what is your country's most important year? 1776 arguments

I would argue 1789 since that's the year we adopted the Constitution and really became America. There was always the possibility after independence that the 13 colonies would break up or that we'd adopt a constitution that would have made America drastically different from what it is now.

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1809 when we lost binland :(

also 1721 we lose esti and other balkans :(

>1865
1861 was more important with the election of Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War. The North was always going to win the Civil War if they engaged in it. The decision to maintain the Union through war was the turning point in American history. Then again one could argue that the failure of all of the previous administrations up to that point to resolve the issue of slavery... whatever can't be bothered to type this shit out.

2017

When we left the EU.

>>70971172
681

>1581

When we decided to leave the HRE & Spain

>>70971215

Despite what the wiki bullet says, the constitution really "became effective" in Summer 1788, and not 1789. The March 4 1789 date simply refers to the assembly of the first congress, but the Constiuttion had already come into effect by its own language, together with the requisite ratifications, which as a direct consequence of such, the first tasks were to elect a functioning government, and later, to pass some laws (such as the Bill of Rights, well, recommending them to the states, anyway) and a bit later, to take a census. Everything that was happening from June 21 1788 through 1789, /and ever since/, was as a consequence of the fact that the Constitution had become official and binding Law.

The seventh and final article of the original US Constitution provides that the Constitution would be established upon "two thirds" of the original thirteen colonies, or nine colonies, ratifying, and that it would hold good as a form of government only among those ratifying states. New Hampshire became fateful number nine in the above Summer 1788, on June 21.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution

cont.

1810
1833
1891
1925
1973
1990

Relevant dates go like this:

1775-1783: American Revolutionary War

Summer 1776: Declaration of Independence, USA is a cunt

1777, creation of Articles of Confederation, 1781: ratification of AC as natl' govt.

mid-1780s: war is over, hm, this govt. kinda sucks, let's talk about a new govt.

1787: Constitution written up and agreed on by states

1787-90: Steady ratification of Constitution (eventually) by all 13 original colonies

1788: Constitution actually becomes Law per above

1789: Establishment of government. First Congress, First President. French Revolution. Bill of Rights language crafted and sent to States as one of the first pieces of important business of the first congress.

1790: 1790 Census, first ever national census, taken, as required by Constitution. Large-scale project. Happily falls on a "0" year so that every ten years, every census is a nice even number.

1791 (Dec 15): Ratification of ten amendments now known as "Bill of Rights". Basic "contemporaneous" Constitutional Frame + important first amendments complete. Vermont ratifies constitution, applies for admission to Union, becomes a State (the first new one), and establishes Union growing precedent.

Basically all of the important stuff immediately to do with the Constitution and the initial setup of permanent national govt. occurred from 1787 - 1791.

>>70971172

1917, obviously.

>>70972789
happy gommunist centennial btw

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>>70972582
>1810

1066 springs to mind.

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>>70971172
*2017

>>70971172
1776, 1789, and 1861-1865 are hallmarks t'bh

>A third of people who have ever lived were alive in the time the US Constitution was law