Dates Flashcards
1066
Battle of Hastings ( Normandy’s William )
711
Moors reach Spain via Morocco
1095 / 1145
1st crusade / 2nd crusade
1492
Columbus sails ocean blue -
Moors defeated by Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain
1588
British defeat Spanish Armada
Elizabeth 1 / sir Frances drake / Phillip 2
1607
Settlement of Jamestown VA
1620
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock MA
1717
Lady Montagu develops smallpox vaccine at court of Ottoman Empire
1776
American colonists declare independence from Britain
1789
French Revolution
1796
Edward Jenner develops and coins “ vaccine “ for smallpox
1803
(Jefferson’s) LA purchase from napoleon’s France
Doubles size of USA
(Manifest destiny) as well as when worlds population reached it’s first billion people .
1830’s
Cyrus McCormack invented reaper , trains made transportation & communication easier /
Samuel morse invented telegraph
1854
Dr. John snow discovers cure for
Cholera - leads to sanitation
1860’s
Civil war
- Lincoln was 16th president of USA
- industrial revolution begins
1869
Transcontinental railroad finished
( golden spike - promontory , UT)
Suez Canal formally opened nov. 17
(100 miles long connecting by way of 3 natural lakes , gulf of sues & Indian Ocean)
1885
Dr Joseph lister develops surgical antiseptic (carbolic acid)
1896
Plessy v ferguson
-supreme court rules
“ separate but equal “
1898
Spanish-American war fought in 3 months.
American acquires Philippines , Cuba , Puerto Rico , and Guam
1914-1918
The great war
1917
Bolshevik revolution Len by Vladimir Lenin
- overthrow Romanov dynasty
- communism beings ( lasts until 1991)
1920
Women in America receive suffrage
1928
Dr . Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929
October - Black Thursday -
Stock market crash started worldwide depression
1939-1945
World war 2
1948
Allies create state of Israel on Palestinian lands
1950-1953
Korean War
- beginnings of the Cold War
1954
Brown v board of education
- Supreme Court ruling reversing Plessy v ferguson
- integration begins
1960’s
Civil rights movement / beginnings of Vietnam
1989
Perestroika - Berlin Wall falls
1991
Fall of USSR , desert storm
1996
Monsanto patents life , beginning of GMO
2001
War on terror
NSA spying begins
2008
1/2 of all earths residents now reside in cities
2011
World population hits 7 billion