The following is a key for the various abbreviations used below:<\/p>\n
Dates are of format YYYY\/MM\/DD (year, month, day).<\/p>\n
1584\/07\/13 NA – First landing near Roanoke Island (NC)<\/p>\n
1585\/06\/27 NA – Richard Grenville lands at Roanoke<\/p>\n
1607\/05\/14 NA – First landing at Jamestown (VA)<\/p>\n
1620\/11\/09 NA – Mayflower lands at Plymouth (MA)<\/p>\n
1689\/05\/12 WR – King William’s War begins<\/p>\n
1697\/09\/30 WR – King William’s War ends (Peace of Ryswick)<\/p>\n
1702\/05\/04 WR – Queen Anne’s War begins<\/p>\n
1713\/04\/11 WR – Queen Anne’s War ends (Peace of Utrecht)<\/p>\n
1744\/03\/15 WR – King George’s War begins<\/p>\n
1748\/10\/18 WR – King George’s War ends (Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle)<\/p>\n
1754\/07\/10 NA – The Albany Congress meets<\/p>\n
1754\/07\/03 WR – French and Indian War begins<\/p>\n
1763\/02\/10 WR – French and Indian War ends (Treaty of Paris)<\/p>\n
1765\/03\/22 NA – Declaration of Rights is passed<\/p>\n
1770\/03\/05 NA – Boston Massacre<\/p>\n
1773\/12\/16 NA – Boston Tea Party<\/p>\n
1774\/03\/31 NA – Boston Port Act is passed by Parliament<\/p>\n
1774\/05\/20 NA – Administration of Justice and Massachusetts Government Acts are passed by Parliament<\/p>\n
1774\/06\/02 NA – Quartering Act is passed by Parliament<\/p>\n
1774\/09\/05 NA – First Continental Congress convenes<\/p>\n
1774\/10\/07 NA – Quebec Act is passed by Parliament<\/p>\n
1774\/10\/14 NA – Declaration of Rights and Grievances is passed<\/p>\n
1774\/10\/20 NA – Articles of Association are signed<\/p>\n
1775\/04\/18 WR – American Revolution begins<\/p>\n
1775\/05\/10 NA – Second Continental Congress convenes<\/p>\n
1775\/07\/21 NA – Ben Franklin presents a plan for confederation<\/p>\n
1776\/06\/07 NA – Richard Henry Lee introduces independence resolution<\/p>\n
1776\/07\/04 NA – Declaration of Independence adopted<\/p>\n
1776\/12\/20 NA – Third Continental Congress convenes<\/p>\n
1777\/11\/15 NA – Articles of Confederation proposed<\/p>\n
1781\/03\/01 NA – Articles of Confederation ratified<\/p>\n
1783\/02\/04 WR – English declare hostilities at an end<\/p>\n
1783\/04\/11 WR – America declares hostilities at an end<\/p>\n
1784\/01\/14 WR – Revolutionary War Ends (Treaty of Paris)<\/p>\n
1787\/05\/25 NA – Constitutional Convention opens<\/p>\n
1787\/09\/17 NA – Final draft of the Constitution sent to Congress<\/p>\n
1787\/12\/07 SH – Delaware<\/p>\n
1787\/12\/12 SH – Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
1787\/12\/18 SH – New Jersey<\/p>\n
1788\/01\/02 SH – Georgia<\/p>\n
1788\/01\/09 SH – Connecticut<\/p>\n
1788\/02\/06 SH – Massachusetts<\/p>\n
1788\/04\/28 SH – Maryland<\/p>\n
1788\/05\/23 SH – South Carolina<\/p>\n
1788\/06\/21 SH – New Hampshire<\/p>\n
1788\/06\/21 NA – Constitution Ratified<\/p>\n
1788\/06\/25 SH – Virginia<\/p>\n
1788\/07\/26 SH – New York<\/p>\n
1789\/03\/04 NA – The Constitution goes into effect<\/p>\n
1789\/04\/30 PR – George Washington<\/p>\n
1789\/07\/14 NW – French Revolution<\/p>\n
1789\/09\/25 AP – Amendments 1-10, 27, one unratified amendment<\/p>\n
1789\/11\/21 SH – North Carolina<\/p>\n
1790\/05\/29 SH – Rhode Island<\/p>\n
1791\/03\/04 SH – Vermont<\/p>\n
1791\/12\/15 AR – Amendments 1-10<\/p>\n
1792\/06\/01 SH – Kentucky<\/p>\n
1793\/03\/04 PR – George Washington<\/p>\n
1794\/03\/04 AP – Amendment 11<\/p>\n
1795\/02\/07 AR – Amendment 11<\/p>\n
1796\/06\/01 SH – Tennessee<\/p>\n
1797\/03\/04 PR – John Adams<\/p>\n
1801\/03\/04 PR – Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
1803\/03\/01 SH – Ohio<\/p>\n
1803\/04\/30 NA – Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed<\/p>\n
1803\/12\/09 AP – Amendment 12<\/p>\n
1804\/06\/15 AR – Amendment 12<\/p>\n
1805\/03\/04 PR – Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
1809\/03\/04 PR – James Madison<\/p>\n
1810\/05\/01 AP – Unratified anti-title amendment<\/p>\n
1810\/09\/16 NW – Mexican independence<\/p>\n
1812\/04\/30 SH – Louisiana<\/p>\n
1812\/06\/18 WR – War of 1812 begins<\/p>\n
1813\/03\/04 PR – James Madison<\/p>\n
1814\/12\/24 WR – War of 1812 ends (Treaty of Ghent)<\/p>\n
1815\/06\/18 NW – Battle of Waterloo\u00c2\u00a0 (end of Napoleonic Wars)<\/p>\n
1816\/12\/11 SH – Indiana<\/p>\n
1817\/03\/04 PR – James Monroe<\/p>\n
1817\/12\/10 SH – Mississippi<\/p>\n
1818\/12\/03 SH – Illinois<\/p>\n
1819\/12\/14 SH – Alabama<\/p>\n
1820\/03\/15 SH – Maine<\/p>\n
1821\/03\/05 PR – James Monroe<\/p>\n
1821\/08\/10 SH – Missouri<\/p>\n
1825\/03\/04 PR – John Quincy Adams<\/p>\n
1827 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 NW – Greek Independence<\/p>\n
1829\/03\/04 PR – Andrew Jackson<\/p>\n
1833\/03\/04 PR – Andrew Jackson<\/p>\n
1836\/06\/15 SH – Arkansas<\/p>\n
1837\/01\/26 SH – Michigan<\/p>\n
1837\/03\/04 PR – Martin Van Buren<\/p>\n
1839 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 NW – First Opium War begins<\/p>\n
1841\/03\/04 PR – William Harrison<\/p>\n
1841\/04\/04 PR – John Tyler (following death of Harrison)<\/p>\n
1842\/08\/29 NW – First Opium War ends (Treaty of Nanking)<\/p>\n
1842\/08\/29 NW – Hong Kong ceded to Britain<\/p>\n
1845\/03\/03 SH – Florida<\/p>\n
1845\/03\/04 PR – James Polk<\/p>\n
1845\/12\/29 SH – Texas<\/p>\n
1846\/04\/25 WR – Mexican War begins<\/p>\n
1846\/12\/28 SH – Iowa<\/p>\n
1848 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0NW – Communist Manifesto published<\/p>\n
1848 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0NW – Revolutions in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium<\/p>\n
1848\/02\/02 WR – Mexican War ends (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)<\/p>\n
1848\/05\/29 SH – Wisconsin<\/p>\n
1849\/03\/05 PR – Zachary Taylor<\/p>\n
1850\/07\/09 PR – Millard Fillmore (following death of Taylor)<\/p>\n
1850\/09\/09 SH – California<\/p>\n
1853\/03\/04 PR – Franklin Pierce<\/p>\n
1857\/03\/04 PR – James Buchanan<\/p>\n
1858\/05\/11 SH – Minnesota<\/p>\n
1859\/02\/14 SH – Oregon<\/p>\n
1860\/12\/20 NA – South Carolina votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/09 NA – Mississippi votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/10 NA – Florida votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/11 NA – Alabama votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/19 NA – Georgia votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/26 NA – Louisiana votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/01\/29 SH – Kansas<\/p>\n
1861\/02\/01 NA – Texas votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/03\/02 AP – Unratified slavery amendment<\/p>\n
1861\/03\/04 PR – Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n
1861\/03\/11 NA – Confederate Constitution ratified<\/p>\n
1861\/04\/12 WR – Civil War begins (Fort Sumter)<\/p>\n
1861\/04\/17 NA – Virginia votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/05\/06 NA – Arkansas votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/05\/20 NA – North Carolina votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/06\/08 NA – Tennessee votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/10\/31 NA – Missouri faction votes to secede<\/p>\n
1861\/11\/20 NA – Kentucky faction votes to secede<\/p>\n
1863\/06\/20 SH – West Virginia<\/p>\n
1864\/10\/31 SH – Nevada<\/p>\n
1865\/01\/31 AP – Amendment 13 \u00a0((Nobility\/BAR, must be registered as\u00a0foreign\u00a0agents<\/strong>\u00a0??)) \u00a0(LOOK for Const. of\u00a0<\/strong>USA v. Const. for the\u00a0<\/strong>USA, clam two different const.)<\/p>\n 1865\/03\/04 PR – Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n 1865\/04\/08 WR – Civil War ends (Lee surrenders to Grant)<\/p>\n 1865\/04\/15 PR – Andrew Johnson (following death of Lincoln)<\/p>\n 1865\/12\/06 AR – Amendment 13<\/p>\n 1866\/06\/13 AP – Amendment 14<\/p>\n 1866\/07\/24 NA – Tennessee readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1867\/03\/01 SH – Nebraska<\/p>\n 1868\/02\/24 NA – House impeaches President Johnson<\/p>\n 1868\/05\/16 NA – Senate acquits President Johnson<\/p>\n 1868\/06\/22 NA – Arkansas readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1868\/06\/25 NA – Florida readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1868\/07\/04 NA – North Carolina readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1868\/07\/09 NA – South Carolina readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1868\/07\/09 NA – Louisiana readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1868\/07\/09 AR – Amendment 14<\/p>\n 1868\/07\/13 NA – Alabama readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1869\/02\/26 AP – Amendment 15<\/p>\n 1869\/03\/04 PR – Ulysses Grant<\/p>\n 1870\/01\/26 NA – Viginia readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1870\/02\/03 AR – Amendment 15<\/p>\n 1870\/02\/23 NA – Mississippi readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1870\/03\/30 NA – Texas readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1870\/07\/15 NA – Georgia readmitted to the Union<\/p>\n 1871\/10\/08 NA – Great Chicago Fire<\/p>\n 1873\/03\/04 PR – Ulysses Grant<\/p>\n 1876\/08\/01 SH – Colorado<\/p>\n 1877\/01 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 NW – Russo-Turkish War begins<\/p>\n 1877\/03\/03 PR – Rutherford Hayes<\/p>\n 1878\/06 \u00a0 \u00a0 NW – Russo-Turkish War end (Treaty of San Stefano)<\/p>\n 1881\/03\/04 PR – James Garfield<\/p>\n 1881\/09\/19 PR – Chester Arthur (following death of Garfield)<\/p>\n 1885\/03\/04 PR – Grover Cleveland<\/p>\n 1889\/03\/04 PR – Benjamin Harrison<\/p>\n 1889\/11\/02 SH – North Dakota<\/p>\n 1889\/11\/02 SH – South Dakota<\/p>\n 1889\/11\/08 SH – Montana<\/p>\n 1889\/11\/11 SH – Washington<\/p>\n 1890\/07\/03 SH – Idaho<\/p>\n 1890\/07\/10 SH – Wyoming<\/p>\n 1893\/03\/04 PR – Grover Cleveland<\/p>\n 1893\/06\/27 NA – Stock market crash<\/p>\n 1896\/01\/04 SH – Utah<\/p>\n 1897\/03\/04 PR – William McKinley<\/p>\n 1898\/04\/21 WR – Spanish-American War begins<\/p>\n 1898\/12\/10 WR – Spanish-American War ends (Treaty of Paris)<\/p>\n 1898\/12\/10 NA – Guam, Puerto Rico ceded by Spain<\/p>\n 1899\/02\/04 WR – Philippine-American War begins<\/p>\n 1899\/10\/12 NW – Boer War begins<\/p>\n 1901\/03\/04 PR – William McKinley<\/p>\n 1901\/09\/14 PR – Theodore Roosevelt (following death of McKinley)<\/p>\n 1902\/05\/31 NW – Boer War ends<\/p>\n 1902\/07\/04 WR – Philippine-American War ends<\/p>\n 1904\/02\/08 NW – Russo-Japanese War begins<\/p>\n 1905\/03\/04 PR – Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n 1905\/09\/05 NW – Russo-Japanese War ends<\/p>\n 1906\/04\/18 NA – Great San Francisco Earthquake<\/p>\n 1907\/03\/13 NA – Stock market crash<\/p>\n 1907\/11\/16 SH – Oklahoma<\/p>\n 1909\/03\/04 PR – William Taft<\/p>\n 1909\/07\/12 AP – Amendment 16<\/p>\n 1912\/01\/06 SH – New Mexico<\/p>\n 1912\/02\/14 SH – Arizona<\/p>\n 1912\/02\/12 NW – End of China’s Qing Dynasty<\/p>\n 1912\/04\/15 NW – Titanic sinks<\/p>\n 1912\/05\/13 AP – Amendment 17<\/p>\n 1913\/02\/03 AR – Amendment 16<\/p>\n 1913\/03\/04 PR – Woodrow Wilson<\/p>\n 1913\/04\/08 AR – Amendment 17<\/p>\n 1913\/10\/10 NW – Panama Canal completed<\/p>\n 1914\/06\/28 NW – Archduke Ferdinand assassinated, setting off WWI<\/p>\n 1917\/03\/04 PR – Woodrow Wilson<\/p>\n 1917\/03\/15 NW – The Tsar of Russia abdicates<\/p>\n 1917\/03\/31 NA – U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark<\/p>\n 1917\/12\/18 AP – Amendment 18<\/p>\n 1918\/04\/02 WR – United States joins WWI<\/p>\n 1919\/01\/16 AR – Amendment 18<\/p>\n 1919\/06\/04 AP – Amendment 19<\/p>\n 1919\/06\/28 WR – WWI officially ends (Treaty of Versailles)<\/p>\n 1920\/08\/18 AR – Amendment 19<\/p>\n 1921\/03\/04 PR – Warren Harding<\/p>\n 1923\/08\/02 PR – Calvin Coolidge (following death of Harding)<\/p>\n 1925\/03\/04 PR – Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n 1926\/06\/02 AP – Unratified child labor amendment<\/p>\n 1929\/03\/04 PR – Herbert Hoover<\/p>\n 1929\/10\/29 NA – Stock market crash<\/p>\n 1932\/03\/02 AP – Amendment 20<\/p>\n 1933\/01\/23 AR – Amendment 20<\/p>\n 1933\/02\/20 AP – Amendment 21<\/p>\n 1933\/03\/04 PR – Franklin Roosevelt<\/p>\n 1933\/12\/05 AR – Amendment 21<\/p>\n 1936\/07\/18 NW – Spanish Civil War<\/p>\n 1937\/01\/20 PR – Franklin Roosevelt<\/p>\n 1939\/09\/03 NW – WWII begins<\/p>\n 1941\/01\/20 PR – Franklin Roosevelt<\/p>\n 1941\/12\/11 WR – United States joins WWII<\/p>\n 1945\/01\/20 PR – Franklin Roosevelt<\/p>\n 1945\/04\/12 PR – Harry Truman (following death of Roosevelt)<\/p>\n 1945\/09\/02 WR – WWII ends<\/p>\n 1946\/01\/10 NW – First meeting of the UN<\/p>\n 1947\/03\/21 AP – Amendment 22<\/p>\n 1947\/08\/15 NW – Indian and Pakistani Independence<\/p>\n 1949\/01\/20 PR – Harry Truman<\/p>\n 1949\/10\/01 NW – Communist China established<\/p>\n 1950\/06\/25 WR – Korean War begins<\/p>\n 1951\/02\/27 AR – Amendment 22<\/p>\n 1953\/01\/20 PR – Dwight Eisenhower<\/p>\n 1953\/07\/27 WR – Korean War ends<\/p>\n 1957\/01\/21 PR – Dwight Eisenhower<\/p>\n 1957\/10\/04 NW – USSR launches Sputnik<\/p>\n 1959\/01\/03 SH – Alaska<\/p>\n 1959\/08\/21 SH – Hawaii<\/p>\n 1960\/06\/17 AP – Amendment 23<\/p>\n 1961\/01\/20 PR – John Kennedy<\/p>\n 1961\/04\/17 NW – Bay of Pigs invasion<\/p>\n 1961\/03\/29 AR – Amendment 23<\/p>\n 1962\/08\/27 AP – Amendment 24<\/p>\n 1962\/10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NA – Cuban Missile Crisis<\/p>\n 1963\/11\/22 PR – Lyndon Johnson (following death of Kennedy)<\/p>\n 1964\/01\/23 AR – Amendment 24<\/p>\n 1964\/08\/07 WR – Vietnam War begins (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution)<\/p>\n 1965\/01\/20 PR – Lyndon Johnson<\/p>\n 1965\/07\/06 AP – Amendment 25<\/p>\n 1967\/02\/10 AR – Amendment 25<\/p>\n 1969\/01\/20 PR – Richard Nixon<\/p>\n 1971\/03\/23 AP – Amendment 26<\/p>\n 1971\/07\/01 AR – Amendment 26<\/p>\n 1972\/03\/22 AP – Unratified equal rights amendment<\/p>\n 1973\/01\/20 PR – Richard Nixon<\/p>\n 1973\/03\/29 WR – Vietnam War ends (last U.S. troops leave Vietnam)<\/p>\n 1974\/08\/09 PR – Gerald Ford (following resignation of Nixon)<\/p>\n 1977\/01\/20 PR – Jimmy Carter<\/p>\n 1978\/08\/22 AP – Unratified D.C. voting rights amendment<\/p>\n 1979\/11\/04 NW – Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy<\/p>\n 1981\/01\/20 PR – Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n 1982\/06\/30 NA – Unratified equal rights amendment expires<\/p>\n 1985\/01\/20 PR – Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n 1985\/08\/22 NA – Unratified D.C. voting rights amendment expires<\/p>\n 1989\/01\/20 PR – George H. W. Bush<\/p>\n 1990\/10\/03 NW – Reunification of Germany<\/p>\n 1991\/01\/17 WR – Gulf War begins<\/p>\n 1991\/02\/27 WR – Gulf War ends<\/p>\n 1992\/01\/01 NW – USSR dissolved<\/p>\n 1992\/05\/07 AR – Amendment 27<\/p>\n 1993\/01\/20 PR – William Clinton<\/p>\n 1997\/01\/20 PR – William Clinton<\/p>\n 1998\/12\/19 NA – House impeaches President Clinton<\/p>\n 1999\/02\/12 NA – Senate acquits President Clinton<\/p>\n 1999\/03\/24 WR – Kosovo Conflict begins<\/p>\n 1999\/06\/10 WR – Kosovo Conflict ends<\/p>\n 2001\/01\/20 PR – George W. Bush<\/p>\n 2001\/09\/11 NA – Terrorists attack New York and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n 2001\/09\/14 WR – Congress authorizes use of force for war on terrorism<\/p>\n 2003\/03\/19 WR – Iraq War begins<\/p>\n 2005\/01\/20 PR – George W. Bush<\/p>\n 2009\/01\/20 PR – Barack Obama<\/p>\n 2010\/08\/31 WR – Iraq War ends<\/p>\n The following is a key for the various abbreviations used below: AR: Date an Amendment was ratified AP: Date of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment NA: Notable American event NW: Notable World event PR: Presidential term begins SH: Statehood … Continue reading
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