1000
A.D. Leif Ericsson lands in New Foundland
1492
Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas
1620
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
1754
French and Indian War
1776
Declaration of Independence
1784
End of Revolutionary War
1787
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey sign into statehood
1788
Georgia, Connecticut, Massassachusetts, Maryland,
South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York
sign into statehood
1789
North Carolina signs into statehood. 1789-1797 President
George Washington No Party
1790
Rhode Island signs into statehood
1791
Vermont signs into statehood
1792
Kentucky signs into statehood
1796
Tennessee signs into statehood
1797-1801
President John Adams Federalist
1801-1809
President Thomas Jefferson
1803
Louisianna Purchase
1809-1817
James Madison Democratic-Republican
1812
War of 1812, Louisianna signs into statehood
1816
Indiana signs into statehood
1817
Mississippi signs into statehood, 1817-1825 James
Monroe Democratic-Republican
1818
Illinois signs into statehood
1819
Alabama signs into statehood
1820
Maine signs into statehood
1821
Missouri signs into statehood
1825-1829
John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican
1829-1837
Andrew Jackson Democratic-Republican
1836
Arkansas signs into statehood
1837
Michegan signs into statehood, 1837-1841 Martin Van
Buren Democrat
1841-1841
William H. Harrison Whig
1841-1845
John Tyler Whig
1845
Florida and Texas sign into statehood, James K. Polk
Democrat
1846
War with Mexico, Iowa signs into statehood
1848
Wisconsin signs into statehood, California gold rush
1849-1850
Zachary Taylor Whig
1850
California signs into statehood, 1850-1853 Millard
Fillmore Whig
1853-1857
Franklin Pierce Democrat
1857-1861
James Buchanan Democrat
1858
Minnesota signs into statehood
1859
Oregon signs into statehood
1861
Kansas signs into statehood, 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln
Republican
1863
West Virginia signs into statehood
1864
Nevada signs into statehood
1867
Nebraska signs into statehood
1869-1877
Ulysses S. Grant Republican
1876
Colorado signs into statehood
1877-1881
Rutherford B. Hayes Republican
1881-1881
James A. Garfield Republican
1881-1885
Chester A. Arthur Republican
1885-1889
Grover Cleveland Democrat
1889
North Dakota, Montana, Washington sign into statehood,
1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison Republican
1890
Idaho and Wyoming sign into statehood
1893-1897
Grover Cleveland Democrat
1896
Utah signs into statehood
1897-1901
William McKinley Republican
1898
Spanish American War
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt Republican
1907
Oklahoma signs into statehood
1909-1913
William H. Taft Republican
1912
New Mexico and Arizona sign into statehood
1913-1921
Woodrow Wilson Democrat
1917
US enters World War I
1918
World War I ends
1920 Nineteenth Amendment gives women right to vote
1920-1933
Prohibition
1921-1923
Warren G. Harding Republican
1923-1929
Calvin Coolidge Republican
1927
Charles Lindbergh becomes first man to fly solo non-stop
across Atlantic
1929
Stock Market crash, 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover Republican
1933-1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat
1941
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, US enters World War II
1945
World War II ends, 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman Democrat
1950
Korean War
1953
Korean War ends, Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican
1961-1963
John F. Kennedy Democrat
1963-1969
Lyndon B. Johnson
1965
Vietnam War
1969
Neil Armstrong walks first man to walk on the Moon,
1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon Republican
1973
Vietnam war ends
1974-1977
Gerald R. Ford Republican
1977-1981
Jimmy Carter Democrat
1981-1989
Ronald Reagan Republican
1989-1993
George Bush Republican
1990
Persian Gulf War
1991
Kuwait liberated
1993-2001
Bill Clinton Democrat
2001-
George W. Bush Republican
2003
War In Iraq
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