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| 1492 Columbus in Bahamas | 1530 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León lands on the coast of Florida. | 1565 Saint Augustine, Florida, settled by the Spanish, becomes the first permanent European colony in North America. | 1607 Jamestown, (1st perm. English set)in VI | 1620 The Plymouth Colony in Mass. sign Mayflower Contract?. | 1664 English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York |
1754-1763 French and Indian War: 1763 Treaty of Paris |
1770 Boston Massacre: 1773 Boston Tea Party: 1774 1st Continental Congress 1775–1783 American Revolution 1776 Declaration of Independence 1777 flag Articles of Confederation. 1786 Shays's Rebellion 1787 Constitutional Convention 1789 Washington president |
1790 U.S. Supreme Court meets (1st) 1791 Bill of Rights ratified 1793 Washington's 2nd term 1797 John Adams 2nd president |
1800 U.S. capital from Phili. to DC U.S. Congress meets (1st) Gabriel Prosser/slave revolt 1801 T. Jefferson 3rd president 1803 Marbury v. Madison: Louisiana Purchase: 1804 Lewis and Clark set out . 1805 Jefferson's 2nd Lewis and clark reach Pacific 1809 James Madison 4th president | 1812–1814 War of 1812: U.S. war on Britain Madison's 2nd British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol Francis Scott Key writes Star-Spangled Banner Treaty of Ghent. 1817 James Monroe 5th president 1819 Spain cede Florida to the US | 1820 Missouri Compromise: (on slavery) 1821 Monroe's 2nd 1822 Denmark Vesey/slave revolt 1823 Monroe Doctrine: 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden:. 1825 J. Q. Adams 6th president Erie Canal opened 1828 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1829 Andrew Jackson 7th president | 1830 Indian Removal Act, (forced removal of Native Americans) 1831 Nat Turner/ slave uprising William Lloyd Garrison/abolitionist 1833 Jackson's 2nd term 1836 Texas independence from Mexico/The Alamo 1837 Martin Van Buren 8th president). 1838 Cherokee Indians “Trail of Tears.” | 1841 W. H. Harrison is 9th president / John Tyler 10th 1845 U.S. annexes Texas James Polk is 11th president “manifest destiny” 1846 Oregon Treaty The Wilmot Proviso/David Wilmot 1846–1848 Mexican War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 Gold in Ca Women's rights 1849 Zachary Taylor 12th president Harriet Tubman | 1850 President Taylor dies/Millard Fillmore vice president The Compromise of 1850: 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1853 Franklin Pierce 14th president Gadsden Purchase treaty. 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1857 James Buchanan is 15th president Dred Scott v. Sanford 1858 Abraham Lincoln debates with Sen. Stephen A. Douglas 1859 Abolitionist John Brown | 1860 Abraham Lincoln president South Carolina secedes from the Union (Dec. 20). Abraham Lincoln 1861 Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana secede (Jan.). Confederate States of America is established (Feb. 8). Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy (Feb. 9). Texas secedes (March 2). Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president (March 4). Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee 1861–1865 Civil War: Conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states. Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war (April 12, 1861). Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee secede (April–June). Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states (Jan. 1, 1863). Battle of Gettysburg is fought (July 1–3). President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19). Gen. William T. Sherman captures Atlanta (Sept. 2, 1864). Lincoln's second inauguration (March 4, 1865). Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captures Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy (April 3). Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va., (April 9). 1863 Homestead Act becomes law, allowing settlers to claim land (160 acres) after they have lived on it for five years (Jan. 1). 1865 Lincoln is assassinated (April 14) by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC, and is succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery (Dec. 6). 1867 U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million (treaty concluded March 30). 1868 President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives (Feb. 24), but he is acquitted at his trial in the Senate (May 26). Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship (July 9). 1869 Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated as the 18th president (March 4). Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads are joined at Promontory, Utah, creating first transcontinental railroad (May 10). 1870 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote (Feb. 3). 1871 Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 people homeless (Oct. 8–9). 1872 Crédit Mobilier scandal breaks, involving several members of Congress (Sept.). 1873 Grant's second inauguration (March 4). 1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment is wiped out by Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull at the Little Big Horn River, Mont. (June 25). Sitting Bull 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president (March 5). The first telephone line is built from Boston to Somerville, Mass.; the following year, President Hayes has the first telephone installed in the White House. 1881 James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president (March 4). He is shot (July 2) by Charles Guiteau in Washington, DC, and later dies from complications of his wounds in Elberon, N.J. (Sept. 19). Garfield's vice president, Chester Alan Arthur, succeeds him in office. 1882 U.S. adopts standard time (Nov. 18). 1885 Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president (March 4). 1886 Statue of Liberty is dedicated (Oct. 28). American Federation of Labor is organized (Dec.). Statue of Liberty 1889 Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd president (March 4). Oklahoma is opened to settlers (April 22). 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. Sherman Antitrust Act is signed into law, prohibiting commercial monopolies (July 2). Last major battle of the Indian Wars occurs at Wounded Knee in South Dakota (Dec. 29). In reporting the results of the 1890 census, the Census Bureau announces that the West has been settled and the frontier is closed. 1892 Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S. (Jan. 1). 1893 Grover Cleveland is inaugurated a second time, as the 24th president (March 4). He is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South (May 18). 1897 William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th president (March 4). William McKinley 1898 Spanish-American War: USS Maine is blown up in Havana harbor (Feb. 15), prompting U.S. to declare war on Spain (April 25). Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War (Dec. 10); Spain gives up control of Cuba, which becomes an independent republic, and cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and (for $20 million) the Philippines to the U.S. 1898 U.S. annexes Hawaii by an act of Congress (July 7). 1899 U.S. acquires American Samoa by treaty with Great Britain and Germany (Dec. 2). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1483-1546 M. Luther 1517 95 Theses (Martin Luther) 1520 Luther excommunicated 1530 Augsburg Confession & Lutheran Church |
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1505 John Knox 1560 Scotch Presbyterian Church |
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1491-1547 King Henry VIII 1534 Henry VIII & Episcopal Church |
1570-1612 John Smith 1609 Baptist Church founded by John Smyth |
1630-1685 Charles II of England 1660-1685 Charles II king of England |
1703-1791 John Wesley
1738 Methodist Church founded by Rev John Wesley |
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1524 S German peasant uprising |
1531 Mary at Guadalupe |
1545-1563 Council of Trent |
1553 Pontifical Gregorian University |
1563 39 Articles (Episcopal) |
Turks beaten |
15 Ukranian Catholic Church forms | 1606 Carlo Maderno redesigns St Peter's Basilica into a Latin cross | 1644 Long Parliament directed that only Hebrew canon only be read in the Church of England (effectively removed the Apocropha) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1776 British colonies in America declare independance from England, American Revolution | 1801-1877 Brigham Young, Mormon leader, colonized Utah |
1827 Mormon Church |
1830 Mary in Paris 1832 Church of Christ |
1846 Mary in La Salette, France |
1852-1922 Jehova's Witnesses 1858 Mary in Lourdes, France |
1869-1870 First Vatican Council affirms doctrine of papal infallibility
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1878 14-point creed of the Niagara Bible Conference, used by Fundamentalists 1879 apparition of Mary in Knock, Ireland |
1901 Pentecostal Church |
1910 5 pt of Presbyterians 1910-1915 The Fundamentals 1917 apparition of Mary in Portugal 1917 1919 Fundamentals Assoc. |
1925 Scopes Trial |
1932 apparition of Mary in Belgium 1936 Edward VIII king of England, acceeded and abdicated |
1949 Discovery of Qumran/Dead Sea scrolls |
1957 United Church of Christ founded
1959 Statement of Faith (UCC) |
1962-1965 Second Vatican Council | 1981-? Reported apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia | 1994 Declaration of cooperation between Evangelicals and Catholics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1522 Luther's German NT translation |
1525-1534 Tyndale
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35-37 Coverdale 37-51 Matthew 46 Henry 8 forbids '1539-1552 Taverner's revisions 39-69 Great Bible__ 1542 |
1553-1558 Mary I
56 Beza's Latin NT 50? More, Cranmer, Foxe, & English Bible 60 Geneva Bible 1572-1606 Bishop's Bible |
1582 Rheims NT, based on Coverdale, Bishops', Geneva, follows Wycliffe 1590 Sistine edition of the Vulgate 1752 AV published in New World colonies | 16 1609-1610 Rheims-Douay Bible 1611-1800 King James (Authorized) Version | 1633 AV published in Scotland | 1714 AV published in Ireland 1718 Catholic English version of NT by Dr. Nary, much less bulky than Reims- Douay |
1730 Catholic English version of NT 1738-1816 New Catholic English versions of NT |
1811 Dr. Hay's 1815 Catholic Bible Society NT 1816-1829 Challoner's 3rd revisionon, Dr. John Lingard's translation from Greek using Vulgate when possible |
1859-1959 90 Catholic NT editions, 56 Catholic editions of the whole Bible | 1881-1894 Revised Version 1898-1904 Twentieth Century NT, changed order of books to chronological |
1901 American Standard Version 1902 Richard Weymouth NT, 1913-1924 James Moffat Bible, |
1936 Westminster NT 1945-1955 Knox Version 1946-1952 RSV 1949 Basic English Bible |
1958 J. B. Phillip's NT 1961 New English Bible 1966 RSV Catholic Edition 1966 Jerusalem Bible 1970 Confraternity Version 1971 NASB |
1978 NIV 1979-1982? New King James Bible |
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| EVENTS | 1400 | 1425 | 1453 The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople and the last of the imperial lands; in 1930, Constantinople is renamed Istanbul (in Turkish, "the city"). | 1475 | 1500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catholic Popes | 1404-1406 Innocent VII 1406-1417 Gregory XII 1409 Anti-Pope Alexander V 1410 Anti-Pope John XXIII 1417-1431 Martin V | 1431-1447 Eugene IV 1439 Anti-Pope Felix V 1447-1455 Nicholas V | 1455-1458 Callistus III 1458-1464 Pius II 1464-1471 Paul II 1471-1484 Sixtus IV | 1484-1492 Innocent VIII 1492-1503 Alexander VI | 1503 Pius III 1503-1513 Julius II 1513-1522 Leo X 1522-1523 Adrian VI | 1523-1534 Clement VII 1534-1550 Paul III | 1550-1555 Julius III 1555 Marcellus II 1555-1559 Paul IV 1559-1566 Pius IV 1566-1572 Pius V 1572-1585 Gregory XIII | 1585-1590 Sixtus V 1590-1591 Urban VII 1591-1592 Innocent IX 1592-1605 Clement VIII | 1605 Leo XI 1605-1621 Paul V 1621-1623 Gregory XV 1623-1644 Urban VIII | 1644-1655 Innocent X | 1655-1667 Alexander VII 1667-1670 Clement IX 1670-1676 Clement X | 1676-1689 Innocent XI 1689-1691 Alexander VIII 1691-1700 Innocent XII | 1700-1721 Clement XI 1721-1724 Innocent XIII | 1724-1730 Benedict XIII 1730-1740 Clement XII 1740-1758 Benedict XIV | 1758-1769 Clement XIII 1769-1775 Clement XIV | 1775-1800 Pius VI | 1800-1823 Pius VII 1823-1829 Leo XII | 1829-1831 Pius VIII 1831-1846 Gregory XVI | 1846-1878 Pius IX | 1878-1903 Leo XIII | 1903-1914 Pope Pius X, most recent Pope to be canonized 1914-1922 Benedict XV | 1922-1939 Pius XI 1939-1958 Pius XII | 1958-1963 John XXIII 1963-1978 Paul VI | 1978-2005 John Paul II, 265th pope 2005-Benedict XVI 1978-2005 Pope John Paul II | 2005 - Benedict XVI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Art, Archetecture, and natural events | 1473-1481 Sistine Chapel built, under supervision of Giovanni de Dolci | 1506 Old St Peter's Basilica torn down |
1531 Earthquake in Lisbon 1505-1508-1512 Michelangelo & Sistine Chapel 1536-1541 Michelangelo paints the Last Judgement |
1590 Michelangelo's dome in St Peter's Basilica completed | 16 | 1667 Earthquake in Shemaka, Caucasia kills 80,000 | 1693 Earthquake in Catania, Italy kills 60,000 | 1755 Earthquake in Northern Persia kills 40,000 1755 Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal kills 60,000 (estimated at 8.75 Richter) | 1783 Earthquake in Calabria, Italy kills 30,000 1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000 | 1822 Earthquake in Aleppo, Asia Minor kills 22,000 | 1868 Earthquakes in Peru and Ecuador kills 40,000 | 1875 Earthquake in Colombia, Venezuela | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ENGLAND | 14 | 1491-1547 Henry VIII (reign 1509-1547) | 1547-1553 Edward VI ruler of England | 1558-1603 Elizabeth I ruler of England
1603-1625 James I , 1st to call himself King of Great Britain 1625-1649 Charles I ruler of England 1653-1658 Oliver Cromwell ruler of England 1658-1712 Richard Cromwell ruler of England |
1685-1688 James II king of England, deposed 1689-1702 William III king of England, with Mary II as queen until 1694 1702-1714 Anne queen of England 1714-1727 George I king of England 1727-1760 George II king of England 1760-1820 George III king of England 1820-1830 George IV king of England 1830-1837 William IV king of England 1837-1901 Victoria queen of England 1901-1910 Edward VII king of England 1910-1936 George V king of England 1936-1952 George VI king of England 1952-Present Elizabeth II queen of England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||