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Timeline of U.S. Presidents
1776 -
Declaration of Independence read on July 4 (Congress approved it on this day)
William Blackstone wrote "Commentaries." Oxford, 1st Professor of English Law. Our Supreme Court used his Commentaries for over 100 years for a standard. "Upon these two foundations, the Laws of Nature and laws should be suffered to contradict these."
1781 -
Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia ending the American Revolution (treaty of Paris 1783)
1787 -
The Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia
1787 - GEORGE WASHINGTON:
1789 - French Revolution
1790 - The 2nd Great Awakening
1791 - Vermont –14th State
1792 - Kentucky – 15th State
1794 - Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
1796 - Washington's Farewell Address
Tennessee – 16th State
1797 JOHN ADAMS:
1799 - Washington dies December 14
1800 - Capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington
1801 THOMAS JEFFERSON:
1801 - John Marshall on Supreme Court
1803 - Ohio 17th State
Louisiana Purchase: Purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte
1806 - Lewis & Clark...
1809 MADISON:
1812 - Louisiana 18th State
1816 - Indiana 19th State
1817 MONROE:
1817 - Mississippi 20th State
1818 - Illinois 21st State
1819 - Alabama 22nd State
1820 - Maine 23rd State
Missouri Compromise
1821 - Florida purchased
Missouri 24th State
1823 - Monroe Doctrine
1825 J. Q. ADAMS:
1825 - Death of Jefferson & Adams (July 4th 50 year anniversary)
Erie Canal
1828 - Noah Webster writes the first American dictionary
1829 JACKSON:
1836 - Arkansas 25th State
The Alamo ~ David Crockett & John Bowie die fighting for Texas' freedom
1837 VAN BUREN:
1837 - Michigan 26th State
1837 - Trail of Tears
1838 - Horace Mann ~ 1st Secretary of publish schools in Mass ("public" schools state controlled vs. local)
Mann: "to be truly equal we must have equal education"
Robert Owen: "religion is the chief cause of human misery" (sounds like John Lennon)
Mann: "the common school is the greatest discovery ever made by man…Let the common school be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible and nine-tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete, the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged…"
1841 HARRISON:
Shortest term of any president. He died of pneumonia days after his inauguration. His father signed the Declaration of Independence.
1841 - Died April 4
1840 TYLER:
1844 - Samuel Morse sent 1st telegraph message ("What hath God wrought")
1845 POLK:
1845 - Florida 27th State
1845 - Texas 28th State
1846 - Iowa 29th State
1846 - Mexican American War (ended 1848)
1848 - Karl Marx writes Communist Manifesto
1848 - Gold discovered in CA, Sutter's Mill
1848 - John Quincy Adams collapses in Congress, dies soon after
1849 - Wisconsin 30th State
1849 TAYLOR:
1850 - Died July 9
Compromise of 1850 (Clay, Calhoun, Webster)
1850 FILLMORE:
1850 - California 31st State
1851 - Sojourner Truth
1853 PIERCE
1853 - Matthew Perry (sails to Japan)
1857 BUCHANAN
1857 - Dred Scott decision
1858 - Minnesota 32nd State
1859 - Oregon 33rd State
1859 - John Brown raids Harper's Ferry
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origins of Species" (effects view of Government as well as Science)
1860 - South Carolina secedes
1860 - Pony Express
1861 ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
1861 - Civil War begins
1861 - (Jan-Feb) South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas secede
1861 - Jefferson Davis president of the C.S.A.
1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders
1861 - (April-May) Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina secede
1861 - Kansas 34th State
1862 - Emancipation proclamation
1863 - West Virginia 35th State
1864 - Nevada 36th State
1865 - (April) Lee surrenders
1865 - Lincoln assassinated April 14
1865 JOHNSON:
1865 - 13th Amendment: Slavery illegal (1st time: Congress shall have power to enforce this article)
1867 - Nebraska 37th State
1867 - Purchase of Alaska 1868 Johnson impeached, Senate acquits
1868 - 14th Amendment: Citizenship of former slaves
1869 GRANT:
1869 - 15th Amendment: Former slaves right to vote
1870 - 1st Black Congressman, Hiram Revels from Mississippi
1871 - Chicago Fire
1871 - Indian Tribes no longer a nation
1872 - Yellowstone 1st national park
1874 - Alexander Graham Bell invents phone; 1 yr. later starts Bell phone co.
1876 - Colorado 38th
1876 - Exposition in Philadelphia
1876 - Little Big Horn
1877 HAYES:
1879 - Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
1881 GARFIELD:
1881 - Sept. 19 assassinated July 2
1881 ARTHUR:
1881 - Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Institute
1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act – no Chinese can enter U.S. for 10yrs. (extended in 92)
1885 CLEVELAND:
1886 - Statue of Liberty
1889 HARRISON:
1889 - North Dakota 39th State
South Dakota 40th State
Montana 41st State
Washington 42nd State
1890 - Idaho 43rd State
Wyoming 44th State
1890 - Yosemite National Park
1893 CLEVELAND:
1896 - Plessy v Ferguson: Supreme Court rules Segregation is Constitutional
1897 - Utah 45th State
1897 MCKINLEY:
1898 - Spanish American War – U.S. annexes Philippines & Peurto Rico
1901 - McKinley died September 14th (assassinated September 6th)
1901 ROOSEVELT:
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes appointed to Supreme Court (son of poet)
1903 - The Wright Brother's 1st flight
1906 - San Francisco Earthquake & fire; over 700 dead
1906 - Teddy visits the Panama Canal (the first president to visit outside the U.S. while serving)
1907 - Oklahoma 46th State
1908 - Model T Ford
1912 TAFT:
1912 - New Mexico 47th State
1912 - Arizona 48th State
1912 - The Titanic Sinks ("not even God can sink this ship")
1913 WILSON:
1913 - 16th Amendment: Income Tax
1913 - Federal Reserve Act
1914 - WWI begins: Wilson says we'll stay out (war kills 10 million)
1917 - U.S. declares war on Germany
1917 - 17th Amendment changes the way Senators are elected
1918 - Influenza kills 500,000 Americans
1918 - Armistice Day: WWI ends – Paris Peace Conference
1919 - League of Nations
1919 - 18th Amendment: Prohibition
1920 - 19th Amendment: Women's Suffrage
1920 - Federal Reserve inflates money supply, this goes in stocks; feelings of prosperity help create "Roaring 20's"
1920 - Red Scare: Communist Scare
1921 HARDING:
1923 - Died natural causes
1923 COOLIDGE:
1925 - Scopes Trial
1927 - Lindbergh makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic
1927 - First motion picture
1927 - Nixon v Herndon Supreme Court: Declares preventing blacks from voting unconstitutional
1929 HOOVER:
1929 - Stock holders euphoric (Federal Reserve stops inflating)
1929 - Stock Market Crash marks the beginning of the Great Depression
1933 ROOSEVELT:
FOUNDING OF THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE
1933 - Gold backing removed from dollar (domestic only) Americans forbidden to own gold)
1933 - First "100 days" FDR creates more agencies & passes more laws than ever before
1933 - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1933 - 20th Amendment changed inauguration to Jan. 20th from Mar. 4th
1933 - 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment
1934 - The Dust Bowl
1935 - Social Security tax
1938 - Munich Conference: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns with assurances from Hitler that there will be peace
1938 - Germany annexes Austria
1939 - WWII begins: Germany invades Poland and Czechoslovakia
Stalin signs nonaggression pact with Hitler
All German Jews made to wear yellow star
Germany occupies
1939 - World's Fair in New York (bomb kills 2 police officers in England's booth)
1939 - Einstein helps convince FDR to fund the Manhattan Project to build atom bomb
1939 - First T.V. broadcast
1940 - Germany overwhelms Norway, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France
Tries to bomb Britain into submission
1941 - Pearl Harbor attacked December 7 (America enters the war)
1944 - Atomic bomb dropped
1945 U.N. established in June
1945 Japan surrenders; VJ Day August 15
1945 FDR dies April 12 (Nov. 44 he had been re-elected for the 4th time)
1945 TRUMAN
1947 - Truman Doctrine: We help any country fighting Communism
1950 - McCarthy(ism)
1950 - America enters Korean War (until 1951)
1951 - 22nd Amendment –President only 2 terms
1953 EISENHOWER:
1954 - Brown v Board of Education: Supreme Court rules "Separate but Equal" unconstitutional in schools
1955 - Martin Luther King Jr. leads boycott of city buses in Montgomery, AL, in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks
1957 - President sends federal troops to enforce high school desegregation in Little Rock, AR
1959 - Alaska 49th State
1959 - Hawaii 50th State
1961 KENNEDY:
The first catholic president
1961 - 23rd Amendment: Allows DC 3 electoral votes as if it had 2 senators and 1 representative
1961 - The Bay of Pigs
1962 - Cuban Missile Crises
1961 - Vietnam War (until 1975)
1962 - Supreme Court removes voluntary prayer from public school
1963 - Supreme Court bans Bible reading in school
1963 - Dr. King "I Have a Dream" speech (250,000 march on Washington)
1963 - Kennedy assassinated Nov. 22
1963 JOHNSON:
1964 - 24th Amendment Poll (head) Tax: Right to vote cannot be denied by reason of failure to pay taxes
1965 - Johnson launches the Great Society: Anti-poverty program
1967 - 25th Amendment: Presidential Succession (clarified Article 2. Section 1. Clause 6)
1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy assassinated while campaigning for president in California
1969 NIXON:
First president to visit Communist China
1969 - First man on the moon
1971 - 26th Amendment: Right to vote at age 18 (took control from states to decide voting qualifications)
1972 - Watergate
1973 - Nixon resigns
1973 - Supreme Court creates a right to abortion & forces it on all states
1973 - Oil Crises: due to Embargo by OAPEC (organization of Arab petroleum exporting countries)
1974 FORD:
1975 - Communists take over South Vietnam
1977 - CARTER
1976 - Energy crises
1977 - Panama Canal given to Panama
1979 - 52 Americans held hostages in Iran for more than 1year
1981 REAGAN:
Encouraged a 'Love of Country'
1982 - Worst recession since Great Depression, Federal Reserve inflates
Money goes in stocks (sound familiar)
Reagan cut taxes which brought quick recovery
1986 - "Challenger" explodes
1987 - Iran-Contra hearings
1989 BUSH:
1989 - Tiananmen Square Demonstrations
1989 - Berline wall falls
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering the Gulf War
1991 - Soviet Union officially dissolves
1991 - South Africa abolishes apartheid
1992 - 27th Amendment: No pay raises until after next election
1993 CLINTON:
The world lost respect for America
1997 - U.S. combat strength cut by ½ (Iran & Iraq strengthening military)
1998 - Clinton impeached, acquitted in the Senate trial in 99
2001 BUSH:
Second president to have father that was a president
9/11 World Trade center destroyed by radical Muslims, Pentagon attacked
2009 OBAMA:
First 100 days he spends more money that all presidents put together
Says FDR didn't spend enough
Has the Federal Reserve print one trillion dollars
Bails out the auto companies, "Too big to fail" is presidents policy. Only Ford refuses offer, and recovered well
