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Time Line
65 million B.C.: Comet impact; dinosaurs killed
18 million B.C. Last ice age ends
2 million B.C. Cavemen appeared
1.5 million B.C. Cavemen invent the wheel
1500-1000 B.C: Pueblo Indians grow corn
600 B.C: Egyptians make mummies
5 B.C: Jesus born in Nazareth
96 A.D.: Pompeii is buried in ash
1002: Leif Erickson explores North America
1200: Middle of Middle ages, there are knights
1215: Magna Carta signed
1400: Iroquois form the five nations
1434: Prince Henry sends ships to explore Africa
1492: Columbus discovers San Salvador
1500: 16th century starts
1519: Aztecs encounter Spanish for the first time
1522: Magellan makes the first voyage around the world
1525-54: Coronado discovers the Grand Canyon and five future states
1533: Pizzaro conquers the Incas
1539: Desoto explores Florida
1577: Sir Francis Drake sails around the world
1585: 100 English people settle Roanoke colony
1587-90: Roanoke colony disappears
1600: 17th century starts
1607: 105 English "Gentlemen" settle Jamestown led by John Smith
1607: Virginia colony founded
1609: Jamestown experiences "starving time"
1613: First shipment of Virginia tobacco shipped to England
1619: First shipment of African slaves to Jamestown
1620: Pilgrims settle Plymouth
1620: Massachusetts colony founded
1621: Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrate first Thanksgiving
1623: New Hampshere colony founded
1624: New York colony founded
1634: Maryland colony founded
1636: Connecticut colony founded
1636: Rhode Island colony founded
1638: Delaware colony founded
1653: North Carolina colony founded
1664: New Jersey colony founded
1670: South Carolina colony founded
1680: Pueblos revolt against Spanish
1681: William Penn sails to found Pennsylvania
1682: William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony
1682: La Salle reaches the Gulf of Mexico and claims the land.
1692: Witch hysteria sweeps over Salem Village in Massachusetts
1700: 18th century starts
1704: Indian raid at Deerfield, Mass.
1713: French Treaty of Utrecht gives England key land in Canada
1733: Georgia colony founded
1744: South Carolina begins to ship indigo to Europe
1748: English Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gives Louisbourg to the French
1755: French and Indian War begins
1759: Siege of Quebec
1759: French and Indian War ends on North American soil
1760: Montreal surrenders to the British
1763: Treaty signed between France and England
1764: British passes the Sugar Act
1765: British passes the Stamp Act
1765: Patrick Henry curses the Stamp Act
1766: British repeal Stamp Act
1766: British pass Declaratory Act
1768: King George the III sends 4-5000 troops to Boston, Mass.
1770: Boston Massacre kills five Bostonians, including Crispus Attucks
1773: British place tax on tea
1773: Boston Tea Party
1774: First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
1774: Women in Edenton, North Carolina, boycott tea
1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord
1775: Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia
1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
1776: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
1776: Congress approves Declaration of Independence
1776: George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton and Princeton
1777: U.S. flag approved by Congress
1777: Americans defeat British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga
1777-78: Americans suffer difficult winter at Valley Forge
1777-81: Congress develops Articles of Confederation
1778: France allies with Americans
1780: Women raise money for American Army
1781: British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1782: Loyalists flee to Canada and England
1783: Treaty of Paris signed, England admits American Independence
1787: Shays Rebellion
1787: Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia
1787: Delegates sign Constitution
1788: U.S. Constitution ratified
1789: George Washington is inaugurated as first real President
1789: First Congress meets in New York, New York
1790: Quakers petion against slavery
1790: Census shows that U.S. population has grown to four million
1791: First ten Amendments to the Bill of Rights are added
1800: 19th century starts
1801: Thomas Jefferson elected president
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1804: Louis and Clark explore the west
1807: Salve importation illigalized
1820: 3,500 non-indians move to the Southwest
1820: Missouri Compromise
1822: 300 settlers move to Tejas. (Texas)
1830: 15,00 more settlers to Texas.
1836: Battle of the Alamo
1839: Whitmans Go west on the Oregon trail
1843: Oregon Trail boom starts
1845: Texas Annexed to union
1846: War with Mexico
1846: Bear Flaggers revolt in California
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe - Hildago adds west to the Union
1849: Gold Rush!
1850: Compromise of 1850, CA added to union
1851: Tribes hold peace conference
1861: Civil war breaks out
1861: Battle at Fort Sumpter
1862: Gov't Doesn't feed natives
1863: All slaves were freed
1863: Homestead act passed
1864: Battle of Gettysburg
1864: Cheyenne leave homelands
1864: Sand Creek Massacre
1865: Civil war ends
1865: Lincoln shot
1869: Transcontinental RR completed
1869: Oregon trail glory days end
1876: Custer's last stand
1876: Centennial of US
1877: Nez Pierce lash out
1890: German anti-socialist laws not renewed
1890: The battle of wounded knee
1892: Franco-Russian Military Convention
1893: Franco-Russian Alliance formed
1895: Cuban Revolution led by Rizal against Spain ends in failure
1897 Dawes act passed: divides Indian reservation land.
1897: Greco-Turkish War
1898: "Rough Riders"
1900: 20th century starts
1901: A census was taken
1902: Ansel Adams born
1903: Aeroplane invented
1903: The Paris Exposition
1904: Salvador Dali born
1905: Theory of relativity formulated
1905: 1905 papers released by Einstein
1906: San Fransisco earthquake
1907: Frida Kahlo born
1908: London Olympics
1909: Robert Peary reaches the North Pole
1910: Women's suffrage movement starts
1911: Wilhelm Wien wins Nobel prize for research in radiation
1912: The Titanic sinks
1913: giant flood, water reaches 52 ft.
1914: World War I breaks out in Europe
1915: an airplane disaster
1916: Gas mask invented
1917: Lusitania sinks
1918: World War I ends
1918: Red Sox win last world series for over 80 years
1919: Woodrow Wilson elected president
1920: Prohibition passed
1921: Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist 'Nazi' Party.
1922: Bootleggers go wild, organized crime runs rampant
1923: The Beer Hall Putsch
1924: Immigration act passed, limits immigration at Ellis Island
1925: Babe Ruth makes it big with NY Yankees
1925: Hitler's book "Mien Kampf" published
1926: Stock trading reaches peak
1927: Charles Linberg flies over the Atlantic
1927: Richard E. Byrd discovers the South Pole
1928: Red Sox have worst baseball year ever, finish below EVERYONE!
1929: The Fenn School founded
1929: Stock market crashes
1930: great depression occurs
1930: Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party
1931: Frankenstein premiered
1933: 1933 World's fair
1934: Dionne Quintuplets born
1935: Things look brighter in US; climbing out of recession
1936: Albert Einstein Dies
1937: Hindenburg turned to plasma
1938: German military mobilizes.
1938: Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.
1939: World War II breaks out in Europe
1940: Tacoma Narrows bridge
1941: Pearl Harbor bombing
1941: Americans enter World War II
1942: Jacques Yves Cousteau invents the aqualung
1943: The Allied armies invade Sicily.
1944: D-day, invasion of Normandy
1945: Ms. Devitt born
1945: Hiroshima bombing
1945: World War II ends
1945: Tension increases between USSR and USA
1946: International Military Tribunal finds Nazis guilty of war crimes
1947: UN carves up Palestine
1948: Truman Defeats Dewey
1949: Armed forces desegregated
1950: Argonne opens its first administrative offices in Idaho.
1951: Hula Hoop invented
1952: The Testing Reactor gets first criticality at the Testing Station.
1953: Humphrey Bogart dies
1953: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth
1953: Tenzing and Edmund Hillary reach the top of Mount Everest
1954: Berlin Airlift
1955: Arco, ID becomes first nuclear powered city
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
1957: Space race is on!
1957: Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 1
1958: U.S. launch the satellite Explorer
1958: K2 climbed
1959: Airbourne nuclear tests banned.
1960: Work begins to enlarge and lengthen runway at Groom Lake, NV
1961: Yuri Gargarin orbits the earth for the first time
1961: First American in space
1961: Kennedy challenges US citizens to put a man on the moon
1961: Mercury program started
1962: John Glenn orbits the earth
1962: First probe sent into outer space
1963: Mercury program ended
1963: Cuban missile crisis
1963: Civil rights march on Washington
1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated
1964: The Beatles become popular
1965: Vietnam war starts
1965: Gemini project started
1966: Gemini project scrapped
1967: Apollo program started
1968: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1969: Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon
1970: Space race is over, good while it lasted
1970: Apollo 13 disaster occurs
1971: French connection premiers
1971: Congo becomes Zaire
1971: LA has an earthquake (surprise, surprise)
1972: 5 arrested in the Watergate Hotel
1972: Apollo program ended
1973: Oil embargo, gas shortage
1974: Nixon resigns, after all that, he WAS a crook!
1975: Vietnam war over
1975: Jimmy Hoffa abducted by aliens
1975: Jaws premiers on the big screen!
1976: Bicentennial of US
1977: Star Wars comes out in theaters to a huge crowd
1977: CPU Wars comes out at DEC to a small crowd
1978: There is a blizzard called the blizzard of '78
1979: Iran hostage crisis
1980: The Empire Strikes Back premiers.
1981: Pac-Man becomes latest fad
1982: Vietnam memorial erected
1983: Return of the Jedi Premiers
1983: Cabbage Patch dolls become a frenzy
1984: The year that, ironically, is named after a book called 1984
1985: Colin Green, future Bostonian and pop culture guru born
1985: Chas Andres, future C.E.O. of Candres Productions born.
1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes
1986: Titanic discovered
1986: Hurricane Hugo devastates the Caribbean
1987: Nicaragua adopts constitution
1988: NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1988: Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
1988: NY Yanks sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 M deal
1988: Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988: IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988: 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988: 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1989: Sienfeld premiers
1989: Loma Prieta earthquake
1989: Internet started at Sun Microsystems
1991: Gulf War
1992: Natural gas pickup truck introduced, flopped
1993: Ty Inc. launches the Beanie Babies collection
1993: William Jefferson Clinton Elected president
1994: Internet noticed by the common man!
1994: USENET created
1995: Domain names are not free any more.
1996: The east coast has an insignificant blizzard
1997: Titanic premiered
1997: Princess Diana dies
1997: Mother Theresa dies
1997: Internet noticed by the technophobics!
1997: Zaire becomes Congo
1998: Sienfeld dies
1998: DEC bought by Compaq
1998: this list formed
1998: John Glenn goes back into space
1998: William Jefferson Clinton impeached; stays in office
1998: Iraq blown to space dust!
1998: Internet stock boom!
1998: Pokemon introduced
1998: Jawz 17 comes out to rave reviews!
1998: Jawz 17.5 comes out to rave reviews!
1999: Kosovo becomes a warzone
1999: Jawz 18 BOMBS!
1999: Mr. X reaks havoc on the Fenn School
1999: A bunch of airplanes crash
1999: Ty Inc. Retires line of Beanie Babies
2000: Y2K bug, Bulgaria plunges into darkness
2001: Monolith discovered on the moon
2004: Colin + Chas graduate High School
2005: Bulgaria regains electric power
2018: WW3 Starts
2020: Ion bomb tested successfully, used on the invading Canadians
2035: Aliens eliminate remainder of humankind
2055: Dinosaurs reintroduced by the aliens
3435: Comet impact; dinosuars killed
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