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Sunday, June 20, 2021
Basic timeline of the United States
This post is a basic timeline of the United States. There are 71 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- First humans (30,000 years ago)
- Clovis culture (15,000 - 13,000 BC)
- Folsom culture (8,500 - 4,000 BC)
- Oshara tradition (5,440 BC - 460 AD)
- Adena culture (800 BC - 100 AD)
- Mississippian culture (800 BC - 1,600 AD)
- Osage culture (700 BC - now)
- Hohokam culture (300 BC - 1,500 AD)
- Polynesians settle in Hawaiian islands (1st century AD)
- Norse settlements (1000 AD)
- Iroquois confederacy (1142 - 1867)
- Christopher Columbus and Spain arrive (1492)
- Omaha culture (1,600 - now)
- New France (1534-1763)
- Dutch East India Company (1602-1799)
- Thirteen British Colonies (1607-1776)
- First African slaves (1619)
- Pilgrims and Mayflower arrive (1620)
- New Netherlands (1621-1674)
- Jamestown massacre (1622)
- Pequot War (1636-1638)
- New Sweden (1638-1655)
- Stamp Act (1765)
- King Philip's War (1675-1678)
- First Great Awakening (1730-1755)
- Boston Tea Party (1773)
- First Continental Congress (1774)
- Second Continental Congress (1775-1781)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Cherokee-American Wars (1776-1794)
- Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
- Northwest Indian War (1785-1795)
- Constitutions written (1787)
- Bill of Rights written (1789-1791)
- Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794)
- Second Great Awakening (1790-1840)
- Democratic-Republican Party (1792-1834)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806)
- War of 1812 (1812-1815)
- Democratic Party founded (1828)
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Whig Party (1833-1856)
- Texas annexed (1845)
- Oregon Treaty of 1846
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- California Gold Rush (1848-1855)
- Republican Party founded (1854)
- Civil War (1861-1865)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
- Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
- Abolition of slavery (1865)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Federal Reserve created (1913)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Woman's suffrage (1920)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Great Depression (1929-1938)
- New Deal programs (1933-1939)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- World War II (1941-1945)
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks (1945)
- Cold War (1947-1991)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- Vietnam War (1955-1975)
- Gulf War (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Hurricane Katrina (2005)
- Financial crisis (2007-2008)
- Capitol insurrection (2021)