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- Mt. Vesuvius Eruption (1)
- Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 (1)
- Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (1)
- Protestant Reformation, 1500-1650 (1)
- Battle of Glenlivet, Scotland, October 3, 1594 (1)
- Great White Plague, Europe, 1650 (1)
- Jacobite Risings, 1689-1746 (1)
- Halley's Comet Recognized as Periodic, 1705 (1)
- Battle of Sheriffmuir, Scotland, November 13, 1715 (1)
- Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (3)
- American Colonial Period (pre-1775) (3)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (35)
- Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865 (15)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (14)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (1)
- War of the Third Coalition, 1803-1806 (3)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (1)
- Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1810-1821 (2)
- War of 1812 (29)
- Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815 (1)
- Erie Canal Construction, 1816-1825 (2)
- Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick, Canada, October 1825 (1)
- Underground Railroad, 1830s-1860s (3)
- Virginia Slave Riot, Southampton County, VA, August 21, 1831 (1)
- Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 (1)
- Pastry War, Mexico, November 27, 1838-March 9, 1839 (1)
- Colliery Strike, Lancaster, England, 1844 (1)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (3)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (3)
- California Gold Rush, 1849 (6)
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 (2)
- Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, September 7 - 11, 1857 (1)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (2)
- John Brown, Execution, Charles Town, WV, December 2, 1859 (2)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (64)
- Battle of Prairie Grove, AR, December 7, 1862 (1)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (3)
- Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1866-1869 (2)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (1)
- Black Hills Gold Rush, Dakota Territory, 1874-1877 (1)
- Construction of the Swannanoa Tunnel, North Carolina, 1874-1879 (1)
- Jim Crow laws, 1876 - 1965 (9)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (1)
- Great Railroad Strike, United States, July 14-September 4, 1877 (1)
- Union Pacific Train Robbery, Big Springs, NE, September 18, 1877 (3)
- Blantyre Mining Disaster, Scotland, October 22, 1877 (1)
- Hatfield-McCoy Feud, U.S., 1878-1891 (1)
- Construction of the Panama Canal, 1881 to 1915 (1)
- James Garfield Shot, July 2, 1881 (1)
- U.S. Supreme Court Declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional, 1883 (3)
- Thibodaux Massacre, LA, November 22-23, 1887 (2)
- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, May-Oct, 1893 (4)
- National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. Formed, 1895 (2)
- Battle of Virden, IL, October 12, 1898 (1)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (3)
- Cannonball Express Collision in MS, April 30, 1900 (54)
- Scofield Mine explosion, Scofield, UT, 1900 (1)
- Race Riots in New York City, August 15, 1900 (1)
- William McKinley, Assassination, Buffalo, NY, September 6, 1901 (2)
- Great Baltimore Fire, 1904 (1)
- Azusa Street Revival, Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 1906-1915 (1)
- Explosion in the Fairmount Mines, Monongah, WV, December 6, 1907 (1)
- Panic of 1907 (2)
- Monongah Mine Disaster, WV, December 6, 1907 (2)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (3)
- Great Migration (United States African Amercians), 1910-1930 (2)
- Louisiana-Texas Timber War of 1911-1912 (1)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York, NY, March 25, 1911 (1)
- Textile Workers Strike, Lawrence, MA, January 1, 1912 (1)
- Hillsville Massacre, Hillsville, VA, March 14, 1912 (1)
- Titanic Sinks, April 15, 1912 (21)
- Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, MI, December 24, 1913 (3)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (45)
- Ludlow Massacre, CO, April 20, 1914 (1)
- U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 (1)
- Easter Uprising, Ireland, April 14, 1916 (1)
- Great Atlanta Fire, GA, May 21, 1917 (1)
- East St. Louis Massacre, IL, July 7, 1917 (1)
- Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 (2)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (11)
- Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (1)
- Arrest and Trial of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1920 (2)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (5)
- Earthquake, Santa Barbara, CA, June 29, 1925 (2)
- General Strike in the United Kingdom (1)
- Great Miami Hurricane, September 11-22, 1926 (2)
- Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight, 1927 (1)
- Ingleside Train Collision, Ingleside, WV (2)
- Mississippi River Flood 1927 (48)
- St. Louis, MO tornado, September 29, 1927 (1)
- Dust Bowl, 1928-1935 (3)
- Marion Textile Strike, Marion, NC, October 2, 1929 (1)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (53)
- Elba, Alabama Flood, March 1929 (2)
- Rye Cove, VA, Tornado, May 1-2, 1929 (4)
- Memphis Influenza Epidemic, 1930 (1)
- Drought of 1930–1931, United States (2)
- Ohio State Penitentiary Fire, April 21, 1930 (1)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (5)
- Charles Lindbergh, Jr., Kidnapped and Killed, East Amwell, NJ, March 1-May 12, 1932 (1)
- Union Station Massacre, Kansas City, MO, 1933 (1)
- Cherry Hill, TN, Tornado, March 14, 1933 (1)
- Adolf Hitler, Assumes Dictatorship of Germany, March 23, 1933 (2)
- Adolf Hitler, Becomes Fuhrer of Germany, August 19, 1933 (10)
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), ESTD November 9, 1935 (1)
- Edward VIII, Abdication Crisis, UK, 1936 (1)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (6)
- Tupelo-Gainsville Tornado, April 5-6, 1936 (2)
- Macbeth Mine Explosion, Logan, WV, September 2, 1936 (1)
- Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, IL, May 30, 1937 (1)
- Trinidad Labor Riots, 1937 (1)
- Battle of Jarama, February 6-27, 1937 (1)
- Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (2)
- Amelia Earhart, Disappearance, July 2, 1937 (2)
- Red Jacket Mine Explosion, Keen, VA, April 22, 1938 (1)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (56)
- Rhythm Night Club Fire, Natchez, MS, April 23, 1940 (1)
- Peacetime Registration for Conscription, Oct. 16, 1940 (1)
- Lend-Lease Act, January 1941 (1)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (2)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (2)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (7)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (1)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (37)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (11)
- Flood of 1957, Hazard, KY (1)
- Space Race, 1957-1975 (3)
- Notting Hill Race Riots, London, August 29-September 5, 1958 (1)
- Riots at the Newport Jazz Festival, July 2, 1960 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (3)
- Beat Generation, 1950's-1960's (2)
- Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976 (2)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (3)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (1)
- U.S. Clean Water Act of 1972 (1)
- Munich Massacre at the Olympics, September 5-6, 1972 (1)
- Chile, Coup d'Etat, September 11, 1973 (1)
- March for Life, Washington, DC, January 22, 1974 (1)
- Edmund Fitzgerald Sinks, Lake Superior, November 10, 1975 (1)
- John Lennon, Killed, New York, NY, December 8, 1980 (1)
- World's Fair, Knoxville, TN, May 5-October 31, 1982 (1)
- U.S. Bombing of Libya, 1986 (1)
- Constitution Bicentennial, U.S., 1987 (1)
- Sierra Blanca Massacre, Sierra Blanca, TX (1)
- Tiananmen Square Massacre, Beijing, China, April-June 1989 (1)
- Greekfest Riots, Virginia Beach, VA, 1989 (1)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (1)
- Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings, October 1991 (1)
- Great Flood of 1993 (1)
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, Execution, Nigeria, November 10, 1995 (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (7)
- Quecreek Mine Rescue, Somerset County, PA, July 24-28, 2002 (1)
- Hurricane Katrina, August 23-30, 2005 (2)
- Sago Mine Disaster, WV, January 2, 2006 (1)
