10 Buildings in Context
10 Buildings in Context
A historical Timeline
1776 – The Declaration of Independence is signed.
1788 - The Virginia State House is constructed.
1791 – Congress ratifies the Bill of Rights.
1812 – America goes to war against the British and their allies in the War of 1812.
1848 – Gold is discovered in California.
1857 – Dred Scott sues for his freedom, and loses.
1861 – The American Civil War begins. The Virginia State Capitol (shown here in 1865) houses the Confederate government alongside the Virginia State Assembly.
1865 - The Civil War ends; Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
1869 – The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.
1871 – Much of Chicago is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire.
1877 - H. H. Richardson’s Trinity Church is constructed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1879 – Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
1869 – The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.
1871 – Much of Chicago is destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire.
1886 – The Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 – Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Building is constructed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1903 – The Wright Brothers achieve the first powered air flight.
1908 – Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile.
1910 – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House is completed in Chicago, Illinois.
1910 – Ford moves manufacturing of the Model T to a much larger plant designed by Albert Kahn in Highland Park, Michigan.
1912 – The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean.
1914 – The Panama Canal is completed.
1920 – Women gain the right to vote.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
1929 – The stock market crashes.
1941 – Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
1944 – “D-Day”: Allies invade Normandy, France.
1945 – The U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
1954 – A ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education desegregates schools.
1956 – The first indoor regional mall, Victor Gruen’s Southdale Center, opens in Edina, Minnesota.
1957 – Russia launches the Sputnik satellite.
1958 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building is completed in Manhattan.
1962 – John Glenn orbits earth on the “Friendship 7” Mercury spacecraft.
1962 – Eero Saarinen’s Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.
1963 – Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1964 – Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House is completed in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1969 – The U.S. lands on the moon.
1974 – Richard M. Nixon resigns.
1975 – The Viet Nam war ends.
1979 – The Iran Hostage crisis arises.
1989 – The Eastern Bloc dissolves.
2001 – The World Trade Center is attacked.
2003 – Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall is completed in Los Angeles, California.
2003 – The U.S. invades Iraq..