    France sells Louisana territories to USA

  • 1791 BCE

    Bill of Rights guarantees indivdual freedom

  • 1789 BCE

    George Washington elected first president of USA

  • 1783 BCE

    Britain accepts loss of colonies by virtue of Treaty of Paris

  • 1776 BCE

    Decleration of independnce was endorsed by Congress

  • 1775 BCE

    American Revolution, led by George Washington

  • 1750 BCE

    Hundreds of thousands of Africans bought for slavery

  • 1607 BCE

    Jamestown, Virgina, founded by English settelers

  • 1565 BCE

    First European settlement in North America.