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DATE EVENT
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1619-05-11
Virginia makes church attendance mandatory
1630-03-21
First anti-gambling legislation passed, Boston, MA
1632-08-29
John Locke, English philosopher born
1634-05-14
Massachusetts enacts property tax
1637-04-18
First military draft in America in Boston, MA
1639-05-20
First tax-supported school system, Dorchester, MA
1641-08-01
Star Chamber abolished in United Kingdom
1644-12-25
England forbids the observance of Christmas
1648-06-14
Margaret Jones indicted, executed for witchcraft
1683-10-30
New York State passes Charter of Liberty
1706-01-17
Benjamin Franklin born
1711-04-26
David Hume, Scottish philosopher born
1722-09-16
Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary leader born
1723-06-05
Adam Smith, Scottish economist & philosopher born
1729-01-01
Edmund Burke, British political writer born
1732-02-22
George Washington born
1735-08-24
John Peter Zenger wins first US freedom-of-press trial
1736-05-29
Patrick Henry born
1737-01-30
Thomas Paine born
1743-04-13
Thomas Jefferson born
1749-08-28
Johann von Goethe born
1767-01-10
Jean Baptiste Say born
1772-04-19
David Ricardo, British economist born
1773-12-16
Boston Tea Party held
1775-03-23
Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty" speech
1775-04-14
Abolition Society formed
1776
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations published
1776-01-10
Common Sense published
1776-07-04
American Declaration of Independence proclaimed
1776-12-23
Crisis published
1786-01-16
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written
1787-05-25
The Constitutional Convention convenes
1787-07-13
Northwest Ordinance passed by Confederation Congress
1787-09-17
U S Constitution approved by Confederation Congress
1787-09-28
U S Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1788-06-21
U S Constitution becomes effective in first nine states
1789-03-04
First Congress under the Constitution convenes in NYC
1789-04-30
George Washington inaugurated as first U S President
1790-05-31
First Copyright Law passed in US
1791-12-15
Bill of Rights put into effect
1793-02-12
Fugitive Slave Law passed
1798-01-07
Great Britain introduces world's first income tax
1801-03-04
Thomas Jefferson inaugurated
1801-06-29
Frederic Bastiat, French political economist born
1803-05-25
Ralph Waldo Emerson born
1805-07-29
Alexis de Tocqueville, French social philosopher born
1806-05-20
John Stuart Mill, British philosopher & economist born
1808-01-01
Importation of slaves into US made illegal
1808-01-19
Lysander Spooner born
1811-11-16
John Bright, English statesman & orator born
1815-03-01
First obscenity trial held in US
1817-07-12
Henry David Thoreau born
1820-04-27
Herbert Spencer, English philosopher born
1831-01-01
The Liberator newspaper begins publishing
1833-08-23
Slavery abolished in Great Britain & Canada
1834-01-05
Lord Acton born
1834-07-15
Spanish Inquisition ends
1834-12-01
US National Debt paid off
1840-10-30
William Graham Sumner born
1842-08-29
Britain establishes Hong Kong as free-market colony
1842-08-30
Congress enacts a federal obscenity law
1846-07-30
Tariffs of 1832 & 1842 repealed
1851-02-12
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk born
1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe published
1854-04-17
Benjamin Tucker born (1881?)
1857-03-06
Dred Scott decision
1857-04-18
Clarence Darrow born
1859-10-16
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
1861-02-18
Jefferson Davis sworn in as president of the PCSA
1861-04-12
American Civil War begins
1865-02-08
Boxing declared illegal in Missouri
1865-12-18
13th Amendment abolishing slavery ratified
1868-01-28
14th Amendment (Due Process) ratified (1865-07-09?)
1870-02-03
15th Amendment (Blacks given the vote) ratified
1870-08-31
Maria Montessori born
1870-10-13
Albert J Nock born
1871-11-24
National Rifle Association incorporated
1873-02-12
US Mint discontinues coinage of silver dollars
1873-06-18
Susan B Anthony fined for voting
1878-02-19
Garet Garrett born
1880-09-12
H L Mencken born
1881-08-06
Benjamin Tucker's Liberty first published
1881-09-29
Ludwig von Mises born
1882-03-22
Edmunds Act prohibits polygamy in the territories
1885-09-03
50 Chinese miners killed by whites for being better
1886-08-28
Statue of Liberty unveiled
1887-02-04
Interstate Commerce Commission formed
1887-02-15
Frank Chodorov born
1887-02-23
Importation of opium made illegal
1887-06-26
Interstate Commerce Commission regulates railroads
1887-12-05
Rose Wilder Lane born
1890-07-02
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1890-12-31
Ellis Island Immigration Centre opened
1894-11-28
Henry Hazlitt born
1895-04-08
Supreme Court holds Income Tax unconstitutional
1898-09-26
Leonard Read born
1899-05-08
Frederich A Hayek born
1900-03-14
US goes on gold standard
1905-02-02
Ayn Rand born
1907-07-07
Robert A Heinlein born
1908-01-21
Sullivan Ordinance (1st No Smoking) enacted NYC
1909-08-05
Income and corporation taxes passed
1913-02-25
16th Amendment legalizes income tax (1913-02-03?)
1913-03-04
Department of Labor established
1913-12-23
Federal Reserve System begun
1914-09-26
Federal Trade Commission established
1919-01-16
18th Amendment (Prohibition) ratified
1920-01-16
18th Amendment (Prohibition) went into effect
1920-01-20
American Civil Liberties Union founded
1920-03-17
The Freeman begins publication
1920-08-19
19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1921-05-03
West Virginia passes first state sales tax
1923-04-12
Supreme Court holds Minimum Wage unconstitutional
1925-03-23
Tennessee outlaws the teaching of evolution
1925-05-25
John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution
1925-07-10
Scopes "Monkey Trial" begins
1925-07-24
Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution
1926-03-02
Murray Rothbard born
1929-01-15
Martin Luther King, Jr born
1930-06-17
President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
1933-03-06
Americans forbidden to own gold
1933-06-05
US goes off gold standard
1933-12-05
21st Amendment repeals prohibition
1934-01-13
US Dollar devalued 40%
1935-08-14
Social Security Act passed
1935-10-02
Our Enemy The State published
1936-06-28
Federal Minimum Wage enacted
1937-10-01
Marijuana Tax Act goes into effect
1938-06-25
Fair Labour Standards Act passed
1940-11-14
First peacetime draft enacted
1942-02-20
Incarceration of 110,000 Japanese-Americans begins
1943-05-07
The Fountainhead published
1943-07-01
Paycheck tax-withholding begins
1943-11-01
New York City begins rent control
1946-03-07
Foundation of Economic Education founded
1946-04-13
France's Marthe Richard Law closes all licensed brothels
1947-04-08
Mont Pelerin Society founded
1947-06-23
Taft-Hartley Act curbs coercive union power
1949-09-10
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises published
1949-09-21
Communists take over China, execute 2 million
1952-04-03
Intercollegiate Studies Institute founded
1953-04-01
Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1954-05-17
Supreme Court orders public schools desegregated
1954-08-24
Communist Party outlawed
1954-08-28
Farm price-supports enacted
1955-09-16
Ramparts College founded
1955-12-01
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on bus
1955-12-04
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr leads boycott of bus system
1956-01-01
Freeman Magazine begins publishing
1956-07-18
Narcotics Control Act is passed
1956-11-04
Soviets crush Hungarian revolution
1957-10-10
Atlas Shrugged published
1960-09-13
Medicare program established
1961-11-10
Institute for Humane Studies founded
1963-08-28
Martin Luther King Jr - "I have a dream" speech
1964-03-16
President Johnson announces his "War on Poverty"
1964-08-07
Congress passed the Tonkin resolution
1965-01-05
President Johnson announces "The Great Society"
1966-10-06
LSD made illegal
1968-04-04
Reason magazine started (1971?)
1969-09-19
Judge orders "inharmonious" house be torn down
1969-10-04
Society for Individual Liberty founded
1969-10-29
Supreme Court orders racial balancing by busing
1970-04-07
Supreme Court upholds right to possess pornography
1970-06-09
Supreme Court upholds R-TV "Fairness Doctrine"
1970-09-30
President Nixon rejects the report
1970-09-30
Obscenity Commission recommends repeal of 114 laws
1971-01-02
Congress bans all R-TV cigarette advertising
1971-08-15
President Nixon imposes wage and price controls
1971-12-11
Libertarian Party founded
1972-03-04
Laissez Faire Bookstore opens
1972-03-22
Nixon Commission recommends legalizing marijuana
1973-01-22
Supreme Court rules abortion legal
1973-01-27
US Government ends military draft
1973-06-21
Supreme Court upholds "local community standards"
1973-11-26
Federal 55 mph speed limit imposed
1974-08-09
US taxpayers bail out Lockheed Corporation
1976-03-29
Supreme Court oks state anti-homosexual laws
1977-02-11
CATO Institute founded
1977-04-22
Mountain States Legal Foundation founded
1977-08-31
Adam Smith Institute founded in London
1978-06-06
Californians pass Proposition 13 limiting taxes
1979-08-26
Foundation for Rational Economics & Education begun
1979-11-01
US taxpayers loan $15 billion to Chrysler
1980-09-15
Political Economy Research Center founded
1980-11-03
Dick Randolph first Libertarian elected to office
1983-02-02
National Center for Policy Analysis founded
1983-08-09
Unicorn Enterprises, Ltd. founded
1984-01-12
Grace Commission Report released
1985-09-12
Advocates for Self-Government founded
1986-05-16
The Independent Institute founded
1987-04-16
Liberty magazine started
1988-01-02
Mackinac Center founded in Michigan
1989-06-04
Tiananmen Square Massacre, China
1990-11-09
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991-01-13
Vilnius Massacre in Lithuania
1991-08-19
Hardline Communist Coup in Soviet Union
1991-08-22
Collapse of Communist Coup in Soviet Union
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