{"slug": "united-states-navy", "label": "United States Navy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11220", "qid": "Q11220", "description": "maritime branch of the United States military", "entries": 51, "years": 37, "span": [1775, 2024], "span_label": ["1775 CE", "2024 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 16}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 12}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 8}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["American Navy", "U.S. Navy", "US Navy"], "related": [{"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tripoli-libya", "label": "Tripoli, Libya", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tokugawa-shogunate", "label": "Tokugawa shogunate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cuba", "label": "Cuba", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nanjing", "label": "Nanjing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kuomintang", "label": "Kuomintang", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chinese-communist-party", "label": "Chinese Communist Party", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-senate", "label": "United States Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lisbon", "label": "Lisbon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "newfoundland-island", "label": "Newfoundland (island)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later the United States Navy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#July–December", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1794, "year_label": "1794 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels; in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution will go into service (not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801189#January–March", "title": "1794", "revid": 1362801189, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1794, "year_label": "1794 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday .", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369765363#Events", "title": "1794 in the United States", "revid": 1369765363, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1797, "year_label": "1797 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – The first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States, is commissioned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310974#April–June", "title": "1797", "revid": 1368310974, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1798, "year_label": "1798 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – In the action of USS Delaware vs La Croyable, the newly-formed United States Navy makes its first capture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366050846#July–December", "title": "1798", "revid": 1366050846, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – First Barbary War: Action of 1 August 1801 – United States Navy schooner USS Enterprise captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca Tripoli off the north African coast, in a single-ship action.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370397745#July–September", "title": "1801", "revid": 1370397745, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Action of 1 August 1801 (First Barbary War): United States Navy schooner USS Enterprise captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca Tripoli off the north African coast in a single-ship action.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369642987#Events", "title": "1801 in the United States", "revid": 1369642987, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1803, "year_label": "1803 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – John Barry, officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, later in the United States Navy (b. 1745)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373209562#July–December", "title": "1803", "revid": 1373209562, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – Chesapeake–Leopard affair: British Royal Navy fourth rate HMS Leopard attacks and boards United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake off Norfolk, Virginia, seeking deserters. This act of British aggression plays a role in the run-up to the War of 1812.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733939#April–June", "title": "1807", "revid": 1362733939, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy signs the Treaty/Convention of Kanagawa with the Japanese government (the Tokugawa Shogunate), opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade (see History of Japan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369640866#January–June", "title": "1854 in the United States", "revid": 1369640866, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – The first United States Navy hospital ships enter service.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#December", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – The first U.S. Navy hospital ships enter service.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370943359#December", "title": "1862 in the United States", "revid": 1370943359, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#January", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy football game.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340164393#July–December", "title": "1890 in the United States", "revid": 1340164393, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1891, "year_label": "1891 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 - United States Navy admiral George Brown convinces the Congressionalist Junta to give up the Itata.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243705836#Events", "title": "1891 in Chile", "revid": 1243705836, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 28", "text": "February 28 – USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to other nation's battleships of the time, is launched.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#February", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#April", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365817309#April–June", "title": "1898 in the United States", "revid": 1365817309, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Spanish–American War: Battle of Santiago de Cuba – The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Navy's Caribbean Squadron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367547011#July", "title": "1898", "revid": 1367547011, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#Date_unknown", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – WWI: U.S. Navy destroyer USS Jacob Jones is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of the British Isles by German submarine SMU U-53, killing 66 crew in the first significant American naval loss of the war, the first ever U.S. destroyer loss to an enemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#December", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#May", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#March", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#September–October", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Honda Point Disaster: Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367778119#July–September", "title": "1923 in the United States", "revid": 1367778119, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#March", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – United States Navy submarine USS S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#December", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1938, "year_label": "1938 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 13", "text": "13 February – Nineteen people die when Sydney ferry the Rodney, carrying 150 passengers, capsizes in Sydney Harbour while farewelling US Navy cruiser USS Louisville.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352789423#Events", "title": "1938 in Australia", "revid": 1352789423, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – WWII: Destroyer USS Reuben James, on convoy escort, is accidentally torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#October", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – The USS Langley, first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, is attacked by 9 Japanese bombers while ferrying a cargo of USAAF P-40 fighters to Java. Langley is so badly damaged that she has to be scuttled to avoid falling into Japanese hands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#February", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – The first African-American seamen are taken into the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#May", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign – The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps start the first American offensive of the war, with an amphibious landing on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#August", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 11", "text": "October 11 – WWII: Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet, on their way to reinforce troops on the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#October", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#November", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 – WWII: Battle of Tassafaronga – In a nighttime naval battle as part of the Guadalcanal campaign, ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy defeat those of the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#November", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Two K-class blimps of the United States Navy complete the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airships, from the U.S. to French Morocco, with two stops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#June", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the GS U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the War of 1812. Some significant intelligence data is acquired.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#June", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 5", "text": "December 5 – Flight 19 of United States Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers disappears on a training exercise from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#December", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1946, "year_label": "1946 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Homeless families from Derry begin to occupy the former United States Navy Springtown Camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1296374329#Events", "title": "1946 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1296374329, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#September", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air), and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#October", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, is launched to measure cloud cover for the United States Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#February", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder – The United States Air Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South Vietnamese air force begin a 31/2-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#March–April", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea. Carl Brashear, the first African-American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter, which results in the amputation of his leg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#January", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A USAF B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea. Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter which results in the amputation of his leg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372684849#January", "title": "1966 in the United States", "revid": 1372684849, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – USS Liberty incident: a United States Navy spy ship is attacked by Israeli forces, allegedly in error, killing 34 crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#June", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 3", "text": "3 June – Melbourne-Evans collision – The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. 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No one died.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#November", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 24", "text": "24 September – The United States Navy vessel USNS Big Horn runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman after replenishing the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275907966#Events", "title": "2024 in Oman", "revid": 1275907966, "section": "Events"}}]}