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- Spanish Inquisition, 1475-1834 (1)
- Landing at Jamestown, VA, May 13, 1607 (1)
- Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 (1)
- Stono Rebellion, 1739 (3)
- Stamp Act, 1765-1766 (2)
- Boston Massacre, MA, March 5, 1770 (1)
- Dunmore's War, 1774 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (15)
- Slavery and Abolition, 1776 - 1865 (62)
- Continental Congress Adopts the Articles of Confederation, November 15, 1777 (1)
- Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1787 (3)
- Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 (1)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (3)
- Second Great Awakening, 1790-1840 (1)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (10)
- Eli Whitney Patents Cotton Gin, 1793 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., February 12, 1793 (1)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (1)
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815 (1)
- International Slave Trade Ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 (2)
- British Parliament Passes Abolition of Slave Trade Bill, UK, March 25, 1807 (2)
- Slave Trade Banned by Congress, U.S., January 1, 1808 (1)
- War of 1812 (2)
- Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821 (1)
- Vesey Conspiracy, SC, 1822 (2)
- Underground Railroad, 1830s-1860s (2)
- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (11)
- British West Indian Emancipation, July 31, 1834 (7)
- Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 (1)
- Panic of 1837 (1)
- Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 (1)
- Amistad Case, U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Washington, DC, March 9, 1841 (3)
- U.S. Annexation of Texas, 1845 (2)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (2)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (16)
- Compromise of 1850 (4)
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (22)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act Enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (5)
- Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856 (3)
- Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (12)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (1)
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 (1)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (36)
- John Brown, Execution, Charles Town, WV, December 2, 1859 (19)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (154)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (94)
- Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878 (3)
- Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Sioux, November 6, 1868 (1)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (1)
- Coushatta Massacre, Coushatta, LA, August 1874 (3)
- Jim Crow laws, 1876 - 1965 (8)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (2)
- Construction of the Panama Canal, 1881 to 1915 (762)
- U.S. Supreme Court Declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional, 1883 (1)
- Scramble for Africa, 1884-1914 (4)
- Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
- First Italo-Ethiopian War, Ethiopia, 1895-1896 (2)
- Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898 (13)
- Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896 (6)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (8)
- American Frontier and Westward Expansion, pre-1890s (1)
- Boer War, 1899-1902 (3)
- First Pan-African Conference, London, July 23-25, 1900 (2)
- Bambatha Rebellion, Natal, South Africa, 1906 (1)
- Peary Expedition Reaches the North Pole, April 6, 1909 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (3)
- Great Migration (United States African Amercians), 1910-1930 (5)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York, NY, March 25, 1911 (1)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- Francisco I. Madero, Assassination, Mexico City, February 22, 1913 (1)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (50)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (6)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (1)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (19)
- Collectivization, Soviet Union, 1928-1940 (1)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (12)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (12)
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Alabama, 1932-1972 (8)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (18)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (6)
- Holocaust, 1939-1945 (2)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (88)
- Second Great Migration (United States African Americans), 1940-1970 (3)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (53)
- Late 20th Century Immigration, 1946-1999 (1)
- Morgan v. Virginia, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1946 (3)
- Journey of Reconciliation, Durham, NC, April 9–23, 1947 (4)
- Internal Conflict in Burma, 1948- (1)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (18)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (69)
- Israeli Independence Declared, May 14, 1948 (1)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted, December 10, 1948 (2)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (12)
- Mau Mau Uprising, 1952-1960 (3)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (2)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (492)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (4)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (126)
- Treaty of Rome, Signed, March 25, 1957 (1)
- Notting Hill Race Riots, London, August 29-September 5, 1958 (11)
- Nashville Lunch-Counter Desegregation Sit-ins, February-April 1960 (1)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (3)
- Nicaraguan Revolution, 1960s-1990 (5)
- Boynton v. Virginia, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1960 (2)
- Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996 (1)
- Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict, 1961-1978 (3)
- Patrice Lumumba, Assassination, Congo, January 17, 1961 (1)
- Trinidad & Tobago Independence, August 31, 1962 (7)
- Kenya, Independence from United Kingdom, 1963 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (25)
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965 (2)
- Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976 (9)
- Cultural Revolution, China, 1966-1972 (4)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (91)
- Freedom of Information Act Signed, U.S., July 4, 1966 (2)
- Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (1)
- Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967 (4)
- Biafran War, July 6, 1967–January 15, 1970 (1)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (5)
- Stonewall Riots, Greenwich Village, NY, June 28, 1969 (47)
- FBI Raid on Black Panthers, Chicago, IL, December 4, 1969 (1)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (4)
- New York Gay Liberation Day March, Greenwich Village, NY, June 28, 1970 (2)
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional, 1972 (1)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (47)
- Yom Kippur War, October 6-26, 1973 (1)
- Chad Conflicts, 1975-1990 (1)
- Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002 (3)
- FBI Agents, Killed, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD, June 26, 1975 (1)
- U.N. General Assembly Says Zionism is Racism, November 10, 1975 (2)
- U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates Death Penalty, 1976 (2)
- Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979 (1)
- Wars in Afghanistan, April 27, 1978– (1)
- California Proposition 13 to Cap Property Tax Rates Passes, June 6, 1978 (1)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (3)
- Salvadoran Civil War, 1979-1992 (2)
- Brixton Riot, London, England, April 10-12, 1981 (1)
- U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 (1)
- Sudanese Civil War, 1983- (1)
- Ethiopian Famine, 1983-1985 (2)
- U.S. Invasion of Grenada, October 25, 1983 (4)
- Revolutions of Eastern Europe, 1989 (2)
- Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003 (2)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (4)
- Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings, October 1991 (5)
- Post Apartheid South Africa, 1994- (3)
- Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City, OK, April 19, 1995 (1)
- Million Woman March, Philadelphia, PA, October 25, 1997 (1)
- Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000 (1)
- Global Counter Terrorism, 2001- (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (5)
- Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003- (1)
- Hurricane Katrina, August 23-30, 2005 (3)
- Shooting of Jordan Davis, Jacksonville, FL, November 23, 2012 (1)
- Charleston Church Shooting, June 17, 2015 (1)
