| 1650 | - | Charles II of England lands in Scotland & is crowned king |
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| 1650 | Sept. 3 | Cromwell defeats Charles II at battle of Worcester & Charles flees to France |
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| 1652 | - | War between England & Holland |
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| 1653 | Dec. 16 | Oliver Cromwell become Lord Protector of England, Scotland & Ireland |
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| 1659 | Nov. 7 | Treaty of Pyrenees between France & Spain |
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| 1664 | Aug. 27 | Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to English & rename it New York |
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| 1665 | - | April Great Plague in London |
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| 1672 | - | France and England at war with Holland |
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| 1681 | May 4 | Charter of Pennsylvania granted to Wm. Penn |
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| 1682 | - | Louisiana claimed for France by La Salle |
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| 1682 | - | Philadelphia is founded soon after Penn's arrival in Pennsylvania |
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| 1684 | - | Massachusetts Bay charter is withdrawn & the company ceases to exist |
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| 1685 | Oct. 18 | Louis XIV of France revokes religious freedom & forbids practice of Protestantism |
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| 1686 | - | The New England colonies are combined to form the Dominion of New England |
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| 1688 | - | France supports uprising in Scotland |
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| 1689 | - | King William's War - English aided by Iroquois fight the French and their Indian allies from Maine to Canada |
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| 1689 | - | Reign of Peter I - introduces civilization to Russia & moves capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg |
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| 1697 | Sept. 30 | Treaty of Ryswick - France, England, Spain, and Holland sign treaty |
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| 1700 | - | The Great Northern War is fought mostly in Poland |
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| 1702 | - | Queen Anne's War - English take Acadia, which becomes Nova Scotia |
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| 1707 | May 1 | England & Scotland joined under name of United Kingdom of Great Britain |
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| 1709 | July 8 | Charles XII of Sweden is Defeated by Peter the Great of Russia |
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| 1713 | Apr. 11 | Treaty of Utrecht - England retain Gibraltar, and gains Minorca, Savoy is given Sardinia, Austria is given Spanish Netherlands (Belgium) and retain Naples Milan & Sicily |
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| 1719 | - | Colony of Carolina is divided and becomes the royal colonies of North & South Carolina |
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| 1733 | - | Colony of Georgia is founded, the last of the 13 colonies |
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| 1733 | - | War of Polish Succession (Ends in 1738) |
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| 1739 | - | War between England & Spain |
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| 1740 | - | War of Austrian Succession (Ends in 1748) |
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| 1743 | - | King George's War -English aided by the Mohawks and the Iroquois fight the French |
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| 1745 | - | Jacobine Rebellion - The Stuarts try for the last time to take the English throne |
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| 1748 | Oct. | Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle - Anglo-French frontiers are restored, Austria is given Belgium |
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| 1756 | June 20 | English prisoners are put into the Black Hole of Calcutta by the Nawab of Bengal |
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| 1756 | - | Seven Years War - Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover are at war with France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and after 1762 Spain. Ends 1763 |
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| 1756 | - | French & Indian War, extension of the Seven Years War but in America, he American colonists and the English fight French in Canada and on the Canadian-American border |
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| 1759 | Aug. 12 | Austrian and Russian armies defeat Frederick II of Prussia and occupy Berlin |
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| 1763 | Feb. 10 | Treaty of Paris end the French and Indian War in America - France loses Acadia, Cape Breton and all of Canada and most of eastern Louisiana - England receives Florida from Spain |
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| 1763 | Feb. 15 | End of Seven Year War between Austria and Prussia - Prussia become military power |
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| 1765 | Mar. 22 | Stamp Act - tax imposed on American by British |
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| 1765 | Mar 24 | Quartering Act - provides for the board and upkeep of British troop in America |
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| 1765 | May 25 | Patrick Henry offers resolutions to Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| 1765 | Oct. 7 | Stamp Act Congress meets In New York and delegates from 9 colonies draw up Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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| 1766 | Mar | British repeal Stamp Act & pass Declamatory Act giving the King authority to make laws affecting the colonies |
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| 1767 | June 29 | Townshend Acts - new series of taxes for the Colonies |
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| 1768 | - | Russia and the Ottoman empire are at war |
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| 1770 | Mar 5 | Boston Massacre - Several American are killed & wounded by British troops in clashes |
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| 1773 | Dec. 16 | Boston Tea Party |
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| 1774 | Sept. 5 | First Continental Congress is held in Philadelphia |
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| 1775 | Apr. 19 | Battles of Lexington & Concord starts War for Independence |
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| 1775 | May 10-12 | Ethan Allen takes Ticonderogia & Seth Warner takes Crown Point |
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| 1775 | June 15 | George Washington made commander-in-chief of the Continental Army |
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| 1775 | June 17 | Battle of Bunker Hill - Severe causalities on the British but American pushed back |
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| 1775 | July 17 to Mar 17, 1776 | Americans lay siege to Boston |
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| 1776 | July 4 | Congress adopts Declaration of Independence |
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| 1776 | Aug. 27 | American defeated at Battle of Long Island |
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| 1776 | Sept. 15 | British occupy New York & Washington withdraws to Harlem Heights |
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| 1776 | Oct. 11-13 | American led By General Benedict Arnold defeated in naval battle on Lake Champlain |
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| 1776 | Nov. 16 | British take Fort Washington |
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| 1776 | Dec. 26 | Battle of Trenton - Washington crosses Delaware & defeats the Hessians |
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| 1777 | Oct. 7-17 | Battle of Saratoga - British are defeated & surrender to General Gates |
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| 1778 | June 18 | British evacuate Philadelphia |
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| 1778 | - | War of Bavarian Succession - Austria & Bavaria |
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| 1779 | June | Spain declares war on England |
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| 1780 | May | British take Charleston |
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| 1780 | July | French army of 6,000 land in Newport |
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| 1780 | Sept. 23 | Plot of Benedict Arnold is exposed at West Point |
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| 1781 | Sept. 30 | British are besieged in Yorktown by Washington |
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| 1782 | Nov. 30 | United States & Britain sign Treaty of Paris ending the War for Independence |
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| 1787 | May | Delegates sign the Constitution in Philadelphia |
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| 1788 | June | New Hampshire ratifies Constitution |
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| 1789 | Apr. 30 | Washington 1st president |
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| 1789 | July 14 | Bastille in Paris is stormed - beginning of the French Revolution |
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| 1791 | Mar 4 | Vermont is the 14th state |
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| 1791 | Sept. 2-7 | 1,000 counter-revolutionaries killed in Paris |
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| 1792 | June 1 | Kentucky is the 15th state |
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| 1793 | Jan 21 | Louis XVI is guillotined in Paris |
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| 1793 | Jan 23 | Poland & Prussia fight over Polish constitution |
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| 1793 | Feb. 1 | France declares war on Spain, Great Britain and Holland |
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| 1793 - 1794 | - | Reign of Terror in France |
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| 1794 | Mar 24 | Polish uprising defeated by Russian & Prussian army |
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| 1794 | May 6 | Haitian revolt against the French |
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| 1795 | Mar 5 | Peace between France & Prussia & Spain in June |
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| 1795 | Oct. 24 | Russia, Prussia and Austria absorb the last Polish territory |
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| 1796 | June 1 | Tennessee becomes the 16th state |
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| 1796 | Oct. 17 | Napoleon drives Austrians from Italy, France annexes Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine |
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| 1798 | July 21 | Napoleon takes Cairo |
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| 1798 | Aug. 1 | British destroy French fleet at Abukir, cutting off Bonaparte army from France |
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| 1803 | - | France & Britain are again at war |
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| 1803 | Mar 1 | Ohio becomes the 17th state |
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| 1803 | - | Louisiana Purchase from France |
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| 1804 | May 18 | Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor of France |
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| 1805 | Oct. 21 | British defeat the French and Spanish fleets |
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| 1805 | Dec. 2 | Napoleon defeat Russians and the Austrians |
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| 1806 | Oct. 14 | Napoleon defeats Prussia and occupies Berlin |
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| 1807 | June 14 | French defeat Russians |
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| 1807 | July 7-9 | Treaty between France, Russia & Prussia |
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| 1808 | - | British fight the French in Portugal & Spain |
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| 1809 | July 5 | Napoleon defeats the Austrians |
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| 1810 | July 9 | Kingdom of Holland is annexed to French empire |
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| 1812 | Apr. 30 | Louisiana becomes the 18th state |
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| 1812 | June | Napoleon invades Russia |
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| 1812 | Sept. 7 | Russians retreat and French occupy Moscow |
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| 1812 | Sept. 19 | Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins |
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| 1812 | to 12-24-1814 | War of 1812 - War on Britain by the U.S. due to the imprisonment of sailors, violation of the 3 mile limit and paper blockade |
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| 1813 | Oct. 16-19 | Napoleon is defeated by Prussia, Russia & Austria |
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| 1813 | - | Battle of Lake Erie - Perry defeats the British |
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| 1814 | Aug. 24 | British burn Washington D.C. |
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| 1814 | Sept. | Congress of Vienna end the wars of the Napoleonic era |
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| 1815 | Jan 8 | Andrew Jackson defeats the British at New Orleans after the peace treaty is signed |
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| 1815 | June 18 | Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo by the British |
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| 1816 | Dec. 11 | Indiana is the 19th state |
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| 1817 | Dec. 10 | Mississippi is the 20th state (slave state) |
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| 1817 | - | Seminole Was results in the cession of Florida to the U.S. by Spain |
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| 1818 | Dec. 3 | Illinois is the 21st state (free state) |
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| 1819 | Dec. 14 | Alabama is the 22nd state (slave state) |
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| 1820 | Mar 20 | Maine is the 23rd state (free) |
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| 1821 | Jan 17 | Spain confirms grant in Texas to Austin |
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| 1821 | Aug. 10 | Missouri is the 24th state |
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| 1824 | Apr. 17 | Treaty between Russia & the US, Russia is given Alaskan territory |
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| 1830 | Aug. 25 | Belgian revolution against the Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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| 1836 | Mar 6 | Battle of the Alamo |
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| 1836 | Jun. 15 | Arkansas is the 25th state |
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| 1837 | Jan 26 | Michigan is the 26th state |
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| 1839 | Apr. 19 | Belgium and the Netherlands become separate kingdoms |
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| 1845 | Mar 3 | Florida is the 27th state |
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| 1845 | Dec. 29 | Texas is the 28th state |
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| 1846 | Dec. 28 | Iowa is the 29th state |
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| 1846 - 1848 | - | War between US and Mexico |
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| 1847 | - | Mormons let by Brigham Young settle in Salt Lake City |
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| 1848 | May 29 | Wisconsin becomes the 30th state |
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| 1848 | May to May 1849 | Revolution in Germany |
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| 1848-1849 | | Revolution in Hungry |
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| 1850 | Sept. 9 | California is the 31st state |
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| 1854-1856 | - | Crimean War, Great Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia battle against Russia |
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| 1858 | May 11 | Minnesota become the 32nd state |
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| 1859 | Feb. 14 | Oregon enters the union as the 33rd state |
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| 1859 | Oct. 19 | Raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
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| 1859 | Dec. 2 | John Brown is hanged |
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| 1860 | Dec. 20 | South Carolina secedes from the union |
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| 1861 | Jan 29 | Kansas become the 34th state |
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| 1861-1865 | - | The American Civil War |
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| 1861 | Apr. 12 | Bombardment of Ft Sumter in Charleston harbor by the confederate forces |
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| 1861 | Jul. 21 | First battle of Bull Run. Union troops are routed |
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| 1862 | Mar 9 | The Union iron clad Monitor defeats the confederate ironclad Merrimac. |
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| 1862 | Sept. 15 | Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson captures Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
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| 1862 | Sept. 17 | Battle of Antietam, Maryland. Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee is checked and driven back to Virginia |
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| 1863 | May 1-4 | Battle of Chancellorsville. Union forces defeated by the confederates & Gen. Jackson is killed |
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| 1863 | Jun. 20 | West Virginia becomes the 35th state |
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| 1863 | Jul. 1-3 | Battle of Gettysburg. Lee forced back to the Potomac |
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| 1863 | Jul. 4 | Vicksburg surrenders to the union troops |
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| 1863 | Nov. 23-25 | Battle of Chattanooga Confederate troops driven out of Tennessee |
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| 1864 | May 5-6 | First Battle of the Wilderness, near Chancellorsville, Virginia Grant holds his ground against Lee |
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| 1864 | May 5 - Dec. 20 | Union general Wm. Tecumseh Sherman marches through Georgia to the sea |
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| 1864 | Oct. 31 | Nevada becomes the 36th state |
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| 1865 | Apr. 09 | General Lee surrenders to Union forces at Appomattox |
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| 1865 | Apr. 14 | Lincoln assassinated |
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| 1866 | Jun. - Aug. | Seven Weeks war, Bismark provokes Austria |
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| 1867 | Mar 1 | Nebraska is the 37th state |
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| 1867 | Mar 30 | Seward Folly, U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia |
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| 1870-1871 | - | Franco Prussian Wars |
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| 1876 | Jun. 25 | Custers last stand, Little Big Horn, Montana |
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| 1876 | Aug. 1 | Colorado enters the union as the 38th state |
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| 1887 | Jan 20 | Pearl Harbor is obtained from Hawaii by the U.S. as a naval station |
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| 1889 | Nov. 2 | North Dakota & South Dakota become the 39th and 40th states |
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| 1889 | Nov. 8 | Montana becomes the 41st state |
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| 1889 | Nov. 11 | Washington becomes the 42nd state |
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| 1890 | Jul. 3 | Idaho becomes the 43rd state |
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| 1890 | Jul. 10 | Wyoming becomes the 44th state |
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| 1896 | Jan 4 | Utah becomes the 45th state |
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| 1898 | Feb. 15 | US battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor |
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| 1898 | Dec. 10 | Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War |
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| 1907 | Nov. 16 | Oklahoma becomes the 46th state |
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| 1912 | Jan 6 | New Mexico become the 47th state |
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| 1912 | Feb. 14 | Arizona becomes the 48th state |
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| 1914 | Jul. 28 to Nov. 11, 1918 | World War I |
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| 1914 | Aug. 1 | Germany declares war on Russia |
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| 1914 | Aug. 3 | Germany declares war of France |
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| 1914 | Aug. 4 | Great Britain declares war on Germany |
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| 1914 | Aug. 23 | Japan declares war on Germany |
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| 1914 | Aug. 30 | First Germany raid on Paris |
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| 1914 | Sept. 5-12 | Battle of the Marne on the western front |
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| 1915 | May 17 | Sinking of the Lusitania |
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| 1917 | Apr. 6 | U.S. declares war on Germany |
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| 1917 | Dec. 9 | Jerusalem is taken by the British |
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| 1918 | Jul. 15-Aug. 7 | Second Battle of the Marne |
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| 1918 | Nov. 11 | Armistice on the Western Front |
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| 1929 | Oct. 29 | Crash of the New York Stock Market begins the depression in the U.S. |
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| 1933 | Jan 30 | Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
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| 1933 | Feb. 27 | Burning of the German Reichstag by the Nazis |
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| 1934 | Jan 26 | Poland & Germany sign a non-aggression pact |
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| 1934 | Mar 22 | Philippine independence granted by the U.S. to begin in 1945 |
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| 1936 | Jul. 18 to Mar 28, 1939 | The Spanish Civil War |
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| 1938 | Mar 12 | Germany invades Austria |
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| 1939 | Sept. 1 to Sept. 2, 1945 | World War II |
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| 1939 | Sept. 3 | England & France declare war on Germany |
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| 1940 | Apr. 09 | Denmark & Norway invaded by Germany |
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| 1940 | Jun. 10 | Italy declares ware against Great Britain & France |
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| 1940 | June 14 | German troops occupy Paris |
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| 1941 | Apr. 6 | German troops invade Yugoslavia & Greece |
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| 1941 | June 22 | Germany invades Russia |
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| 1941 | December 7 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor |
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| 1941 | Dec. 10 | Luzon (Philippines) occupied by Japanese troops |
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| 1941 | Dec. 11 | Guam occupied |
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| 1941 | Dec. 23 | Japanese take Wake Island & occupy Honk Kong |
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| 1942 | Jan 2 | Japanese troops occupy Manila |
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| 1942 | Jan 23 | Battle of Macassar Strait. U S and Dutch forces inflict losses on Japanese |
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| 1942 | Feb. 1 | Japanese bases in the Marshall & Gilbert Island are attacked |
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| 1942 | Feb. 27 to Mar 1 | Battle of Java Sea won by Japan |
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| 1942 | Mar 13 | Japanese troops land in the Solomon Islands |
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| 1942 | Apr. 9 | Bataan falls to the Japanese |
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| 1942 | Apr. 18 | Bombers led by colonel James Doolittle, from the U S carrier Hornet, raid Tokyo |
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| 1942 | May 4-8 | Battle of the Coral Sea |
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| 1942 | May 6 | General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to Japanese |
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| 1942 | June 3-6 | Battle of Midway. Japan received heavy losses |
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| 1942 | Aug. 7 | U S troops land on Guadalcanal |
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| 1942 | Oct. 26 | 1st Battle of the Solomon Islands |
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| 1942 | Nov. 2 | British 8th Army defeat Germans at El Alamein |
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| 1942 | Nov. 8 | Anglo-American forces invade North Africa |
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| 1942 | Nov. 30 | US naval victory in the 3rd battle of the Solomons |
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| 1943 | Feb. 2 | Russia rids Stalingrad of German forces |
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| 1943 | Feb. 8 | End of Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal |
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| 1943 | May 12 | End of German resistance in North Africa |
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| 1943 | June 22 | Allies land in New Guinea |
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| 1943 | July 9-10 | Invasion of Sicily |
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| 1943 | Oct. 1 | US forces capture Naples |
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| 1943 | Nov. 1 | US troops land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands |
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| 1943 | Nov. 20-24 | Gilbert Islands of Tarawa and Makin are captured by U S forces |
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| 1943 | Dec. 26 | Allied Troops land on Cape Gloucester, New Britain |
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| 1944 | Jan 22 | Allied forced establish a beachhead at Nazi |
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| 1944 | Jan 31 | US troops attack the Marshall Islands |
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| 1944 | Feb. 16-17 | US Navy attacks Japanese main fleet at Truk, in the Caroline Islands |
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| 1944 | June 6 | D-Day Invasion. Allied troops land on Cherbourg peninsula |
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| 1944 | June 15 to July 8 | US forces take Saipan in the Marianas islands |
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| 1944 | June 17 | British cities are bombed for first time by V2’s |
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| 1944 | June 19 | Battle of Philippine Sea. Heavy losses to Japs |
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| 1944 | July 20 | US troops land on Guam, Marianas Islands |
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| 1944 | Aug. 15 | US 7th Army land in south of France |
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| 1944 | Aug. 25 | Liberation of Paris by U S & French troops |
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| 1944 | Sept. 17 | Allied airborne troop land at Arnheim, Holland |
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| 1944 | Dec. 16-26 | Battle of the Bulge, Belgian & Luxembourg sector |
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| 1945 | Feb. 4 | US forces enter Manila |
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| 1945 | Feb. 19 to Mar 16 | Battle of Iwo Jima |
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| 1945 | Apr. 1 to June 21 | Invasion of Okinawa by U S troops |
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| 1945 | Apr. 30 | Hitler dies |
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| 1945 | May 7 | Germany surrenders unconditionally |
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| 1945 | May 8 | V-E Day. The War ends in Europe |
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| 1945 | July 5 | Reconquest of the Philippines is announced |
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| 1945 | Aug. 6 | Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan |
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| 1945 | Aug. 9 | Second atom bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan |
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| 1945 | Sept. 2 | V-J Day |
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