April 19th: Battle of Lexington; first major battle of the
American Revolution.
June 17th: Battle of Bunker Hill.
October
13th: United States Navy established.
November 10th: United
States Marine Corps established.
1776
December 25th: Washington crossed the Delaware River.
December
26th: Battle of Trenton
1777
December 19th: Continental Army encamped at Valley Forge
1781
October 19th: British surrender at Yorktown
1783
April 15th: Revolutionary War Ends!
1797
October 21st: USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides",
launched.
1802
US Military Academy established.
1803
September 13th: Commodore John Barry, Father of the United
States Navy, died.
1812
August 19th: Victory of "Old Ironsides".
1815
January 8th: Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the
Battle of New Orleans.
1836
March 6th: Alamo captured.
1845
October 10th: U.S. Naval Academy opened at Annapolis
1846
May 13th: US declares war on Mexico.
1861
April 12th: Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
July 21st:
First Battle of Bull Run fought.
1862
Monitor and Merrimac battle.
1863
November 19th: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg
Address.
1865
April 9th: Lee surrenders to Grant
1880
January 26th: General Douglas MacArthur born.
1898
April 21st: Spanish-American War begins.
August 13th:
Manila surrenders to US forces.
1901
November 27th: Army War College established.
1907
August 1st: Army Air Force established.
1909
August 2nd: The United Sates bought the first military plane
from the Wright Brothers.
1914
July 28th: World War I begins.
1915
January 28th: US Coast Guard established.
1917
April 6th: US Congress declares war on Germany and on May
18th, approves military conscription for men aged 21-30.
July
20th: First draft number drawn for WWI.
1918
June 28th: Versailles Treaty signed; end of WWI.
1920
January 10th: League of Nations founded.
1922
October 27th: First Navy Day observance
1926
May 2nd: US sends Marines into Nicaragua after insurrection
and civil war.
1930
July 21st: US Veterans Administration established.
1939
September 1st: WWII begins when Great Britain and France
declare war on Germany.
1941
December 7th: Pearl Harbor attacked-A Day of Infamy!
December
11th: Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.; Congress
recognizes state of war with both nations.
1942
June 3rd-7th: Japanese naval force attacks Midway Island in
the central Pacific but is stopped by U.S. ships and planes in
turning point of war in the Pacific.
August 7th: US Marines
land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
1943
February 3rd: Four Chaplains Memorial Day-four chaplains of
different faiths were lost at sea when the U.S.S. Dorchester
sunk in Pacific.
1944
June 6th: D-day begins; Normandy , coast of France.
December
16th: Battle of the Bulge begins.
1945
February 19th-March 16th: US Marines land on Iwo Jima.
Despite heavy casualties they raise the American flag on Mount
Suribaci.
April 1st: US forces invade Okinawa; by
June 21st the battle ends.
May 8th: V-E Day; WWII in Europe
ends.
July 16th: First atomic bomb exploded in Alamogordo, New
Mexico.
August 6th: The Enola Gay drops atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan.
August 9th: Atomic bomb explodes over
Nagasaki, Japan.
August 14th: Japan surrenders; WWII ends.
September
2nd: Japanese sign surrender documents on US battleship,
Missouri.
1946
January 10th: First session of the United Nations held.
1947
Chuck Yeager, flying the rocket-powered Bell x-1 airplane,
was the first human to break the sound barrier.
1950
June 25th: Korean War begins.
1953
July 27th: Korean Armistice Signed.
1954
January 21st: The Nautilus, the first atomic-powered
submarine, launched.
1955
July 11th: US Air Force Academy established.
1961
April 17-20: Invasion of Cuba by 1,600 rebels, supported by
US government, is crushed by Cuban Army at Bay of Pigs
1962
October 22nd: President Kennedy announces air and naval
quarantine of Cuba in response to the Soviet Union's
installation of missile bases there.
1963
November 2nd: South Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem
killed in army coup.
1964
August 2-5: U.S. Navy destroyers report attack by North
Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin; in retaliation,, US
aircraft bomb four military bases.
1968
Jaanuary 30th: North Vietnamese launch Tet offensive in South
Vietnam.
1973
January 27th: Official signing of the peace agreement ending
the Vietnam War.
1991
The Persian Gulf War
1996
After years of denials, the Pentagon acknowledged that more
than 20,000 American troops may have been exposed to a cloud of
sarin, a deadly nerve gas, after American soldiers blew up an
enormous ammunition depot in southern Iraq a few days after the
war, in March 1991.
1997
March: The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released
evidence suggesting that the poison gas had spread further than
believed, with trace amounts possibly reaching hundreds of
thousands of soldiers.
October: America dedicates memorial to
its service women
