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- Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (9)
- Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 1787 (1)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (1)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (5)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., February 12, 1793 (1)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (1)
- International Slave Trade Ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 (1)
- War of 1812 (2)
- Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821 (1)
- Vesey Conspiracy, SC, 1822 (2)
- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (1)
- British West Indian Emancipation, July 31, 1834 (1)
- U.S. Annexation of Texas, 1845 (1)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (5)
- Compromise of 1850 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (4)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act Enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (1)
- Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (4)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (1)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (6)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (46)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (33)
- Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Sioux, November 6, 1868 (1)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (2)
- U.S. Supreme Court Declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional, 1883 (1)
- Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
- Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896 (5)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (6)
- Boer War, 1899-1902 (1)
- Robert Charles Riots, New Orleans, LA 1900 (1)
- Peary Expedition Reaches the North Pole, April 6, 1909 (1)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (1)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (21)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (5)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (1)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (12)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (9)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (11)
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Alabama, 1932-1972 (6)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (18)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (6)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (23)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (47)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (16)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (6)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (9)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (1)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (135)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (3)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (105)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (2)
- Nicaraguan Revolution, 1960s-1990 (1)
- Patrice Lumumba, Assassination, Congo, January 17, 1961 (1)
- Kenya, Independence from United Kingdom, 1963 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (17)
- Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976 (7)
- Cultural Revolution, China, 1966-1972 (4)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (63)
- Freedom of Information Act Signed, U.S., July 4, 1966 (1)
- Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (1)
- Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967 (4)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (5)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (4)
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional, 1972 (1)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (47)
- Yom Kippur War, October 6-26, 1973 (1)
- Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002 (3)
- FBI Agents, Killed, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD, June 26, 1975 (1)
- U.N. General Assembly Says Zionism is Racism, November 10, 1975 (2)
- U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates Death Penalty, 1976 (2)
- Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979 (1)
- California Proposition 13 to Cap Property Tax Rates Passes, June 6, 1978 (1)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (3)
- Revolutions of Eastern Europe, 1989 (2)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (2)
- Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City, OK, April 19, 1995 (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (3)