United Methodist Church Timeline

• John Wesley is born.

• Charles Wesley is born.

• Martin Boehm is born

• Philip William Otterbein is born.

• Charles Wesley forms the “Holy Club” at Oxford.

• John Wesley serves as chaplain to Georgia Colony.

• John Wesley learns Spanish in order to preach to the Native Americans in Georgia who were taught by Spanish Catholic missionaries.
• John Wesley holds his first service in Savannah on March 7.
• Charles Wesley leaves for England.

• John and Charles Wesleys’ conversion in London.

• Formation of Methodist Societies in and around London.

• John Wesley’s first conference of preachers.

• Francis Asbury is born.

• Thomas Coke is born.

• Otterbein arrives in America.

• Otterbein’s conversion, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

• John Wesley baptizes two African American slaves which breaks the color barrier for Methodist societies.

• Jacob Albright is born.

• Methodist colonists arrive in America.
• Richard Allen is born.

• Robert Strawbridge organizes a Methodist class.

• Barbara Heck helps to establish a Methodist congregation in New York City which is a forerunner to the John Street Church.
• United Ministers, a non-sectarian group, developed. This group was a forerunner of the United Brethren Church.

• St. George’s Society founded.

• John Street Church in New York City is built.

• Richard Boardman and Joseph Pilmore arrive in America.
• St. George’s Church Purchased and Dedicated.

• George Whitefield dies at Newburyport, Massachusetts on his seventh visit to America.
• Mary Evans Thorne is appointed class leader by Joseph Pilmore in Philadelphia. Thorne is probably the first woman in the Colonies to be appointed as such.

• Francis Asbury arrives in America.

• First conference of American Methodist preachers. George Shadford and Thomas Rankin sail for America.

• Lovely Lane Chapel built in Baltimore.

• Thomas Coke named by Wesley as the first superintendent for America.

• Initial call to the Christmas Conference originates at Barratt’s Chapel.
• Christmas Conference.
• Ordination of preachers.
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones are the first African Americans licensed to preach.

• Formation of black congregations.
• Cokesbury College opens in Abingdon, Maryland.
• Wesley writes to Asbury deploring the genocide of Native Americans.

• Charles Wesley Dies.

• Bishops Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke visit President Washington.
• Methodist Book Concern is established in Philadelphia.

• Jacob Albright’s conversion.
• Methodist Episcopal Church recognizes Sunday School as a valid ministry.
• African-Americans make up twenty percent of American Methodists.

• John Wesley dies.

• First quadrennial General Conference of American Methodists.
• Richard Allen leads African Amercians out of St. George’s Church in Philadelphia.

• Beginning of the camp meeting movement at Rehoboth, North Carolina.
• Bethal Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Philadelphia.

• Albright began his first preaching tour.
• Zion Methodist Epsicopal Church organized in New York by James Varrick.
• Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Philadelphia.
• Otterbein and Boehm Found The Church Of The United Brethren In Christ (A.K.A United Brethren Church)

• Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference issues a pastoral letter on abolishing slavery and allows bishops to ordain African Americans as deacons.

• Cane Ridge Camp Meeting, the Great Revival in the West begins.

• First conference of the Evangelical Association meets and “ordains” Albright.

• Albright elected bishop.

• Methodists adopt a constitution.
• Jacob Albright dies.

• First Discipline and Catechism of the Evangelical Association is printed.

• Evangelical Association holds first German camp meeting.

• Martin Boehm dies.
• General Conference is composed of its first elected delegates

• William Otterbein dies.
• Christian Newcomber becomes a bishop for the United Brethren Church.

• Thomas Coke dies.
• John Dreisbach elected first Presiding Elder for the Evangelical Association.
• John Stewart converted.

• First General Conference of United Brethren Church in Christ – Discipline and Confession of Faith adopted.
• John Stewart begins his work with the Wyandotts.

• Francis Asbury dies.
• First General Conference adopts the name Evangelical Association.

• First publishing house for the Evangelical Association starts in New Berlin, Pennsylvania.
• Negotiations for a potential merger between the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Association at the “Social Conference.”
• Richard Allen gives Jarena Lee permission to preach and hold meetings.

• Formation of Methodist Missionary Society – mission to Wyandott Indians in Ohio officially established.

• Reformers debate roles of bishops and laity in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• Methodists in Alabama form missionary society to work with the Chickasaws and Choctaws.

• William Capers founds Asbury Mission to the Lower Creek Tribes.

• Zion’s Herald begins publication, first Methodist weekly newspaper.

• “Reformers” exit to form the associated Methodist Churches.

• Primitive Methodists begun mission to America.
• Oneida Mission established.

• Indian Conference formed by Methodist Episcopal Church’s General Conference.

• Melville Cox begins first overseas mission in Liberia.
• Jason Lee goes west to establish work in Oregon.
• Turtle Fields becomes the first ordained Native American minister by the Tennessee Conference.
• Chippewa mission established.

• The United Brethren Publishing House is formed.
• Evangelical Association begins publishing the Der Christliche Botschafter.
• Sophronia Farrington, the first unmarried Methodist woman missionary, arrives in Liberia.
• David Ayers distributes Bibles in Spanish in South Texas.

• Phoebe Palmer institutes a weekly prayer meeting in her home.
• William Nast becomes a missionary to the Germans in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Indian Manual Training Schools established in Oregon.

• Der Christliche Botschafter, the first Evangelical Association newspaper, begins publication.

• Ann Wilkins goes to Liberia.

• Evangelical Association missionary society founded.

• First Methodist regional historical society founded.
• John Seybert elected first bishop for the Evangelical Association since Albright’s death.
• The Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association is formed.
• The Methodist Episcopal Church acquires Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Georgia, the first college to grant full collegiate degrees to women.
• Die Geschaftige Martha established by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

• Newbury Bible Institute (Vermont) is founded, the first American Methodist seminary, forerunner of Boston University School of Theology.

• The Ladies’ Repository, the first Methodist periodical for women, is published.
• The United Brethren Missionary Society is founded.

• Radical abolitionists exit to form Wesleyan Methodist Church.
• Alejo Hernandez born.

• Methodists North and South split over twin issues of slavery and episcopacy.
• Indian Mission to the Oklahoma Territory organized.
• The New York Ladies’ Home Missionary Society is organized.

• Indian Mission Conference organized by the newly formed MECS.

• Baltimore Colored Mission Conference organized by the Methodist Protestant Church.

• A United Brethren quarterly conference gives Charity Opheral a preacher’s license.
• Otterbein College established-first college for the United Brethren Church.
• The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, publishes Southern Ladies’ Companion.

• The Evangelical Association begins publishing The Evangelical Messenger.
• The Ladies’ China Missionary Society of Baltimore is organized.
• The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, begins mission work in China.

• Jarena Lee’s journal is published.

• Five Points Mission is established in New York City.
• Jubilee year of founding and mission to Germany begun by the Evangelical Association.
• Ole Peter Peterson appointed a local preacher to Norwegians in Upper Iowa.

• Lydia Sexton is voted “recommendation” as a “pulpit speaker” by the General Conference for The Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

• Earliest call yet discovered for deaconess as an order in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Zion’s Herald, March 17, 1852 issue.

• Church of the United Brethren in Christ’s Missionary Society founded.
• Benigno Cardenas preaches the first Methodist sermon in Spanish in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

• The first missionaries for the United Brethren Church are sent to Sierra Leone.
• Garrett Biblical Institute opens in Evanston, Illinois.

• Methodist Episcopal Church ‘s General Conference gives presiding elders authority to employ African American pastors.
• William and Clementina Rowe Butler arrive as the first Methodist Episcopal Church missionaries to India.

• Church of the United Brethren in Christ General Conference passes a resolution that no woman should be allowed to preach.

• The Ladies’ China Missionary Society supports a girls school in China, and two unmarried teachers, Sarah and Beulah Woolston, are sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society.
• Mrs. M. L. Kelley of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organizes a fund-raising effort for missionaries in China. This is the earliest effort on record by the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in support of foreign missions. Francis Burns elected missionary bishop.

• Young J. Allen and wife, missionaries for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, arrive in China to establish a mission.
• Phoebe Palmer proclaims the rights of women to preach the Gospel in her book Promise of the Father.

• North Central College founded – Evangelical Association.
• Annie Whitmeyer becomes an agent for the Western Commission.

• Amanda Hanby Billheimer, daughter of United Brethren bishop William Hanby, sails for Sierra Leone with her husband. She is the first woman foreign missionary for the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

• Full clergy rights for black preachers with Frank B. Smith admitted to the New England Annual Conference.
• Methodist deaconess work begins in Germany.
• Methodist John M.Chivington, leader of the Colorado Militia, massacred 450 Cheyenne at Black Kettle. Church does nothing to reprimand Chivington but the federal government recommends punishment.
• Delaware Conference organized.

• Evangelical Mission to Switzerland formed.
• Mississippi Mission Conference formed by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Drew Theological Seminary established.
• Maggie VanCott, first Methodist Episcopal Church woman to get local preacher’s license.
• Freedmen’s Aid Society formed.
• Helenor M. Davidson is ordained a deacon by the Methodist Protestant Church.
• The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, lay representation in General and Annual Conferences as well as establishing African American districts, conferences and general conference.

• National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness is founded.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South, establishes a mission in Brazil.

• Otis Gibson begins work with Chinese in California.
• Annie Whitmeyer establishes The Ladies and Pastors Christian Union.
• Reorganization of German conferences in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church is formed.
• Isabella Thoburn and Clara Swain leave for India.
• Maggie Newton Van Cott is granted a local preacher’s license.

• Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Organized (Name Changed To Christian Methodist Episcopal Church In 1952)
• Mission House for Chinese opens in San Francisco.

• Alejo Hernandez becomes the first Mexican ordained deacon by a Methodist body – Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
• Union Biblical Seminary founded by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Dayton, Ohio.

• Lay representation won in Methodist Episcopal Church.
• The Methodist churches receive the largest quota of funding from the federal government for the administration of Native American schools within their mission fields. This policy continues until the 1892 General Conference when it is deemed a violation between the separation of church and state. Actual funding continues into the early 20th century.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South, begins work in Mexico.

• William and Clementina Butler establish a mission in Mexico for the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• Alejo Hernandez organizes first congregation in Mexico City and is ordained elder.
• Woman’s Missionary Association of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ founded.
• Union Biblical Institute, later named [Garrett]-Evangelical Theological Seminary, founded.
• The Church of the United Brethren in Christ’s Sarah Dickey opens Mt. Hermon Seminary for African American girls in Mississippi.

• The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is formed.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organizes German Mission Conference.

• Mission to Japan begun by the Evangelical Association.
• Church of the United Brethren in Christ women organize the Woman’s Missionary Association; in 1877 they are given General Conference recognition.

• Anna Oliver is the first woman to receive a degree from Boston School of Theology.
• Methodist Episcopal Church votes at General Conference to divide annual conferences along racial lines.

• Emily Beeken is sent to Sierra Leone as the first missionary of the United Brethren’s Woman’s Missionary Society.
• Kanichi Miyama is converted in San Francisco. He later founded the first Japanese Methodist church in the United States.
• First Hispanic church building in Key West, Florida.

• Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is recognized.

• Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church is recognized.

• First Test Case: Ordination of women in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• Antonio Diaz begins work in Los Angeles.
• Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church is recognized.

• First Ecumenical Methodist Conference – London.
• Amanda Berry Smith becomes a missionary to Liberia.

• Board of Church Extension is started by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association is recognized.

• First denominational historical society formed – Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
• Bishop William Taylor begins his African mission work.
• The Spanish Mission Conference (MEC) and the Mexican Frontier Conference (MECS) organized.

• Ella Niswonger is the first woman ordained in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
• New Constitution and Confession of Faith adopted which leads to the withdrawal of the Church of the United Brethren (Old Constitution) under Bishop Milton Wright.
• Enrique Someillan becomes the first Cuban pastor in Key West.

• Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is recognized.

• Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the United Evangelical Church is recognized.

• Lay delegates of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ are admitted to General Conference which includes two women.
• Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church is recognized.

• The United Evangelical Church Officially Breaks Away From The Evangelical Association.

• Mrs. Hartman from Oregon is the first female member of an Evangelical Association annual conference.

• Seven missionaries of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ’s Woman’s Missionary Association are massacred in Sierra Leone.
• Methodist Episcopal Church opens a mission in Rhodesia.

• Church of the United Brethren in Christ establish s a mission in Puerto Rico.
• Methodist Episcopal Church establishes a mission in the Philippines.

• Full laity rights for women – Methodist Episcopal Church.
• The Japan Mission Conference organized.
• Drees establishes a mission in Puerto Rico for the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Ella Niswonger is elected the first woman clergy delegate to the Church of the United Brethren in Christ’s General Conference.

• Puerto Rico Mission organized.
• Juan Vazquez becomes the first Puerto Rican to be licensed as a local preacher.

• Evangelical Association creates Deaconess Society.
• Laymen are voted membership in the Evangelical Association General Conference but denied the same privilege at the annual conference level.
• First Koreans arrive in Hawaii. Among them are Korean Methodists. Work soon starts in California.

• Methodist Episcopal Church women are given laity rights and admitted as delegates to General Conference.
• Ladies Aid Societies granted recognition by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Joint Methodist hymnbook, Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
• Hawaii Mission established by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Methodist Protestant Church begins work in India.
• Martha Drummer, an African American deaconess, sent to Angola.

• First Methodist Social Creed adopted.
• Mrs. M. C. B. Mason named supervisor of the Bureau of Colored Deaconesses for the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• The Brotherhood, A Church of the United Brethren in Christ men’s fellowship group, is organized.
• Methodist Episcopal Church organizes its Italian Mission.

• Women’s Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is created from the former Woman’s Foreign and Home Missionary Societies.

• Gum Moon Home for Women begun in San Francisco.

• Lake Junaluska Assembly opened for Southern Methodists.
• Wesley Foundation is organized at the University of Illinois.
• The Church of the United Brethren in Christ declares that the aim of its mission program is to make their overseas fields self-supporting.

• Candler School of Theology is founded.
• Pacific Mexican Conference founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

• First black bishops elected and a woman is granted local preacher status in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• Methodist Episcopal Church’s General Conference orders the Board of Missions to renew its efforts among Native Americans.

• Methodist Episcopal Church, South, gives women full laity rights.
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South, begins mission work in Europe.
• The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church organized.
• The WFMS of the Methodist Protestant Church begins mission work in India.

• “Local” ordination of women in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Southwest and Central West annual conferences formed.

• The Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church issue a joint hymnal.
• Mary McLeod Bethune named director of the Negro Division of the National Youth Administration. She also becomes the first president of the National Council of Negro Women.

• Formation of the Methodist Church, union of the Methodist Episcopal Churches, North and South, and the Methodist Protestant Church.
• Georgia Harkness begins teaching at Garrett Biblical Institute.
• Helen Kim becomes president of Ewha University in Korea.
• Woman’s Society of Christian Service and the Wesleyan Service Guild of the Methodist Church organized.

• First meeting of the Central Jurisdiction.

• Puerto Rico Provisional Conference organized.
• Latin American Provisional Conference organized.

• Church of the United Brethren in Christ begins Hispanic work in Tampa.

• California Oriental Provisional Conference organized.

• Merger of the Evangelical Church and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Women are denied ordination in the new church.
• Women’s Society of World Service organized in the new Evangelical United Brethren Church.

• The Methodist Church launches Advance for Christ and His Church which is seen as a continuation of The Crusade for Christ.

• Oriental Provisional Conference organized.

• Hymnario Metodista is published.
• Paula Mojzes appointed as the first district superintendent in the Methodist Church.

• Full clergy rights for women in the Methodist Church (Maude Keister Jensen is the first ordinant).
• General Conference adopts legislation that allows churches within the African American Central Jurisdiction to transfer out to geographical non-African American jurisdictions.

• El Interprete debuts.
• Sally Alford Crenshaw ordained by the East Tennessee Annual Conference. Crenshaw is the first African American woman to be so honored.

• Alaska Methodist University opens.

• Central Jurisdiction forms a committee to study ways of eliminating the jurisdiction.

• Cuban missionaries recalled, native pastors follow.

• Methodist Church of Ceylon becomes autonomous.

• Beginning of end for the Central Jurisdiction.
• Lim Swee Beng, first national appointed district superintendent of the Malacca District, Malaysia Chinese Conference.

• Evangelicals launch Good News Movement.

• Margaret Henrichsen – First woman district superintendent in the United States.
• Noemi Diaz is the first Hispanic women ordained by an annual conference. New York Annual Conference does the honors.
• Last session of the Central Jurisdiction held in Nashville.

• Union of Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church. General Commission on Archives and History, General Commission on Religion and Race and General Council on Ministries created.
• Black Methodists for Church Renewal formed.

• Methodist churches in Cuba, Malaysia-Singapore, Pakistan, Chile, and Argentina become autonomous.

• United Methodist Women formed.
• MARCHA formed.

• First full General Conference of The United Methodist Church.
• General Commission on the Status and Role of Women created.
• End of Central Jurisdiction Conferences.
• Wilbur Wong Yan Choy becomes the first Asian American bishop.
• United Methodist Women founded.

• A committee of four Hispanic pastors coordinate work in Florida

• National Federation of Asian American United Methodists formed.

• Ethnic Minority Local Church emphasis begins.
• Mai Gray becomes the first African-American president of Women’s Division.

• Marjorie Matthews – First woman elected bishop.

• General Commission on Archives and History opens permanent headquarters at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.
• First Hispanic church founded in Milwaukee.

• Bicentennial of The United Methodist Church.
• Leontine T. C. Kelly becomes first African- American woman to be elected bishop.
• Elias G. Galvan becomes first Hispanic to be elected bishop.

• The United Methodist Hymnal is published.
• Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship, Music and the Other Arts formed.
• National Fellowship of Filipino American United Methodists formed.

• Fifty women serve The United Methodist Church as district superintendents.
• First issue of Korean language magazine, United Methodist Family, is published.

• The United Methodist Church Book of Worship is published.
• Africa University in Zimbabwe opens for classes.
• Hae-Jong Kim, is elected the first Korean descent bishop in the United Methodist Church.

• Victor L. Bonilla becomes Puerto Rico’s first autonomous bishop.

• General Commission on United Methodist Men formed.

• General Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio.

• Autonomous Protestant Methodist Church of Cote d’ Ivoire gains United Methodist status.
• General Conference creates the Connectional Table to replace the General Council on Ministries effective on January 1, 2005.

• United Methodist Women becomes a general agency of the denomination. It replaces the former General Board of Global Ministries’ Women’s Division.

• General Board of Discipleship becomes Discipleship Ministries.

• A number of gay ministers publicly declare their sexuality prior to General Conference.
• General Conference held in Portland, Oregon.
• Ordination of gay clergy inflame General Conference delegates causing deep divisions.
• General Conference empowers Council of Bishops to call a special General Conference to study and present findings on the homosexuality ordination issue.
• The Council of Bishops sets up the Commission on a Way Forward to prepare for special conference.
• The Western Jurisdiction later elects Reverend Karen Oliveto, pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial UMC and an openly married gay women on the 17th ballot.
• Immediately the South Central Jurisdiction files a declaratory petition to the Judicial Council to invalidate Oliveto’s election.

• Judicial Council rules against Oliveto and upholds Book of Discipline ban on openly gay ministers from serving in the denomination. The decision fails to bring together both sides of the issue. Oliveto, however, remains in good standing until an administrative or judicial process is complete.
• Council of Bishops call for special General Conference to meet in 2019.

• Jonathan Edwards born.

• England and Scotland unite to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

• First recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America by New Hampshire militiamen.

• Benjamin Colman preached an execution sermon to pirates in Boston.

• King George I crowned.

• Georgia Colony founded.
• Ben Franklin starts a circulating library.

• Paul Revere born

• Anna Lee born, founder of the Shakers.

• Ethan Allen born.
• King George III born.

• Slave revolt in South Carolina.

• King George’s War between the British and French in North America begins.

• King George’s War continues.

• King George’s War continues. The war ends in 1748.

• Colonies adopt the Gregorian calendar.

• French and Indian War.
• Albany Plan.

• British captured Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh.

• British capture Quebec.

• Briton Hammon’s A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man-Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New England: Who Returned to Boston, After Having Been Absent Almost Thirteen Years is published and is regarded as the first work of prose written by a black American.

• Treaty of Paris I.

• Repeal of Stamp Act.
• Declaratory Act.

• Townsend Act.

• Treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers is signed.

• Virginia’s resolutions.

• Boston Massacre.

• Benjamin Banneker, American black mathematician and surveyor born.

• Boston Tea Party.

• First Continental Congress.

• Revolutionary War.

• Declaration of Independence.

• Articles of Peace, Treaty of Paris II.

• Plan to divide Western territories for new states.
• New York City temporary national capital of United States.

• Constitutional Convention.

• Constitution adopted.

• George Washington inaugurated.

• First United States patent issued. First United States census. The census reports that 697,897 slaves and 59,466 free African Americans in the United States.
• The first successful American Sunday School is established in Philadelphia.

Bill of Rights. Vermont statehood.

• Postal Service, Mint, and Military Draft established.

• Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin.
• Fugitive Slave Act.

• John Jay’s treaty with England.
• The American Convention of Abolition Societies is formed in Philadelphia.

• Tennessee is the 16th state admitted to the Union.

• National capital moved to Washington, D.C.

• Thomas Jefferson inaugurated.

• Marbury vs. Madison case.
• Louisiana Purchase.

• Embargo Act.

• Slave importation prohibited.
• There are 1,000,000 slaves in the United States.

• James Madison inaugurated.
• Non-Intercourse Act.

• Postal services consolidated under uniform private contracts.

• War of 1812.

• James Madison sworn in for second term.

• Washington, D.C. burned by British Army.
• War of 1812 ends.

• Battle of New Orleans.

• Indiana statehood.

• James Monroe inaugurated.

• Florida acquired from Spain.

• Missouri Compromise.
• American Colonization Society founds Liberia for the repatriation of African Americans.

• Emma Hart Willard found Troy Female Seminary, first endowed school for girls.

• Monroe Doctrine.

• Tariff of Abominations.
• Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language published.

• Andrew Jackson inaugurated.

• First locomotive steam engine put into service.
• Slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line is virtually abolished.
• Massive German immigration to the United States begins.

• Black Hawk War begins.
• Source of the Mississippi River discovered in Minnesota.
• Public street-cars begin service in New York City.
• John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign.

• Sewing machine invented.
• Oberlin College opens in Ohio – It admits African Americans and women from its inception.

• McCormick invents the mechanical reaper.
• Organization of the New York Female Moral Reform Society.

• Texas Revolution from Mexico begins.

• Texas gains independence.
• The New York Women’s Anti-Slavery Society bars African Americans from its membership roles.

• Depression.

• Cherokee, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminole Native-Americans were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Southeast and Appalachian Mountains.

• Mississippi enacts the Married Women’s Property Law.

• The Hawaiian kingdom is recognized as an independant country by Europe and the USA.
• Antarctica claimed by the United States.
• William Henry Harrison elected president.

• William Henry Harrison inaugurated, dies.

• Massachusetts Labor Union.

• Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.

• Florida statehood. Texas annexed.
• Potato famine in Ireland begins which results in thousands of immigrants coming to the United States.

• Iowa statehood.
• Oregon boundary established with Canada.
• Mormons begin trek to Salt Lake City.

• Utah settled by Mormons.
• American forces take Mexico City.
• Fredrick Douglass begins publishing the North Star.
• Gold is discovered in California.

• Forerunner of the Associated Press is founded in New York.
• Mexican War ends.
• Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, launches the women’s rights movement.

• Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland.
• First Asians arrive in California.
• Beginning of Cuban migration to Florida.

• Compromise of 1850.
• Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
• Lucy Stanton is the first African American woman to complete a collegiate course of study (Oberlin College).

• Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
• Sojourner Truth delivers her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech.
• New York Times begins publishing.
• Singer granted a patent on his sewing machine.
• YMCA founded.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• Abolitionists in New England and other parts of the North form the Emigrant Aid Societies to send anti-slavery activists into Kansas, where they can vote to keep it free. In Georgia and Alabama similar societies send in settlers who will vote in defense of slavery.
• Iowa becomes the first state university to admit women.

• Pottawatomie Massacre.
• Preston Brooks strikes Charles Sumner on the United States Capitol steps.

• Dred Scott decision.
• Dwight L. Moody begins revivalist career.

• Minnesota is the 32nd state admitted into the Union.

• Abraham Lincoln elected.
• South Carolina secedes.

• Richmond, Virginia, becomes the official capital of the Conferderacy.

• Battles of Shiloh, Antietam.

• Emancipation Proclamation.
• Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg.
• Kit Carson wages war on the Navajo.

• Sherman takes Atlanta.

• Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
• 13th Amendment enacted to abolish slavery.

• National Labor Union.

• United States buys Alaska.

• 14th Amendment – Rights of Citizens.
• New England Suffrage Association is organized.

• Trans-Continental Railroad.
• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• First Japanese immigrants arrive in the United States (California).

• 15th Amendment – Right to Vote.

• Congress approves the Indian Appropriations Act.

• Arbor Day (April 10) is celebrated for the first time in Nebraska.
• President Grant’s administration regulates work among Native Americans to various denominations. Thus begins the government funding of social programs through churches.

• Depression

• First structural steel bridge built in St. Louis.

• American Express adopts the first private pension plan in American industry.

• United States Centennial.
• Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
• Baseball’s National League formed.
• Custer dies at Little Big Horn.

• Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
• Nez Perce leave Idaho for Canada.

• Carl Sandburg, American poet, is born.
• First commercial telephone exchange opens in New Haven, Connecticutt.
• Lincoln County War begins in New Mexico.
• Edison Electric Company begins operating.

• Methodist President Rutherford B. Hayes signs bill to allow women lawyers to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
• First five and dime store opens in Utica, New York.
• Albert Einstein born.

• New wave of immigrants arrive.

• Beginning of Civil Service reform.

• Rockefeller gains oil trust.
• The United States government passes the Exclusion Act which barred Chinese immigration.

• United States Naval War College founded.
• First baseball post season championship game played between the National League and American Association.

• First sky scraper built in Chicago.
• Louis Pasteur administers successful rabies vaccine.

• First practical dishwasher manufactured.
• First film made in the United States: Fred Ott’s Sneeze.

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

• International Copyright Act passed.
• Wrigley Company founded in Chicago.
• Carnegie Hall in New York City opens.
• Alternating current (AC) is transmitted for the first time in Colorado.

• American businessmen and lawyers in Hawaii stage a revolt, backed by U.S. troops.

• Pullman Company strike.

• Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays.

• Spanish-American War.

• Guam, Philippines and Puerto Rico annexed.

• Hawaii Territory organized.

• Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated.

• The United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
• President Roosevelt begins conservation of forests.

• Wright brothers fly.

• Roosevelt corollary to Monroe Doctrine.

• Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated for second term.

• Pan-American Conference.
• San Francisco earthquake and fire.

• Model T introduced by Ford Motor Company.
• General Electric patents electric toaster.

• William Taft inaugurated.
• NAACP founded in New York City.

• Boy Scouts of America founded.
• Glacier National Park established.
• United States Bureau authorized.

• Arizona and New Mexico are granted statehood.

• Woodrow Wilson inaugurated.
• 17th Amendment – Income Tax.

• Wilson proclaims United States neutrality.

• 18th Amendment – Prohibition of alcohol enacted. States ratification took place in 1919.
• 19th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage.

• Colonel Charles Young, one of the first African Americans to graduate from West Point, dies in Lagos, Nigeria. Young was also the first African American to become a colonel in the United States Army.

• Teapot Dome Scandal.
• Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act.

• Stock Market Crash.
• Mexicans deported.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated.
• New Deal.
• 21st Amendment repeals Prohibition.

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) formed.
• Social Security Act passed.

• Hitler signs an order authorizing involuntary euthanasia.

• Benjamin Davis becomes the first African American general in the United States Army.

• Pearl Harbor attacked and the United States declares war on Japan and Germany.

• World War II continues.

• United Nations organized.

• The Philippines, a United States protectorate, gains its independence.

• Bell Labs invents the transistor.
• NATO formed.

Korean War.

• Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.
• Supreme Court orders desegregation.
• AFL and CIO merge to form one labor union.

• Suez Canal crisis.

Explorer 1 launched.

• Alaska and Hawaii statehood.

• John F. Kennedy elected.

• First manned space flight.
• Relations with Cuba are severed.
• Freedom riders.
• Space program to the moon begins.

• Kennedy assassinated.

• 24th Admendment – Elimination of Poll Tax.
• Civil Rights Act.

• National Organization for Women founded.
• Texas Valley farm workers strike.

• Long Hot Summer.

• Democratic Convention riots in Chicago.

• Moon landing.

• 26th Amendment – Right to Vote for 18 Year Olds.

• Richard Nixon re-elected.
• Watergate scandal.

• Vietnam cease-fire.
• War Powers Act.

• Nixon resigns.
• Gerald Ford inaugurated.

• United States Bicentennial.

• Ronald Reagan elected.

• Equal Rights Admendment defeated.

• Continental U.S. relays news feeds for stations on Ku-Band satellites.

• Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons.

• End of Cold War.

• William Jefferson Clinton elected.

• Internet expands with World Wide Web.

• William Clinton re-elected.

• George W. Bush elected.

• Terrorists attack the United States. The World Trade Center and Pentagon hit by commercial jets. Start of the War on Terrorism by the United States and its allies.

• San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• Ronald Reagan dies.
• George W. Bush re-elected.

• Barack Obama re-elected.
• United States Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Health Care law.

• Boston Marathon bombing.
• Cornell University scientists grow a living ear using a 3-D printer.
• The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, begins registering people.

• The Affordable Care Act, goes into affect for millions of Americans, the largest expansion of the social welfare state in decades.
• Rise of ISIS in the MIddle East.

• Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge occupied.
• Protests erupt across the country over multiple shoots of African Americans by police.
• Chicago Cubs win World Series after a 108 year drought.
• Donald Trump elected president.

• Inauguration of Donald Trump.