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Ford was the first company to sign a contract with them, again showing the impact that the Ford Motor Company has had throughout Detroit's history. Detroit Tigers baseball team win 1935 World Series defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. The season was their 35th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the first World Series ...
1783 The area that is now Michigan was included with the territory ceded by Great Britain to the United States by the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War. However, the U.S. did not take control of the territory until 1796. 1796 Detroit and other posts in Michigan were turned over to the United States under terms of the Jay ...
Approximately 1,400,000 of the 1,600,000 white people in Detroit after World War II left the city for the suburbs. [184] Beginning in the 1980s, for the first time in its history, Detroit was a majority-black city. [185] This drastic racial demographic change resulted in more than a change in neighborhood appearance.
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
History of the United States (1776–1789) Timeline of the American Revolution ... Abel Buell's map of the United States in 1783. Events from the year 1783 in the ...
Peck (10 US 87 1810) marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates a state legislative act; 1811 – First Bank of the United States charter expires; April 20, 1812 – Vice President Clinton dies; 1812 – War of 1812, an offshoot of the Napoleonic Wars, begins; 1812 – Daniel Webster elected to the United States Congress
This is a timeline of African-American history, ... 1776–1783 American Revolution. ... 1863–1877 Reconstruction Era.
In his 1857 book, The Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams, William Henry Trescot became the first historian to apply the phrase "America's Critical Period" to the era in American history between 1783 and 1789. The phrase was popularized by John Fiske's 1888 book, The Critical Period of American History. Fiske's use ...