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- Richmond Theater Fire, VA, 1811 (1)
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- Protestant Reformation, 1500-1650 (1)
- English Protestant Reformation, 1529-1603 (1)
- Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock, November 1620 (1)
- King Philip's War, 1675-1676 (1)
- Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755 (1)
- French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 (1)
- Boston Massacre, MA, March 5, 1770 (1)
- Boston Tea Party, MA, December 16, 1773 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (6)
- Shays's Rebellion, 1787 (1)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (1)
- Second Great Awakening, 1790-1840 (3)
- 1798 Rebellion, Ireland (1)
- Great Portsmouth Parade Fire, NH, December 25, 1802 (1)
- Napoleonic Wars,1803-1815 (2)
- Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Norfolk, VA, June 22, 1807 (1)
- Embargo Act, U.S., December 22, 1807 (1)
- Peninsular War, 1808-1817 (1)
- Bolivian War of Independence, 1809-1825 (1)
- War of 1812 (3)
- Great Portsmouth Fire, NH, December 22, 1813 (1)
- Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA, November 15, 1820-January 9, 1821 (1)
- Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830 (1)
- First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824-1826 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Creek, Washington, DC, January 24, 1826 (1)
- July Revolution, France, 1830 (1)
- Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 (1)
- Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 (2)
- New York Fire, December 13, 1835 (1)
- Panic of 1837 (1)
- Rebellions of 1837, Canada (1)
- Amistad Revolt, Atlantic Ocean, July 2, 1839 (1)
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 (1)
- U.S. Annexation of Texas, 1845 (1)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (6)
- Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1850 (1)
- Revolutions of 1848 (3)
- California Gold Rush, 1849 (6)
- Parkman-Webster Murder and Trial, Boston, MA, 1849-1850 (1)
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 (1)
- Norwalk Train Derailment, Norwalk, CT, May 6, 1853 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (1)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act Enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (1)
- Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856 (1)
- Italian Reunification, 1859-1870 (1)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (28)
- German Reunification, 1863-1871 (1)
- Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864 (1)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (5)
- Abraham Lincoln elected President of U.S., November 6, 1860 (2)
- Austro-Prussian War, 1866 (1)
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 (3)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (1)
- World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival, Boston, MA, June 17-25, 1872 (1)
- Equine Influenza Epidemic, North America, October 1, 1872-1873 (2)
- Great Boston Fire, MA, November 9, 1872 (1)
- Panic of 1873 (1)
- RMS Atlantic Sinks, March 20, 1873 (1)
- James Garfield Shot, July 2, 1881 (2)
- Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
- Johnstown Flood, PA, May 31, 1889 (1)
- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, May-Oct, 1893 (2)
- Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898 (1)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (4)
- Boer War, 1899-1902 (1)
- William McKinley, Assassination, Buffalo, NY, September 6, 1901 (1)
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (3)
- Norway Dissolves Union with Sweden, June 7, 1905 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (4)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (37)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (4)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (3)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (22)
- Mukden Incident, September 18, 1931–February 18, 1932 (1)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (1)
- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (4)
- Holocaust, 1939-1945 (2)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (42)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (2)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (2)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (1)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (3)
- Space Race, 1957-1975 (1)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (2)
