US History Timeline 1492 - 2011 - Ashton Williams

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Jun 9, 1492

In 1492 columbus descovers america.

US History Timeline 1492 - 2011

Period: Jun 9, 1492 to Sep 28, 2011

John Cabot claims North America

Oct 3, 1497

In 1497,Cabot claims North America

The Virginia colony of Roanoke Island

Oct 31, 1585

Captain John Smith the explorer

Sep 29, 1607

The first slaves imported into America

Oct 10, 1619

Mayflower Compact

Sep 30, 1620

First Public School

Jan 1, 1635

First College

Oct 9, 1636

North America's slave trade begins

Oct 9, 1636

English Bill of Rights

Sep 30, 1689

Ben Franklin - Lightning Rod

Oct 9, 1749

French & Indian war

Period: Nov 24, 1754 to Jun 3, 1763

Proclamation of 1763 by King George III

Nov 2, 1763

The stamp act

Period: Jan 27, 1765 to Jun 7, 1766

Stamp Act

Sep 30, 1765

Santa Claus - Colonial America

Oct 10, 1773

Revolutionary war

Period: Nov 1, 1775 to Sep 16, 1784

Declaration of Independence

Sep 30, 1776

Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves

Oct 9, 1777

Articles of Confederation

Period: Apr 12, 1781 to Sep 27, 1787

The Constitution

Sep 30, 1787

Delaware

Dec 7, 1787

Pennsylvania

Dec 12, 1787

New Jersey

Dec 18, 1787

Georgia

Jan 2, 1788

Connecticut

Jan 9, 1788

Massachusetts

Feb 6, 1788

Maryland

Apr 28, 1788

South Carolina

May 23, 1788

New Hampshire

Jun 21, 1788

Virginia June 25, 1788

Jun 25, 1788

New York July 26, 1788

Jul 26, 1788

George Washington

Period: Oct 10, 1789 to Oct 10, 1797

North Carolina

Nov 21, 1789

Rhode Island May 29, 1790

May 29, 1790

census population 1790 - 4 million

Sep 29, 1790

Vermont

Mar 4, 1791

Kentucky

Jun 1, 1792

Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin

Oct 9, 1793

Tennessee

Jun 1, 1796

John Adams

Period: Oct 10, 1797 to Oct 10, 1801

census population 1800 - 5.3 million

Sep 29, 1800

Thomas Jefferson

Period: Oct 10, 1801 to Oct 10, 1809

Ohio

Mar 1, 1803

12th Amendment

Sep 30, 1804

James Madison

Period: Oct 10, 1809 to Oct 10, 1817

census population 1810 - 7.2 million

Sep 29, 1810

Louisiana Apr. 30, 1812

Apr 30, 1812

The War of 1812

Period: Oct 6, 1812 to Oct 6, 1815

Indiana

Dec 11, 1816

James Monroe

Period: Oct 10, 1817 to Oct 10, 1825

Mississippi

Dec 10, 1817

Illinois

Dec 3, 1818

Alabama Dec. 14, 1819

Dec 14, 1819

Maine

Mar 15, 1820

census population 1820 - 9.6 million

Sep 29, 1820

Missouri

Aug 10, 1821

John Quincy Adams

Period: Oct 10, 1825 to Oct 10, 1829

Graham Cracker

Oct 9, 1829

Andrew Jackson

Period: Oct 10, 1829 to Oct 10, 1837

census population 1830 - 12.8 million

Sep 29, 1830

Oberlin becomes the first college to accept Women

Jan 1, 1833

First School to accept Blacks

Jan 1, 1835

Texas Revolution

Period: Nov 20, 1835 to Jan 9, 1836

Arkansas

Jun 15, 1836

Michigan

Jan 26, 1837

- U of M- Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837

Oct 9, 1837

Martin Van Buren

Period: Oct 10, 1837 to Oct 10, 1841

Indian Removal Act (trail of tears)

Feb 4, 1838

Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear

Oct 9, 1839

census population 1840 - 17 million

Sep 29, 1840

William Henry Harrison

Oct 10, 1841

John Tyler

Period: Oct 10, 1841 to Oct 10, 1845

Florida

Mar 3, 1845

Baseball - Alexander Cartwright

Oct 10, 1845

James Knox Polk

Period: Oct 10, 1845 to Oct 10, 1849

Texas

Dec 29, 1845

Mexican-American War

Period: Nov 28, 1846 to Dec 7, 1848

Iowa Dec. 28, 1846

Dec 28, 1846

Doughnut

Oct 9, 1847

Wisconsin

May 29, 1848

Zachary Taylor

Period: Oct 10, 1849 to Oct 10, 1850

California

Sep 9, 1850

census population 1850 - 23 million

Sep 30, 1850

Millard Fillmore

Period: Oct 10, 1850 to Oct 10, 1853

Franklin Pierce

Period: Oct 10, 1853 to Oct 10, 1857

Michigan State

Jan 1, 1855

James Buchanan

Period: Oct 10, 1857 to Oct 10, 1861

Minnesota

May 11, 1858

Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman

Oct 9, 1858

Oregon

Feb 14, 1859

census population 1860 - 31.4 million

Sep 30, 1860

Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henry

Oct 9, 1860

Kansas Jan. 29, 1861

Jan 29, 1861

Machine Gun - Richard Gatling

Oct 9, 1861

Abraham Lincoln

Period: Oct 10, 1861 to Oct 10, 1865

American Civil War

Period: Nov 19, 1861 to Apr 23, 1865

West Virginia

Jun 20, 1863

Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson

Oct 9, 1863

Nevada

Oct 31, 1864

Andrew Johnson

Period: Oct 10, 1865 to Oct 10, 1869

1865 - 13th Amendment

Dec 17, 1865

Nebraska

Mar 1, 1867

1868 - 14th Amendment

Sep 3, 1868

American Football - Walter Camp

Oct 10, 1869

Soccer - Princeton vs. Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)

Oct 10, 1869

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Period: Oct 10, 1869 to Oct 10, 1877

census population 1870 - 38.6 million

Sep 30, 1870

15th Amendment

Oct 6, 1870

African Americans’ Right to Vote

Oct 9, 1870

Jeans - Levi Strauss

Oct 9, 1873

Colorado

Aug 1, 1876

Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler

Oct 9, 1877

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Period: Oct 10, 1877 to Oct 10, 1881

Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison

Oct 9, 1879

census population 1880 - 50.1 million

Sep 30, 1880

James Abram Garfield

Oct 10, 1881

Chester Alan Arthur

Period: Oct 10, 1881 to Oct 10, 1885

Grover Cleveland

Period: Oct 10, 1885 to Oct 10, 1889

Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton

Oct 9, 1886

Softball - George Hancock

Oct 10, 1887

Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893

Period: Oct 10, 1889 to Oct 10, 1893

North Dakota

Nov 2, 1889

South Dakota

Nov 2, 1889

Montana

Nov 8, 1889

Washington

Nov 11, 1889

Idaho

Jul 3, 1890

Wyoming

Jul 10, 1890

census population 1890 - 62.9 million

Sep 30, 1890

Stop Sign - William Phelps Eno

Oct 9, 1890

CMU

Jan 1, 1892

Radio - Nikola Tesla

Oct 9, 1893

Grover Cleveland

Period: Oct 10, 1893 to Oct 10, 1897

Volleyball

Oct 10, 1895

Utah

Jan 4, 1896

William McKinley

Period: Oct 10, 1897 to Oct 10, 1901

1900 - 76.2 million

Sep 30, 1900

Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds

Oct 9, 1901

Assembly Line - Henry Ford

Oct 10, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt

Period: Oct 10, 1901 to Oct 10, 1909

Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907

Nov 16, 1907

William Howard Taft

Period: Oct 10, 1909 to Oct 10, 1913

1910 - 92.2 million

Sep 30, 1910

New Mexico

Jan 6, 1912

Arizona

Feb 14, 1912

17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)

Feb 25, 1913

16th Amendment (Income Tax)

Oct 6, 1913

Woodrow Wilson

Period: Oct 10, 1913 to Oct 10, 1921

World War 1

Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Jan 1, 1918

18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)

Apr 16, 1919

19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote

Jun 19, 1920

census population 1920 - 106 million

Sep 30, 1920

Calvin Coolidge

Period: Oct 10, 1923 to Oct 10, 1929

Television - Philo T. Farnsworth

Oct 10, 1927

Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”

Oct 10, 1928

Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney

Oct 10, 1928

Herbert Clark Hoover

Period: Oct 10, 1929 to Oct 10, 1933

census population 1930 - 123 million

Sep 30, 1930

Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker

Oct 10, 1931

21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment

Oct 6, 1933

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Period: Oct 10, 1933 to Oct 10, 1945

20th Amendment - Jan. 20 inauguration

Nov 4, 1933

Soft Serve Ice Cream

Oct 10, 1938

World War 2

Period: Jan 1, 1939 to Jan 1, 1945

census population 1940 - 132 million

Sep 30, 1940

Harry S. Truman

Period: Oct 10, 1945 to Oct 10, 1953

Cable TV

Oct 10, 1948

Video Game

Oct 10, 1948

Korean War

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1953

census population 1950 - 151 million

Sep 30, 1950

22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President.

Sep 13, 1951

Barcode

Oct 10, 1952

Dwight David Eisenhower

Period: Oct 10, 1953 to Oct 10, 1961

Video Tape

Oct 10, 1956

Alaska

Jan 3, 1959

Hawaii

Aug 21, 1959

Vietnam War

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Jan 1, 1975

census population 1960 - 179.3 million

Sep 30, 1960

23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation

Oct 6, 1961

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Period: Oct 9, 1961 to Oct 9, 1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Period: Oct 9, 1963 to Oct 9, 1969

Computer Mouse

Oct 10, 1963

24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal

Oct 6, 1964

1964 - Buffalo Wings

Oct 10, 1964

Minicomputer

Oct 10, 1965

CD

Oct 10, 1965

25th Amendment - presidential succession

Aug 16, 1967

Richard Milhous Nixon

Period: Oct 9, 1969 to Oct 9, 1974

census population 1970 - 203 million

Sep 30, 1970

26th Amendment - 18 as voting age

Jun 15, 1971

Email

Oct 10, 1971

Cell Phone

Oct 10, 1973

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Period: Oct 9, 1974 to Oct 9, 1977

James Earl Carter, Jr

Period: Oct 9, 1977 to Oct 9, 1981

census population 1980 - 226.5 million

Sep 30, 1980

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Period: Oct 9, 1981 to Oct 9, 1989

Laptop

Oct 10, 1981

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Oct 10, 1983

George Herbert Walker Bush

Period: Oct 9, 1989 to Oct 9, 1993

Persian Gulf War

Period: Jan 1, 1990 to Jan 1, 1991

census population 1990 - 248.7 million

Sep 30, 1990

27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term.

Oct 6, 1992

William Jefferson Clinton

Period: Oct 9, 1993 to Oct 9, 2001

census population 2000 - 281.4 million

Sep 30, 2000

Invasion of Afghanistan

Oct 9, 2001

George Walker Bush

Period: Oct 9, 2001 to Oct 9, 2009

iPod

Oct 10, 2001

Invasion of Iraq

Jan 1, 2003

Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-

Oct 9, 2009

census population 2010 - 308.7 million

Sep 30, 2011

1791 - Bill of Rights

Sep 30, 2011

1927 - Kool Aid

Oct 10, 2011