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Unit Studies

If you are looking for an idea for a specific day of the year, here are our free unit studies arranged by date. You can also view our units by most recently added, in chronological order and by subject.

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January

3 – Alaska became a state
6 – New Mexico became a state
9 – Connecticut became a state
17 – Operation Desert Storm began
18 – A. A. Milne born (Winnie-the-Pooh)
23 – Trieste sets record manned ocean decent (the ocean)
26 – Australia Day commemorating first ship landing to colonize Australia
27 – Incandescent light bulb patented by Thomas Edison
29 – Kansas becomes a state

February

2 – Groundhog Day
3 – Horace Greeley born (westward expansion)
6 – Massachusetts becomes a state
7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder born (Little House on the Prairie series)
8 – Jules Verne born
10 – Charles Lamb born (Shakespeare introduction)
12 – Abraham Lincoln born
17 – First ship makes transit of the Suez Canal
20 – Postal Service Act signed into law
24 – Gregorian calendar declared official by Pope Gregory XIII
29 – Leap Day

March

1st Saturday — Iditarod
3 – Mt. Rushmore Memorial Commission authorized
5 – Gerardus Mercator born (maps)
6 – The periodic table of elements presented to the world
7 – Amundsen announced he had reached the South Pole
10 – Alexander Graham Bell transmitted first words over a telephone
15 – Maine became a state
16 – James Madison born
17 – First Vanguard satellite launched
19 – Robert La Salle dies (The Great Lakes)
20 – The spring equinox
21 – Johann Sebastian Bach born
24 – Fanny Crosby born
26 – West Virginia ratifies a new state constitution
29 – Edwin Drake born (oil well)
31 – Eiffel Tower dedicated

April

3 – The beginning of the Pony Express
7 – Domino Theory articulated in a speech by Eisenhower
11 – German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe died (solar cycles)
14 – American Dictionary of the English Language completed by Webster
18 – Great San Fransisco earthquake
20 – Sun dogs seen (and recorded) in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1535
21 – Spanish-American war
22 – First Oklahoma land rush
23 – Sergei Prokofiev born (Peter and the Wolf)
26 – John James Audubon born (birds)
28 – Treaty of San Fransisco ends World War II
30 – Louisiana Purchase treaty signed

May

2 – Leonardo da Vinci dies
5 – Napoleon dies
8 – Harry S. Truman born
10 – Golden Spike ceremony for the first transcontinental railroad
12 – Edward Lear born (limericks)
14 – Jamestown settlement established
16 – Irving Washington Colburn born (glass)
18 – Mount St. Helens erupts (volcanoes)
19 – Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s comet
22 – Mary Cassatt born
24 – First Morse code telegraph message sent
25 – F5 tornado touches down in Udall, Kansas (Tornadoes)
26 – Territory of Montana created
30 – Territory of Nebraska established by the Kansas-Nebraska act

June

2 – Queen Elizabeth II coronation
9 – Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence River
10 – The Gateway Arch opened to the public
12 – Virginia adopts a Declaration of Rights
14 – Flag Day
16 – U. S. Army Corps of Engineers established
18 – Madison signs declaration of war (War of 1812)
19 – Blaise Pascal born
20 – Charter of Maryland granted
25 – The Battle of Little Bighorn
28 – The Beginning of World War I
30 – Indian Intercourse Act passed creating Indian Territory

July

4 – Stephen Meek born (Oregon Trail)
5 – The Secret Service created
7 – Sliced bread sold for the first time
11 – E.B. White born
13 – Marconi receives U.S. Patent for wireless telegraphy
17 – “Wrong Way” Corrigan takes off … in the wrong direction (compasses)
20 – Men first land on the moon
22 – Archibald Spooner born (wordplay)
25 – George Stephenson completes the Blucher (steam locomotives)
27 – Insulin first extracted as a treatment for diabetes

August

September

3 – Heaviest hailstone of the 20th century falls (hail)
4 – Daniel Burnham born (Chicago World’s Fair)
5 – First gas pump sold (gasoline)
7 – Grandma Moses born
13 – DNA Identification Act established (DNA & genetics)
17 – Constitution Day
18 – CIA established
19 – Orville Redenbacher dies (popcorn)
20 – State Constitution of Delaware adopted and put into effect

October

2nd Monday in October – Columbus Day
3 – George Brayton born (internal combustion engine)
17 – Einstein arrives in the United States
20 – First triode vacuum tube demonstrated
23 – First Crayola crayon sold
24 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek born (microscopes)
31 – Nevada becomes a state

November

First Tuesday (every four years) – Presidential election
1 – First hydrogen bomb detonated
6 – John Philip Sousa born
14 – Robert Fulton born
15 – Pike first sights Pike’s Peak
20 –Edwin Hubble born (telescopes)
23 – Elbridge Gerry dies (gerrymander)

December

Units not tied to a date

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