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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 1 of 22 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1096 - Crusades to Holy Land start 1271-95 - Marco Polo’s travels in Far East 1492 - Columbus reaches America 1497-98 - John Cabot’s explorations 1498 - Vasco da Gama reaches India 1513 - Balboa reaches Pacific Ocean 1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico 1519-22 - Magellan’s ships circle earth 1531-35 - Pizarro conquers Incas 1534 - Cartier makes first voyage 1539-42 - DeSoto explores Southeast U.S. 1588 - English defeat Spanish Armada 1607 - Jamestown is founded 1609 - Hudson explores Hudson River 1619 - First women arrive at Jamestown 1619 - First Africans arrive in Virginia 1619 - First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1620 - Mayflower Compact 1624 - Virginia becomes a royal colony 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony founded 1632 - Maryland is chartered 1636 - Harvard is founded 1636 - Roger Williams founds Providence 1639 - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 2 of 22 1643 - New England Confederation formed 1647 - Massachusetts passes school law 1649 - Maryland Act of Toleration 1651-63 - Principal Navigation Acts passed by Parliament 1663 - Carolina is chartered 1664 - New Netherlands becomes New Jersey and New York 1673 - Exploration of upper Midwest U.S. and Canada by Joliet and Marquette 1675-76 - Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia 1679 - New Hampshire is chartered 1681 - Pennsylvania is chartered 1681-82 - Exploration of Mississippi area by LaSalle 1682 - Delaware granted to William Penn 1686 - Dominion of New England created 1689 - Glorious Revolution in England and the end of the Dominion 1693 - College of William and Mary founded in Williamsburg 1701 - Yale University founded 1732 - Georgia is chartered 1733 - Molasses Act passed by Parliament 1735 - Zenger trial 1750 - Iron Act passed by Parliament 1754 - French and Indian War starts 1754 - Albany Plan of Union proposed by Franklin 1754 - Columbia University founded 1755 - British General Braddock defeated disastrously by French and Indians 1756 - William Pitt heads British government http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 3 of 22 1759 - British capture Quebec 1763 - Treaty of Paris that ends French and Indian War 1763 - Proclamation of 1763 1764 - Sugar Act 1764 - Currency Act 1765 - Stamp Act and founding of the Sons of Liberty 1766 - Repeal of Stamp Act 1767 - Townshend Acts 1770 - Boston Massacre 1772 - Committees of Correspondence founded 1773 - Tea Act 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1774 - First Continental Congress 1775 - Fighting at Lexington and Concord 1775 - Second Continental Congress 1775 - Battle of Breed’s (Bunker) Hill 1776 - Paine’s "Common Sense" appears 1776 - Declaration of Independence 1776 - American victory at Trenton 1777-78 - Howe occupies Philadelphia 1777 - Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga 1778 - Treaty of Alliance with France 1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown 1781 - Articles of Confederation go into effect 1783 - Treaty of Paris http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 4 of 22 1785 - Land Ordinance 1786-87 - Shays’ Rebellion in Massachusetts 1787 - Northwest Ordinance 1787 - Constitution is drafted GEORGE WASHINGTON IN OFFICE: 1789-1797 1789 - Congress created Departments of State, Treasury, and War 1789 - United States courts are organized 1790 - Assumption Bill is passed 1791 - Bill of Rights is ratified 1791 - Vermont enters the Union 1791 - Bank of the United States chartered 1791 - Lancaster Turnpike is begun 1792 - Kentucky enters the Union 1793 - Proclamation of Neutrality 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion is put down 1794 - Jay’s Treaty with Britain 1795 - Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain 1796 - Tennessee enters the Union JOHN ADAMS IN OFFICE: 1791-1801 1797 - XYZ Affair angers Americans 1798 - Navy Department is created 1798 - Eleventh Amendment is ratified 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress 1798-99 - Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1801 - Marshall becomes Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 5 of 22 THOMAS JEFFERSON IN OFFICE: 1801-1809 1803 - Ohio enter the Union 1803 - Marbury vs. Madison 1803 - Louisiana Purchase adds vast territory to the U.S. 1804 - Twelfth Amendment ratified 1804-06 - Lewis and Clark’ Corps of Discovery expedition to the Pacific 1805 - Tripolitan War (Barbary Pirates) 1807 - Embargo Act JAMES MADISON IN OFFICE: 1809-1817 1809 - Non-Intercourse Act 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe 1811 - National Road begins 1812 - Louisiana enters the Union 18112-14 - War of 1812 is fought with Britain 1814 - Treaty of Ghent ends war 1815 - Battle of New Orleans 1816 - Second Bank of the United States is chartered 1816 - Indiana enter the Union JAMES MONROE IN OFFICE: 1817-1825 1817-25 - "Era of Good Feelings" 1817 - Mississippi enters the Union 1818 - Rush-Bagot Treaty with Britain 1818 - Illinois enters the Union 1818 - Convention of 1818 settles part of Canadian-U.S. border 1819 - McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819) http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 6 of 22 1819 - Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819) 1819 - Alabama enters the Union 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty (Florida Treaty) 1819 - Panic of 1819 (first financial/economic panic in U.S. History) 1820 - Missouri Compromise 1820 - Maine enters the Union 1821 - Missouri enters the Union 1821 - First public high school opens 1821 - Cohens vs. Virginia (1821) 1823 - Monroe Doctrine 1824 - Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN OFFICE: 1825-1829 1825 - Erie Canal opens 1828 - "Tariff of Abominations" (Tariff of 1828) 1828 - Work begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ANDREW JACKSON IN OFFICE: 1829-1837 1830 - Webster-Hayne Debate 1831 - Nat Turner slave uprising in Virginia 1831 - First issue of the "Liberator" 1832 - Tariff of 1832 1832 - Ordinance of Nullification 1832 - Jackson vetoes re-chartering of the Second Bank of the U.S. 1833 - Compromise Tariff of 1833 1836 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico 1837 - Michigan enters the Union http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 7 of 22 MARTIN VAN BUREN IN OFFICE: 1837-1841 1837 - Business panic and beginning of depression 1837 - Horace Mann starts school reform 1838 - Oberlin admits women students 1841 - Jackson Era ends WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON IN OFFICE: MAR 4 TO APR 4, 1841 1841 - Harrison dies in office (first to do so) JOHN TYLER IN OFFICE: 1841 TO 1845 1842 - Massachusetts recognizes legal rights of labor unions to exist 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1845 - Florida enters the Union JAMES K. POLK IN OFFICE: 1845-1849 1845 - Texas enter the Union 1846 - Buchanan-Packingham Treaty settles Oregon border with Britain 1846 - Iowa enters the Union 1846 - Congress declares war on Mexico 1846 - Wilmot Proviso is presented in the U.S. Senate 1847 - Mormons settle at Great Salt Lake 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends the Mexican War 1848 - Women’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y. 1848 - Wisconsin enters the Union ZACHARY TAYLOR IN OFFICE: 1849-1850 1849 - Gold Rush in California 1850 - Taylor dies MILLARD FILLMORE IN OFFICE: 1850-1853 http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 8 of 22 1850 - Compromise of 1850 1850 - California enters the Union 1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published FRANKLIN PIERCE IN OFFICE: 1853-1857 1853 - Gadsden Purchase approved 1853 - Matthew Perry arrives in Japan 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 - Republican Party is formed 1856 - "Bleeding Kansas" JAMES BUCHANAN IN OFFICE: 1857-1861 1857 - Scott vs. Sanford (1857) – "Dred Scott Case" 1858 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 - Minnesota enters the Union 1859 - John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry Arsenal 1859 - Oregon enters the Union 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union 1861 - Kansas enters the Union 1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed 1861 - Morrill Tariff Act ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN OFFICE: 1861-1865 1861 - South fires on Fort Sumter and Civil War soon begins (1861-1865) 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run 1862 - Ironclad naval Battle between the Monitor vs. Virginia 1862 - Battle of Second Bull Run 1862 - Battle of Antietam http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 9 of 22 1862 - Emancipation Proclamation 1862 - Union forces reach Vicksburg, Mississippi 1862 - Homestead Act 1862 - Morrill Land-Grant Act for agricultural and mechanical studies 1862 - Department of Agriculture is formed 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg 1863 - General Grant takes Vicksburg 1863 - West Virginia enters the Union 1864 - Sherman takes Atlanta, Georgia 1864 - Nevada enters the Union 1865 - Freedman’s Bureau is created 1865 - General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox, VA. 1865 - Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theater ANDREW JOHNSON IN OFFICE: 1865-1869 1865 - Johnson recognizes four reconstructed state governments 1865 - Thirteenth Amendment is ratified 1865-86 - Indian Wars on the Great Plains 1866 - National Labor Union is formed 1867 - Nebraska enters the Union 1867 - U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia 1867 - Congressional Reconstruction plan begins 1867 - Grange is formed 1868 - Fourteenth Amendment is ratified 1868 - Johnson is impeached by the House, but acquitted by the U.S. Senate ULYSSES S. GRANT IN OFFICE: 1869-1876 http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 10 of 22 1869 - First transcontinental railroad completed 1869 - Knights of Labor founded 1870 - Fifteenth Amendment ratified 1870-71 - Force Acts 1872 - Amnesty Act 1872 - Credit Mobilier Scandal 1873 - Nationwide economic depression 1875 - Specie Resumption Act 1876 - Colorado enters the Union 1876 - Centennial Exhibition 1876-77 - "Granger Cases" decided RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN OFFICE: 1877-1881 1877 - Troops withdrawn from the South 1877 - Series of massive railroad strikes 1878 - Bland-Allison Act 1880-90 - New Immigration from eastern and southern Europe JAMES A. GARFIELD IN OFFICE: MAR. 4 - SEPT. 4, 1881 1881 - Garfield is assassinated CHESTER A. ARTHUR IN OFFICE: 1881-1885 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act 1883 - Stand Oil Trust organized 1883 - Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service System GROVER CLEVELAND IN OFFICE: 1885-1889 1886 - Presidential Succession Act 1886 - A.F. of L. is organized http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 11 of 22 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act 1887 - Hatch Act 1887 - Dawes Severalty Act ("Americanize" the Indians) BENJAMIN HARRISON IN OFFICE: 1889-1893 1889 - Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota enter the Union 1890 - Wyoming, Idaho enter the Union 1890 - McKinley Tariff 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1891 - Populist Party is officially organized 1892 - Homestead Steel Strike GROVER CLEVELAND IN OFFICE: 1893-1897 1893 - Panic (Depression) of 1893 - #2 in US History 1893 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act is repealed 1893 - World’s Fair is held in Chicago 1894 - Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act 1894 - Pullman Strike 1894 - Huge Republican gains in Congress 1895 - Cubans rebel against Spanish 1896 - William Jennings Bryan is free silver candidate for president 1896 - Utah enters the Union 1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike WILLIAM MCKINLEY IN OFFICE: 1897-1901 http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 12 of 22 1897 - Dingley Tariff 1898 - Spanish-American War 1898 - Treaty of Paris gives U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam, Wake Islands, Philippines 1898 - U.S. annexes Hawaii 1899 - First Hague Conference 1899-01 - Filipino Uprising 1899-01 - Open Door policy proclaimed 1900 - Boxer Rebellion 1901 - Platt Amendment (Cuba) 1901 - McKinley is assassinated THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN OFFICE: 1901-1909 1901 - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty 1901-02 - Pan-American Conference 1902 - Newlands Reclamation Act 1902 - Drago Doctrine is announced 1902 - American forces withdrawn from Cuba 1903 - Elkins Act 1903 - Canal Zone is acquired by the U.S. 1903 - Wright Brothers and the Kitty Hawk Flyer 1903 - Department of Commerce and Labor is created 1903 - Wisconsin adopts direct primary 1904 - Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine 1904 - Northern Securities Company ruling by the Supreme Court 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 13 of 22 1906 - Meat Inspection Act 1906 - Burke Act modifies the Dawes Severalty Act 1906 - Pan-American Conference 1907 - Oklahoma enters the Union 1907 - "Gentleman’s Agreement" with Japan 1907 - Second Hague Conference 1908 - White House Conservation Conference 1908 - Danbury Hatters ruling WILLIAM H. TAFT IN OFFICE: 1909-1913 1909 - Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act 1910 - Mann-Elkins Act 1910 - Pan-American Conference 1911 - Transcontinental plane flight 1912 - New Mexico, Arizona enter Union 1912 - Progressive Party is formed 1912 - First state minimum-wage law 1913 - Sixteenth Amendment ratified WOODROW WILSON IN OFFICE: 1913-1921 1913 - Seventeenth Amendment ratified 1913 - Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act 1913 - Federal Reserve Act 1914 - World War I begins in Europe 1914 - Panama Canal opens to ships 1914 - Federal Trade Commission is established 1914 - Clayton Antitrust Act http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 14 of 22 1916 - Jones Act 1917 - Russian Revolution 1917 - US enters WWI 1917 - Smith-Hughes Act 1917 - Smith-Lever Act 1917 - US buys Virgin Islands 1918 - WWI ends 1918 - Wilson presents Fourteen Points 1919 - Eighteenth Amendment ratified 1919 - "Palmer Raids" 1919 - Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations created 1920 - Nineteenth Amendment WARREN G. HARDING IN OFFICE: 1921-1923 1921 - Bureau of the Budget created 1921 - Veterans' Bureau created 1921-22 - Washington Naval Conference 1921 & 24 - Laws restricting immigration 1922 - Mussolini seizes power in Italy 1922 - Fordney-McCumber Tariff 1923 - Harding dies of a stroke CALVIN COOLIDGE IN OFFICE: 1923-1929 1923 - Pan-American Conference 1924 - Teapot Dome Scandal 1924 - Veterans' Bonus Bill passed 1924 - All American Indians given citizenship http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 15 of 22 1927 - McNary-Haugen Bill vetoed to help farmers 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 - Pan-American Conference HERBERT HOOVER IN OFFICE: 1929-1933 1929 - Stock Market Crash 1930 - Public works programs started (slowly) 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1931 - Japan invades Manchuria 1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corporation is created 1932 - Stimson Doctrine is announced 1932-33 - Federal Reserve powers increased 1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany 1933 - Twentieth Amendment ratified FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IN OFFICE: 1933-1945 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corps is created 1933 - Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 - Roosevelt declared "Bank Holiday" 1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act goes into effect 1933 - Tennessee Valley Authority is created 1933 - U.S. recognizes the USSR 1933 - Good Neighbor Policy is announced 1933 - Twenty-First Amendment ratified 1934 - Roosevelt begins "Off the Gold Standard" 1934 - Securities and Exchange Commission is created 1934 - Indian Reorganization Act (Howard-Wheeler Act) http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 16 of 22 1934 - Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (with Latin America) 1934 - Platt Amendment cancelled 1935 - Works Progress Amendment is created 1935 - NIRA declared unconstitutional 1935 - National Labor Relations Act 1935 - Social Security Act 1935-37 - Neutrality Acts 1936 - Agricultural Adjustment Act declared unconstitutional 1936 - Pan-American Conference 1937 - "Court-Packing" Scheme 1937-38 - "Roosevelt" Recession 1938 - CIO separates from the AF of L 1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 - Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 1938 - Declaration of Lima 1939 - Germany invades Poland (WWII begins) 1939 - Neutrality Acts of 1937 amended 1940 - France signs armistice with Germany 1941 - "Four Freedoms" Speech by FDR 1941 - Lend-Lease Act and Program 1941 - Hitler attacks the USSR 1941 - Atlantic Charter states war aims 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (U.S. in WWII) 1942 - Corregidor surrenders to Japanese 1942 - Marines invade Guadalcanal http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 17 of 22 1942 - Allied invasion of North Africa 1942 - Office of Price Administration is established 1942 - Battle of Midway 1943 - Allied invasion of Italy 1943 - Cairo and Teheran Conferences 1944 - Allies invade Normandy, France (D-Day) 1944 - France is liberated 1945 - Yalta Conference 1945 - FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Georgia HARRY S TRUMAN IN OFFICE: 1945-1953 1945 - San Francisco Conference (UN) 1945 - War ends in Europe 1945 - Atomic bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 - Truman signs the UN Charter 1945 - World War II ends 1946 - Philippines become independent 1946 - Wage and price controls ended 1947 - Truman Doctrine is announced 1947 - Marshall Plan is proposed 1947 - Taft-Hartley Act 1947 - Presidential Succession Act 1948-49 - Berlin Airlift 1949 - Point Four Program 1949 - NATO formed 1949 - Communists control China http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 18 of 22 1950 - Internal Security Act 1950 - Korean War starts 1951 - Twenty-Second Amendment ratified 1952 - U.S. tests hydrogen bomb DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN OFFICE: 1953 - 1961 1953 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare created 1953 - States get control of offshore oil 1953 - Korean War armistice signed ending the war 1954 - Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education - segregated public schools unconstitutional 1954 - West Germany is admitted to NATO 1954 - Both U.S. & USSR have hydrogen bombs 1955 - Summit Conference (U.S. & USSR) 1956 - Suez Canal Crisis in Egypt 1957 - Civil Rights Commission created 1957 - Sputnik in orbit 1958 - Explorer I launched by U.S. 1958 - National Defense and Education Act 1958 - National Defense Highway Act (Eisenhower Interstate Highway System) 1958 - Congress admits Alaska to the Union 1958-59 - Berlin Conference 1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway is opened 1959 - Congress admits Hawaii to the Union 1960 - Summit Conference called off after U-2 Spy Plane incident that year JOHN F. KENNEDY IN OFFICE: 1945-1953 1961 - Peace Corps established http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 19 of 22 1961 - Alliance for Progress with Latin America started 1961 - First Soviet cosmonaut orbits earth 1961 - Invasion of Cuba fails 1961 - Berlin Wall built 1962 - First American orbits the earth 1962 - U.S. troops enter Vietnam (not advisors) 1962 - Trade Expansion Act 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (only can test underground) 1963 - Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas LYNDON B. JOHNSON IN OFFICE: 1963-1969 1964 - Economic Opportunity Act 1964 - Civil Rights Act 1964 - Twenty-fourth Amendment ratified 1965 - Voting Rights Act 1965 - Medicare established 1965 - Vietnam War escalates 1965 - Department of Housing and Urban Development established 1966 - National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded 1966 - Department of Transportation created 1967 - Racial disturbances occur in several large cities 1967 - Twenty-Fifth Amendment is ratified 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated 1968 - Tet Offensive by Vietcong 1968 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 20 of 22 RICHARD M. NIXON IN OFFICE: 1969-1974 1969 - American troop withdrawals from Vietnam begin 1969 - American astronauts land on the Moon 1971 - President Nixon visits Communist China and the Soviet Union 1972 - Furman vs. Georgia 1972 - Roe vs. Wade 1972 - Watergate Conspiracy and Scandal begins 1973 - Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns 1973 - Vietnam cease-fire 1974 - Nixon resigns and Gerald Ford becomes President GERALD R. FORD IN OFFICE: 1974-1977 1974 - Ford pardons Nixon 1975 - Mayaguez Incident 1975 - Vietnam falls 1976 - U.S. bicentennial celebrated 1976 - U.S. Viking spacecraft lands on Mars JIMMY CARTER IN OFFICE: 1977-1981 1977 - Carter announces plan to pardon Vietnam draft evaders 1977 - Department of Energy created 1978 - Panama Canal treaties approved (returning Canal Zone to Panama in 1997) 1978 - Carter proposes voluntary wage and price guidelines 1978 - Bakke vs. University of California at Davis 1978 - Carter meets with Begin of Israel and Sadat of Egypt at Camp David for peace talks (All receive the Nobel Peace Prize) 1979 - Revolution in Iran; American hostages seized in November at U.S. Embassy http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 21 of 22 1979 - Accident at Three Mile Island nuclear plant 1979 - Gasoline shortages in U.S. 1979 - Soviet Union invades Afghanistan 1980 - "Carter Doctrine" announced 1980 - U.S. cuts off grain shipments to Soviet Union and boycotts Olympics to protest Afghanistan invasion 1980 - U.S. mission to free hostages in Iran fails miserably 1980 - "Freedom Flotilla" of Cuban refugees arrives in U.S. RONALD REAGAN IN OFFICE: 1981-1989 1981 - Iran releases U.S. hostages 1981 - Reagan survives assassination attempt 1981 - Flight of first space shuttle Columbia 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court 1983 - U.S. invades Grenada to stop communism 1983 - U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon blown up (peace-keepers) 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes approximately two minutes into its flight 1986 - Iran-Contra Scandal (Colonel Oliver North - key figure) GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH IN OFFICE: 1989-1993 1989 - Communism falls throughout Europe (including the Berlin Wall) 1990 & 1991 - Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (Kuwait invaded by Iraq) 1989 - Exxon Valdez (off coast of Alaska) oil spill becomes the worst in U.S. History BILL CLINTON IN OFFICE: 1993-2001 1993 - Appoints Janet Reno as first female to the Attorney General post 1993 - Leader David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult commit suicide (80 people) in Waco, TX (ATF blamed) 1995 - Murrow Federal Building in Oklahoma City blown up by anti-govt militiaman Timothy http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Page 22 of 22 McVeigh. Over 200 killed in worst domestic terrorist act in U.S. History. McVeigh executed! 1996 - Clinton sends in peacekeepers to Bosnia as part of NATO force 1998 - Monica Lewinsky Affair and the Impeachment of President Bill Clinton (second in U.S. History) GEORGE W. BUSH IN OFFICE: 20012001 - Bush defeats Democrat Al Gore even though Gore gets the popular vote 2001 - Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda commit the largest and deadliest attack on the U.S. in history. Over 2000 Americans and foreigners are killed as civilian airplanes are used as missiles. Both of the World Trade Center buildings are destroyed along with heavy destruction to the Pentagon. Bush orders Operation Enduring Freedom to destroy the Talaban rule in Afghanistan who was supporting Bin Laden and the terrorists. 2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom - the U.S., the British and others attack Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. In Dec. 2003 he was captured. Before and after his capture, many insurgent groups try to destroy the interim govt. The first elections in Iraqi history are scheduled for January 2005. 2003 - North Korea tries to blackmail U.S. and other nations with its on and off nuclear weapons program. http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/sctemp/18551d09818560ca9e36ccbe6c4b21d1/11... 6/26/2007