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Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas 1492 Juan Ponce de León lands in Florida 1513 Córtes conquers the Aztecs 1521 Iroquois Confederacy established 1570 First permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia 1607 Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts 1620 First printing press in English-speaking N. America (Mass) 1639 Massachusetts establishes free public schools 1647 Salem Witch Trials (20 executed) 1692 First coffee plants cultivated (Brazil) 1727 Great Awakening (religious revival) sweeps colonies 1741 French and Indian War Begins 1754 Parliament’s Tea Act = Boston Tea Party 1773 American Revolution Begins 1775 Second Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence 1776 George Washington elected President of the US 1789 Louisiana Purchase extends America to the Rockies 1803 Lewis and Clark begin expedition 1804 US declares war on Britain (War of 1812) 1812 “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key 1814 Missouri compromise bans slavery in parts of new territories 1820 US Army marches Cherokees on Trail of Tears 1838 Mexican War ends. US expands borders 1848 Gold Rush in California 1849 Women’s Rights Convention: Seneca Falls, NY 1848 Dred Scott decision: No citizenship for People of African decent 1857 Abraham Lincoln elected president of the United States 1860 Civil War begins with firing at Fort Sumter 1861 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 13th amendment outlaws slavery 1865 Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth 1865 The US buys Alaska from Russia 1867 Baseball’s National League is founded 1876 Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1877 Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York Harbor 1886 1st pro football game played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania 1895 San Francisco earthquake kills at least 3000 1906 Henry Ford builds the first Model T 1908 World War 1 Begins 1914 Prohibition (1919) repealed 1933 19th amendment gives women right to vote 1920 Immigration Act limits no. of immigrants 1924 Stock market crashes, starting the Great Depression 1929 Roosevelt closes banks and Congress passes New Deal 1933 Amelia Earhart takes off from Miami… 1937 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor bringing US into WWII 1941 World War I ends 1918 Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Japanese internment camps set up 1942 United Nations Charter signed at the end of WWII 1945 Harlem Renaissance 1920s The Cold War between US and Soviet Union begins 1947 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is formed 1949 McCarthy trials falsely accuse thousands 1950 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage 1951 Brown vs Board of Education Topeka KS 1954 Rosa Parks arrested sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 MLK Jr gives “I Have a Dream” speech 1963 President JFK is assassinated 1963 73 million people watch the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show 1964 Thurgood Marshall becomes first black Supreme Court justice 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis 1968 Neil Armstrong is the first person to set foot on the moon 1969 Richard Nixon becomes president of the US 1970 Vietnam War 1959-1975 Walt Disney World opens in Florida 1971 Nixon resigns due to Watergate scandal 1974 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first woman Supreme Court justice 1981 The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 sec after launch 1986 Congress passes the Americans with Disabilities Act to stop discrimination 1990 Bill Clinton is elected president of the US 1992 A lamb is cloned from a cell of an adult sheep 1997 Hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon 2001 Hurricane Katrina devastates the gulf region 2005 Barack Obama becomes first African American president 2008 Meanwhile in the rest of the world… First known use of papyrus. Egypt, 3000BC Alphabetic writing emerges Sinai and Middle Egypt 1800 BC Birth of Socrates Greece, 469 BC Julius Caesar murdered Rome, 44BC Mohamed is born. Mecca, 570 Mayan Empire collapses Mesoamerica, 900 First Crusade Jerusalem, 1099 Magna Carta England, 1215 Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself emperor France, 1804 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley creates Frankenstein England, 1818 Irish potato famine Ireland, 1845 Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto Belgium, 1848 Pierre and Marie Currie discover radium and polonium France, 1898 Albert Einstein proposes his relativity theory Germany, 1905 Bolsheviks seize control of Russia Russia, 1917 Treaty of Versailles ends WWI France, 1919 Mahatma Gandhi leads march to the sea to protest British salt tax India, 1930 Hitler becomes German Chancellor Germany, 1933 German blitzkrieg invasion sets off WWII Poland, 1939 UN establishes state of Israel Israel, 1948 North Korean troops invade South Korea starting Korean war Korea, 1950 First space satellite, Sputnik 1 is launched USSR, 1957 Anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela sentenced to prison South Africa, 1964 Mao Zedong launches Cultural Revolution China, 1966 Long period of Catholic-Protestant violence begins. N. Ireland, 1969 Margret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister 1979 Pro-democracy demonstrators killed @ Tiananmen Square China, 1989 USSR is dissolved into 15 independent nations. Eastern Europe, 1991 Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis are killed in genocide. Rwanda, 1994 Earthquake causes a tsunami and claims 186,000 lives. Indonesia, 2004