Pre-historic to 1600
1492
Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvador
1776
Declaration of Independence signed
1861
The Civil War begins.
1929
Stock market crashes on Wall Street
1945
Atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2001
Terrorists attack on September 11th
1620
The Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower.
1787
The American Constitution signed
1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president
1941
Pearl Harbour attack – The US enters World War II
1963
President Kennedy assassinated
1969
Neil Armstrong first man on the moon
1607
English settlement in Jamestown, Viginia
1775
First shots of the War of Independence
1865
The Civil War ends. Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
1908
Henry Ford introduces the first inexpensive car, the Model T
1954
Segregation in schools forbidden
1989
End of the Cold War
c. 35,000
Asian tribes cross the Bering Strait
1820
Large scale immigration begins
1862
The Homestead Act
1880
Second (Scandanavian) wave of immigration
1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
1975
Vietnam War ends
AD 1000
Viking Leif Eriksson sails into North American waters
1789
George Washington becomes the first US president
1890
Indian Battle of Wounded Knee
1848
California gold rush breaks out
1933
New Deal program eases The Depression
1917
The US enters World War I