U.S. History Timeline

By Jeri Rogish

1865-1870

1865 - American Civil War ends - Lincoln was assassinated1867 - Alaska was purchased1870 - Texas is last confederate

state readmitted to Union

1871-1880

1873 - 43rd Congress has 7 black members1875 - Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to protect

blacks - Civil Rights Act passed - 44th Congress has 8 black members

1877 - Rutherford Hayes becomes president1880 - Univ. of Southern CA was found

1881-1890

1881 - Clara Barton organizes American Red Cross

- Some vehicles are required to display liscense

1883 - Civil Rights act of 1875 declared unconstitutional

1889 - Washington admitted as a state - Prudence Crandall died1890 - Wilber and Orville Wright print the

“Dayton Tattler” in Dayton, Ohio

1891-1900

1891 - Carnegie Hall opens in NY

1892 - James Naismith publishes basketball rules

1893 - The New York stock exchange collapses

1895 - 1st professional football game played in Latrobe, PA

1897 - Tomb of Ulysses S. Grant dedicated in New York 12 years after his death

1900 - Theodore Roosevelt is vice president

1901-1910

1901 - McKinley assassinated and Roosevelt becomes president

1903 - Wright Brothers’ first flight1906 - San Francisco earthquake1908 - Ford introduces model T - Taft elected president1910 - Boy Scouts established in U.S.

1911-1920

1912 - More than 1,000 Africans lynched since 19011914 - World War I begins in Europe1917 - U.S. enters World War I1918 - World War I ends1919 - Prohibition Act becomes law1920 - 19th ammendment goes into effect

1921-1930

1921 - Albert Einstein lectures in New York1924 - Congress passed new immigration law1926 - Army Air Corps are established

1928 - St. Francis dam gives away in southern CA1929 - Car radio invented1930 - American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers

Pluto

1931-1940

1931 - State of Nevada legalizes gambling - Star-Spangled Banner is approved by Hoover

and Congress as national anthem1932 - Highest continuous pave road in U.S. is opened1933 - Pres. Roosevelt inaugurated for 1st time1935 - Babe Ruth retires from baseball1940 - The Great Smokey Mountains National Park is

dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941-1950

1943 - Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause 40 deaths and 700 injuries

1945 - President Roosevelt succumbs to a brain hemorrhage

1946 - Basketball Assoc. of America is founded1947 - Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball’s

barrier against colored players1949 - U.S. withdraws troops from Korea1950 - Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when 11 bandits

steal 2.8 mill from armed car

1951-1960

1951 - U.S. signs a mutual security pact1953 - 1st colored T.V. goes on sale - Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated 34th president1958 - Explorer I, the 1st American satellite is launched1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state and Hawaii 50th

1960 - Olympics were held in Rome

1961-1970

1961 - John F. Kennedy moves into White House1962 - John Glenn is 1st man to orbit Earth 3 times1963 - Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech 1966 - Walt Disney dies of cancer on 12/151967 - First heart transplant was performed1970 - Beatles break up

1971-19801971 - London Bridge brought to U.S. - VCRs introduced1972 - M*A*S*H T.V. show premieres

- Pocket calculators introduced1980 - John Lennon was assassinated - Ted Turner establishes CNN

1981-1990

1981 - Personal Computers introduced by IBM1982 - Michael Jackson releases Thriller1983 - Sally Ride becomes 1st American woman in

space1984 - PG-13 movie rating created1985 - Wreck of the Titanic found1990 - Hubble telescope launched into space

1991-2000

1992 - Official end of Cold War1993 - World Trade Center bombed1994 - I was born1997 - Tiger Woods wins Masters1998 - Titanic becomes most successful movie2000 - Bush formally accepts presidency

2001-2009

2001 - Terrorist attack in NY

2007 - Male kills 2 students in VA Tech dorm

2009 - Obama is president