Events

December

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger

Illinois, the twenty-first state

Thirteenth Amendment ratified

Delaware, the first state

Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japanese

Mississippi, the twentieth state

Indiana, the nineteenth state

Pennsylvania, the second state

Battle of Fredricksburg

Alabama, the twenty-second state

British leave Charleston, SC

Battle of Nashville

Bill of Rights Ratified

Boston Tea Party

Wright Brothers fly first airplane

New Jersey, the third state

South Carolina secedes from the Union

Washington resigns as Commander in Chief

The Treaty of Ghent signed

Christmas Day

Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton

Iowa, the twenty-ninth state

Texas, the twenty-eighth state

British occupy Savannah, GA

January

Emancipation Proclamation

Georgia, the fourth state

Washington wins the Battle of Princeton

Alaska, the forty-ninth state

Utah, the forty-fifth state

New Mexico, the forty-seventh state

Battle of New Orleans

Mississippi secedes from the Union

Connecticut, the fifth state

Florida secedes from the Union

Alabama secedes from the Union

Treaty of Paris Ratified

Georgia secedes from the Union

The 24th Amendment is ratified, abolishes poll tax

Louisiana secedes from the Union

Michigan, the twenty-sixth state

Three astronauts killed from flash fire while onboard command module

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch

Kansas, the thirty-fourth state

First U.S. Satellite Launched

February

Texas secedes from the Union

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry

Massachusetts, the sixth state

Arizona, the forty-eighth state

Oregon, the thirty-third state

Jefferson Davis becomes President of the Confederate States

John Glenn orbits the Earth

March

Nebraska, the thirty-seventh state

Ohio, the seventeenth state

Florida, the twenty-seventh state

Inauguration Day (until 1933)

Maine, the twenty-third state

Evacuation Day

Patrick Henry gives his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech

April

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination

Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing

Lee surrenders army to Grant

Battle of Fort Sumter

Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre

Virginia secedes from the Union

Ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Johnston surrenders troops to Sherman

John Wilkes Boothe Killed

Maryland, the seventh state

Louisiana, the eighteenth state

May

Battle of Chancellorsville

Vermont, the fourteenth state

Arkansas secedes from the Union

Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe

Jefferson Davis is captured

Minnesota, the thirty-second state

British capture Charleston, SC

Brown vs. Board of Education

North Carolina secedes from the Union

Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

South Carolina, the eighth state

Wisconsin, the thirtieth state

Rhode Island, the thirteenth state

June

Kentucky, the fifteenth state

Tennessee, the sixteenth state

Invasion of Normandy

Tennessee secedes from the Union

End of Segregation at University of Alabama

Birth of the U.S. Army

National Flag Day

George Washington named Commander in Chief

Arkansas, the twenty-fifth state

The Battle of Bunker Hill

War of 1812 Begins

West Virginia, the thirty-fifth state

Battle of Okinawa Ends

Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi

New Hampshire, the ninth state

Virginia, the tenth state

July

Battle of Gettysburg

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