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Can you think of an event we should add to our timeline? Or maybe one we should delete? Please email your comments to Bill Moore at Breeze@pilotonline.com

1215 - Magna Carta - Big Bad John - Early Release
1492 - Columbus sailed Ocean Blue
1607 - Jamestown settled by English (1+6 = 07)
1630 - Great Migration - Mass. Bay Colony - 1,000/17 ships - 20,000
1730 - Great Awakening
1770 - Boston Massacre
1774 - Second Continental Congress - Continental Army - George CIC
1775 - American Revolution (1775-83)
1776 - Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
1777 - Articles of Confederation, First American Constitution
1789 - George Washington becomes President
1800 - Jefferson elected President
1803 - Louisiana Purchase; Maubury v. Madison
1812 - War declared on Britain
1819 - McCulloch v. Maryland
1830 - Trail of Tears
1860 - Lincoln elected President, biginning of Civil War
1865 - Lincoln assassinated, end of Civil war
1876 - Bell invets telephone
1886 - Statue of Liberty
1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson
1913 - Congress approves income tax
1914 - World War I begins
1917 - U.S. enters World War I
1920 - Women get to vote
1922 - Firt radio station
1929 - Great Depression
1939 - World War II
1941 - Pearl Harbor
1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki; End of World War II
1949 - Moore's birthday
1950 - Korea
1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education
1961 - Berlin Wall, U.S. in Vietnam
1963 - March on Washington; Kennedy killed; Gideon v. Wainwright
1966 - Miranda v. Arizona
1968 - King assassinated
1973 - Roe v. Wade
1974 - United States v. Nixon
1975 - Education for the disadvantaged
1988 - Mainstreaming
1992 - Students Moore teaches' birthday (1991-2)