1607 Jamestown
1620 Mayflower
1625 New Amsterdam established, Dutch West India Company
1628 Augustine Warner arrives in Virginia, brought by Adam Thoroughgood
1636 Providence, Rhode Island founded by Roger Williams
1644 Indian uprising in Virginia; Opecancanough captured
1645 Gravesend charter, Dutch Colony; Deborah Moody
1653 Wall built across lower Manhattan
1655 Peach Tree War - Indians vs Dutch, New Amsterdam
1720 Hanover County established, breaking away from New Kent
1772 Gaspee Affair, RI, Sons of Liberty
1776 Revolutionary War
1777-78 Continental Army at Valley Forge
1779 Loyalist Frederick Philipse III arrested for treason and vast land holdings seized. Philipsburg, NY
1781 Jack Jouett’s ride; Jefferson warned.
1780-1820 Post-War movement west (depleted land)
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition
1813 War of 1812
1830 Book of Mormon published
1850 American Bible Union is established, breaking away from the American Bible Society and developing a new translation of the Bible.
1862 Homestead Act
1861-1865 Civil War
1871 Railroad tracks across the Red River; Fargo
1874 Custer’s Expedition to the Black Hills; Gold discovered
1874 Grasshopper/Locust plague
1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
1877 U. S. violates the 1868 Fort Laramie agreement, seizing Lakota and Dakota lands
1883 Railroad connects Danville to Franklin to Norfolk
1885 Iowa State fair, Des Moines.
1888 Railroad extended to Jerusalem from Petersburg
1889 Ghost Dances
1890 Wounded Knee
1896-1916 Sisters Of Mercy establish hospital and nurses training school in Paris, Texas
1899 Railroad extended from Norfolk to Munden Point
1900 Land Rush in Kansas; TB outbreak in Wichita
1908 Old Fort Supply in Woodward, Oklahoma opens as a mental hospital
1912 Saint Joseph orphanage burns down in Wichita Kansas
1916 fire in Paris Texas; Saint Joseph Hospital is spared
1929 Stock Market Crash; Great Depression
1939-45 WWII
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