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ОглавлениеDates of Some Remarkable Events in the History of the North American Colonies and United States
| 1606 | First charter of Virginia. |
| 1607 | First settlement in Virginia. |
| 1620 | First settlement in Massachusetts. |
| 1664 | Taking of New Amsterdam (New York). |
| 1759 | Battle of Heights of Abraham and taking of Quebec. |
| 1775 | Beginning of the Revolutionary War. |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence. |
| 1781 | Formation of the Confederation. |
| 1783 | Independence of United States recognized. |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. |
| 1788 | The Constitution ratified by nine states. |
| 1789 | Beginning of the federal government. |
| 1793 | Invention of the cotton gin. |
| 1803 | Purchase of Louisiana from France. |
| 1812–14 | War with England. |
| 1812–15 | Disappearance of the Federalist Party. |
| 1819 | Purchase of Florida from Spain. |
| 1819 | Steamers begin to cross the Atlantic. |
| 1820 | The Missouri Compromise. |
| 1828–32 | Formation of the Whig Party. |
| 1830 | First passenger railway opened. |
| 1840 | National nominating conventions regularly established. |
| 1844 | First electric telegraph in operation. |
| 1845 | Admission of Texas to the Union. |
| 1846–48 | Mexican War and cession of California. |
| 1852–56 | Fall of the Whig Party. |
| 1854–56 | Formation of the Republican Party. |
| 1857 | Dred Scott decision delivered. |
| 1861–65 | War of Secession. |
| 1869 | First transcontinental railway completed. |
| 1877 | Final withdrawal of Federal troops from the South. |
| 1879 | Specie payments resumed. |
| 1898 | War with Spain: annexation of Hawaii. |
| 1899 | Cession by Spain of Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands. |
| 1904 | Acquisition of the Canal Zone at the Isthmus of Panama. |
