1500 AD – 1750 AD Online Timeline Index
Electricity by Benjamin Franklin 1757 | Declaration of Independence 1776 | The Monroe Doctrine 1823 | Mexican War 1845 | Alaska Purchased 1867 | Telephone (Bell) 1876 | Arizona and New Mexico become US states 1912 | US stock market crashes 1929 | Alaska and Hawaii become US States 1959 | Falklands War: Argentina and Britain 1982 |
Alexander Hamilton born 1757 | George Washington President 1789-1797 | James Monroe President 1817-1825 | Brigham Young let Mormon Pioneers to Utah 1847 | Abraham Lincoln President. Civil War 1861-1865 | Grover Cleveland President 1885-1889 | Panama Canal Opened 1914 | Great Depression as a result of 1930 | US President John F. Kennedy assassinated 1963 | Sept 2001 US attacked, War on Terror, Patriot Act |
Surrender of Quebec 1759 | California declared US territory 1848 | Pacific Railway 1860 | McKinley President, Spanish-American War 1898 | US President Wilson; 14 points end WWI 1918 | US Scientists build first atomic bomb 1945 | US Federal Civil Rights Acts 1964 | War on Iraq 2003 | ||
Stamp Act 1765 | Electric Lights (Edison) 1870 | Phonograph (Edison) 1888 | US Astronauts land on the moon 1969 | Hurricane Katrina 2005 | |||||
Franciscan Monks founded San Diego, CA 1769 | Micro-computers in the US 1970-1974 | Obama first black president of US 2008 | |||||||
First Continental Congress 1774 | Global Economic Recession 2008 | ||||||||
Revolutionary War 1775-1782 | |||||||||
Slavery in America | |||||||||
First Black Baptist Church in America 1773-1775 | Methodists separate from Church of England 1784 | David Livingstone 1813-1873 | Azusa St. Revival major catalyst to Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches 1906 | Conversion of Billy Graham 1934 | Second Vatican Council (supports Ecumenism) 1961-1965 | ||||
Napolean abolished the temporal power of the Pope 1798 | African Methodist Episcopal Church Founded 1816 | The Oxford Movement 1833-1841 | Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center 1910-1997 | ||||||
Bible translated in Burmese 1835-1837 | Conversion of C.S. Lewis 1931 | ||||||||
Mary Slessor Scottish 1848-1915 | World Council of Churches – Ecumenism 1948 | ||||||||
Russo-Turkish War 1768 | Second Russo-Turkish War 1787 | Turkey loses domain generally | Greece independent 1830 | Serbia become independent from Turkey 1878 | Egypt a British protectorate 1882; Revised Version 1881-1885 | Tripoli to Italy 1912; Balkan War 1912-1913; British take Jerusalem 1917 | First Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas 2003 | ||
Turkey under Christian sway 1830 | Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Romania become independent states 1878 | Dividing of Turkey 1919; Palestine becomes British mandate 1920 | The Treaty of Sevre’s Egyptian independence 1922; Jews returning to Palestine 1929 | Jewish state created in Palestine 1948 | Six Day War; Israel vs. Arab states 1967 | ||||
First British convicts shipped to Botany Bay 1788 | “And in the days of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom.” Dan. 2:34-44 | Self-Govern. by Australia 1856 | WWI 1914-1918; Britain E. Rutherford splits atom 1919 | WWII begins; Germany invades Rhineland 1939 | DNA discovered by Watson and Crick 1953 | ||||
Jet aircraft England and Germany 1941 | Berlin Wall built 1961 | Berlin Wall dismantled 1989 | |||||||
Beginning of the end of WWII 1944 | |||||||||
Lombards | |||||||||
Franks | |||||||||
Huns | |||||||||
Burgundians | |||||||||
Saxons | |||||||||
Clement XIV 1769 | End of the temporal power of the Pope 1798 | Pope’s territory reduced 1809 | Gregory XVI 1831 | Benedict XV 1914-1922 | Blessed St. John XXIII 1958-1963; John Paul I 1978 | John Paul II 1978-2005 | |||
Abolishment of order of the Jesuits 1774 | Leo XII 1823 | Constitution of the Pope’s territory 1848 | Infallibility of the Pope declared 1870 | Leo XIII 1878 | Paul VI 1963-1978 | Benedict XVI 2005 | |||
Pius VI 1775 | Pius VII 1799 | Pius VIII 1829 | Pius IX 1846 | Pius XI 1922-1939 | Pius XII 1939-1958 | ||||
The Interesting Narrative of the life Olaudah Equiano, inspires growing abolitionist movement 1789 | British take Cape Colony 1795-1815 | Amistad Revolt 1839-1842 | Ethiopia resists colonization 1896 | British defeat Kenyan resistance 1956 | Rawandian Genocide 1994 | ||||
Black Republic of Haiti founded 1804 | British abolishes W. Indies slavery 1832 | Boer War 1899-1902 | Benin Independence 1960 | Sudanese Peace Agreement 2005 | |||||
Zulus rise under Shaka 1818-1828 | |||||||||
Liberia est. By African-Americans 1222-XXXX | |||||||||
Catherine the Great takes over rule 1762 | Alexander I resigns 1801 | Napoleon invades Russia 1812 | Russian Social Democratic party forms 1898 | Russian Revolution 1917 | Stalin dies 1953 | Coup USSR breaks down 1991 | |||
Paul, son of Catherine, reigns 1769 | Nicholas I succeeds Alexander I 1825 | Bolshevik party started in Russia 1901 | Communism only political party allowed 1921 | First into space Russian Sputnik 1957 | |||||
Japan | |||||||||
2004 Tsunami kills 20,000 | |||||||||
National Awakening | Japanese-Chinese War 1895 | Russo-Japanese War 1904 | Pearl Harbor Japanese attack US 1941 | Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 | North Korea Tests Nuclear Power 2005 | ||||
China | |||||||||
Chinese ports open to Europe 1842 | French and British War 1861 | Boxer Rebellion in China 1900 | Mainland China Communist & Taiwan Republic 1949 | China invades Tibet 1950-1951 | First Astronauts launched by China 2005 | ||||
China becomes 2nd largest world economy 2011 | |||||||||
Queue wearing began 1644-1942 |
1500 AD – 1750 AD Online Timeline Index