Timeline
- Old Testament period – 1500 B.C. forward
- Golden Age of Greece – 5th century B.C.
- Roman Republic – 500 B.C. – 27 B.C.
- Roman Empire – 27 B.C. – 476 A.D.
- The Life of Jesus Christ on Earth – 1 A.D. – 33 A.D.
- Holy Roman Empire – 800 – 1250
- Magna Carta – 1215
- The Renaissance – 14th century – 17th century
- Christopher Columbus – 1492
- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation – 1517 – 1648
- Jamestown Settlement – 1607
- Puritans arrive at Plymouth, Mass. – 1620
- English Petition of Right – 1628
- Age of Reason and The Enlightenment – 1637 – 1800
- Glorious Revolution & English Bill of Rights – 1688 – 1689
- First Great Awakening – 1730 – 1755
- Virginia Declaration of Rights & American Declaration of Independence – 1776
- American Revolution – 1775 – 1783
- Articles of Confederation – 1781
- Constitutional Convention – 1787
- Ratification of the U.S. Constitution and Establishment of United States – 1788 – 1789
- Second Great Awakening – 1790 – 1840
- Adoption of the Bill of Rights -1791
- War of 1812 – 1812
- Missouri Compromise – 1819 – 1821
- Compromise of 1850 – 1850
- War between the States – 1861 – 1865
- 13th Amendment (barring slavery) – 1865
- 14th Amendment (requiring states to assure due process and equal protection of the laws) – 1868
- 15th Amendment (guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race) – 1870
- 16th Amendment (authorizing income tax) – 1913
- 17th Amendment (providing for direct election of U.S. Senators) – 1913
- World War I – 1914-1918
- 19th Amendment (extending the right to vote to women) – 1920
- The Great Depression – 1929-1942
- World War II – 1939 – 1945
- Cold War – 1945 – 1990
- Korean War – 1950 – 1953
- Vietnam War – 1954 – 1973
- 26th Amendment (extending the right to vote to 18 year olds) – 1971
- 9/11 terrorist attacks – 2001
- War in Afghanistan – 2002 – present
- War in Iraq 2003 – present
