- 1497: John Cabot lands in North America.
- 1607: British establish a colony at Jamestown.
- 1692: The Salem Witchcraft Trials.
- 1740s: The First Great Awakening.
- 1763: Proclamation of 1763 restricts settlement west of the Appalachians.
- 1770: The Boston Massacre.
- 1776: The Declaration of Independence.
- 1781: Cornwalis surrenders at Yorktown.
- 1791: The Bill of Rights is ratified.
- 1803: The Louisiana Purchase.
- 1808: The African slave trade is ended.
- 1823: The Monroe Doctrine is proclaimed.
- 1831: Indians of the Southern states begin the Trail of Tears.
- 1845: Annexation of Texas.
- 1848: Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California.
- 1857: The Dred Scott decision.
- 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified.
- 1876: The Battle of Little Bighorn.
- 1881: Tuskeegee Institute is founded.
- 1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson.
- 1879: Thomas Edison invents the electric light.
- 1886: The American Federation of Labor is founded.
- 1890: The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed.
- 1917: The United States enters World War One.
- 1920: Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage.
- 1929: The Great Depression begins.
- 1941: The Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor.
- 1950: The Korean War begins.
- 1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1964: Civil Rights Act.
- 1969: Humans land on the Moon.
- 1973: Roe vs. Wade.
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