The United States, 1775–2008

From the first shots of the Revolution to the twenty-first century: wars, amendments, discoveries and the movements that changed who the rights in the founding documents applied to. **How to read it.** Chapter headings mark the eras. Wars and movements are durations; everything else is a moment, linked to the Wikipedia article it draws on. Related events (an amendment and the one it led to) are linked. Dates are in UTC.

48 moments · 1775-01-01T00:00:00Z CE – 2008-11-04T00:00:00Z CE · by @athan · @athan

Moments

1. Founding 1775-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
2. Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19T00:00:00Z CE
3. Declaration of Independence 1776-07-04T00:00:00Z CE
4. Surrender at Yorktown 1781-10-19T00:00:00Z CE
5. Treaty of Paris 1783-09-03T00:00:00Z CE
6. Constitution signed 1787-09-17T00:00:00Z CE
7. Washington inaugurated 1789-04-30T00:00:00Z CE
8. Bill of Rights ratified 1791-12-15T00:00:00Z CE
9. A growing nation 1803-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
10. Louisiana Purchase 1803-04-30T00:00:00Z CE
11. Indian Removal Act 1830-05-28T00:00:00Z CE
12. Gold at Sutter's Mill 1848-01-24T00:00:00Z CE
13. Seneca Falls Convention 1848-07-19T00:00:00Z CE
14. Union and emancipation 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
15. Fort Sumter 1861-04-12T00:00:00Z CE
16. Emancipation Proclamation 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
17. Gettysburg Address 1863-11-19T00:00:00Z CE
18. Surrender at Appomattox 1865-04-09T00:00:00Z CE
19. Lincoln assassinated 1865-04-14T00:00:00Z CE
20. Thirteenth Amendment 1865-12-06T00:00:00Z CE
21. Fourteenth Amendment 1868-07-09T00:00:00Z CE
22. An industrial power 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
23. Transcontinental railroad 1869-05-10T00:00:00Z CE
24. Fifteenth Amendment 1870-02-03T00:00:00Z CE
25. First telephone call 1876-03-10T00:00:00Z CE
26. First powered flight 1903-12-17T00:00:00Z CE
27. World wars and depression 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
28. Nineteenth Amendment 1920-08-18T00:00:00Z CE
29. Stock market crash 1929-10-29T00:00:00Z CE
30. Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07T00:00:00Z CE
31. D-Day 1944-06-06T00:00:00Z CE
32. Japan surrenders 1945-09-02T00:00:00Z CE
33. Rights and the space age 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
34. Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17T00:00:00Z CE
35. Rosa Parks arrested 1955-12-01T00:00:00Z CE
36. Sputnik 1957-10-04T00:00:00Z CE
37. March on Washington 1963-08-28T00:00:00Z CE
38. Civil Rights Act 1964-07-02T00:00:00Z CE
39. Voting Rights Act 1965-08-06T00:00:00Z CE
40. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 1968-04-04T00:00:00Z CE
41. Apollo 11 launches 1969-07-16T13:32:00Z CE
42. The Eagle has landed 1969-07-20T20:17:40Z CE
43. First step on the Moon 1969-07-21T02:56:15Z CE
44. Splashdown 1969-07-24T16:50:35Z CE
45. Soviet Union dissolved 1991-12-26T00:00:00Z CE
46. A new century 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
47. September 11 attacks 2001-09-11T00:00:00Z CE
48. Obama elected 2008-11-04T00:00:00Z CE