Events
Millicent Fawcett (1846–1929)Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)Helen Keller (1880–1968)Coco Chanel (1883–1971)Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003)Mother Teresa (1910–1997)Rosa Parks (1913–2005)Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)Anne Frank (1929–1945)Betty Williams (1943– )Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007)Oprah Winfrey (1954– )Madonna (1958 – )J.K.Rowling (1965– )Tegla Loroupe (1973– )Malala Yousafzai (1997– )Realism (1865-1914): Flaubert and TolstoyNaturalism (1900-1930): Emile ZolaEdwardian (1901-1910): James Matthew BerrieThe Lost Generation (1918-1929): Hemingway and F. Scot FitzgeraldHarlem Renaissance (1920s): Langston Hughes and Zora Neale HurstonBeat (1950s and 1960s): Jack Kerouac and Allen GinsburgPostmodernism (1965- ): Jorge Luis BorgesMillard Fillmore (1850-1853)Franklin Peirce (1853-1857)Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)William MiKinley (1897-1901)Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)Calvin Coolinge (1923-1929)Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)Bill Clinton (1993-2001)Barack Obama (2009-2017)Civil War (1861-1865)Spanish American War (1898)World War I (1914-19180World War II (1939-1945)Vietnam War (1961-1973)Grenada (1983)Gulf War (1991)Kosovo (1999)Global War on Terror (2001-)War Against ISIS (2014-)The Temperance Movement (1851-1933): To prohibit the consumption of alcoholThe Labor Movement (1930s): Fair workplace practices and protectionsThe Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968): Equal rights for African Americans and the end of segregationThe Anti- War Movement (1965-1973): To end the Vietnam War and raise the social awarenessThe Environmental Movement (1950-): To preserve our natural resources and the sanctity of our planetRevolutionary literary movement begins (Thomas Paine & Philip Freneau)Romanticism begins (Lord Byron & John Keats)Neoclassicism ends (Alexander Pope and Johnathan Swift)American Revolution beginsAmerican Revolution endsAnti-Tax Movement beginsAboliton Movement beginsAboliton Movement endsWomen's Rights Movement beginsTemperance Movement beginsRevolutionary literary movement endsRomanticism endsAmerican Romanticism begins (Edgar Allen Poe & Nathaniel Hawthorne)American Romanticism endsVictorian literary movement beginsAmerican Transcendentalism begins (Margaret Fuller & Ralph Waldo Emerson)Transcendentalism endsMexican War beginsWar of 1812 beginsWar of 1812 endsMexican War endsGeorge Washington enters officeWashington exits officeJohn Adams enters officeAdams exits officeThomas Jefferson enters officeJefferson exits officeJames Madison enters officeMadison exits officeJames Monroe enters officeMonroe exits officeJohn Quincy Adams enters officeAdams exits officeAndrew Jackson enters officeJackson exits officeMartin Van Buren enters officeVan Buren exits officeJohn Tyler enters officeTyler exits officeJames K Polk enters officePolk exits officeZachary Taylor enters officeFrench Indian War beginsFrench Indian War endsTreaty of Paris signedDeclaration of Independence signedBill of Rights ratifiedLouisiana PurchaseTrail of Tears beginsTrail of Tears endsIndian Removal ActBoston Tea PartyStamp Act issuedBoston MassacreFugitive Slave ActAbstract Expressionism (1940s): Jackson PollockArt Deco (1920s): ErteArt Nouveau (1890s): Alphonse MuchaAshcan School (20th Century): Edward HopperBarbizon School (Landscape Painting) (19th Century: Jean-François MilletFuturism (20th century): Filippo Tommaso MarinettiImpressionism (19th Century): Claude MonetOp Art (1960s): Victor VasarelySlave trade with Africa endsCatherine the Great (1729-1796)Jane Austen (1775-1817)Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)Susan B Anthony (1820-1906)Emily Dickenson (1830-1886)California admission to the USSack of Lawrence, Kansas
Pottawatomie MassacreMinnesota admission to the USPony Express beginsAbraham Lincoln assassinatedCivil Rights Act of 1866
Ku Klux Klan foundedCivil Rights Act of 1875Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction ActFord Motor Company formed
1903 - First World SeriesTreaty of VersaillesIndian Reorganization Act
Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flightAmelia Earhart flies across Atlantic OceanD-Day
Battle of the BulgeNASA formedPresident J Kennedy assassinatedVietnam War ends with US pulling out in 1973
Watergate Scandal breaks in 1973
Skylab first space station launchedPresident Clinton is acquitted in impeachment trial by U.S. SenateHurricane KatrinaNeoclassicism (18th Century): Jacques-Louis David
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