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World Wars Era

Chapter XVIII: Roaring Twenties 1921-1929



Year
Month
Day
Document
1492
4
30
Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy
1492
8
3
Columbus' Letter of His First Voyage
1497
5
10
Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage
1497
7
22
Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies
1498
3
5
John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII
1513
12
10
The Prince - Machiavelli
1515
8
16
Letter from Nunez de Balboa about seeing the Pacific Ocean
1520
10
30
Cortes's Second Letter to Charles V
1524
7
8
Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage
1578
6
11
Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte
1584
3
25
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
1603
12
18
Charter of Acadia
1606
4
10
First Charter of Virginia
1609
5
23
Second Charter of Virginia
1611
3
12
Third Charter of Virginia
1614
10
11
Charter of New Netherland
1619
7
30
House of Burgesses First Meeting and Resolves
1619
8
20
First African Slaves Sold in Virginia
1620
11
3
Charter of New England
1620
11
11
Mayflower Compact
1621
7
24
Ordinances for Virginia
1622
8
10
Grant of Maine 1622
1626
11
5
Dutch Purchase of Manhatten
1628
3
18
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628
1629
6
7
Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions
1630
4
Christain Charitie - ca John Winthrop
1632
6
20
Charter of Maryland
1634
4
28
Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations
1637
5
6
Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court
1639
1
14
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
1639
6
4
Fundamental Agreement of New Haven
1641
3
16
Government of Rhode Island 1641
1641
12
10
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
1643
5
19
The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
1643
11
6
Government of New Haven
1645
7
3
John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645)
1649
9
21
Maryland Toleration Act
1651
2
18
Barbados Declaration of Independence
1651
4
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
1657
12
27
Flushing Remonstrance
1662
4
23
Charter of Connecticut
1663
3
24
Charter of Carolina
1663
7
15
Rhode Island Royal Charter
1664
2
10
Concession and Agreement of New Jersey
1664
9
29
Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England
1665
6
30
Charter of Carolina
1669
3
1
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
1676
5
29
Berkeley's Response to Bacon
1676
7
30
Bacon's Rebellion Declaration
1681
7
11
Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania
1682
5
5
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
1683
1
1
Constitution of East New Jersey
1683
2
2
Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683
1683
6
12
Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Company
1686
4
7
Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England
1689
12
Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
1689
12
English Bill of Rights
1691
10
7
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691
1696
11
1
Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696
1697
2
8
Penn's Plan for Colonial Union
1701
10
28
Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges
1701
10
28
Charter of Delaware
1713
3
14
Treaties of Utrecht
1725
8
26
Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay
1732
6
9
Charter of Georgia 1732
1739
A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
1748
The Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu
1750
12
31
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers by Jonathan Mayhew
1751
6
10
Currency Act 1751
1754
7
10
Albany Plan
1755
11
11
Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to the Governor about Native Raids
1758
Law of Nations - Emerich de Vattel
1758
10
12
Two Penny Act
1763
2
10
Treaty of Paris 1763
1763
10
7
Royal Proclamation of Colonial Boundaries
1764
On Crimes and Punishments - Cesare Beccaria
1764
An Essay in Vindication of the Continental Colonies of America by Arthur Lee
1764
1
30
A Narrative of the Late Massacres by Ben Franklin
1764
4
5
The Sugar Act
1764
4
19
Currency Act 1764
1764
5
24
Instructions to Boston's Representatives
1764
7
1
Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard
1764
7
23
A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson
1764
7
30
THE RIGHTS OF THE British Colonies Asserted and proved.
1764
9
3
Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher
1764
10
18
New York Petition for the Repeal of the Sugar Act
1764
10
24
The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland
1764
11
Connecticut Petition by Thomas Fitch
1764
11
3
Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons
1764
11
29
Rhode Island's Petition on the Sugar & Currency Acts
1764
11
30
Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins
1764
12
18
Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons
1765
Commentaries on the Laws of England - William Blackstone
1765
3
22
The Stamp Act
1765
5
15
Quartering Act of 1765
1765
5
29
Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act
1765
6
8
Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765
1765
7
4
The Late Regulations by John Dickinson
1765
9
Objections to Taxation Considered by Soame Jenyns
1765
9
21
Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act
1765
9
24
Braintree Instructions
1765
10
7
Public Letter to the People of Massachusetts by B.W.
1765
10
19
Stamp Act Congress Resolves
1765
10
25
Massachusett's Reply to Governor Bernard
1765
10
29
Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act
1765
10
31
New York Merchant's Non-importation Agreement
1765
11
29
South Carolina Resolves Against the Stamp Act
1765
12
10
Connecticut Resolution on the Stamp Act
1766
An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies by Richard Bland
1766
1
1
Considerations of Imposing Taxes by Dulany
1766
1
14
William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act
1766
3
18
The Repeal of the Stamp Act
1766
3
18
The Declaratory Act
1766
5
23
The Snare Broken by Mayhew
1766
6
6
Repeal of the Sugar Act
1766
6
6
Free Port Act
1767
6
15
New York Restraining Act (1st Townshend Act)
1767
6
29
Commissioners of Customs Act (3rd Townshend Act)
1767
6
29
Revenue Act of 1767 (2nd Townshend Act)
1767
6
29
Indemnity Act of 1767 (4th Townshend Act)
1767
12
2
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
1768
2
11
Massachusetts Circular Letters
1768
7
6
Vice-Admiralty Court Act (5th Townshend Act)
1768
8
1
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
1768
9
22
Boston Town Meeting Resolutions
1769
5
16
Virginia Resolves
1769
5
17
Virginia Nonimportation Agreement
1769
7
22
Charleston Non-Importation Agreement
1770
4
12
Repeal of Most of the Townshend Acts
1772
5
CALM AND RESPECTFUL THOUGHTS on the NEGATIVE of the CROWN by Zubly
1772
12
3
Beauties of Liberty by John Allen
1773
An Address on Slavery in America by Benjamin Rush
1773
3
12
Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence
1773
4
10
Candidus
1773
5
10
The Tea Act
1773
9
11
Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one
1773
10
16
Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act
1773
12
17
New York Association of the Sons of Liberty
1774
3
31
Boston Port Act
1774
5
14
Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy II
1774
5
20
Adiministration of Justice Act
1774
5
20
Massachusetts Government Act
1774
5
24
Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston
1774
6
2
Quartering Act
1774
6
22
Quebec Act
1774
7
18
Fairfax Resolves
1774
8
1
Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America
1774
9
5
To the People of Great Britain
1774
9
17
Suffolk Resolves
1774
9
28
Galloway's Plan for Union
1774
10
14
First Continental Congress Resolutions
1774
10
20
Continental Association
1774
10
26
Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts
1774
12
12
Massachusettensis by Daniel Leonard
1774
12
15
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton
1775
1
23
Novanglus
1775
2
15
The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton
1775
2
27
Conciliatory Resolution
1775
3
8
African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine
1775
3
22
Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation
1775
3
23
Give me Liberty or give me Death
1775
3
30
The New England Restraining Act
1775
5
29
Letter to Canada
1775
5
31
The Charlotte Town Resolves
1775
6
15
Remarks on the Quebec Bill by Alexander Hamilton
1775
6
19
Washington's Commission
1775
7
6
Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms
1775
7
8
Olive Branch Petition
1775
7
31
Report on the Conciliatory Resolution
1775
8
23
King George III Suppressing Rebellion Proclamation
1775
11
7
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
1775
11
9
Resolution of Secrecy
1775
11
10
Establishment of the Marine Corps
1776
1
5
New Hampshire's Constitution 1776
1776
1
10
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
1776
3
23
Letter from Adams to Gates
1776
3
26
South Carolina's Constitution 1776
1776
4
1
John Adams, Thoughts on Government
1776
4
12
Halifax Resolves
1776
5
15
Preamble and Resolutions of the Virginia Convention
1776
6
11
Lee's Resolution
1776
6
12
Virginia Declaration of Rights
1776
6
29
Virginia Constitution 1776
1776
7
2
New Jersey Constitution
1776
7
4
Declaration of Independence
1776
8
21
Concord Town Resolutions on the Massachusetts Constitution
1776
9
10
Constitution of Delaware 1776
1776
9
11
Delaware's Declaration of Rights
1776
9
28
Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776
1776
11
11
Maryland Constitution 1776
1776
12
18
Constitution of North Carolina 1776
1776
12
23
The American Crisis Number I by Thomas Paine
1777
2
5
Georgia Constitution 1777
1777
4
20
New York Constitution 1777
1777
7
8
Constitution of Vermont 1777
1778
2
6
Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France
1778
3
19
South Carolina Constitution 1778
1778
9
17
Treaty of Fort Pitt
1779
6
18
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
1780
3
1
Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery
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