This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Timeline highlights key events from 1766 to 2000
A brief history lists notable moments from Britain repealing the Stamp Act in 1766 to Taiwan’s 2000 presidential election ending Nationalist rule. It notes Gandhi’s civil disobedience sentence, the 1937 New London school gas explosion, the first spacewalk in 1965, and Hawaii statehood in 1959.
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New London
Texas
Eisenhower
Hawaii
France
Aleksei Leonov
United States