US Constitution
1787 · Event
Drafted in Philadelphia; oldest written national constitution still in use.
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- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Civil War (1861)
- George Washington (1732)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743)
Around 1787
- French Revolution (1789)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Charles Darwin (1809)