Timeline of United States history

This is a timeline of United States history, comprising most legal and territorial changes and political and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of the United States. See also timeline of United States diplomatic history, the list of U.S. states by date of statehood, the list of Presidents of the United States and years in the United States.

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17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

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References

• Hakim, Joy (2003). Making Thirteen Colonies. A History of US. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515322-7. 

Further reading

• Timeline of the American Revolution
• Library of Congress. Time Line of African American History, 1852â€"1880
• David Ramsay, A chronological table of the principal events which have taken place in the English colonies, now United States, from, Charlestown, S.C: From the press of J. Hoff, LCCN 87695663 

Published in the 19th century

• George Henry Townsend (1867). "United States". A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.). London: Frederick Warne & Co. 

Published in the 20th century

• Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "Chronological Summary of the History of the United States". United States, Spanish America. Historians' History of the World 23. London: Hooper & Jackson. 
• Benjamin Vincent (1910). "United States of America". Haydn's dictionary of dates and universal information relating to all ages and nations (25th ed.). London: Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd. 
• Charles Ripley Damon (1921). "American Dictionary of Dates, 458-1920". Morristown, Tennessee: Globe Book Co.  + v.2, v.3
• Gorton Carruth, ed. (1972). Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (7th ed.). New York: Crowell. OL 5297973M. 
• Schlesinger, Jr., Arther M. The Almanac of American History (1983)
• Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1. 
• Kutler, Stanley L., ed. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (4 vol, 1996)
• Morris, Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of American History (7th ed. 1996)

Published in the 21st century

• Richard Kurin (2013). "Time Line". Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-63877-4. 

External links

• "United States Profile: Timeline". BBC News.