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High plateaus formed across North America during tectonic plate movement under Northern Canada.

Earliest evidence of human population on the American Continent, arriving from East-Asia.

The first recorded game of Golf is played in Scotland.

The Eastern Shoshone Peoples from Southeastern Wyoming migrate south en masse. Climatic cooling, known as the "Little Ice Age." sparks their journey. They settle in Buffalo Plains (Colorado, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico).

King James I commissions a new English translation of The Bible rewritten to emphasize his divine right to power. The newly invented printing press brings the Bible out of the church's sole control and into the hands of Protestant reformers who settle England's North American colonies. Adapted passages include:

"Genesis 1:26-28: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth."

Théorie et traité de jardinage is published. This hugely influential book lays out the principles of French Formal Gardens - a style of ornamental gardening intended to epitomize monarch and European "man" dominating and manipulating nature to show his authority, wealth, and power. Geometric plans, overlooking vantage points, straight lines of singular vegetation, and border walls are employed to assert dominion. These principles shape the design of both Golf Courses and European Slave Plantations in the coming centuries.

The first Golf game in America is played by European settlers of Fort Orange, near present-day Albany, New York.

nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche people) split from Shoshone Peoples, moving south and forming Comancheria, a territory with a population of 40,000.

Yamasee Communities - frustrated with losing their hunting grounds and the high debts they owed white settlers of South Carolina - formed a confederacy with other local tribes and forced colonists to flee.

"Cherokee Wars" begin from the valleys of Virginia to North Carolina and southward. Two peace treaties force the Cherokee to give up millions of acres of land to settlers, provoking them to fight for the British, hoping to keep what territory they had left.

Representatives from 13 former European colonies sign The Declaration of Independence, declaring themselves The United States of America.

In Comancheria, Disease and warfare incurred by contact with Spanish colonizers reduce nʉmʉnʉʉ population to 1,500.

Thomas Jefferson initiates The Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore and study lands obtained in the Louisiana Purchase. The excursion lasted over two years: Along the way, they confronted harsh weather, unforgiving terrain, treacherous waters, injuries, starvation, and disease in the American West.

The Seminoles, assisted by runaway slaves, defend Spanish Florida against the U.S. Army.

Seminoles fight to retain their land in the Florida Everglades. The U.S. Army massacres their entire population. Survivers agree to relocate to Indian Reservations in Oklahoma.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. It ends the Mexican-American War and results in the Mexican Cession of the northern territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México to the United States. Acknowledging the loss of Texas and recognizing the Rio Grande as Mexico's northern border.

James Knox Polk becomes the 11th president of the United States, campaigning on an expansionist platform that saw the United States spanning from coast to coast.

Under threat of genocide, The Mojave people submit to Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman of the U.S. Army.

The southern states that seceded create a government at Montgomery, Alabama, forming the Confederate States of America, with the express purpose of keeping African Americans enslaved.

President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Law of 1862, which encourages Western migration into Native American land by providing white settlers 160 acres of public land after five years of continued residency.

U.S. soldiers force 750 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho communities led by Chief Black Kettle to abandon their winter campsite near Fort Lyon in southeastern Colorado. When they set up camp at Sand Creek, volunteer Colorado soldiers attack, scattering them and slaughtering 148 men, women, and children.

Union general William T. Sherman issues Special Field Order No. 15, which confiscates as Union property a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's Sea Islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast. The order redistributed the roughly 400,000 acres of land to newly freed Black families in forty-acre segments.

U.S. government develops the Bozeman Trail through Native American territory to allow miners and settlers access to gold in Montana via the Powder River. For two years, an Native American coalition led by Lakota Chief Red Cloud attacks workers, settlers, and soldiers to save their native lands. The attacks are successful, and the U.S. Army leaves the area and signs the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner theorizes that the American frontier is the defining process of American History, transforming Europeans into Americans, whose values focus on equality, democracy, optimism, individualism, self-reliance, and violence.

White mobs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, many armed by police, murder hundreds of Black civilians and burn down the Greenwood Business district. An estimated 10,000 people are left homeless.

Golfer Bill Powell returns from serving in World War II and is denied play on public courses due to his skin color. In defiance, Powell builds Clearview Golf Club in Ohio, becoming the first African American professional golf course owner.

Joseph Wilson is born at Providence Saint Joseph Maternity Center, Los Angeles, to Brian and Selma Wilson.

John Ford directs How The West Was Won, an epic western chronicling four generations of American pioneers. Dozens of marquee names worked with over 12,000 extras, 630 horses, hundreds of horse-drawn wagons, and a stampede of 2,000 buffalo. 'How the West Was Won' garners three Oscars for best screenplay, film editing, and sound production. It is one of the only dramatic films produced in the spectacular, three-screen "Cinerama" format.

U.S.-led Apollo 11 space mission successfully lands the first man on the moon, beating Russia in a race to be the first extraterrestrial colonizers.

Richard Morgan serves his first tour in the Vietnam War with the US Marines under Operation Arch Light.

Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) accepts female members for the first time.

A USDA Report shows that Black people own less than 1% of the United States' rural land. The value of that land altogether is 14 billion dollars. The report shows that white people own 96% of rural land. It values United States agricultural land at 1.2 trillion dollars.

Ku Klux Klan leaders demonstrate in support of Augusta National Golf Club's right to refuse membership based on sex and ethnicity. Augusta National Golf Club is host to the Master's Tournament, one of four major championships in professional golf.

California suffers the worst drought since record-keeping began.

Joseph Wison and Richard Morgan cast their ballots for Donald Trump, who is elected 45th President of the United States. He immediately withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement.

President Trump appoints Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, as the Environmental Protection Agency head. Pruitt removes the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era policy aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production.

Joseph Wilson and Richard Morgan acompany artist and filmmaker Jonah King into the Mojave Desert where they attempt to play a game of golf. King documents this excursion, creating a new Cinerama-format film titled How The West Was Won.

Donald Trump is playing golf at the Trump National Golf Course in Virginia, when he is informed that Joe Biden has beaten him in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

During his time in office, Donald Trump spent an estimated $140,000,000 of taxpayer money on golf.