United States

1,361 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for United States, 1776 CE to 2025 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

18th century

208 entries, 1776 CE to 1799 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1776July 8 – American Revolution: The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.United States source
1776'Forks of the Tar' changes to Washington, North Carolina, being named in honor of George Washington.United States source
1776September 17 – Langdon Cheves, politician (died 1857)United States source
1777January 12 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.United States source
1777Colebrook Township, Pennsylvania is settled.United States source
1778November 26 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to land on Maui.United States source
1779January 5 – Stephen Decatur, U.S. Naval commander (died 1820)United States source
1780October 17 – Richard Mentor Johnson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1829 and 9th vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 (died 1850)United States source
1781May 26 – Bank of North America is chartered by the Confederation Congress.United States source
1782May 25–June 12 – American Revolutionary War: Crawford expeditionUnited States source
1783June 20 – Continental Army soldiers mob Independence Hall, Philadelphia, demanding back pay from the Congress of the Confederation in the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. Congress flees to New Jersey.United States source
1784March 2 – Governor George Clinton of New York writes to Congress asking them to declare war against Vermont, which at this time is an unrecognized de facto independent state claimed by New York. Congress declined to do this.United States source
1784December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet (born 1753)United States source
1786Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)United States source
1787May 25 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation. However, a new Constitution for the United States is eventually produced. George Washington presides over the Convention.United States source
1788June 25 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 10th U.S. state under the new government (see History of Virginia).United States source
1789November 6 – Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.United States source
1790Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)United States source
1791October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermin Lasuen, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.United States source
1792April 4 – Thaddeus Stevens, politician (died 1868)United States source
1793August 1 – The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 starts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.United States source
1794March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday .United States source
1796December 7 – The U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president.United States source
1797Panic of 1796–1797 (1796–1797)United States source
1799January 30 – Congress passes the Logan Act, forbidding unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments, in response to George Logan's unofficial attempt to negotiate peace between the U.S. and France.United States source

19th century

757 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1800August 4 – The 2nd United States Census is conducted. It finds 5,308,483 people living in the U.S. of which 893,602 are slaves.United States source
1805March 1 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.United States source
1810September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a 6-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading post of Fort Astoria.United States source
1813November 16 – The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coasts open to shipping.United States source
1818April 29 – Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident – Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister are captured by Andrew Jackson's forces and later executed for aiding the Spanish and the Seminoles.United States source
1822Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)United States source
1826September 11 – William Morgan is arrested in Batavia, New York, for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.United States source
1831January 1 – Abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.United States source
1836June 15 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state (see History of Arkansas).United States source
1838Duke University is established in North Carolina as the Brown School.United States source
1843May 22 – The first major wagon train for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.United States source
1848November 1 – The first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine), opens in Boston, Massachusetts.United States source
1852Loyola College in Maryland is chartered as a Jesuit institution in Baltimore.United States source
1855California Gold Rush (1848–1855)United States source
1858March 4 – A speech by fire-eater James Henry Hammond of South Carolina in the United States Senate promotes the idea of "King Cotton" and the "mudsill theory" in support of slave labor.United States source
1862December 17 – General Order No. 11, expelling all Jews in his military district, is issued by General Ulysses S. Grant (it is rescinded a few weeks later).United States source
1866July 4 – The Great Fire of Portland, Maine kills two and leaves 10,000 homeless in the worst fire in an American city at this time.United States source
1870February 12 – Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. On February 14, in a Salt Lake City municipal election, Seraph Young Ford becomes the first woman in the U.S. to cast her vote.United States source
1873March 1 – E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.United States source
1876May 29 – Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and impeachment, despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.United States source
1879July 19 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.United States source
1883October 15 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional, since the Court allows private individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.United States source
1887January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.United States source
1891March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches 11 Italian Americans who had been found not guilty of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.United States source
1895W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.United States source

20th century

385 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1900January 2 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.United States source
1901February 5 – In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.United States source
1903November 2 – Lyceum Theatre (Broadway) opens, making it the oldest continuously operating legitimate theater in New York City.United States source
1905March 10 – In Cleveland, Ohio, Cassie Chadwick is sentenced for 14 years in prison for fraud.United States source
1907April 26 – Opening of the Jamestown Exposition at Sewell's Point, Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt, exactly 300 years to the day of the landing of Captain Christopher Newport and the English colonists at Cape Henry. The exposition is held until December 1st, and celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.United States source
1908March 4 – The Collinwood School Fire, near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.United States source
1909November – New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 begins.United States source
1912January 11–March 12 – 1912 Lawrence textile strike ("Bread and Roses" strike): Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the working week.United States source
1915February 20 – In San Francisco, California the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.United States source
1916July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 mi of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.United States source
1918June 22 – Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.United States source
1920January 9 – Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley climbs New York City's Woolworth Building. He reaches the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit.United States source
1923April 9 – Adkins v. Children's Hospital: The Supreme Court rules that a minimum wage law for women and minors is unconstitutional.United States source
1925September 1–30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 in remains Alaska's wettest calendar month on record.United States source
1929May 13 – The National Crime Syndicate is founded in Atlantic City.United States source
1933The first doughnut store under the Krispy Kreme name opens on Charlotte Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.United States source
1935November 22 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; the aircraft reaches its destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail.United States source
1938October 30 – Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (with script by Howard Koch) is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.United States source
1940December 20 – 1940 New Hampshire earthquakes: A 5.3 Mw earthquake shakes New England with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). This first event in a doublet earthquake is followed four days later by a 5.6 Mw shock, but total damage from the events is light.United States source
1945September 15-16 - Hurricane Nine, or known as the 1945 Homestead Hurricane, made landfall and affected Florida, the first intense storm to do so in the state since 1935. The hurricane made landfall in Key Largo and Dade County, killing 4 people in Florida and 22 others in The Bahamas and in the islands of the Turks And Caicos.United States source
1951December 13 – A water storage tank collapses in Tucumcari, New Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths and 200 buildings destroyed.United States source
1956June 5 – Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog" on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.United States source
1964December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, is broadcast for the first time, on NBC. It becomes a Christmas tradition, despite moving to CBS in 1972.United States source
1969November 15 – Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).United States source
1980November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 mi of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.United States source

21st century

11 entries, 2001 CE to 2025 CE

2001October 23 – Apple releases the first iPod in the United States, revolutionizing the way people listen to music.United States source
2004February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook", later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students.United States source
2005August 29– At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the entire state of Mississippi (flooding coast 31 ft), affecting most of eastern North America. Katrina becomes the costliest hurricane in U.S. history with $108 billion in damages. The New Orleans Saints football team will play their entire 2005 season on the road due to the effects of the hurricane.United States source
2011December 27 – Jocelyn Nungaray, murder victim (died 2024)United States source
2013June 15 – North West, daughter of Kanye West and Kim KardashianUnited States source
2014September 26 – Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, daughter of Chelsea Clinton and granddaughter of Bill and Hillary ClintonUnited States source
2017October 1 – Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival adjacent to the Mandalay Bay resort and casino at the Las Vegas Strip. 59 people were killed and 869 were injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.United States source
2019December 24 – An unnamed black rhino is born at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan.United States source
2022February 24 – The Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 fall sharply in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Oil prices exceed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014.United States source
2025March 5 – The US begins direct negotiations with Hamas over the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. Trump later threatens on Truth Social and X that the people of Gaza "are dead" unless they return the hostages "immediately".United States source
2025May 8 – American Robert Francis Prevost is elected pope during the 2025 conclave, becoming the first North American to hold the position. He chooses the name Leo XIV.United States source