AP U.S. History Important Dates/ Events

Columbus makes First Contact with Americas

1492

https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

U.S. History Turning Point Events

Period: 1492 to 2030

Jamestown Founded

1607

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown

First African Slaves in America

1619

https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

Start of the French and Indian War

1754

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war

Treaty of Paris signed (Officially ending French and Indian War)

1763

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/treaty-of-paris#:~:text=The%20Treaty%20of%20Paris%20of,to%20the%20British%20colonies%20there.

Declaration of Independence is signed

1776

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-declaration-of-independence-is-officially-signed

Battle of Yorktown (Britain Surrenders)

1781

https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/siege-of-yorktown

U.S. constitution is ratified

1789

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-day-the-constitution-was-ratified

Revolution of 1800 (Jefferson is elected President = Peaceful Transfer of Power)

1800

https://www.history.com/news/peaceful-transfer-power-adams-jefferson

Marbury v Madison decision

Feb 24, 1803

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/5us137

Louisiana Purchase

Apr 30, 1803

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/louisiana-purchase

Battle of New Orleans (Treaty of Ghent)

1815

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/war-1812/battles/new-orleans

Missouri Compromise

1820

https://www.history.com/topics/slavery/missouri-compromise

Monroe Doctrine declared

1820

https://www.history.com/topics/slavery/missouri-compromise

Era of Common Man Begins= Jackson is elected President

1828

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/era-of-the-common-man

War with Mexico

1846

https://library.fiveable.me/apush/unit-5/mexican-american-war/study-guide/NMqiBxahosm76SKTghut

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/seneca-falls-convention

Compromise of 1850

1850

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/sectional-tension-1850s/a/compromise-of-1850

Creation of the Republican Party

Mar 20, 1854

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

May 30, 1854

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/kansas-nebraska-act

Lincoln is elected President

Nov 6, 1860

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president

South Carolina Secedes from the Union

Dec 20, 1860

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/south-carolinas-secession

Confederacy Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/appomattox-court-house

13th Amendment Ratified

Dec 6, 1865

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/thirteenth-amendment

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1869

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/transcontinental-railroad-completed

Compromise of 1877 - Ends Reconstruction

1877

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/compromise-of-1877

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/wounded-knee

Plessy v Ferguson Decision

1896

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson

U.S.S. Maine explodes = Starts War with Spain

1898

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-maine-explodes

The Jungle Published

1906

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/the-jungle

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1911

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

19th Amendment ratified= Women’s right to vote

May 21, 1919

https://my.lwv.org/california/north-santa-barbara-county/article/may-21-104-years-us-house-passed-19th-amendment#:~:text=Today%2C%20May%2021%2C%20marks%20the,margin%20of%20304%20to%2089.

Red Summer

Jul 26, 1919

https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration

Stock Market Crashed = Great Depression begins

1929

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/stock-market-crash-of-1929

FDR takes office = New Deal Begins

1933

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WWII

1941

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/japanese-attack-on-pearl-harbor

WWII ends

1945

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-ii-end-events

USSR has A-Bomb (1st Nuclear Test)

Sep 23, 1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

Oct 1, 1949

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/ap-world/chinese-communist-revolution

Brown v Topeka Board of Education decision

1954

Brown v Topeka Board of Education

Civil Rights Act passed

Jul 2, 1964

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution-1

Tet Offensive

Jan 30, 1968

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/tet-offensive

MLK assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/assassination-of-mlk

Riots at Chicago Democratic National Convention

Aug 28, 1968

https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1968-democratic-convention

Nixon elected President

Nov 5, 1968

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/richard-nixon-elected-president

Nixon resigns from Presidency

1974

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/apush/richard-nixons-resignation

Reagan elected President

1980

https://library.fiveable.me/apush/unit-9/reagan-conservatism/study-guide/bhzREq69MW1ktHbBP8hg

Operation Desert Storm begins

Jan 17, 1991

Cold War ends

Dec 26, 1991

https://library.fiveable.me/apush/unit-9/end-cold-war/study-guide/jSK48CxJEPXM0bpeuKEg

September 11th

2001

September 11th

Obama elected President

2008

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/barack-obama-elected-as-americas-first-black-president

COVID-19 Epidemic in the U.S.

2020

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/covid-19-pandemic