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  Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (1)
  Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 (1)
  Fort Caroline Destroyed in Florida, 1565 (1)
  Landing at Jamestown, VA, May 13, 1607 (3)
  Henry Hudson Expedition, 1609 (1)
  Signing of the Mayflower Compact, U.S., November 11, 1620 (1)
  Voyage of the Mayflower, 1620 (1)
  Powhatan Uprising, Jamestown, VA colony, March 22, 1622 (1)
Display/Hide icon Pequot War, 1636-1637 (1)
     Battle of Mystic, May 26, 1637 (1)
  Stono Rebellion, 1739 (1)
  Great Awakening, New England, 1740-1742 (1)
  Negro Plot of 1741 (1)
  Expedition of Bering and Chirikov to Alaska, June-September 1741 (1)
Display/Hide icon Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (4)
     Battle of Lake George, NY, September 8, 1755 (1)
     Siege of Fort William Henry, NY, August 2 - 9, 1757 (1)
     Treaty of Easton, PA, October 26, 1758 (1)
     Fort Duquesne Renamed Fort Pitt, 1758 (1)
     Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, 1758 (1)
     English Capture Quebec, September 13, 1759 (1)
     Paxton Boys Raid of Conestoga, PA, December 14, 1763 (1)
     Treaty of Paris, February 10, 1763 (2)
     Proclamation of 1763, 1763 (1)
  Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763-1766 (1)
  Stamp Act, 1765-1766 (1)
  Boston Massacre, MA, March 5, 1770 (1)
Display/Hide icon American Revolution, 1775-1783 (37)
     Battle of Lexington and Concord, MA, April 19, 1775 (2)
     Paul Revere's Ride, April 18, 1775 (1)
     Second Continental Congress Meets, 1775 (1)
     Battle of Harlem Heights, NY, September 16, 1776 (1)
     Battle of Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776 (1)
     Washington Crosses Delaware River, 1776 (1)
     Battle Of Long Island, 1776 (1)
     Declaration of Independence signed, July 4, 1776 (2)
     Battle of Brooklyn, NY, August 27, 1776 (2)
     Battle of Freeman's Farm, NY, September 19, 1777 (2)
     George Washington's troops winter at Valley Forge, 1777-1778 (1)
     Battle of Oriskany, NY, August 6, 1777 (1)
     Battle of Bemis Heights, NY, October 7, 1777 (2)
     Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, NJ, June 28, 1778 (1)
     Siege of Charleston, SC, 1780 (1)
     Battle of Camden, SC, August 16, 1780 (1)
     Battle of Cowpens, SC, January 17, 1781 (1)
     Battle of Yorktown, VA, October 1781 (2)
     Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783 (1)
  Shays's Rebellion, 1787 (1)
Display/Hide icon Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1787 (2)
     Constitution Signed, U.S., September 17, 1787 (1)
  Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (2)
  Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 (1)
  Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806 (3)
  Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (2)
  Slave Trade Banned by Congress, U.S., January 1, 1808 (1)
  War of 1812 (1)
  First Seminole War, 1817-1819 (1)
  Vesey Conspiracy, 1822 (1)
  Monroe Doctrine, 1823 (2)
  First National Negro Convention, 1830 (1)
  Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (4)
  Black Hawk War, 1832 (2)
Display/Hide icon Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 (7)
     Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836 (1)
     Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, TX, 1836 (5)
  Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 (2)
  Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 (1)
  Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1850 (1)
Display/Hide icon Mormon Pioneer Trail, 1846 (1)
     Mormon Settlement at Great Salt Lake, 1847 (1)
  Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (3)
Display/Hide icon Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (3)
     Nineteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., August 18, 1920 (1)
  California Gold Rush, 1849 (3)
  Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (3)
  Christiana, PA Riot, September 12, 1851 (1)
Display/Hide icon Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (3)
     Pottawatomie Massacre, May 24-25, 1856 (1)
  Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (1)
  Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, September 7 - 11, 1857 (1)
  Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (3)
  Transatlantic cable completed, August 16, 1858 (2)
  Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 (1)
  Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (2)
Display/Hide icon U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (132)
     South Carolina secedes, December 20,1860 (2)
     Confederacy formed, February 4, 1861 (2)
     First Battle of Bull Run, VA, July 21, 1861 (2)
     Battle of Fort Sumter, SC, April 12, 1861 (3)
     Battle of Shiloh, TN, April 6, 1862 (5)
     Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., September 22, 1862 (4)
     Fall of New Orleans, LA, April 28, 1862 (1)
     Battle of Fredericksburg, VA, December 13, 1862 (3)
     Battle of Seven Pines, VA, May 31-June 1, 1862 (1)
     Peninsular Campaign, March-July, 1862 (1)
     Battle of Corinth, MS, 1862 (1)
     Battle at Hampton Roads, VA, March 8-9, 1862 (3)
     Battle of Antietam, MD, September 17, 1862 (8)
     Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, April 30-May 6, 1863 (4)
     Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 (3)
     Battle of Fort Wagner-Morris Island, SC, July 18-September 7, 1863 (1)
     Siege of Vicksburg, MS, May 5-July 4, 1863 (4)
     Battle of Chattanooga, TN, November 23-25, 1863 (1)
     Battle of Charleston Harbor, SC, April 7, 1863 (1)
     Battle of Chickamauga, GA, September 18-20, 1863 (3)
     Battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 1-3, 1863 (31)
     Sherman occupies Savannah, GA, Dec 21, 1864 (1)
     Sherman's March to the Sea, November 16-December 10, 1864 (2)
     Siege of Petersburg, VA, June 18, 1864-April 2, 1865 (4)
     Battle of the Wilderness, VA, May 5-7, 1864 (2)
     Battle of the Crater, VA, July 30, 1864 (2)
     Franklin-Nashville Campaign, TN, 1864 (1)
     Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, May 31-June 12, 1864 (1)
     Atlanta Campaign, May-Semptember 1864 (2)
     Abraham Lincoln, Assassination, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 (4)
     Robert E. Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA, April 9, 1865 (2)
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     Sand Creek Massacre, CO, November 29, 1864 (2)
Display/Hide icon Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (7)
     Fourteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., 1868 (2)
     Civil Rights Act, U.S., March 1, 1875 (1)
Display/Hide icon Red Cloud's War, 1866-1868 (2)
     Fetterman Disaster, Wyoming, December 21, 1866 (1)
  Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1866-1869 (5)
Display/Hide icon Comanche Campaign, 1867-1875 (1)
     Battle on the Washita, Washita River, OK, November 27, 1868 (1)
  Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (3)
Display/Hide icon Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (6)
     Battle of Little Bighorn, MT, June 25, 1876 (6)
Display/Hide icon Nez Perce War, 1877 (1)
     Battle of White Bird Canyon, June 17, 1877 (1)
  Hatfield-McCoy Feud, U.S., 1878-1891 (1)
  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, AZ, 1881 (1)
  Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 (1)
  Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
  Dawes Act divides Indian tribal land into individual allotments, February 8, 1887 (1)
  Johnstown Flood, 1889 (2)
  Land opened up for settlement, Oklahoma, April 22, 1889 (1)
  Ghost Dance Movement, 1889-1890 (2)
  Wounded Knee Massacre, SD, December 29, 1890 (2)
  Sitting Bull, Killed, Standing Rock Reservation, SD, 1890 (1)
  World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 (1)
  Pullman Rail Strike, 1894 (1)
  Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898 (1)
  Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896 (2)
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     Battle of San Juan Hill, 1898 (1)
     Battle of Manila, 1898 (1)
  American Frontier and Westward Expansion, pre-1890s (3)
  Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 (1)
  Boxer Rebellion, China, 1900 (2)
  William McKinley, Assassination, Buffalo, NY, September 6, 1901 (2)
  Wright Brothers' First Flight, Kitty Hawk, NC, 1903 (2)
  Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (1)
  Russian Revolution, 1905 (1)
  San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18-21, 1906 (6)
  Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906 (1)
  Peary Expedition Reaches the North Pole, April 6, 1909 (1)
  Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911 (1)
  Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
  Titanic Sinks, April 15, 1912 (1)
Display/Hide icon World War I, 1914-1918 (45)
     Lusitania Sinks, May 7, 1915 (1)
     Battle of the Marne, 1918 (1)
     German Armistice, November 11, 1918 (6)
     Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 (2)
  Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (5)
  Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 (1)
Display/Hide icon Prohibition, 1919-1933 (48)
     St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Chicago, IL, February 14, 1929 (2)
  Soviet Union, 1922-1991 (67)
  Herrin Massacre, IL, July 21-22, 1922 (1)
  Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 (2)
  Sacco and Vanzetti, Execution, Boston, MA, August 23, 1927 (3)
  Dust Bowl, 1928-1935 (1)
Display/Hide icon Great Depression, 1929-1941 (262)
     Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929 (3)
     Bonus Army Marches on Washington, D.C., 1932 (20)
     New Deal, 1933-1938 (87)
  Mukden Incident, 1931 (18)
  Scottsboro Case, 1931 (1)
  Charles Lindbergh, Jr., Kidnapped and Killed, East Amwell, NJ, March 1-May 12, 1932 (26)
  Adolf Hitler, Assumes Dictatorship of Germany, March 23, 1933 (16)
  Adolf Hitler, Becomes Fuhrer of Germany, August 19, 1933 (1)
Display/Hide icon Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (21)
     Franco becomes dictator of Spain, October 1, 1936 (3)
Display/Hide icon Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (32)
     Nanking Massacre, 1937 (1)
  Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (6)
  Amelia Earhart, Disappearance, July 2, 1937 (3)
  Holocaust, 1938-1945 (8)
Display/Hide icon World War II, 1939-1945 (769)
     Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, 1935-1941 (23)
     Germany Troops Remilitarize Rhineland, March 7, 1936 (1)
     German Occupation of Czechoslovakia, October 15, 1938-March 16, 1939 (6)
     Germans Capture Tobruk, June 21, 1942 (1)
     Battle of the Atlantic, February-May 1941 (1)
     Soviet Union Invades Poland, September 17, 1939 (2)
     Britain and France Declare War on Germany, September 3, 1939 (4)
     German Invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939 (7)
     German invasion of Norway, April 9-June 10, 1940 (4)
     German invasion of Netherlands, May 10-15, 1940 (2)
     Blitz, September 1940-May 1941 (15)
     Italy Attacks Egypt, September 13, 1940 (1)
     Italy attacks Greece, October 28, 1940 (2)
     German invasion of Belgium, May 10-28, 1940 (2)
     Evacuation of Dunkirk, May-June, 1940 (2)
     German invasion of France, May 10-June 22, 1940 (2)
     Katyn Forest massacre, 1940 (1)
     Japanese invasion of Burma, December 11, 1941 (4)
     Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (16)
     U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, December 8, 1941 (3)
     Battle for Crete, May 20-31, 1941 (3)
     Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, December 8, 1941-April 9, 1942 (1)
     Siege of Tobruk, January-December 1941 (3)
     German invasion of Russia, June 1941-1945 (4)
     Operation Torch, North Africa, November 8-16, 1942 (2)
     German-Soviet Nonagression Pact Signed, August 23, 1939 (2)
     Bataan Death March, April 1942 (1)
     Papua-New Guinea Campaign, 1942 (4)
     Battle of Corregidor, 1942 (1)
     Battle of Guadalcanal, November 12-15, 1942 (4)
     Raid on Dieppe, August 14, 1942 (1)
     First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction is Created, Chicago, 1942 (1)
     Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945 (2)
     Siege of Stalingrad, November 1942-February 1943 (2)
     Battle of the Coral Sea, April 7-8, 1942 (1)
     Battle of Midway, June 3-6, 1942 (6)
     Battle of El Alamein, October 23-November 3, 1942 (2)
     Japanese invasion of Singapore, February 8-15, 1942 (1)
     Allied invasion of Italy, September 3-8, 1943 (10)
     Allied Invasion of Sicily, July-August 1943 (13)
     Battle of Attu, 1943 (2)
     Allies capture Tunisia, March 7, 1943 (2)
     Battle of the Bismark Sea, March 2-3, 1943 (1)
     Mussolini overthrown, July 25-26, 1943 (1)
     Battle of the Empress Augusta Bay, November 2, 1943 (1)
     Battle of Tarawa, November 20-23, 1943 (2)
     Axis surrender North Africa to Allies, May 13, 1943 (3)
     Battle of Kasserine Pass, February 14-25, 1943 (1)
     Battle of Kursk, 1943 (1)
     Bombing of Hamburg, July 1943 (2)
     Battle of Anzio, Italy, January 22-June 5, 1944 (10)
     Battle of Peleliu, September 15-November 25, 1944 (3)
     D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944 (30)
     Battle of Arnhem, September 17-26, 1944 (2)
     Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944 (3)
     Battle of Cherbourg, June 6-30, 1944 (2)
     Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945 (12)
     Warsaw Uprising, August-October 1944 (1)
     Liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944 (6)
     Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-20, 1944 (1)
     Liberation of St. Lo, July 18, 1944 (1)
     Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 23-26, 1944 (4)
     Battle of Monte Castello, 1944-1945 (1)
     Second Chindit Expedition, Burma, March 5-8, 1944 (1)
     Operation Dragoon, France, August 15-September 14, 1944 (1)
     Battle of Graignes, 1944 (1)
     Liberation of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, April 11, 1945 (1)
     Japanese Surrender, August 14, 1945 (13)
     Mussolini hanged, April 28, 1945 (2)
     Germany Divided into Occupation Zones, June 5, 1945 (8)
     Potsdam Conference meets, July 17-August 2, 1945 (7)
     Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945 (10)
     U.S. Invades Luzon, January 9, 1945 (2)
     Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949 (10)
     Battle for the Ryukyus, March 19-June 21, 1945 (13)
     Victory over Japan Day, August 15, 1945 (1)
     Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945 (2)
     German Surrender, May 7, 1945 (10)
     Yalta Conference meets, February 1945 (8)
     Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 (15)
     Bombing of Dresden, February 14-15, 1945 (1)
     Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945 (8)
Display/Hide icon Winter War, 1939-1940 (2)
     Soviet Union Attacks Finland, November 30, 1939 (2)
  Alaska Highway Built, 1942 (1)
  United Nations Founded, 1945 (12)
Display/Hide icon Cold War, 1945-1989 (490)
     Truman Doctrine, 1947-1989 (2)
     Coup d'Etat, Czechoslovakia, 1948 (3)
     Communist Resistance Movement, 1948-1960 (1)
     Marshall Plan, 1948-1952 (20)
     Berlin Blockade, Berlin, Germany, 1948-1949 (22)
     McCarthyism, U.S., 1949-1954 (35)
     Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Execution, Ossining, NY, June 19, 1953 (1)
     Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (15)
     COINTELPRO, FBI, U.S., 1956-1971 (8)
     U-2 Spy Plane Incident, 1960 (4)
     Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961 (11)
     Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (20)
Display/Hide icon First Indochina War, 1946-1954 (46)
     Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, 1954 (5)
  India-Pakistan War, 1947-1948 (1)
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted, December 10, 1948 (1)
  Israeli Independence Declared, May 14, 1948 (7)
  Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (1)
  Fair Deal, 1949 (1)
  Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949- (21)
  Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (283)
Display/Hide icon U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (65)
     McCarran-Walter Act passed, June 30, 1952 (1)
     Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., May 17, 1954 (8)
     Emmett Till, Killed, Greenwood, MS, August 28, 1955 (2)
     Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, AL, December 1955 (3)
     Desegregation of Schools, Little Rock, AR, September 2-September 25, 1957 (3)
     Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded, 1957 (1)
     Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded, 1960 (1)
     Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., 1960 (2)
     Lunch Counter Sit-ins, U.S. South, 1960 (2)
     Freedom Rides, U.S. South, 1960 (3)
     University of Mississippi Riot, University, MS, September 30, 1962 (1)
     Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL, September 15, 1963 (2)
     Medgar Wiley Evers, Assassination, Jackson, MS, June 12, 1963 (1)
     Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963 (5)
     Governor George Wallace attempts to oppose integration of University of Alabama, June 11, 1963 (1)
     Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964 (2)
     Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., July 2, 1964 (4)
     Civil Rights Workers Killed, Neshoba County, MS, June 6, 1964 (3)
     Voting Rights Act passed, U.S., 1965 (6)
     Watts Race Riots, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1965 (2)
     March from Selma, AL, March 1965 (6)
     Black Panther Party founded, 1966 (3)
     U.S. Race Riots, 1966-1967 (3)
     Black Power Movement, 1966-1975 (7)
     Thurgood Marshall, Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, June-August 1967 (3)
     Muhammad Ali v. The State of Texas, 1967-1971 (1)
     Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassination, Memphis, TN, April 4, 1968 (3)
     Robert F. Kennedy, Assassination, Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 1968 (1)
     Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Killed, December 4, 1969 (3)
     Attica Correctional Facility Riot, Attica, NY, September 1971 (1)
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     Pentagon Protest, 1967 (1)
     My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, March16-18, 1968 (2)
     Tet Offensive, Vietnam, January 30-31, 1968 (13)
     Columbia University Protests, 1968 (1)
     Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, January 21-July 9, 1968 (1)
     Paris Peace Talks, 1969-1973 (6)
     Kent State University Riot, May 4, 1970 (2)
     Pentagon Papers News Leak, 1971 (3)
  Argentina, Coup d'Etat, September 16, 1955 (3)
  Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (17)
  Sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, July 26, 1956 (1)
  Suez Crisis, 1956 (24)
Display/Hide icon Space Race, 1957-1975 (94)
     Sputnik I Launch, 1957 (2)
     First Moon Landing, July 20, 1969 (4)
  Ghana Becomes Independent, March 6, 1957 (2)
  Acid Tests, 1960s (1)
Display/Hide icon Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (1)
     Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., January 22, 1973 (1)
  Patrice Lumumba, Assassination, Congo, January 17, 1961 (1)
  Algerian Independence from France, 1962 (21)
  Protest Movement of the Vietnam War, 1963-1975 (1)
Display/Hide icon John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (19)
     Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 24, 1963 (3)
  Great Society, 1964-1969 (2)
  Delano Grape Strike, 1965-1970 (1)
  Monterey Pop Festival, 1967 (2)
  Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 1968 (5)
  Woodstock Festival, Bethel, NY, August 15-18, 1969 (1)
  Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (3)
  Fort Dummer Established, VT, 1724 (1)
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     Nixon Resigns as U.S. President, 1974 (3)
  Yom Kippur War, October 6-26, 1973 (1)
  Chile, Coup d'Etat, September 11, 1973 (1)
  United States Bicentennial, 1976 (1)
  Jim Jones and followers commit suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (1)
  Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1978-1992 (2)
  Camp David Accords, 1978 (1)
Display/Hide icon Iranian Revolution, 1979 (8)
     Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 (4)
  Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 (1)
  Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1987 (3)
  Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion, 1986 (3)
  U.S. Bombing of Libya, 1986 (1)
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     Fall of Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989 (1)
  Persian Gulf War, 1991 (3)
  FBI Siege of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, ID, 1992 (2)
  World Trade Center Bombing, 1993 (1)
  FBI Siege of Branch Davidian Compound at Waco, TX, 1993 (2)
  Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City, OK, April 19, 1995 (2)
  September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (2)
  U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001 (1)