ARCHIVED DATES OF INTEREST
MANY DATES TO GO, OBVIOUSLY. AN IMPORTANT PROJECT, BUT NOT A PRIORITY JES
xx/xx/0006 The birth of Jesus Christ
xx/xx/0711 Muslim armies land in Spain
xx/xx/1468 Isabella of Spain signs a treaty with her half brother Enrique
10/19/1469 Ferdinand and Isabella are married
xx/xx/1472 The Inquisition begins to stir under Tomas de Torquemada, a Dominican prior
xx/xx/1474 Castilian King Enrique dies; Isabella ascends to the Spanish throne with Ferdinand V.
xx/xx/1478 Pope Sixtus IV authorizes the Inquisition
xx/xx/1483 Ferdinand V advises Torquemada of his determination to expel all Jews from Spain
xx/xx/1484 Christopher Columbus shows up in Portugal to announce his dream.
01/02/1492 Islam is finally defeated militarily in Europe with the defeat of the Moors at Granada
03/31/1492 The Inquisition is in full force; Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand V order the Jews out.
08/03/1492 Columbus sets out on his first Voyage to America
xx/xx/1517 Luther nails his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany
xx/xx/1519 Spanish conquistadors start to arrive in Mexico
12/xx/1620 The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth
07/04/1776 American Declaration of Independence signed
xx/xx/1835 Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America
06/17/1856 First Republican national convention
11/19/1863 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
11/17/1905 Korea signs treaty with Japan that castrates its sovereignty until 1945
04/15/1912 The Titanic hits an iceberg
02/03/1913 16th Amendment authorizing the US Federal income tax is adopted
12/23/1913 Federal Reserve Act signed into law
07/13/1917 Lucia dos Santos has a chat with Mother Mary at Fatima Portugal
08/23/1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact signed
06/22/1941 Germany attacks Soviet Union
12/07/1941 The Japs attack Pearl Harbor
12/08/1941 Congress declares war against Japan, Germany & Italy
01/27/1945 Liberation of Auschwitz
02/23/1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Surabachi
05/08/1945 Germany surrenders
06/25/1950 North Korean T-34's roll across the 38th parallel into South Korea
09/15/1950 Marines land at Inchon
10/14/1950 Chinese cross the Yalu river into Korea
07/27/1953 Korean cease fire signed at Panmunjom
06/29/1956 President Dwight Eisenhower signs the bill for the Interstate Highway System
07/26/1956 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal
07/19/1969 Mary Jo Kopeckne drowns at Chappaquiddick
01/22/1973 Supreme Court hands down its ruling on Roe vs. Wade
04/30/1975 Fall of Saigon, last American helicopter flies out
06/02/1979 Pope John Paul II arrives in Poland. The Communist regime never recovers.
11/09/1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
05/13/1981 Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk almost gets Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Squar
09/13/1993 Oslo Agreement signed
04/26/1986 Chernobyl disaster
02/12/1999 U S Senate Republicans wimp out on the conviction of OJ Billyboy on impeachment charges.
09/11/2001 al-Qaeda attacks the Pentagon and the Twin Towers
04/26/2004 Democrats discover Abu Ghraib
01/30/2005 Successful elections in Iraq
03/24/2005 US Courts pull the plug on the US Constitution, and Terri Schiavo
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