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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)