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- Jacobite Risings, 1689-1746 (1)
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- Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (2)
- French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 (4)
- Stamp Act, 1765-1766 (1)
- Boston Tea Party, MA, December 16, 1773 (2)
- First Continental Congress Meets, September 1774 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (27)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (8)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (2)
- Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 (2)
- XYZ Affair, 1798 (1)
- War of the Second Coalition, 1798–1802 (1)
- George Washington dies, December 14, 1799 (2)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (1)
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815 (4)
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- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (1)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (10)
- Oregon Treaty, June 15, 1846 (1)
- Cayuse War, 1848-1855 (1)
- California Gold Rush, 1849 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (6)
- Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856 (4)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (1)
- Italian Reunification, 1859-1870 (2)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (9)
- John Brown, Execution, Charles Town, WV, December 2, 1859 (2)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (150)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (25)
- Abraham Lincoln, Assassination, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 (2)
- Abraham Lincoln elected President of U.S., November 6, 1860 (13)
- Austro-Prussian War, 1866 (2)
- Fenian Uprising, 1866-1870 (1)
- Unification of Canada, 1867 (1)
- Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878 (1)
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 (12)
- Treaty of Washington, 1871 (2)
- Paris Commune, March-May, 1871 (1)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (3)
- James Garfield Shot, July 2, 1881 (8)
- Charleston, SC Earthquake, August 31, 1886 (2)
- Greco-Turkish War, 1897 (2)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (11)
- Boxer Rebellion, China, 1900 (2)
- Boer War, 1899-1902 (1)
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (1)
- Cook's Arctic Expedition, 1908 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (2)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- Titanic Sinks, April 15, 1912 (3)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (28)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (1)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (4)
- Mukden Incident, September 18, 1931–February 18, 1932 (1)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2)
- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (2)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (23)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, April 12, 1945 (2)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (2)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (1)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (1)
