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| 1766 | Otis, John Fitzgerald |  |
| Washington Opposes Navigation Act writs on natural law to defend privacy & property |
| 1775 | Washington, George | |
| 3rd July Begins transforming the army while maintaining the Siege of Boston |
| 1776 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington Legislates for the separation of Church & State |
| 1782 | Washington, George | |
| 20th April Washington Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States |
| 1798 | Adams, John | |
| Washington Passes the Alien & Sedition Acts |
| 1825 | Adams, John Quincy | |
| Boston USAagitation for a 10 hr day begins by a strike of Boston carpenters |
| 1829 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| Washington Builds the basis of the modern Democratic Party & initiates the spoils system |
| 1830 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 29th April Washington The Preemption Act offers settlers cultivating land $1.25 an acre |
| 28th May Washington The Indian Removal Act removes Indians to lands west of the Mississippi |
| 1832 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 22nd May Baltimore The Democratic Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party during its 1st convention |
| 17th June Washington A Tariff Act is passed favouring northern manafacturers over southern cotton growers |
| 1837 | Buren, Martin van | |
| 25th Aug Washington Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis |
| 1882 | Arthur, Chester Alan | |
| Enacts the 1st Federal immigration law |
| 1883 | Arthur, Chester Alan | |
| Congress passes the Penleton Act, opens up the civil service to open competition |
| 16th Jan Signs the Tariff Act, raises rates |
| 1917 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 5th June Washington Draft registration day for nearly 10 million men aged 21-31 |
| 1964 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment |
| 1965 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965, which suspends (later bans) literacy tests and other restrictions to prevent blacks from voting |
| 1970 | Goodell, Charles | |
| 25th Sep Proposes legislation to bring back all GIs by the end of the year |
| 1970 | Scranton, William | |
| Heads a commission which reports divisions are "as deep as any since the Civil War" |
| 1993 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Sets up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, cornerstone of the administration |
| The effort to create a national healthcare system ultimately dies under heavy public pressure, the first major legislative defeat of Clinton's administration |
| 22nd Sep Announce a mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations (HMOs) |
| 1994 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 26th Sep Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announces that Clinton's health plans are dead, at least for that session of Congress |
| 1996 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 22nd Aug Clinton signs the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, which includes time limits for welfare, work requirements, and assistance for people transitioning to work |
| 2005 | Parks, Rosa | |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rice's home state, for Rosa Parks , an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Parks ' act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the city's buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city. |
| 25th Oct Montgomery American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement |
| 2005 | Rice, Condoleezza | |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rice's home state, for Rosa Parks , an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement |
