Prev
Next
Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil; relocates empire
Andrew Jackson invades Florida in First Seminole War
Simón Bolívar names himself dictator of Gran Colombia
Cherokee people forced to relocate (Trail of Tears)
Marx and Engels first publish their Communist Manifesto
Lincoln-Douglas debates held in Illinois Senate campaign
Meiji Emperor restored to full power in Japan
Serbia, Montenegro, Romania declared independent from Ottoman Empire
Wilhelm II rises to throne in German Empire
USS Maine explodes and Spanish-American War begins
Henry Ford produces his first Model T car
Spanish flu pandemic begins; World War I ends
Lindbergh given Medal of Honor for transatlantic flight
Munich Agreement grants Germany the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by nationalist
Nikita Khrushchev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated
First 'test tube' baby born in United Kingdom
Mikhail Gorbachev begins perestroika reforms in Soviet Union
American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya are bombed
Raúl Castro becomes President of Cuba; brother resigns
Boys' soccer team is rescued from a Thai cave
