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Timeline of pre–United States history This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution ( c. 1760 ).
Named eras and periods These multi-year periods are commonly identified in American history. The existence and dating of some of these periods is debated by historians.
March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. March 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as the 19th president of the United States, and William A. Wheeler sworn in as ...
Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) Eli Whitney (1765–1825) is best known for inventing the cotton gin in October 1793 and patenting it on March 14, 1794; [1] a key invention of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the antebellum South. [2] This article is part of a series on the Science and technology of the United States of America Apollo 11 Lunar Module ...
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and their societies were reorganized after the European colonization of North America in the late 15th century. Starting in 1585, the British Empire colonized the Atlantic Coast ...
Reconstruction was the period from 1863 to 1877, in which the federal government temporarily took control—one by one—of the Southern states of the Confederacy. Before his assassination in April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln had announced moderate plans for reconstruction to re-integrate the former Confederates as fast as possible.
More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, including these men who fell during the bloody Battle of Antietam. This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899 .
Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1820 to 1859 .