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  Race Riots in New York City, August 15, 1900
  The Eastland Disaster, July 24, 1915
  The Popish Plot, 1678-1681
  The Rye House Plot, 1683
  The Coronation of England's King James II, April 23, 1685
  The Kronstadt Mutiny, May 1921
  Constitution Bicentennial, U.S., 1987
  The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commencement, July 4th, 1828
  Hartford Circus Fire, July 6, 1944
  The Glorious Revolution, England, 1688
  Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  Union Station Massacre, Kansas City, MO, 1933
  Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, ca. 30 C.E.
  Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
  Reign of King Henry VIII (England), 1509-1547
  Birth of Edward VI (England), October 12, 1537
  Death of Queen Jane Seymour (England), October 24, 1573
  The Battle of Glenlivet (Scotland), October 3, 1594
  Signing of the Mayflower Compact, U.S., November 11, 1620
  Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock, November 1620
  The Great Migration and the foundation of Puritan New England, 1630-1642
  The Creation of the Westminster Standards, 1641-1646
  Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
  Roger Williams' Letter to the People of Providence, RI, 1648
  Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
  English Civil War, 1642-1651
  The Great Plague of London, 1665-1666
  Father Marquette, The First White Man to Visit LaSalle, Illinois, 1673
  Raid on Connecticut River Camp, May 18, 1676
  Restoration, 1660-1688
  Raid of Oyster River, NH, September 1689
  Salem Witch Trials, 1692
  Witchcraft Trials of Robert Calef, 1697
  Ambush at Black Point, ME, October 6, 1703
  Treaty of Utrecht, 1713
  First Fox War, 1712-1716
  Yamasee War, 1715-1716
  John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches, 1717
  Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806
  Trial of John Peter Zenger, U.S., 1735
  Expedition of Bering and Chirikov to Alaska, June-September 1741
  Great Awakening, New England, 1740-1742
  Céloron de Blainville, possession of the Ohio Valley, 1749
  Braddock's Expedition, 1755
  Establishment of Pittsburgh, Novermber 27, 1758.
  James Otis, speech against Writs of Assistance, 1761
  Battle of Bushy Run, August, 1763
  French and Indian War, 1754-1763
  Starved Rock Massacre, Massacre of the Illini Indian Tribe, Illinois, 1764
  James Otis, The Rights of British Colonists Asserted and Proved, 1764
  Colonel Isaac Barre, Sons of Liberty Speech, March 1765
  Patrick Henry, The Virginia Resolves, May 29-30, 1765
  Benjamin Franklin's Testimony Before the House of Commons, 1766
  Stamp Act, 1765-1766
  Townshend Acts, 1767-1770
  Boston Massacre, MA, March 5, 1770
  Boston Tea Party, MA, December 16, 1773
  Intolerable Acts, 1774
  Battle of Point Pleasant, WV, October 10, 1774
  American Colonial Period (pre-1775)
  Battle of Bunker Hill, MA, June 17, 1775
  Patrick Henry, Second Virginia Convention of Delegates, 1775
  Nomination of Washington as Commander-in-Chief, June 14th, 1775
  Thomas Paine, Common Sense pamphlet, January 1776
  Washington Crosses Delaware River, 1776
  Declaration of Independence signed, July 4, 1776
  Development of American Democracy 1776-1820s
  Battle of Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776
  Siege of Fort Schuyler, NY, August 3, 1777 to August 22, 1777
  Surrender at Saratoga, NY, October 17, 1777
  Sinking of the Bonhomme Richard, September 25, 1779
  Benedict Arnold turns traitor, September 1780
  Surrender at Yorktown, VA, October 19, 1781
  Battle of Yorktown, VA, October 1781
  Thomas Paine, The American Crisis pamphlets, 1776- 1783
  American Revolution, 1775-1783
  Exploration and Discovery of Alaska, 1786-1897
  1st President, George Washington, 1789-1797
  Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789
  The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860
  The Statehood of Vermont, March 4, 1791
  Battle of the Wabash, November 4, 1791
  Reign of Terror, 1793-1794
  Big Tree Treaty negotiated, September, 1797
  Sojourner (Isabella ) Truth, 1797-1883
  French Revolution, 1789-1799
  George Washington dies, December 14, 1799
  Presidential Election of 1800
  3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
  Louisiana Purchase, 1803
  Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804
  Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806
  Presidential Election of 1808
  The murder of Naomi Wise by Jonathan Lewis, 1808
  The Bombardment of Fort McHenry, 1812
  Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813
  Battle at Stonington, Connecticut, August 9th, 1814
  Battle of Plattsburgh Bay, September 6-11, 1814
  Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815
  War of 1812
  Presidential Election of 1816
  5th President, James Monroe, 1817-1825
  Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
  Harriet Tubman, 1820-1913
  Mexican Revolution, 1810-1821
  Brazil Independence declared, September 7, 1822
  Cherokee-Osage War, 1813-1822
  Presidential Election of 1824
  6th President, John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
  First Norwegian settlers in America, 1825
  The Miramichi Fire, 1825
  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
  The Erie Canal, 1825 - Present
  Cherokee Phoenix newspaper founded, February 21, 1828
  Presidential Election of 1828
  Treaty of 1829, Prairie Du Chien, WI
  7th President, Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
  The Underground Railroad, 1830s-1860s
  President Andrew Jackson re-elected, 1832
  Presidential Election of 1836
  Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836
  Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, TX, 1836
  8th President, Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
  Pastry War (Guerra de los pasteles); Invasion of Mexico by France, 1838
  Aroostook War, 1839-1839
  Talton Hall, (1840-1892)
  Presidential Election of 1840
  10th President, John Tyler, 1841-1845
  9th President, William Henry Harrison, 1841
  Presidential Election of 1844
  11th President, James K. Polk, 1845-1849
  Annexation of Texas, 1845
  Revolution of 1848 (European countries assertion of nationalism; France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary)
  Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Federal District, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2, 1848
  Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920
  Free Soil Movement
  Presidential Election of 1848
  California Gold Rush, 1849
  12th President, Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
  13th President, Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
  Presidential Election of 1852
  14th President, Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
  Presidential Election of 1856
  Great Police Fight and Riot at City Hall, New York City, June 15, 1857
  Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys Gang Fight/Riot in Manhattan, New York City, July 4, 1857
  15th President, James Buchanan, 1857-1861
  Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
  Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859
  Presidential Election of 1860
  Alfred E. Hicks, trial for murder, 1860
  American Labor Movement, 1860-1980
  Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the U.S., March 4, 1861
  16th President, Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
  Battle of Stones River, TN, December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863
  Battle of Fredericksburg, VA, December 13, 1862
  Battle of Seven Pines, VA, May 31-June 1, 1862
  Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
  Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., September 22, 1862
  Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862
  Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
  Shimonoseki Bombardent, Japan, September 5-8, 1864
  Presidential Election of 1864
  Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865
  U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
  Confederacy formed, February 4, 1861
  Murder of Laura Foster by Tom Dooley, Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1866
  Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864
  Puerto Rican Independence Movement
  Presidential Election of 1868
  18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
  Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1866-1869
  Fifteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., March 30, 1870
  Fenian Uprising, 1866-1870
  Manitoba Act of 1870
  Construction of the Big Bend Tunnel, West Virginia, 1870-1872
  Westfield Disaster, Ferry crash, July 1871
  Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871
  Turret Mountain Attack, Arizona, March 27, 1873
  Construction of the Swannanoa Tunnel, North Carolina, 1874-1879
  Red River War, 1874-1875
  Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
  Presidential Election of 1876
  Brooklyn Theater Fire, December 5, 1876
  19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881
  Crazy Horse is stabbed and dies of wounds, Fort Robinson, NE, September 5-6, 1877
  Reconstruction, 1865-1877
  American Industrial Era, 1880s-1930
  Presidential Election of 1880
  Santa Fe Trail, 1821 - 1880
  The Construction of the Panama Canal, 1881 to 1915
  20th President, James A. Garfield, 1881
  Alfred Packer, Convicted of Cannibalism,1883
  Presidential Election of 1884
  22nd President, Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
  Presidential Election of 1888
  23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
  Wreck on the C & O Railroad near Hinton, West Virginia, October 23, 1890
  Coal Creek Rebellion, July 14, 1891
  The murder of Ellen Smith by Peter DeGraff, July 20, 1892
  Presidential Election of 1892
  Homestead Strike, Homestead, PA, June 30th-November 20th, 1892
  World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
  24th President, Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
  The Cotton States and International Exposition, September 18, 1895
  Booker T. Washington speech at the Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, GA 1895
  Brooklyn Trolley Strike, 1895
  Presidential Election of 1896
  Battle of Adwa, March 1, 1896
  25th President, William McKinley, 1897-1901
  Presidential Term of William McKinley, 1897-1901
  Spanish-American War, 1898
  American Settlement of Alaska, 1898-1941
  Sinking of the USS Maine (ACR-1), February 15,1898
  American Frontier and Westward Expansion, pre-1890s
  19th Century Immigration, 1800 - 1899
  Early 20th Century Immigration, pre-World War II, 1900-1945
  Death of Casey Jones, 1900
  The Pan-African Conference, London England, 1900
  Presidential Election of 1900
  Galveston Hurricane, September 8, 1900
  Assassination of William McKinley, Sept. 6, 1901
  26th President, Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
  Wreck of Southern Railroad Train 97, Monroe, Virginia, September 27, 1903
  The Wreck of the Old 97, September 27, 1903
  The Great Baltimore Fire, 1904
  Presidential Election of 1904
  Azusa Street Revival, 1906
  Monongah Mine Disaster, 1907
  Presidential Election of 1908
  27th President, William H. Taft, 1909-1913
  National Negro Convention, 1909
  The Louisiana and Texas Timber War of 1911-1912
  Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911
  Titanic sinks, April 15, 1912
  Presidential Election of 1912
  The rape and death of Mary Phagan, April 26, 1913
  The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, MI, December 24, 1913
  28th President, Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
  Ludlow Massacre, CO, April 20, 1914
  World War I, 1914-1918
  Joe Hill, Trial and Execution for murder in Salt Lake City, 1915
  Presidential Election of 1916
  Easter Uprising, April 14, 1916
  October Revolution, October 25, 1917
  The East St. Louis Pogrom, July 1917
  Start of German Spring Offensive, March 21, 1918
  Prohibition, 1919-1933
  May Fourth Movement, May 4, 1919
  Arrest and Trial of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1920
  Presidential Election of 1920
  29th President, Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923
  Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
  The murder of Irby Walker by Frank DuPre, 1921
  30th President, Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
  Virginian Railway Strike, 1923
  The Camden School Fire, South Carolina, May 16, 1923
  Presidential Election of 1924
  The Santa Barbara Earthquake, 1925
  Altoona Freight Train Wreck, 1925
  Aimee MacPherson, reported abduction of, 1926
  The Great Miami Hurricane, 1926
  Mississippi River Flood 1927
  Wreck of Southern Railroad Train 101 (The Royal Palm), Rockmart, Georgia, December 23, 1926
  Crash of two Virginia Railway trains, 1927
  Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vinzetti, August 23, 1927
  Presidential Election of 1928
  The Dust Bowl, 1928-1935
  Lawson Famliy Murder, December 25, 1929
  Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929
  The Rye Cove, Virginia tornado, 1929
  Elba, Alabama Flood, March 1929
  31st President, Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
  The murder of Freda Bolt by Buren Harmon, September 13, 1929
  Plight of the American Farmer, 1930-1950
  Ohio State Penitentiary Fire, April 21, 1930
  Memphis Influenza Epidemic, 1930
  Crash of TWA Flight 599 (Fokker F.10), 1931
  Scottsboro Case, 1931
  Crash of USS Akron (ZRS-4), Navy zeppelin, April 4, 1933
  The Search for Albert Johnson, December 1931- January 1932, British Columbia, Canada
  Presidential Election of 1932
  The kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., 1932
  The New Deal, 1933-1938
  Cherry Hill, Tennessee tornado of 1933
  32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
  Roane County Strike at Harriman, Tennessee, October 26, 1933
  Plane crash of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, 1935
  Greyhound bus crash in the Appomattox River, 1935
  Rome-Berlin Axis Alliance Formed, October 25, 1936
  Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
  The Macbeth Mine Explosion, September 2, 1936
  Tupelo-Gainsville Tornado, April 5, 1936
  Presidential Election of 1936
  German Invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939
  Britain and France Declare War on Germany, September 3, 1939
  World War II, 1939-1945
  Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939
  Battle of Britain, July-October 1940
  Italy Attacks Egypt, September 13, 1940
  Rhythm Night Club Fire: Natchez, Mississippi, April 23, 1940
  Presidential Election of 1940
  Great Depression, 1929-1941
  Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
  Sinking of the USS Reuben James, October 31, 1941
  Siege of Tobruk, January-December 1941
  Wannssee Conference, January 20, 1942
  German Siege of Crimea, May 8-July 5, 1942
  Auschwitz Mass Gassing Begins, January 1942
  Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, December 8, 1941-April 9, 1942
  Battle of the Java Sea, February 27-March 1, 1942
  Battle of the Empress Augusta Bay, November 2, 1943
  Allies capture Tunisia, March 7, 1943
  Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-20, 1944
  D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944
  Presidential Election of 1944
  Holocaust, 1938-1945
  German invasion of Russia, June 1941-1945
  U.S. Invades Luzon, January 9, 1945
  Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, April 12, 1945
  Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
  33rd President, Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
  Germany divided into occupation zones, June 5, 1945
  Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, January 26, 1945
  Victory over Japan Day, August 15, 1945
  Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945
  Marines raise American flag at Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945
  Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945
  Presidential Election of 1948
  Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949-
  Presidential Election of 1952
  34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961
  Korean Conflict, 1950-1953
  Brown vs. Board of Education, May 17, 1954
  Sinking of the C. P. Yorke, December 1954
  Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, AL, December 1955
  Murder of Emmett Till, Greenwood, MS, 1955
  Suez Crisis, 1956
  Space Race, 1957-1975
  Desegregation of Schools, Little Rock, AR, September 2-September 25, 1957
  The Notting Hill Race Riots, London 1958
  Alaskan Statehood, January 3, 1959
  Lunch Counter Sit-ins, U.S. South, 1960
  Nashville Lunch-Counter Desegregation Sit-ins, February-April 1960
  Presidential Election of 1960
  Freedom Rides, U.S. South, 1960
  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded, 1960
  Quiet Revolution (Quebec, Canada), 1960-1970
  Communist Resistance Movement, 1948-1960
  Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961
  35th President, John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
  First Manned Spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961
  Albany Movement to desegregate Albany, GA, 1961-1962
  Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  University of Mississippi Riot, University, MS, September 30, 1962
  Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965
  36th President, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969
  Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL, September 15, 1963
  Governor George Wallace attempts to oppose integration of University of Alabama, June 11, 1963
  Assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers, June 12, 1963
  Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963
  Protest Movement of the Vietnam War, 1963-1975
  Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963
  Presidential Election of 1964
  Women's Liberation Movement, 1964-1980
  Civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi, June 21, 1964
  Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964
  Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., July 2, 1964
  Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964
  Deacons for Defense and Justice, founded 1965
  The Beat Generation, 1950's-1960's
  U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
  Voting Rights Act passed, U.S., 1965
  Black Panther Party founded, 1966
  U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
  Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 1968
  Presidential Election of 1968
  Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968
  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
  Tet Offensive, Vietnam, January 30-31, 1968
  Pan African Festival of 1969
  First Moon Landing, July 20, 1969
  37th President, Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974
  Kent State University Riot, May 4, 1970
  Angela Davis (member: Black Panther Party) arrested, New York
  Riot in Augusta, GA, May 11, 1970
  Clean Water Act, 1972
  Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 1972
  Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1972
  The Chilean coup d'état, 1973
  American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, February 27, 1973
  Yom Kippur War, October 6-26, 1973
  38th President, Gerald R. Ford, 1974-1977
  Black Power Movement, 1966-1975
  Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975
  Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975
  Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976
  Presidential Election of 1976
  39th President, Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981
  Death of Steven Biko, September 12, 1977
  Presidential Election of 1980
  40th President, Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989
  World's Fair, 1982
  Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993-
  Live Aid Concert, July 13, 1985
  Presidential Election of 1988
  Cold War, 1945-1989
  Tiananmen Square Massacre, Beijing, China, April-June 1989
  41st President, George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993
  Persian Gulf War, 1991
  Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings, 1991
  Presidential Election of 1992
  Somalia Intervention, 1992-1993
  42nd President, William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
  Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994
  Yugoslav War Crimes Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994-
  Million Man March, Washington DC, October 16, 1995
  Yugoslav Civil War, 1991-1995
  The political execution of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, November 10, 1995
  Presidential Election of 1996
  Kyoto Protocol, December 11, 1997
  Second Intifada, 2000
  Spring Festival of Marrakech
  September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
  Patriot Act enacted, 2001
  Operation Defensive Shield, 2002
  The Sago Mine Disaster, January 2, 2006
  Zero Waste Resolution, Berkley, CA