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| 1 | 1644 | - 1644—1647: The Scottish Civil War - Scottish Royalist opponents of the Covenanters took up arms against them. Royalism was most common among Scottish Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, who were opposed to the Covenanters' imposition of their religious settlement on the country.
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| 2 | 1685 | - Oct 1685: The Edict of Nantes is revoked by Louis XIV, declaring Protestanism illegal in France.
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| 3 | 1775 | - 17 Jun 1775—3 Sep 1783: American Revolution begins with the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill.
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| 4 | 1776 | - 4 Jul 1776: American Declaration of Independence
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| 5 | 1783 | - 3 Sep 1783: American Revolution ends with the signing of The Treaty of Paris, which was ratified by The Congress of The Confederation on January 14, 1784
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| 6 | 1794 | - 14 Mar 1794: Eli Whitney is granted the patent for the cotton gin. At the time the U.S. is producing 187,000 pounds of cotton per year. The same year Samuel Slater opens the country's first textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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| 7 | 1795 | - 1795: The production of cotton jumps from 187,000 pounds to 6 million pounds within two years of the introduction of Eli Whitney's cotton gin.
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| 8 | 1810 | - 1810: A staggering 93 million pounds of cotton is harvested in the U.S. The slave population of The South has risen to 1.3 million from 657,000 in 1790.
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| 9 | 1811 | - 16 Dec 1811—7 Feb 1812: Series of earthquakes on the New Madrid fault, with at least four of about 7.5 magnitude.
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| 10 | 1812 | - 12 Jun 1812: America declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812 which will end 24 Dec 1814 with The Treaty of Ghent.
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| 11 | 1814 | - 24 Aug 1814: British General Ross lands about 30 miles from Washington with 5,000 troops and after defeating an American force twice as large marches on Washington and burn the Capitol, The President's Mansion and other public buildings. President James Madison and wife Dolly barely escaped.
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| 12 | 1815 | - 1815: The first mechanized loom, powered by water, is built in Waltham, Massachusetts. Providence, Rhode Island has 170 mills, making it one of the largest textile producing cities in the U.S.
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| 13 | 1825 | - 1825: New England becomes the nation's textile center with 16,000 mills in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
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| 14 | 1828 | - 1828: Frank Logan discovers gold in White County, Georgia. The Cherokee controlled most of the land in the gold region. The Georgia legislature began to plan their removal almost immediately after the discovery of gold. This eventually led to the "Trail of Tears."
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| 15 | 1833 | - 1833: Witnessing the explosive growth of factories, Thomas Jefferson claims wage work undermines the autonomy of workes and thus threatens America's democratic institutions.
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| 16 | 1835 | - 1835: British Scientest Andrew Ure claims "training humans is essential to successful manufacturing".
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| 17 | 1837 | - 10 May 1837: The Panic of 1837
On May 10, 1837, banks in New York City suspended specie payments, meaning that they would no longer redeem commercial paper in specie at full face value. Despite a brief recovery in 1838, the recession persisted for approximately seven years. Banks collapsed, businesses failed, prices declined, and thousands of workers lost their jobs. The price of cotton fell 25%. The recession coupled with poor crops sent droves of immigrants to Texas.
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| 18 | 1838 | - 17 May 1838: The Trail of Tears begins as General Winfield Scott arrives in New Echota with 7,000 men. At least 4,000 Cherokee die in a forced march out of Georgia to reservations in Oklahoma.
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| 19 | 1839 | - 9 Apr 1839: The first commericial telegraph begins operation in England.
- 22 Jun 1839: The murders of Major and John Ridge and Boudinot were committed by opponents of the signers of the treaty which resulted in removal of the Cherokee, and the whole nation was thrown into a ferment.
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| 20 | 1849 | - 1849: The California Gold rush draws fortune seekers from around the world to San Francisco.
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| 21 | 1861 | - 12 Apr 1861: American Civil War begins
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| 22 | 1865 | - 9 Apr 1865: The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Lee at Appomattax.
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| 23 | 1869 | - 10 May 1869: Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah. This reduced from 6 months to 6 days the travel time from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California; a distance of 2,000 miles.
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| 24 | 1878 | - Jan 1878: First North American telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
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| 25 | 1879 | - 1879: California's 2nd Constitutional Convention, presided over by Joseph P. Hoge, concludes. The constitution they drew up is the one in effect today.
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| 26 | 1881 | - 1881: The first public electricity supply was generated in Godalming, Surrey using a waterwheel at a nearby mill.
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| 27 | 1886 | - 1886: Flush toilets are invented.
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| 28 | 1901 | - 10 Jan 1901: Texas Oil Rush begins when Spidletop comes in a gusher in East Texas near Beaumont.
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| 29 | 1906 | - 18 Apr 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake. 8:12 AM
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| 30 | 1914 | - 1 Jan 1914: The first commerical airline flight in the United States.
- 1 Aug 1914: World War I begins when Germany declares war on Russia following the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.
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| 31 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917: American formally declared war against Germany, entering World War I.
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| 32 | 1918 | - 11 Nov 1918: Word War I ends when the Germans request armistice negotions with the Allies.
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| 33 | 1920 | - 1920: Women have the right to vote for the first time in a federal election.
- 29 Jan 1920: The 18th Amendment was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, having been approved by 36 states, and went into effect on a Federal level on January 29, 1920, beginning Prohibition.
- 2 Nov 1920: The first commerical radio broadcast gives citizens of Pittsburg presidential election results before the newspapers.
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| 34 | 1928 | - 28 Sep 1928: Penicillin is discovered to be a miracle antibiotic by Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist and pharmacist.
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| 35 | 1929 | - 1929: The Theodore Swann Company begins production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Anniston, Alabama.
- 24 Oct 1929: The Great Wall Street stock market crash begins on Thursday. The sell-off closes the markets on Friday. When the market continues to crash the following Monday and Tuesday panic spreads and the Great Depression begins. The Great Depression didn't end until 1941 when the United States entered World War I.
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| 36 | 1930 | - 1930: The Great Dustbowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. It lasted until 1936 and in some places until 1940.
- 5 Sep 1930: The Bardford #3 comes in, beginning an oil rush in the East Texas counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, Smith, and Cherokee.
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| 37 | 1933 | - 5 Dec 1933: The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.
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| 38 | 1935 | - 1935: Monsanto purchases the Theodore Swann Company which produces polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
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| 39 | 1937 | - 2 Aug 1937: Them 75th Congress passes The Marihuana Tax Act, marking the beginning of marijuana prohibition in American and around the world.
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| 40 | 1939 | - 1 Sep 1939: Hitler attacks Poland beginning Word War II. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany 2 days later.
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| 41 | 1941 | - 1 Jul 1941: First commercial television broadcast airs in New York City.
- 7 Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. entered World War II when the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor.
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| 42 | 1945 | - 2 Sep 1945: World War II ends
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| 43 | 1961 | - 14 May 1961: Freedom Rider's bus firebomed in Anniston, Alabama.
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| 44 | 1963 | - 15 Sep 1963: The 16th Street Baptist Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, Texas.
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| 45 | 1965 | - 7 Mar 1965: On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies.
- 11 Aug 1965: Six days of race riots begin in Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles.
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| 46 | 1966 | - Mar 1966: PCBs from the Monsanto Plant cause a massive fish kill in Choccolocco Creek.
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| 47 | 1968 | - 4 Apr 1968: Martin Luther King is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
- 5 Jun 1968: Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of assassinated President John Kennedy, is assassinated.
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| 48 | 1969 | - 19 May 1969: In a challenge brought by Timothy Leary, The U.S.Supreme Court declares The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 unconstitutional on grounds the tax violates the 5th Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.
- 20 Jul 1969: The first manned spacecraft, Apollo 11, lands on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility.
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| 49 | 1970 | - 27 Oct 1970: Congress reinstates marijuana prohibition with The Controlled Substances Act, 17 months after the Supreme Court declared The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 unconstitutional.
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