Chronology of Key Historical Events

Vocabulary flashcards of important dates and events in history.

Jamestown

1607

Plymouth

1620

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1630

New York

1664

Salem Witch Trials

1692-1693

Great Awakening

1730s-1740s

French and Indian War

1754-1761

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775

Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

Battle of Yorktown

October 19, 1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Shays’ Rebellion

1786

Constitutional Convention

1787

George Washington becomes first president

1789

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Washington’s Farewell Address

1796

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

1798

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury v. Madison

1803

War of 1812

1812-1815

Adams-Onis Treaty

1819

Corrupt Bargain (JQA becomes President via the House of Reps)

1824

Erie Canal Completion

1825

Nullification Crisis

1832

Texas Revolution

1836

William Henry Harrison dies

1841

Mexican War

1846-1848

California Gold Rush

1849

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Decision

1857

John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

1859

South Carolina Secession from union

1860

South Carolina fires on Fort Sumter

April 12, 1861

Battle of Gettysburg

July 1-3, 1863

Gettysburg Address

November 19, 1863

Lee Surrenders to Grant

April 9, 1865

15th Amendment

1870

Great Railroad Strike

1877

Haymarket Affair

1886

Homestead Strike

1892

Spanish-American War

1898

Teddy Roosevelt becomes president

1901

Great White Fleet sails around the world

1908

Titanic Sinks or fenway park opens

1912

U.S. Enters World War I

1917

Boston Police Strike

1919

Warren G. Harding dies

1923

Scopes Trial

1925

Charles Lindbergh flies solo across atlantic

1927

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR becomes president

1933

Social Security

1935

FDR’s court packing bill fails

1937

Attack on Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

D-Day

June 6, 1944

VE Day

May 8, 1945

VJ Day

August 14, 1945

Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in MLB

1947

Korean War

1950 to 1953

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on bus

1955

Little Rock 9

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

August 28, 1963

JFK Assassination

November 22, 1963

Voting Rights Act

1965

Tet Offensive

January, 1968

MLK Jr. Assassination

April 4, 1968

Neil Armstrong walks on moon

1969

Nixon Visits china and the soviet union

1972

Paris Peace Accords

1973

Nixon Resigns due to watergate scandal

August 9, 1974

Camp David Accords

1978

Iran Hostage Crisis begins

1979

Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first woman Supreme Court justice

1981

Iran Contra Scandal

1987

Persian Gulf War

1991

NAFTA

1993

Oklahoma City Bombing

1995

Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial

1999

supreme court decides presidential election between Gore and Bush

2000

terrorist attacks on WTC and Pentagon

September 11, 2001

Invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)

2001

Department of Homeland Security created

2002

Invasion of Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

2003

Hurricane Katrina disaster

2005

The Surge in the Iraqi war

2007

Global Financial Crisis begins

September 2008

Barack Obama inaugurated - first african american president

2009

Tea Party Protest begin around the US

2009

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed

2010

Osama bin Laden killed

May, 2011

Occupy Wall Street movement

2011

Black Lives Matter movement

2015

Donald Trump elected president

November 2016

Greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.

2017