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From: Millers <>
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:07:34 -0500

1492Columbus sailed to North America.

1539-1541Hernando de Soto starts his expedition to explore the interior
of North America (what is now the southeastern US) penetrating as far
west as Oklahoma and discovering the Mississippi River.

1565St. Augustine, first permanent European colony within the present
U.S. boundaries, was established by Spain.

1607Jamestown, Virginia founded.

1620A group of "Separatists" left Plymouth, England on Sept 16th aboard
the ship The Mayflower.

1670South Carolina settled by English planters from the island of
Barbados.

16 Dec 1773Boston Tea Party

4 July 1776British colonies issue the Declaration of Independence

1783Revolutionary War ends.

1787U. S. Constitution signed.

1789George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.

1791Bill of Rights ratified.

1797John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. John Adams, a
shaper of the revolution, saved his Nation from war with France.

1799The French Revolution ends.

1800US Capital moved to Washington D.C.

1801Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd President. "We hold these truths
to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

1803US negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France for $15 million thus
doubling its domain, increasing its territory by 827,000 square miles,
from the Mississippi River to the Rockies and from the Gulf of Mexico to
British North America.

1804 Orleans Territory and Louisiana Territory

1805 New Madrid Territory

1807Robert Fulton makes the first successful steamboat trip on Clermont
between New York City and Albany top speed 5 miles per hour.

1809James Madison, 4th President, "Father of the Constitution," led the
inconclusive War of 1812.

1812War of 1812. Fought between US and Britain over freedom of the seas
for US vessels.

1812 Cape Girardeau Territory formed

30 April 1812Louisiana becomes the 18th State.

1813 MO Territory formed

8 Jan 1814Battle of New Orleans

1815 Lawrence County (in MO Territory) formed.

1817James Monroe, 5th President, declared the Americas no longer
subject to European colonization.

1818 Wayne County (in MO Territory) formed.

1819 Arkansas Territory formed.

1819Missouri applys for statehood which creates controversy.

14 Dec 1819Alabama became the 22nd State.

Aug. 1821Missouri becomes a state, a part of the "Missouri Compromise"
(passed by the Congress to maintain the equal amount of slave states and
free states.)They were still debating allowing Missouri to come in as a
slave state (if allowed, slave states would outnumber the free states)
until 1820 when Maine wanted to come in as a free state. It was only
then that they allowed Missouri to come in as a slave state in 1821.

1825John Quincy Adams, the first son of a President to serve as
President himself.

1829Andrew Jackson, first frontier President, came to office with great
popular support. Known as "Old Hickory".

1830First Steam railroad to carry passengers and freight was the
Baltimore & Ohio.

1831First telegraph invented.

1833 Ripley County, MO formed.

1834Charles Babbage invents "analytical engine" forerunner of
computers. McCormick patents the reaper.

1835 Randolph County (in AR Territory) formed

20 Dec 1835Mexican War Begins

1836 Arkansas becomes a State.

1836The Battle of the Alamo.

1837Martin Van Buren, President, was the first Chief Executive born
under the United States flag.

1839Charles Goodyear of Connecticut developed "rubber" .

1841William Henry Harrison, Ninth President and dies in office. John
Tyler becomes the next President. At the end of John Tyler's
administration, the United States annexed Texas.

1841 Shannon County, MO created from Ripley County, MO

1845James K. Polk, President, extended the Nation's boundaries to the
shores of the Pacific.

1845Oregon County, MO is formed from Ripley County, MO.

29 Dec 1845Texas becomes the 28th State.

1846Failure of potato crop causes famine in Ireland.

5 Dec 1848Gold discovered in California.

1849Zachary Taylor, President, spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and
milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument. He got sick from the heat
and died five days later, the second president to die in office.

1850Millard Fillmore, President, conciliatory politics helped postpone
the Civil War.


1853Franklin Pierce, President, guerrilla raids in Kansas heralded the
approach of civil war.

1857James Buchannan, President

1859 First commercial oil well began pumping in Pennsylvania

1860 - 1861Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the
1860 American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to
November 1861. It provided the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph,
Missouri, and Sacramento, California.

1861Abraham Lincoln becomes President. On January 1, 1863, he issued
the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves
within the Confederacy. Lincoln never let the world forget that the
Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in
dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

1861-1865CIVIL WAR

15 April 1865Abraham Lincoln assassinated.

1865Andrew Johnson becomes President. He faced impeachment for
steadfastly opposing Radicals in Congress.

1869Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth President 1869-1877,

10 May 1869"Golden Spike" links transcontinental rail service across US

25 June 1876Custer loses at Battle of the Little Big Horn

1876Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates telephone.

1877Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President 1877-1881.In 1879, the
first telephone was installed in the White House. At first it was hardly
used, because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call.

1879Founding of the first "Five & Dime" store. Founded by Frank
Woolworth in Utica NY and then moved to Lancaster PA the same year.
Thomas Edison patents the "modern" light bulb, safe, long-lasting and
inexpensive.

1881James A. Garfield, Twentieth President 1881. Died of an assassins
bullet. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented
by Alexander Graham Bell. But the device failed because Garfield was
placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He
died on September 19, 1881.

1881Chester A. Arthur, Twenty-First President 1881-1885.

1885Grover Cleveland, 22nd President 1885-1889.Grover Cleveland was the
only president to be married in the White House to Frances Folsom in
1886--and the first to have a child born in the White House, in 1893.


1889Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President 1889-1893.

1893Businesses and banks failed and by 1894 almost 20 percent of the
work force was jobless - without the benefit of unemployment
compensation. The depression would last 4 years.

1893Grover Cleveland, 24th President, 1893-1897. Grover Cleveland was
the only President elected to two nonconsecutive terms.

1897William McKinley, Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901. His second
term, which had begun auspiciously, came to a tragic end in September
1901. He was standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American
Exposition when a deranged anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days
later.

1898Spanish American War

1901Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909. Some of
Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation.
He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands
for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

1903Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, fly first powered, controlled,
heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk NC. Henry Ford sells first Model
"A" for $850.00

1907Plastic is invented by Leo Baekeland of Belgian.

1909William Howard Taft, Twenty-Seventh President 1909-1913. William
Taft gave the White House its first set of "wheels." He had the stables
converted into a garage for four cars, all ordered in 1909.

1912The Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from England to New York
City.

1913Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-Eighth President 1913-1921. A flock of sheep
grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money
for the Red Cross during World War I.

6 April 1917US enters WW I

1921Warren G. Harding, Twenty-Ninth President 1921-1923.

1923Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President 1923-1929.

1929Herbert Hoover, Thirty-First President 1929-1933.

1929Great Depression begins.

1933Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thirty-Second President 1933-1945. Led the
Nation through the Great Depression and World War II.

7 Dec 1941US enters WW II after Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese.

1945Harry S Truman, Thirty-Third President 1945-1953. For Harry S
Truman, war and cold war posed challenges unprecedented in history.

1953Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thirty-Fourth President 1953-1961.President
Eisenhower, an avid golfer, had a putting green installed on the White
House lawn. He also banished squirrels from the grounds because they
were ruining the green.

1961John F. Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President 1961-1963.On November 22,
1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade
wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected
President; he was the youngest to die.

1963Lyndon B. Johnson, Thirty-Sixth President 1963-1969.

1968Robert Kennedy, brother to the former president, was shot while
campaigning for the Presidency.

1968Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, TN.

1969Man walks on the Moon.

1969Richard M. Nixon, Thirty-Seventh President 1969-1974.The Watergate
scandal forced Richard M. Nixon to resign the Presidency.

1974Gerald R. Ford, Thirty-Eighth President 1974-1977.

1977Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth President 1977-1981.Jimmy Carter
championed human rights throughout the world.

1981Ronald Reagan, Fortieth President 1981-1989.

1989George Bush, Forty-First President 1989-1993.

1993William J. Clinton, Forty-Second President 1993-2000; elected to 2
terms.

2000George W. Bush, son of the former president, takes office of the
Presidency.

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