Often in the course of researching events for the USConstitution.net site,
I’ve wondered where in history those events fall in relation to other national
and international milestones. On this page, I’ve listed many events from U.S.
and World history, with specific attention to constitutional events.
The following is a key for the various abbreviations used below:
Dates are of format YYYY/MM/DD (year, month, day).
1584/07/13 NA - First landing near Roanoke Island (NC) 1585/06/27 NA - Richard Grenville lands at Roanoke 1607/05/14 NA - First landing at Jamestown (VA) 1620/11/09 NA - Mayflower lands at Plymouth (MA) 1689/05/12 WR - King William's War begins 1697/09/30 WR - King William's War ends (Peace of Ryswick) 1702/05/04 WR - Queen Anne's War begins 1713/04/11 WR - Queen Anne's War ends (Peace of Utrecht) 1744/03/15 WR - King George's War begins 1748/10/18 WR - King George's War ends (Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle) 1754/07/10 NA - The Albany Congress meets 1754/07/03 WR - French and Indian War begins 1763/02/10 WR - French and Indian War ends (Treaty of Paris) 1765/03/22 NA - Declaration of Rights is passed 1770/03/05 NA - Boston Massacre 1773/12/16 NA - Boston Tea Party 1774/03/31 NA - Boston Port Act is passed by Parliament 1774/05/20 NA - Administration of Justice and Massachusetts Government Acts are passed by Parliament 1774/06/02 NA - Quartering Act is passed by Parliament 1774/09/05 NA - First Continental Congress convenes 1774/10/07 NA - Quebec Act is passed by Parliament 1774/10/14 NA - Declaration of Rights and Grievances is passed 1774/10/20 NA - Articles of Association are signed 1775/04/18 WR - American Revolution begins 1775/05/10 NA - Second Continental Congress convenes 1775/07/21 NA - Ben Franklin presents a plan for confederation 1776/06/07 NA - Richard Henry Lee introduces independence resolution 1776/07/04 NA - Declaration of Independence adopted 1776/12/20 NA - Third Continental Congress convenes 1777/11/15 NA - Articles of Confederation proposed 1781/03/01 NA - Articles of Confederation ratified 1783/02/04 WR - English declare hostilities at an end 1783/04/11 WR - America declares hostilities at an end 1784/01/14 WR - Revolutionary War Ends (Treaty of Paris) 1787/05/25 NA - Constitutional Convention opens 1787/09/17 NA - Final draft of the Constitution sent to Congress 1788/06/21 NA - Constitution Ratified 1789/03/04 NA - The Constitution goes into effect 1789/07/14 NW - French Revolution 1803/04/30 NA - Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed 1810/09/16 NW - Mexican independence 1812/06/18 WR - War of 1812 begins 1814/12/24 WR - War of 1812 ends (Treaty of Ghent) 1815/06/18 NW - Battle of Waterloo (end of Napoleonic Wars) 1827 NW - Greek Independence 1839 NW - First Opium War begins following death of Harrison)1842/08/29 NW - First Opium War ends (Treaty of Nanking) 1842/08/29 NW - Hong Kong ceded to Britain 1846/04/25 WR - Mexican War begins 1848 NW - Communist Manifesto published 1848 NW - Revolutions in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium 1848/02/02 WR - Mexican War ends (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) following death of Taylor) 1860/12/20 NA - South Carolina votes to secede 1861/01/09 NA - Mississippi votes to secede 1861/01/10 NA - Florida votes to secede 1861/01/11 NA - Alabama votes to secede 1861/01/19 NA - Georgia votes to secede 1861/01/26 NA - Louisiana votes to secede 1861/02/01 NA - Texas votes to secede 1861/03/11 NA - Confederate Constitution ratified 1861/04/12 WR - Civil War begins (Fort Sumter) 1861/04/17 NA - Virginia votes to secede 1861/05/06 NA - Arkansas votes to secede 1861/05/20 NA - North Carolina votes to secede 1861/06/08 NA - Tennessee votes to secede 1861/10/31 NA - Missouri faction votes to secede 1861/11/20 NA - Kentucky faction votes to secede 1865/04/08 WR - Civil War ends (Lee surrenders to Grant) following death of Lincoln) 1866/07/24 NA - Tennessee readmitted to the Union 1868/02/24 NA - House impeaches President Johnson 1868/05/16 NA - Senate acquits President Johnson 1868/06/22 NA - Arkansas readmitted to the Union 1868/06/25 NA - Florida readmitted to the Union 1868/07/04 NA - North Carolina readmitted to the Union 1868/07/09 NA - South Carolina readmitted to the Union 1868/07/09 NA - Louisiana readmitted to the Union 1868/07/13 NA - Alabama readmitted to the Union 1870/01/26 NA - Viginia readmitted to the Union 1870/02/23 NA - Mississippi readmitted to the Union 1870/03/30 NA - Texas readmitted to the Union 1870/07/15 NA - Georgia readmitted to the Union 1871/10/08 NA - Great Chicago Fire 1877/01 NW - Russo-Turkish War begins 1878/06 NW - Russo-Turkish War end (Treaty of San Stefano) following death of Garfield) 1893/06/27 NA - Stock market crash 1898/04/21 WR - Spanish-American War begins 1898/12/10 WR - Spanish-American War ends (Treaty of Paris) 1898/12/10 NA - Guam, Puerto Rico ceded by Spain 1899/02/04 WR - Philippine-American War begins 1899/10/12 NW - Boer War begins following death of McKinley)1902/05/31 NW - Boer War ends 1902/07/04 WR - Philippine-American War ends 1904/02/08 NW - Russo-Japanese War begins 1905/09/05 NW - Russo-Japanese War ends 1906/04/18 NA - Great San Francisco Earthquake 1907/03/13 NA - Stock market crash 1912/02/12 NW - End of China's Qing Dynasty 1912/04/15 NW - Titanic sinks 1913/10/10 NW - Panama Canal completed 1914/06/28 NW - Archduke Ferdinand assassinated, setting off WWI 1917/03/15 NW - The Tsar of Russia abdicates 1917/03/31 NA - U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark 1918/04/02 WR - United States joins WWI 1919/06/28 WR - WWI officially ends (Treaty of Versailles) following death of Harding) 1929/10/29 NA - Stock market crash 1936/07/18 NW - Spanish Civil War 1939/09/03 NW - WWII begins 1941/12/11 WR - United States joins WWII following death of Roosevelt)1945/09/02 WR - WWII ends 1946/01/10 NW - First meeting of the UN 1947/08/15 NW - Indian and Pakistani Independence 1949/10/01 NW - Communist China established 1950/06/25 WR - Korean War begins 1953/07/27 WR - Korean War ends 1957/10/04 NW - USSR launches Sputnik 1961/04/17 NW - Bay of Pigs invasion 1962/10 NA - Cuban Missile Crisis following death of Kennedy) 1964/08/07 WR - Vietnam War begins (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) 1973/03/29 WR - Vietnam War ends (last U.S. troops leave Vietnam) 1979/11/04 NW - Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy 1982/06/30 NA - Unratified equal rights amendment expires 1985/08/22 NA - Unratified D.C. voting rights amendment expires 1990/10/03 NW - Reunification of Germany 1991/01/17 WR - Gulf War begins 1991/02/27 WR - Gulf War ends 1992/01/01 NW - USSR dissolved 1998/12/19 NA - House impeaches President Clinton 1999/02/12 NA - Senate acquits President Clinton 1999/03/24 WR - Kosovo Conflict begins 1999/06/10 WR - Kosovo Conflict ends 2001/09/11 NA - Terrorists attack New York and Washington D.C. 2001/09/14 WR - Congress authorizes use of force for war on terrorism 2003/03/19 WR - Iraq War begins 2010/08/31 WR - Iraq War ends
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