Timeline (Carpe Diem)

1828

 * June 10: The Convention of Ocana successfully reforms the Colombian Constitution.

1838

 * May 31: The San Salvador Compromise is signed, turning the city into a separate Federal District.

1863

 * July 5: Robert E. Lee surrenders to Major General George G. Meade.
 * July 9: Confederate President Jefferson Davis surrenders to the Union.
 * July 15: President Lincoln abolishes the State of West Virginia and reunifies it with Virginia.

1879

 * April 10: President Rutherford B. Hayes dies. Vice-President William Wheeler succeeds him.

1891

 * January 27: President Benjamin Harrison dies. Vice-President Levi P. Morton succeeds him.

1936

 * May 5: Ethiopia wins the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Italy cedes Italian Eritrea to Ethiopia.

1969

 * November 4: After a referendum, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam are united to form the Mariana Territory.

1972

 * March 27: After 16 years of fighting, with support from Ethiopia, South Sudan gains its independence from Sudan.

1976

 * November 2: Governor Jerry Brown defeats Vice-President Gerald Ford as President of the United States.

1980

 * November 4: Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Jerry Brown as President of the United States.

1991

 * August 20: The New Union Treaty is signed.
 * August 22: Vice-President Gennady Yanayev resigns as Vice-President. Askar Akayev is appointed Vice-President by President Gorbachev.

1992

 * February 8: A new constitution of the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is Approved. The first Presidential Election is to be held on March 1.
 * March 1: Vice-President Askar Akayev is elected President of the Soviet Union.

1997

 * March 2: Leonid Kravchuk defeats incumbent Askar Akayev as President of the Soviet Union.

2000

 * November 7: In one of the closest races in American History, Vice-President Al Gore defeats George W. Bush as President of the United States.