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- Richmond Theater Fire, VA, 1811 (1)
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- Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (4)
- Protestant Reformation, 1500-1650 (10)
- Panfilo de Narvaez Expedition, 1528-1536 (1)
- English Protestant Reformation, 1529-1603 (4)
- Hernando de Soto Expedition, Florida, 1539-1543 (4)
- Battle of Mabila, AL, October 18, 1540 (1)
- French Huguenot Wars 1562-1598 (1)
- Edward Harlow Expedition, 1611 (1)
- Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock, November 1620 (7)
- Signing of the Mayflower Compact, U.S., November 11, 1620 (3)
- Voyage of the Mayflower, 1620 (3)
- Pilgrims and Wampanoags Sign Peace Treaty, MA, March 22, 1621 (4)
- Pilgrims and Massachuset Sign Peace Treaty, MA, June, 1621 (2)
- Powhatan Uprising, Jamestown, VA colony, March 22, 1622 (5)
- Pequot War, 1636-1637 (9)
- Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 (1)
- English Civil War, 1642-1651 (5)
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- King Philip's War, 1675-1676 (19)
- Bacon's Rebellion, April 1676 (3)
- Pueblo Revolt, 1680-1692 (5)
- Chief Tammany and William Penn Sign Peace Teaty, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1683 (2)
- King William's War, 1689-1697 (8)
- Jacobite Risings, 1689-1746 (1)
- Cocheco Massacre, Dover, NH, June 27, 1689 (2)
- Salem Witch Trials, 1692 (3)
- War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 (8)
- William Penn's Articles of Agreement, April 23, 1701 (1)
- Tuscarora War, 1711-1713 (1)
- Yamasee War, 1715-1717 (3)
- Father Rasle's War, 1721-1725 (4)
- Second Fox War, 1728-1737 (1)
- Treaty Between English and Cherokee, London, England, September 7, 1730 (3)
- Treaty of 1732, Philadelphia, PA (1)
- Treaty of Savannah, May 21, 1733 (3)
- Treaty of 1736, Philadelphia, PA (1)
- Walking Purchase Land Deal, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1737 (3)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creeks, Cherokees and Chickasaws, Coweta, GA, August 21, 1739 (1)
- War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 (4)
- Negro Plot of 1741 (1)
- Lancaster Treaty, PA, July 4, 1744 (2)
- Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755 (1)
- Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (15)
- French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 (51)
- Treaty Between South Carolina and Cherokee, October 14, 1768 (1)
- Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763-1766 (11)
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- Boston Massacre, MA, March 5, 1770 (1)
- Treaty of Lochaber, SC, October 18, 1770 (1)
- Tea Act, 1773 (1)
- Boston Tea Party, MA, December 16, 1773 (4)
- First Continental Congress Meets, September 1774 (1)
- Dunmore's War, 1774 (12)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (109)
- Dragging Canoe's War, 1776-1794 (3)
- Cape Frontier Wars, South Africa, 1779-1879 (1)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creek, Augusta, GA, November 1, 1783 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokees, Augusta, GA, May 31, 1783 (1)
- Treaty of Pensacola, 1784 (2)
- Treaty of Fort Stanwix, NY, 1784 (4)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Lenape, Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Wyandot, Fort McIntosh, OH, January 21, 1785 (1)
- Treaty Between Tennessee and Cherokee, May 31, 1785 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, Hopewell, SC November 28, 1785 (3)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Shawano, Fort Finney, January 31, 1786 (1)
- Treaty Between Georgia and Creeks, November 3, 1786 (1)
- Confederate Council of the United Indian Nations, MI, December 18, 1786 (2)
- Shays's Rebellion, 1787 (1)
- Treaties of Fort Harmar, OH, signed, January 9, 1789 (2)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (34)
- Second Great Awakening, 1790-1840 (3)
- Treaty of New York, 1790 (5)
- Miami Indian Wars, 1790-1795 (15)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (3)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, Knoxville, TN, July 2, 1791 (2)
- Raid of Ziegler's Station, Nashville, TN, June 26, 1792 (1)
- Treaty Between Spain and the Creeks, New Orleans, 1792 (1)
- Raid of Buchanan's Station, TN, October 1, 1792 (1)
- War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797 (4)
- Beard's Raid on the Cherokee at Coyatee, TN, June 12, 1793 (1)
- Raid of Cavett's Station, TN, September 25, 1793 (1)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Cherokees, Philadelphia, PA, June 26, 1794 (1)
- Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 (2)
- James Ore Expedition Attacks Chickamauga Towns, September, 1794 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, Tellico Blockhouse, TN, November 7, 1794 (1)
- Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 (3)
- Jay's Treaty, London, England, November 19, 1794 (2)
- Treaty Between Creeks and U.S., 1796 (1)
- XYZ Affair, 1798 (1)
- Big Tree Treaty Negotiated, August 20-September 16, 1797 (1)
- Seneca Land Sale, Geneseo, NY, September 15, 1797 (1)
- War of the Second Coalition, 1798–1802 (1)
- 1798 Rebellion, Ireland (7)
- George Washington dies, December 14, 1799 (2)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Creek, Fort Wilkinson, GA, June 16, 1802 (1)
- Great Portsmouth Parade Fire, NH, December 25, 1802 (1)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (4)
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815 (6)
- Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806 (9)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creeks, Flint River, November 3, 1804 (1)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creeks, Washington, D.C., November 14, 1805 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Lenape, Potawatamie, Miami, Eel Rivers, and Weas, Grouseland, Indiana, August 21, 1805 (1)
- International Slave Trade Ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 (1)
- British Parliament Passes Abolition of Slave Trade Bill, UK, March 25, 1807 (1)
- Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Norfolk, VA, June 22, 1807 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Wyandot, Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa, Detroit, MI, November 17, 1807 (1)
- Embargo Act, U.S., December 22, 1807 (1)
- Peninsular War, 1808-1817 (1)
- Treaty of Brownstown, Michigan Territory, November 25, 1808 (1)
- Bolivian War of Independence, 1809-1825 (1)
- New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812 (7)
- Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7-8, 1811 (19)
- War of 1812 (61)
- Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, June 24-November 18, 1812 (1)
- Creek Indian War, 1813-1814 (8)
- Great Portsmouth Fire, NH, December 22, 1813 (1)
- Cherokee-Osage War, 1813-1822 (1)
- Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815 (3)
- Treaties Between U.S. and Cherokee, Washington, D.C., March 22, 1816 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, September 14, 1816 (1)
- First Seminole War, 1817-1819 (3)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, July 8, 1817 (1)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creek, Creek Agency, GA, January 22, 1818 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Cherokee, Washington, D.C., February 27, 1819 (2)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Kickapoo, Edwardsville, IL, July 30, 1819 (1)
- Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA, November 15, 1820-January 9, 1821 (1)
- Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Creek, Indian Springs, GA, January 8, 1821 (2)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatamie, Chicago, IL, August 29, 1821 (1)
- Cherokee Nation Adopts Sequoyah's Alphabet, 1821 (3)
- Treaty of Camp Moultrie, September 18, 1823 (4)
- First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824-1826 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Creek, Indian Springs, GA, February 12, 1825 (2)
- Treaty at Prairie Du Chien, 1825 (2)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Creek, Washington, DC, January 24, 1826 (2)
- Treaty Between U. S. and Creek, Creek Agency, GA, November 15, 1827 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Ho Chunk, Ojibwa, and Menominee, Butte Des Mortes, WI, August 11, 1827 (1)
- Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper Founded, February 21, 1828 (2)
- Russian-Turkish War, 1828-1829 (1)
- Treaty of 1829, Prairie Du Chien, WI (1)
- Indian Removal Act, 1830 (2)
- July Revolution, France, 1830 (3)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Choctaw, September 27, 1830 (1)
- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (1)
- Apache Wars with Mexico, 1831-1860 (1)
- Treaty of Payne's Landing, FL, May 9, 1832 (7)
- Black Hawk War, 1832 (19)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Seminole, Fort Gibson, OK, March 28, 1833 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatamie, Chicago, IL, September 26, 1833 (1)
- Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 (9)
- Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 (2)
- New York Fire, December 13, 1835 (1)
- Creek War of 1836 (1)
- Panic of 1837 (1)
- Chimayo Revolt against Mexican Taxation, August 3, 1837 (1)
- Smallpox Epidemics on the Plains, 1837-1870 (2)
- Treaty of 1837, Washington, D.C. (2)
- Rebellions of 1837, Canada (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Iroquois, Buffalo Creek, January 15, 1838 (2)
- Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 (25)
- Amistad Revolt, Atlantic Ocean, July 2, 1839 (1)
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 (2)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Wyandot, Upper Sandusky, OH, March 17, 1842 (1)
- Grand June Council, June, 1843 (1)
- U.S. Annexation of Texas, 1845 (2)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (20)
- Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1850 (6)
- Donner Party, 1846-1847 (1)
- Oregon Treaty, June 15, 1846 (1)
- Cayuse War, 1848-1855 (4)
- Revolutions of 1848 (3)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (3)
- California Gold Rush, 1849 (17)
- Parkman-Webster Murder and Trial, Boston, MA, 1849-1850 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (1)
- Treaty between U. S. and Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux, Traverse des Sioux, MN, July 23, 1851 (1)
- Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Cheyenne and Arapaho, September 17, 1851 (3)
- Treaty between U.S. and Comanche and Kiowa, July 27, 1853 (2)
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 (14)
- Norwalk Train Derailment, Norwalk, CT, May 6, 1853 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (16)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act Enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (2)
- Grattan Massacre, NE, August 17, 1854 (1)
- Yakima War, 1855-1858 (6)
- Treaty of Point Elliott, WA, January 22, 1855 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Ojibwa, February 22, 1855 (2)
- Nez Perce Treaty of Camp Stevens, WA, June 11, 1855 (4)
- Treaty Between U. S., Choctaw, and Chickasaw, June 22, 1855 (2)
- Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856 (6)
- Spirit Lake, Iowa Massacre, March 8-9, 1857 (4)
- Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 (6)
- Battle of Solomon's Fork, KS, July 30, 1857 (1)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (14)
- Treaties Between the U.S. and Dakota, Washington D.C., June 19, 1858 (1)
- Italian Reunification, 1859-1870 (6)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (21)
- John Brown, Execution, Charles Town, WV, December 2, 1859 (2)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (464)
- Apache Wars, 1861-1886 (6)
- Sioux Uprisings, Minnesota, 1862-1863 (18)
- German Reunification, 1863-1871 (1)
- Treaty of Lapwai, June 9, 1863 (4)
- Cheyenne-Arapaho War, 1864-1865 (7)
- Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864 (1)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (51)
- Abraham Lincoln, Assassination, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 (7)
- Treaty Between U.S. Cheyenne and Arapaho, October 14, 1865 (1)
- Abraham Lincoln elected President of U.S., November 6, 1860 (34)
- Austro-Prussian War, 1866 (4)
- Red Cloud's War, 1866-1868 (7)
- Fenian Uprising, 1866-1870 (1)
- Comanche Campaign, 1867-1875 (5)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, February 19, 1867 (1)
- Treaty Between U.S. and Ojibwa of the Mississippi, March 19, 1867 (2)
- Unification of Canada, 1867 (2)
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek, KS, October 21, 1867 (4)
- Treaty of Fort Laramie, Fort Laramie, WY, April 29, 1868 (1)
- Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878 (1)
- Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Sioux, November 6, 1868 (10)
- Massacre of the Marias, MT, January 23, 1870 (2)
- Red Cloud Visits Ely Parker and Ulysses Grant, Washington, DC, May 1870 (1)
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 (19)
- Camp Grant Massacre, Fort Grant, AZ, April 30, 1871 (1)
- Treaty of Washington, 1871 (3)
- Paris Commune, March-May, 1871 (1)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (5)
- Modoc War, 1872-1873 (7)
- 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)
- Red River War, TX, 1874-1875 (3)
- Treaty No. 4, Qu'Appelle, SK, 1874 (1)
- Cheyenne Surrender at Darlington Agency, El Reno, OK, March 6, 1875 (2)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (29)
- Treaty No. 6, Fort Carlton, SK, 1876 (3)
- Treaty No. 7, Fort Macleod, AB, September 22, 1877 (2)
- Nez Perce War, 1877 (9)
- Battle of Birch Creek, OR, July 8, 1878 (1)
- Bannock Indian War, 1878 (3)
- White River Reservation Raid, September 28, 1879 (1)
- Victorio War of 1879-1880, Mexico (1)
- James Garfield Shot, July 2, 1881 (11)
- Sitting Bull Surrenders to U.S. Army, Fort Buford, MT, July 19, 1881 (3)
- Northwest Rebellion, Manitoba, 1885 (5)
- Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
- Charleston, SC Earthquake, August 31, 1886 (2)
- Dawes Act Divides Indian Tribal Land into Individual Allotments, February 8, 1887 (15)
- Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887 (2)
- Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889 (1)
- Johnstown Flood, PA, May 31, 1889 (1)
- Ghost Dance Movement, 1889-1890 (15)
- Pine Ridge Campaign, U.S., 1890-1891 (16)
- Sitting Bull, Killed, Standing Rock Reservation, SD, 1890 (8)
- Jerome Agreement, U.S.-Kiowa, Comanche and Apache, 1892 (1)
- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, May-Oct, 1893 (2)
- Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898 (1)
- Greco-Turkish War, 1897 (2)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (22)
- Boxer Rebellion, China, 1900 (2)
- Boer War, 1899-1902 (2)
- William McKinley, Assassination, Buffalo, NY, September 6, 1901 (1)
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (10)
- Norway Dissolves Union with Sweden, June 7, 1905 (1)
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18-21, 1906 (2)
- Cook's Arctic Expedition, 1908 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (10)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York, NY, March 25, 1911 (1)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- Titanic Sinks, April 15, 1912 (3)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (134)
- Ludlow Massacre, CO, April 20, 1914 (1)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (8)
- Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 (2)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (10)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (2)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (98)
- Mukden Incident, September 18, 1931–February 18, 1932 (1)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (10)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (14)
- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (8)
- Holocaust, 1939-1945 (27)
- Winter War, 1939-1940 (2)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (328)
- Sleepy Lagoon Trial, 1942-1943 (2)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, April 12, 1945 (3)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (15)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (3)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (12)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (39)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (1)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (22)
- Argentina, Coup d'Etat, September 16, 1955 (1)
- Suez Crisis, 1956 (1)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (4)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (60)
- Space Race, 1957-1975 (2)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (8)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (11)
- Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (1)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (7)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (3)
- Cyprus Crisis, July 15-24, 1974 (2)
- Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002 (1)
- Battle of the Little Big Horn, Little Big Horn, MT, 100th Anniversary Commemoration Event (1)
- Wars in Afghanistan, April 27, 1978– (2)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (2)
- Falkland Islands War, 1982 (2)
- U.S. Invasion of Panama, December 12, 1989 (1)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (12)
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (3)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 (2)
