18 events with tag "America"
1000
ID: 3715
Leif Erikson reaches North America - Vikings land in Vinland (Newfoundland), first Europeans in Americas
ID: 3715
1438
ID: 74
Pachacuti founds Inca Empire - beginning American highland civilization
ID: 74
1492
ID: 85
October 12, 1492
Columbus reaches Americas - two worlds meet, changing history forever
ID: 85
1620
ID: 5778
Pilgrims bring apple seeds to America - first apple trees planted at Plymouth, begin North American apple cultivation
ID: 5778
1777
ID: 597
Condorcet writes Americans 'are what Rousseau wished us to become' - free from old prejudices
ID: 597
1781
ID: 5677
Thomas Jefferson grows tomatoes at Monticello - helps popularize tomatoes in America despite lingering poisonous reputation
ID: 5677
1782
ID: 614
Crèvecoeur's 'Letters from an American Farmer' - creates pastoral fantasy confirming Rousseauian prejudices
ID: 614
1787
ID: 624
September 17, 1787
U.S. Constitution signed - 9 Freemasons among 55 delegates, Masonic principles influence document
ID: 624
1840
ID: 820
Golden Age of American Learning - 93-100% complex literacy without compulsory schooling
ID: 820
1845
ID: 853
Telegraph lines spread rapidly across America and Europe
ID: 853
1879
ID: 1018
William Tebb founds Anti-Vaccination Society of America in New York; Vaccination Inquirer founded
ID: 1018
1882
ID: 1037
New England Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League formed; Anti-Vaccination League of America holds first meeting
ID: 1037
1888
ID: 1084
St. Frances Cabrini arrives in America - Pope told her Not East but West - founds 67 institutions
ID: 1084
1894
ID: 1115
St. Frances Cabrini arrives in America - Pope told her Not East but West - founds 67 institutions
ID: 1115
1912
ID: 1208
First International Congress of Eugenics (London) - America dominated the worldwide eugenics movement
ID: 1208
1950
ID: 1633
Television ownership explodes in America
ID: 1633
1999
ID: 3037
75.5 million Americans (29% of population) directly involved in education system
ID: 3037
2000
ID: 3044
40% of blacks, 17% of whites functionally illiterate; 500 per 100,000 Americans incarcerated (up from 50 per 100,000 for 140 years until 1930)
ID: 3044