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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 ).
The Territory of Colorado is organized, February 28, 1861. The Territory of Nevada is organized, March 2, 1861. The Territory of Dakota is organized, March 2, 1861. Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States on March 4, 1861.
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, and by the 1760s, the thirteen British colonies ...
This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
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 .
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