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Washington, D.C.

City

Capital of the United States since 1800, on the Potomac River.

View on map 38.90° N, 77.04° W Wikipedia

Held by

since 1789 United States de facto

Capital of

since November 17, 1800 United States

Events here 86

August 24–25, 1814 Burning of Washington
March 6, 1820 Missouri Compromise
December 2, 1823 Monroe Doctrine
January 24, 1826 Treaty of Washington (1826)
1832 – 1833 Nullification crisis
August 9, 1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty
May 24, 1844 First Morse telegraph line
June 15, 1846 Oregon Treaty
September 9–20, 1850 Compromise of 1850
1854 Canadian–American Reciprocity Treaty
May 30, 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act
March 6, 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford
January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
July 11–12, 1864 Battle of Fort Stevens
April 14, 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
December 6, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution
April 9, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866
May 31, 1870 Enforcement Act of 1870
1871 Treaty of Washington (1871)
February 28, 1871 Second Enforcement Act
April 20, 1871 Third Enforcement Act
March 1, 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875
July 2, 1881 Assassination of James A. Garfield
May 6, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
May 18, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
December 2, 1899 Tripartite Convention
1900 Treaty of Washington (1900)
November 18, 1901 Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
January 22, 1903 Hay–Herrán Treaty
November 18, 1903 Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
May 15, 1911 Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States
January 8, 1918 Fourteen Points
August 18, 1920 Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
November 1921 – February 1922 Washington Naval Treaty
November 12, 1921 – February 6, 1922 Washington Naval Conference
February 6, 1922 Nine-Power Treaty
July 28, 1932 Bonus Army
March 9, 1933 – 1939 New Deal
April 15, 1935 Roerich Pact
January 1, 1942 Declaration by United Nations
1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
March 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine
April 3, 1948 – December 31, 1951 Marshall Plan
April 4, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty
May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
December 1, 1959 Antarctic Treaty System
January 19, 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
July 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964
August 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965
January 27, 1967 Outer Space Treaty
April 11, 1968 Fair Housing Act
May 12 – June 24, 1968 Poor People's Campaign
July 1, 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
April 22, 1970 First Earth Day
June 19, 1970 Patent Cooperation Treaty
June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974 Watergate scandal
January 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade
March 3, 1973 CITES
March 26, 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty
April 10, 1979 Taiwan Relations Act
March 30, 1981 Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
January 13, 1982 Air Florida Flight 90
August 20, 1985 – March 4, 1987 Iran–Contra affair
December 8, 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
September 13, 1993 Oslo I Accord
January 1, 1994 – July 1, 2020 North American Free Trade Agreement
March 18, 1994 Washington Agreement
September 11, 2001 War on terror
September 18 – October 9, 2001 2001 anthrax attacks
November 4, 2008 2008 United States presidential election
November 14–15, 2008 2008 G20 Washington summit
September 16, 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting
June 26, 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges
November 8, 2016 2016 United States presidential election
January 21, 2017 2017 Women's March
March 24, 2018 – June 11, 2022 March for Our Lives
September 15, 2020 Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement
September 15, 2020 Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement
November 3, 2020 2020 United States presidential election
January 6, 2021 January 6 United States Capitol attack
July 9–11, 2024 2024 Washington NATO summit
November 5, 2024 2024 United States presidential election
January 29, 2025 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
February 28, 2025 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting