8th Grade History Final Assignment

This is it! Not gonna lie it looks really boring to read but this was what I was assigned!

  1. May 28 1754 – Battle of Jumonville Glen
  2. Nov 1 1755 – Great Lisbon Earthquake
  3. May 6 1757 – Battle of Prague
  4. Nov 5 1757 – Battle of Rossbach
  5. Aug 12 1759 – Battle of Kunersdorf
  6. Sep 13 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  7. Feb 10 1763 – Treaty of Paris
  8. March 22 1765 – Stamp Act signed
  9. Mar 5 1770 – Boston Massacre
  10. 1773 – Tea Act
  11. Dec 16 1773 – Boston Tea Party
  12. Apr 19 1775 – Battle of Lexington and Concord
  13. Jan 10 1776 – Common Sense published
  14. Jul 04 1776 – Declaration of Independence signed
  15. Dec 25 1776 – Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware
  16. Nov 16 1777 – Articles of Confederation signed
  17. Aug 16 1780 – Battle of Camden
  18. Sep 28 1781 – Siege of Yorktown
  19. Sep 17 1787 – Constitution signed
  20. 1789 – George Washington becomes the 1st president of the US
  21. Jul 14 1789 – Storming of the Bastille
  22. Sep 25 1789 – Bill of Rights signed
  23. Jul 16 1790 – Washington D.C. founded
  24. Sep 20 1792 – Battle of Valmy
  25. 1793 – Cotton Gin invented
  26. 1797 – John Adams becomes the 2nd president
  27. 1801 – Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd president
  28. Apr 30 1803 – Louisiana Purchase signed
  29. 1804 – New Jersey becomes 1st state to abolish slavery
  30. 1804 – Steam Locomotive invented
  31. 1804 – Lewis and Clark expedition
  32. 1807 – Embargo Act
  33. 1807 – First commercial steamboat
  34. 1807 – Slave Trade Act
  35. 1809 – James Madison becomes the 4th president
  36. Sep 10 1813 – Battle of Lake Erie
  37. May 03 1814 – Napoleon 1st exile
  38. Dec 24 1814 – Treaty of Ghent
  39. Jan 08 1815 – Battle of New Orleans
  40. Oct 15 1815 – Napoleon 2nd exile
  41. 1817 – James Monroe becomes the 5th president
  42. Mar 06 1820 – Missouri Compromise
  43. 1825 – Erie Canal completed
  44. 1825 – John Quincy Adams becomes the 6th president
  45. 1829 – Andrew Jackson becomes the 7th president
  46. 1830 – Indian Removal Act
  47. 1831 – Trail of Tears begins
  48. Oct 1835 – Texas Revolution
  49. Feb 23 1836 – Battle of the Alamo
  50. 1837 – Martin Van Buren becomes the 8th president
  51. 1838 – Morse code invented
  52. 1841 – John Tyler becomes the 10th president
  53. 1841 – William Henry Harrison becomes the 9th president
  54. 1845 – James K. Polk becomes the 11th president
  55. Apr 25 1846 – Mexican War
  56. Jan 24 1848 – Gold is discovered in California
  57. 1849 – Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president
  58. 1850 – Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president
  59. 1853 – Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th president
  60. 1853 – Gadsden purchase
  61. 1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act
  62. 1854 – Bleeding Kansas
  63. 1857 – James Buchanan becomes the 15th president
  64. 1861 – Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president
  65. Sep 17 1872 – Battle of Antietam
  66. January 1, 1863 – Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
  67. July 1 – 3 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg
  68. July 1863 – Siege of Vicksburg
  69. 1865 – 13th Amendment signed
  70. 1865 – Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president
  71. 1866 – 14th Amendment signed
  72. 1867 – Alaska is purchased and becomes a territory
  73. 1869 – 15th Amendment signed
  74. May 10, 1869 – Transcontinental Railroad opened
  75. 1869 – Ulysses S. Grant becomes the 18th president
  76. 1876 – Telephone invented
  77. June 25, 1876 – Battle of Little Bighorn
  78. 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th president
  79. March 1881 – James A. Garfield becomes the 20th president
  80. May 21 1881 – American Red Cross founded
  81. July 4 1881 – Tuskegee Institute founded
  82. September 1881 – Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st president
  83. 1885 – Grover Cleveland becomes the 22nd president
  84. 1889 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the 23rd president
  85. January 3, 1892 – J.R.R. Tolkien born
  86. 1892 – Ellis Island opens
  87. 1893 – Grover Cleveland is elected again and becomes the 24th president
  88. 1896 – First international Olympic games
  89. 1897 – William McKinley becomes the 25th president
  90. May 1, 1898 – Battle of Manila Bay
  91. July 3, 1898 – Battle of Santiago de Cuba
  92. November 29, 1898 – C.S. Lewis born
  93. December 10, 1898 – Treaty of Paris
  94. 1900 – Gold Standard act
  95. 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th president
  96. December 17, 1903 – First airplane flight
  97. 1908 – Model T introduced by Ford
  98. 1909 – William Taft becomes the 27th president
  99. July 2, 1909 – 16th Amendment signed
  100. 1911 – Roald Amundsen makes it to the South Pole
  101. April 8, 1913 – 17th Amendment signed
  102. 1913 – Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president
  103. September 6-10, 1914 – First Battle of the Marne
  104. April 25, 1915-January 9 1916 – Battle of Gallipoli
  105. 1915 – First fighter planes used
  106. May 1916 – Battle of Jutland
  107. July 1-November 18 1916 – Battle of the Somme
  108. February 21-December 18 1916 – Battle of Verdun
  109. 1918 – Great Flu of 1918
  110. January 16, 1919 – 18th Amendment signed, prohibition begins
  111. June 28, 1919 – Treaty of Versailles
  112. August 26, 1920 – 19th Amendment signed
  113. 1920 – League of Nations established
  114. 1922 – U.S.S.R. established
  115. 1921 – Warren Harding becomes the 29th president
  116. 1923 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president
  117. June 1924 – Teapot Dome scandal
  118. July 1925 – Scopes Monkey Trial
  119. March 6, 1926 – First liquid-fueled rocket flight
  120. 1928 – Steamboat Willie produced
  121. 1929 – Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president
  122. 1929 – Wall Street Crash
  123. 1932 – Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president
  124. 1937 – Hindenburg disaster
  125. 1940 – Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
  126. July-October 1940 – Battle of Britain
  127. December 7, 1941
  128. June 1942 – Battle of Midway
  129. 1942-1943 – Battle of Stalingrad
  130. July-August 1943 – Battle of Kursk
  131. June 6, 1944 – Battle of Normandy
  132. 1945 – Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president
  133. August 6, 1945 – The U.S. bombs Hiroshima
  134. 1946 – ENIAC created
  135. April 19, 1946 – The League of Nations fails
  136. June 25, 1950 – First Battle of Seoul
  137. September 15, 1950 – Battle of Inchon
  138. November 1950 – Battle of Chosin Reservoir
  139. February 27, 1951 – 22nd Amendment passed
  140. 1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th president
  141. October 4, 1957 – Sputnik 1 launched
  142. 1959 – Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states
  143. September 26, 1960 – First televised presidential debate
  144. March 29, 1961 – 23rd amendment passed
  145. April 12, 1961 – Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
  146. 1961 – John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th president
  147. 1962 – Walmart founded
  148. November 22, 1963 – JFK is assassinated
  149. 1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president
  150. August 28, 1963 – MLK Jr. delivers the “I have a dream” speech
  151. February 4, 1964 – 24th Amendment passed
  152. February 23, 1967 – 25th Amendment signed
  153. 1969 – Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president
  154. July 20, 1969 – Man lands on the moon
  155. July 1, 1971 – 26th amendment passed
  156. 1972 – The video game Pong is created
  157. June 17, 1972 – Watergate Scandal
  158. 1973-1975 – 70’s recession
  159. 1973 – Oil Crisis of 1973
  160. 1974 – Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president
  161. April 4, 1975 – Microsoft is founded
  162. April 1, 1976 – Apple is founded
  163. 1977 – Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th president
  164. 1978 – BBS (Bulletin Board System) developed
  165. May 4, 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister
  166. November 4, 1979 – Iran Hostage Crisis
  167. 1981 – Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president
  168.  January 1, 1983 – The Internet is created.
  169. January 24, 1984 – Apple releases the MacIntosh
  170. April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl explodes
  171. 1989 – George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st president
  172. November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall falls
  173. April 24, 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope launched
  174. August 2, 1990 – The Gulf War begins
  175. February 27, 1991 – The Gulf War ends
  176. March 3, 1991 – Rodney King case
  177. December 26, 1991 – The Soviet Union falls
  178. 1993 – Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president
  179. 2001 – George W. Bush becomes the 43rd president
  180. September 11, 2001 – 9/11 attacks
  181. October 7, 2001 – Afghanistan war begins
  182. February 4, 2004 – Facebook created
  183. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina
  184. March 2006 – Twitter is created
  185. 2007 – Netflix released
  186. June 29, 2007 – Apple unveils the iphone
  187. May 17, 2009 – Markus “Notch” Persson creates Minecraft
  188. 2009 – Barack Obama becomes the 44th president
  189. 2010 – Affordable Care (Obamacare) Act signed
  190. January 12, 2010 – Haitian major earthquake
  191. December 12, 2012 – Nasa confirms that Voyager 1 has left the solar system
  192. 2013 – Edward Snowden scandal
  193. 2015 – Syrian hostage crisis
  194. 2017 – Donald Trump becomes the 45th president
  195. December 18, 2019 – Trump is impeached for the first time, but later acquitted
  196. March 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic begins
  197. 2021 – Joe Biden becomes the 46th president
  198. 2025 – Donald Trump is elected again and becomes the 47th president
  199. June 22, 2025 – The OKC Thunder win the NBA Finals
  200. July 12, 2025 – This timeline is finished!

Yes! Finally finished!🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉

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