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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
The Battle of Fallen Timbers, which occurred on August 20, 1794, was a significant military clash between the United States and the Northwest Indian Confederation along the Maumee River near present-day Toledo, Ohio. Following two major defeats suffered by the U.S. at the hands of the confederation, Major General Anthony Wayne assumed command ...
1772–1795: The Partitions of Poland end the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and erase Poland from the map for 123 years. 1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history. 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China. 1773: 16 December, the Boston Tea Party.
Reconstruction lasted from the end of the war until 1877. [116] [127] [128] Lincoln supported the Ten Percent Plan for states' re-admission, and the right of Black people to vote. [129] Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, and succeeded by Andrew Johnson. [130] The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
The following are timelines of modern history, from the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] ... For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899) ... Events from the year 1877 in the United States. Incumbents ... (until month and day unknown), Noble A. Hull ...