Landmark events o f US Military History such as the Boston Tea Party, and the various dates the Marines, Army and Air Force were established are most important. The events continue to the Persian Gulf War and War on Terror.

Landmarks Of US Military History

1773 Boston Tea Party
1775 Battle of Lexington
Battle of Bunker Hill
United States Navy established
United States Marine Corps established;
George Washington became the first Commander-In-Chief of the
Continental Army
1776 Washington crossed the Delaware River, Battle of Trenton
The Declaration of Independence was established
1777 Continental Army encamped at Valley Forge
1781 British surrender at Yorktown
1783 Revolutionary War ends
1797 USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' launched
1802 U.S. Military Academy established
1812 Victory of 'Old Ironsides'
1815 Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans
1836 Alamo captured
1845 U.S. Naval Academy opened at Annapolis
1846 U.S. declares war on Mexico
1861 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
First Battle of Bull Run fought
1862 Monitor and Merrimac battle
The Medal of Honor was established by a Congressional Ac
1863 Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
1865 Lee surrenders to Grant
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1898 Manila surrenders to U.S. forces
1901 Army War College established
1907 Army Air Force established
1909 The United Sates bought the first military plane from the Wright Brothers
1914 World War I begins
1915 U.S. Coast Guard established
1917 U.S. Congress declares war on Germany and on May 18 approves military conscription for men aged 21-30.
1917 First draft number drawn for World War I
1918 Versailles Treaty signed
End of World War I
1920 League of Nations founded
1922 First Navy Day observance
1926 U.S. sends Marines into Nicaragua after insurrection and Civil War
Congress changed the name of the Air Service to the Army Air Corp
1930 U.S. Veterans Administration established
1939 World War II begins when Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
1941 Pearl Harbor attacked, A day of Infamy
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
Congress recognizes state of war with both nations
1942 Japanese naval force attacks Midway Island in the central Pacific but is stopped by U.S. ships and planes in turning point of war in the Pacific.
US Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands
1943 Four Chaplains Memorial Day, four chaplains of different faiths were lost at sea when the U.S.S. Dorchester sunk in Pacific
1944 D-day begins; Normandy, coast of France
Battle of the Bulge begins
1945 US Marines land on Iwo Jima. Despite heavy casualties they raise the American flag on Mount Suribaci
US forces invade Okinawa; by June 21st the battle ends
V-E Day
World War II in Europe ends
First atomic bomb exploded in Alamogordo, New Mexico
The Enola Gay drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
Atomic bomb explodes over Nagasaki, Japan
Japan surrenders; World War II ends
Japanese sign surrender documents on U.S. battleship, Missouri

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