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US History: Key Dates
The year (or date) when the big events in American history happened.
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- Columbus reaches the AmericasEvent1492
- Jamestown foundedEvent1607
- Pilgrims land at PlymouthEvent1620
- First enslaved Africans arrive in VirginiaEvent1619
- Salem witch trialsEvent1692
- French and Indian War beginsEvent1754
- Stamp ActEvent1765
- Boston MassacreEvent1770
- Boston Tea PartyEvent1773
- Battles of Lexington and ConcordEvent1775
- Declaration of Independence adoptedEventJuly 4, 1776
- Battle of SaratogaEvent1777
- Winter at Valley ForgeEvent1777-1778
- British surrender at YorktownEvent1781
- Treaty of Paris ends the RevolutionEvent1783
- Constitutional ConventionEvent1787
- George Washington becomes presidentEvent1789
- Bill of Rights ratifiedEvent1791
- Louisiana PurchaseEvent1803
- Lewis and Clark expeditionEvent1804-1806
- War of 1812 beginsEvent1812
- Star-Spangled Banner writtenEvent1814
- Missouri CompromiseEvent1820
- Monroe DoctrineEvent1823
- Erie Canal opensEvent1825
- Indian Removal ActEvent1830
- Battle of the AlamoEvent1836
- Seneca Falls ConventionEvent1848
- California Gold Rush beginsEvent1848
- Mexican-American War endsEvent1848
- Compromise of 1850Event1850
- Dred Scott decisionEvent1857
- Lincoln elected presidentEvent1860
- Fort Sumter attackedEvent1861
- Emancipation ProclamationEvent1863
- Battle of GettysburgEvent1863
- Lee surrenders at AppomattoxEvent1865
- Lincoln assassinatedEvent1865
- 13th Amendment ratifiedEvent1865
- Alaska purchased from RussiaEvent1867
- Transcontinental railroad completedEvent1869
- Telephone patentedEvent1876
- Battle of Little BighornEvent1876
- Light bulb perfected by EdisonEvent1879
- Statue of Liberty dedicatedEvent1886
- Ellis Island opensEvent1892
- Plessy v. FergusonEvent1896
- Spanish-American WarEvent1898
- Wright brothers' first flightEvent1903
- World War I begins in EuropeEvent1914
- US enters World War IEvent1917
- 19th Amendment (women's suffrage)Event1920
- Stock market crashEvent1929
- Franklin Roosevelt elected; New Deal beginsEvent1932-1933
- Social Security ActEvent1935
- Pearl Harbor attackedEventDecember 7, 1941
- D-DayEventJune 6, 1944
- World War II endsEvent1945
- Marshall PlanEvent1948
- Korean War beginsEvent1950
- Brown v. Board of EducationEvent1954
- Montgomery Bus BoycottEvent1955-1956
- Sputnik launchedEvent1957
- Cuban Missile CrisisEvent1962
- March on WashingtonEvent1963
- JFK assassinatedEvent1963
- Civil Rights ActEvent1964
- Voting Rights ActEvent1965
- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinatedEvent1968
- First Moon landingEvent1969
- Nixon resignsEvent1974
- Fall of SaigonEvent1975
- Berlin Wall fallsEvent1989
- Soviet Union dissolvesEvent1991
- September 11 attacksEvent2001
- Barack Obama electedEvent2008
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