Sorry everyone. I had a senior moment! The website is http://www.ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2.html you put in an ancestors name and the date of birth and death and it creates a timeline just for that person. Enjoy, Linda > I've been playing again.... here is a historical timeline that might help us > figure out what was happening in the world during the different periods of > time... feel free to copy and insert your own family events. I would > encourage you to insert your own family info. > Linda > > > 1492 Columbus sailed to North America. > > 1539-1541 Hernando de Soto starts his expedition to explore the interior > of > North America (what is now the southeastern US) penetrating as far west > as > Oklahoma and discovering the Mississippi River. > > 1565 St. Augustine, first permanent European colony within the present > U.S. > boundaries, was established by Spain. > > 1607 Jamestown, Virginia founded. > > 1620 A group of "Separatists" left Plymouth, England on Sept 16th aboard > the > ship The Mayflower. > > 1670 South Carolina settled by English planters from the island of > Barbados. > > > 16 Dec 1773 Boston Tea Party > > 4 July 1776 British colonies issue the Declaration of Independence > > 1783 Revolutionary War ends. > > 1787 U. S. Constitution signed. > > 1789 George Washington becomes the first President of the United States. > > 1791 Bill of Rights ratified. > > 1797 John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. John Adams, a > shaper of > the revolution, saved his Nation from war with France. > > 1799 The French Revolution ends. > > 1800 US Capital moved to Washington D.C. > > 1801 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd President. "We hold these truths > to be > self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by > their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are > life, > liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." > > 1803 US negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France for $15 million thus > doubling its domain, increasing its territory by 827,000 square miles, > from > the Mississippi River to the Rockies and from the Gulf of Mexico to > British > North America. > > 1804 Orleans Territory and Louisiana Territory > > 1805 New Madrid Territory > > 1807 Robert Fulton makes the first successful steamboat trip on Clermont > between New York City and Albany top speed 5 miles per hour. > > 1809 James Madison, 4th President, "Father of the Constitution," led the > inconclusive War of 1812. > > 1812 War of 1812. Fought between US and Britain over freedom of the seas > for > US vessels. > > 1812 Cape Girardeau Territory formed > > 30 April 1812 Louisiana becomes the 18th State. > > 1813 MO Territory formed > > 8 Jan 1814 Battle of New Orleans > > 1815 Lawrence County (in MO Territory) formed. > > 1817 James Monroe, 5th President, declared the Americas no longer > subject to > European colonization. > > 1818 Wayne County (in MO Territory) formed. > > 1819 Arkansas Territory formed. > > 1819 Missouri applys for statehood. > > 14 Dec 1819 Alabama became the 22nd State. > > Aug. 1821 Missouri became a state. > > 1825 John Quincy Adams, the only son of a President to serve as > President > himself. > > 1829 Andrew Jackson, first frontier President, came to office with great > popular support. Known as "Old Hickory". > > 1830 First Steam railroad to carry passengers and freight was the > Baltimore > & Ohio. > > 1831 First telegraph invented. > > 1833 Ripley County, MO formed. > > 1834 Charles Babbage invents "analytical engine" forerunner of > computers. > McCormick patents the reaper. > > 1835 Randolph County (in AR Territory) formed > > 20 Dec 1835 Mexican War Begins > > 1836 Arkansas becomes a State. > > 1836 The Battle of the Alamo. > > 1837 Martin Van Buren, President, was the first Chief Executive born > under > the United States flag. > > 1839 Charles Goodyear of Connecticut developed "rubber" . > > 1841 William Henry Harrison, Ninth President and dies in office. John > Tyler > becomes the next President. At the end of John Tyler's administration, > the > United States annexed Texas. > > 1841 Shannon County, MO created from Ripley County, MO > > 1845 James K. Polk, President, extended the Nation's boundaries to the > shores of the Pacific. > > 1845 Oregon County, MO is formed from Ripley County, MO. > > 29 Dec 1845 Texas becomes the 28th State. > > 1846 Failure of potato crop causes famine in Ireland. > > 5 Dec 1848 Gold discovered in California. > > 1849 Zachary Taylor, President, spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and > milk > at a ceremony at the Washington Monument. He got sick from the heat and > died > five days later, the second president to die in office. > > 1850 Millard Fillmore, President, conciliatory politics helped postpone > the > Civil War. > > > 1853 Franklin Pierce, President, guerrilla raids in Kansas heralded the > approach of civil war. > > 1857 James Buchannan, President > > 1859 First commercial oil well began pumping in Pennsylvania > > 1860 - 1861 Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the > 1860 > American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to > November > 1861. It provided the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph, > Missouri, > and Sacramento, California. > > 1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes President. On January 1, 1863, he issued > the > Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within > the > Confederacy. Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War > involved > an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the > military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these > dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall > have a > new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, > for > the people, shall not perish from the earth." > > 1861-1865 CIVIL WAR > > 15 April 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated. > > 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes President. He faced impeachment for > steadfastly > opposing Radicals in Congress. > > 1869 Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth President 1869-1877, > > 10 May 1869 "Golden Spike" links transcontinental rail service across US > > 25 June 1876 Custer loses at Battle of the Little Big Horn > > 1876 Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates telephone. > > 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President 1877-1881.In 1879, the > first > telephone was installed in the White House. At first it was hardly used, > because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call. > > 1879 Founding of the first "Five & Dime" store. Founded by Frank > Woolworth > in Utica NY and then moved to Lancaster PA the same year. Thomas Edison > patents the "modern" light bulb, safe, long-lasting and inexpensive. > > 1881 James A. Garfield, Twentieth President 1881. Died of an assassins > bullet. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented > by > Alexander Graham Bell. But the device failed because Garfield was placed > on > a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He died on > September 19, 1881. > > 1881 Chester A. Arthur, Twenty-First President 1881-1885. > > 1885 Grover Cleveland, 22nd President 1885-1889.Grover Cleveland was the > only president to be married in the White House to Frances Folsom in > 1886--and the first to have a child born in the White House, in 1893. > > > 1889 Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President 1889-1893. > > 1893 Businesses and banks failed and by 1894 almost 20 percent of the > work > force was jobless - without the benefit of unemployment compensation. > The > depression would last 4 years. > > 1893 Grover Cleveland, 24th President, 1893-1897. Grover Cleveland was > the > only President elected to two nonconsecutive terms. > > 1897 William McKinley, Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901. His second > term, > which had begun auspiciously, came to a tragic end in September 1901. He > was > standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition when > a > deranged anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days later. > > 1898 Spanish American War > > 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909. Some of > Theodore > Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added > enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for > public > use, and fostered great irrigation projects. > > 1903 Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, fly first powered, controlled, > heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk NC. Henry Ford sells first Model > "A" > for $850.00 > > 1907 Plastic is invented by Leo Baekeland of Belgian. > > 1909 William Howard Taft, Twenty-Seventh President 1909-1913. William > Taft > gave the White House its first set of "wheels." He had the stables > converted > into a garage for four cars, all ordered in 1909. > > 1912 The Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from England to New York > City. > > 1913 Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-Eighth President 1913-1921. A flock of sheep > grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money > for > the Red Cross during World War I. > > 6 April 1917 US enters WW I > > 1921 Warren G. Harding, Twenty-Ninth President 1921-1923. > > 1923 Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President 1923-1929. > > 1929 Herbert Hoover, Thirty-First President 1929-1933. > > 1929 Great Depression begins. > > 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thirty-Second President 1933-1945. Led the > Nation through the Great Depression and World War II. > > 7 Dec 1941 US enters WW II after Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. > > 1945 Harry S Truman, Thirty-Third President 1945-1953. For Harry S > Truman, > war and cold war posed challenges unprecedented in history. > > 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thirty-Fourth President 1953-1961.President > Eisenhower, an avid golfer, had a putting green installed on the White > House > lawn. He also banished squirrels from the grounds because they were > ruining > the green. > > 1961 John F. Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President 1961-1963.On November 22, > 1963, > when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John > Fitzgerald > Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound > through > Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was > the > youngest to die. > > 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson, Thirty-Sixth President 1963-1969. > > 1968 Robert Kennedy, brother to the former president, was shot while > campaigning for the Presidency. > > 1968 Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, TN. > > 1969 Man walks on the Moon. > > 1969 Richard M. Nixon, Thirty-Seventh President 1969-1974.The Watergate > scandal forced Richard M. Nixon to resign the Presidency. > > 1974 Gerald R. Ford, Thirty-Eighth President 1974-1977. > > 1977 Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth President 1977-1981.Jimmy Carter > championed > human rights throughout the world. > > 1981 Ronald Reagan, Fortieth President 1981-1989. > > 1989 George Bush, Forty-First President 1989-1993. > > 1993 William J. Clinton, Forty-Second President 1993-2000; elected to 2 > terms. > > 2000 George W. Bush, son of the former president, takes office of the > Presidency. > > > >