(1920s–1930s) A shift from federal segregation to desegregation came in the early 1920’s under Republican administrations.
(late 1940s through the 1950s). McCarthyism
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1798 Luther Baldwin responded
1920s Universities were for Anglo-saxon protestants (till 1944 G.I. Bill)
1944 G.I. Bill – some USA colleges start to admit Africans
A. Gesner distills kerosene for lamps
Abbot Suger St. Denis (First goth cathedral)
African Americans Race Riots of the 1960s
African man get the vote in USA
American Civil War
Andrew Jackson defeated a British attack on New Orleans
Annapolis Convention fails
Antebellum Era
Barbed Wire company success
Bartholomew's Day massacre
Battle of Hasting (Viking expansion)
Bethoven's first symphony perfomed
Bluffton Movement
Bonaparte, Sieyès, and Roger Ducos "French Consulate". Most historians consider this the end point of the French Revolution.
Britain incorporates India into British Empire
CIA was founded
Colonial America 1607 - 1775
Compromise of 1790 "dinner table bargain"
Congress refuses admission of Franklin to the Union
Coronation of Napoleon
Cotton gin (cotton engine) - enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
Courthouse ring New and well-educated lawyers used their superior knowledge of the law to their sometimes unjust advantage. A small clique of wealthy officials formed a courthouse ring
Cromwell Protectorate
DC formed
David Brown (1740–1812) wrote: No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America; peace and retirement to the President; Long Live the Vice President, He was imprisoned till 1801
Era of Good Feelings
European Baroque Art & Architecture style
Execution of Louis XVI
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
First Crusade
First Great African Migration in USA
Fourth Crusade
French: Constitutional monarchy (July 1789 – September 1792)
French: Directory (1795–1799)
French: First Republic (1792–1795)
Frenck develop the metric system
Giordano Bruno executed (aged 51–52)
Gold discovered in California
Gothic Art & Architecture style
Haitian: Slave Revolution
Hundred Years' War - Wikipedia
Immigration crisis 376
Italian Early Renaissance
Italian Hight Renaissance
Ku Klux Klan was revived
Levittown, Pennsylvania an white only American suburb
Louis XIV's Roccoco Art & Architecture style
Massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. of Virginia
Mongolian conquest
Morphine made from blassams, first used
Morse sent his first telegram
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro first performed in Vienna
Napoleon Emperor of the French
Napoleon King of Italy Reign (17 March 1805 – 11 April 1814 , Coronation 26 May 1805 Milan Cathedral)
Napoleon's 100 days (escaped from Elba 26 February 1815 with 700 men. / Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 / considering escape to USA / Surrendered on 15 July 1815)
Neoclassical Art & Architecture style
Oil wells. Edwin Drake's 1859 well near Titusville, Pennsylvania considered the first modern well.
Ottonian dynasty
Paper Money Riot
Philip Pell, an ardent Anti-Federalist and opponent of the Constitution oversaw the meeting and adjourned the Congress sine die.
Position “President of Congress of the Confederation” vacant
President of Congress of the Confederation Cyrus Griffin left his position at November 15, 1788. (Griffin received a recess appointment from President George Washington on November 28, 1789)
President of the Confederate States: Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States: Office abolished
President of the United States: Andrew Jackson
President of the United States: George Washington
President of the United States: James Madison
President of the United States: James Monroe
President of the United States: John Adams
President of the United States: John Quincy Adams
President of the United States: Martin Van Buren
President of the United States: Thomas Jefferson
President of the United States:Theodore Roosevelt
President of the United States #16 Abraham Lincoln. In office March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
Quasi-War
Regent's park Zoo opens in London
Regular home delivery mail becomes popular
Regulators entered Hillsborough, broke up the court, and dragged those they saw as corrupt officials through the streets.
Reign of Terror
Renaissance Art & Architecture style
Romanesque Art & Architecture style
Saint-Domingue: Slave Revolution
Secession was again mentioned
Second Great African Migration in USA
Selection in July of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand as foreign minister.
September Massacres
Shays and Day and other rebel leaders raised against to pay their own debts to European war investors. Democratically elected committees.
Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573)
Siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628)
Siege of Montsegur
Siege of Ruby Ridge
Suez Canal opens
Talleyrand left Paris
Talleyrand's return from USA to France
Tertium quids
The American Revolutionary War
The French Revolution began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.
The Great Vowel Shift (Middle English)
The Gutenberg printing press
The Reconstruction era (1863–1877)
The Sack of Romet
The Virginia Convention of 1861, also known later as the Secession Convention
The War of 1812
The War of the Regulation, also known as Regulator Movement,( Courthouse ring, arrival of Royal Governor William Tryon)
The civil rights era (1940–1971)
The lynching era (1878–1939)
The modern era (1972–present)
The new federal government began operations under it on March 4, 1789
The ruins at Pompeii were first discovered late in the 16th century. Work did not begin at Pompeii until 1748.
Treaty of Paris (1783) formally ended the American Revolutionary War
Tudor period
USA Constitution Amendment
Victoria becomes queen of UK
Vietnam war
Washington bids farewell to his officers. He then returned to his beloved estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia
White slaves freed in Ireland
Woodrow Wilson's Federal Segregation
World War I
World War II
XYZ Affair
bicycles invented in Germany
cast-iron building facade become popular
first Christmas cards are printed in England
first convicts shipped to Australia
first electric washing machine hits the market
first iron steamliner sets sail
first major operations under anesthesia
first mass-produced portable sewing machine made in US
first transatlantic radio telegram transmission
food preserved in airtight jars
invention of Parian, porcelain designed to imitate carved marble
jacquard invented special loom (textiles industry)
refrigeration revolution in Germany
rise to power of Cosimo de Medici.
the world's first skyscraper opens in Chicago
wrought iron produced