Important Dates in US History

Flashcards to help you memorize major events and their dates.

When did Columbus arrive in the Americas?

1492

When was Jamestown founded?

1607

When was the Mayflower Compact signed?

1620

In what year did Bacon’s Rebellion occur?

1676

When did the Salem Witch Trials take place?

1692

When did the First Great Awakening begin?

1730s

When did the French and Indian War begin?

1754

In what year was the Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War?

1763

When was the Proclamation Line issued?

1763

When was the Stamp Act passed?

1765

What year did the Boston Massacre occur?

1770

When was the Boston Tea Party?

1773

When were the Intolerable Acts passed?

1774

When did the First Continental Congress meet?

1774

When were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

1775

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

1776

When was the Battle of Saratoga?

1777

In what year were the Articles of Confederation ratified?

1781

When was the Treaty of Paris signed, ending the Revolutionary War?

1783

When was the Constitutional Convention?

1787

When was the U.S. Constitution ratified?

1788

When did George Washington become president?

1789

In what year was the Bill of Rights ratified?

1791

When did the Whiskey Rebellion take place?

1794

When were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed?

1798

When was the Marbury v. Madison decision?

1803

When was the Louisiana Purchase?

1803

When did the War of 1812 begin?

1812

When was the Battle of New Orleans?

1815

When did the Era of Good Feelings begin?

1815

In what year was the Missouri Compromise?

1820

When was the Monroe Doctrine issued?

1823

When was the Erie Canal completed?

1825

When was Andrew Jackson elected president?

1828

When was the Indian Removal Act?

1830

In what year did the Nullification Crisis occur?

1832

When did the Trail of Tears occur?

1838

When was the Seneca Falls Convention?

1848

When did the Mexican-American War begin?

1846

When was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

1848

In what year was the Compromise of 1850?

1850

When was the Fugitive Slave Act strengthened?

1850

When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published?

1852

When was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

1854

In what year did Bleeding Kansas begin?

1856

When was the Dred Scott decision?

1857

When was Lincoln elected president?

1860

When did South Carolina secede from the Union?

1860

When did the Civil War begin (Fort Sumter)?

1861

When was the Emancipation Proclamation?

1863

In what year was the Battle of Gettysburg?

1863

When was Lincoln assassinated?

1865

When was the 13th Amendment ratified?

1865

When did Reconstruction begin?

1865

In what year was the 14th Amendment ratified?

1868

When was the 15th Amendment ratified?

1870

When was the Compromise of 1877 (end of Reconstruction)?

1877

When was the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

1896

In what year was the Spanish-American War?

1898

When was the Annexation of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?

1898

When did the Wright Brothers’ first flight take place?

1903

When was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

1904

In what year did the U.S. enter WWI?

1917

When was the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)?

1919

When was the 19th Amendment (Women’s suffrage)?

1920

When did the Stock Market Crash occur?

1929

When did the New Deal begin?

1933

In what year was the Social Security Act passed?

1935

When was Pearl Harbor attacked?

1941

When did the U.S. enter WWII?

1941

When was the D-Day Invasion?

1944

When were Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed?

1945

In what year was the United Nations founded?

1945

When did the Cold War begin?

1947

When was the Marshall Plan announced?

1947

When did the Berlin Airlift take place?

1948

In what year did the Korean War begin?

1950

When was the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

1954

When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott occur?

1955

When did the Little Rock Nine incident take place?

1957

In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

1962

When was the Civil Rights Act?

1964

When was the Voting Rights Act?

1965

When was the Tet Offensive?

1968

In what year was the Moon Landing?

1969

When did the Watergate Scandal begin?

1972

When did Nixon resign?

1974

In what year did the Iran Hostage Crisis begin?

1979

When was Reagan elected president?

1980

When did the Fall of the Berlin Wall occur?

1989

When did the Soviet Union collapse?

1991

In what year was Bill Clinton impeached?

1998

When did the 9/11 terrorist attacks occur?

2001

When did the War in Iraq begin?

2003

In what year was Barack Obama elected president?

2008

When was the Affordable Care Act passed?

2010

When was Donald Trump elected president?

2016

When did the COVID-19 pandemic begin?

2020

In what year was Joe Biden elected president?

2020

When did the Capitol riot occur?

2021