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U.S. state

constituent political entity of the United States of America

50 dated entries naming U.S. state, drawn from 31 separate years between 1787 CE and 1990 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1787December 12 – Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state.source
  • 1787December 18 – New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.source
  • 1787December 7 – Delaware ratifies the Constitution, and becomes the first U.S. state.source
  • 1788April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the seventh U.S. state.source
  • 1788February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the sixth U.S. state.source
  • 1788January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S. state under the new government.source
  • 1788January 9 – Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fifth U.S. state.source
  • 1788July 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the eleventh U.S. state.source
  • 1788June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the ninth U.S. state, enabling the Constitution to go into effect. (The latter happens on March 4, 1789, when the first Congress elected under the new Constitution assembles.)source
  • 1788June 25 – The Virginia Ratifying Convention ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the tenth U.S. state under the new government.source
  • 1788May 23 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the eighth U.S. state.source
  • 1789November 20 – New Jersey ratifies the United States Bill of Rights, the first state to do so.source
  • 1789November 21 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the 12th U.S. state.source
  • 1790July 26 – Alexander Hamilton's Assumption Bill, giving effect to his First Report on the Public Credit, is passed in the United States Congress, allowing the federal government to assume the consolidated debts of the U.S. states.source
  • 1791March 4 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.source
  • 1792April 5 – United States President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto is used in the United States.source
  • 1796June 1 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.source

19th century

  • 1812April 30 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state.source
  • 1812June 4 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory previously known by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.source
  • 1816December 11 – Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.source
  • 1817August 15 – By act of the U.S. Congress (March 3), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi becomes a U.S. state.source
  • 1817December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state, formerly the Mississippi Territory.source
  • 1818December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.source
  • 1819December 14 – Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.source
  • 1820March 15 – Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.source
  • 1820March 3 and 6 – The Missouri Compromise becomes law, allowing admission of Missouri and Maine, as slave and free states respectively, as U.S. states.source
  • 1845December 29 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.source
  • 1845March 3 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. On the same day, both houses of the U.S. Congress vote by a two-thirds majority, to override a presidential veto for the first time in history in order to pass legislation.source
  • 1845October 13 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the United States Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.source
  • 1850September 9 – California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.source
  • 1858May 11 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.source
  • 1859February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.source
  • 1861February 4 – In Montgomery, Alabama, the Provisional Confederate States Congress is formed by representatives from the first seven break-away states.source
  • 1863June 20 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.source
  • 1864October 31 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.source
  • 1866July 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.source
  • 1867March 1 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.source
  • 1876August 1 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.source
  • 1889February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs the Enabling Act of 1889, admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.source
  • 1889November 11 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.source
  • 1889November 2 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states, respectively.source
  • 1889November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.source
  • 1890July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.source
  • 1890July 3 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.source
  • 1896January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.source

20th century

  • 1907November 16 – President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th U.S. state.source
  • 1912January 6 – New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state.source
  • 1959July 4 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia.source
  • 1967June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.source
  • 1990March 11–13 – The March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak produces 64 tornadoes across six US states, including four violent F4/F5 tornadoes. The outbreak leaves 2 dead, 89 injured, and causes over $500 million in damages.source

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