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.

1865

 * June 23: 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.

1896

 * January 27: President Benjamin Harrison dies. Vice-President Levi P. Morton succeeds him.
 * November 3: William J. Bryan defeats Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed as President of the United States.

1898

 * April 25: The USS Maine is destroyed in Havana harbor,

1900

 * November 1900: Governor William McKinley of Ohio defeats incumbent William J. Bryan as President of the United States.

1901

 * August 12: The Treaty of Paris is signed, giving Cuba its independence and transferring Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to American control.
 * September 6: President McKinley is shot by an anarchist.
 * September 14: President McKinley dies from his gunshot wounds. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt 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: Democratic candidate Jerry Brown defeats Vice-President Gerald Ford as President of the United States.

1991

 * August 20: The New Union Treaty is signed.