Year |
Flag |
Info |
1776 |
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January 1 - The Grand Union flag
is displayed on Prospect Hill. It has 13 alternate
red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in
the upper left-hand corner (the canton). |
1776 |
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May - Betsy Ross reports that she sewed the first
American flag. |
1777 |
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June 14 - Continental Congress adopts
the following: Resolved: that the flag of the United
States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white;
that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue
field, representing a new constellation.(stars represent
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire,
Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island) |
1795 |
|
Flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes
(Vermont, Kentucky) |
1818 |
|
Flag with 20 stars and 13 stripes
(it remains at 13 hereafter) (Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana,
Indiana, Mississippi) |
1819 |
|
Flag with 21 stars
(Illinois) |
1820 |
|
Flag with 23 stars (Alabama, Maine)
first flag on Pikes Peak. |
1822 |
|
Flag with 24 stars (Missouri) |
1836 |
|
Flag with 25 stars (Arkansas) |
1837 |
|
Flag with 26 stars (Michigan) |
1845 |
|
Flag with 27 stars (Florida) |
1846 |
|
Flag with 28 stars (Texas) |
1847 |
|
Flag with 29 stars (Iowa) |
1848 |
|
Flag with 30 stars (Wisconsin) |
1851 |
|
Flag with 31 stars (California) |
1858 |
|
Flag with 32 stars (Minnesota) |
1859 |
|
Flag with 33 stars (Oregon) |
1861 |
|
Flag with 34 stars; (Kansas)
Note: Even after the South seceded from the Union, President
Lincoln would not allow any stars to be removed from
the flag. |
1861 - 1863 |
|
First National Confederate States of
America Flag "Stars and Bars"
• first Confederate States of America Flag
adopted in Montgomery, Alabama |
1861 - 1865 |
|
Confederate States of America Battle Flag |
1861 - 1865 |
|
The "Confederate Flag", a 20th
century combination of the Battle Flag's colors with
the Second Navy Jack's design, despite its never having
historically represented the CSA as a nation, has become
a widely recognized symbol of the South. |
1863 |
|
Flag with 35 stars (West Virginia) |
1863 - 1865 |
|
Second National Confederate States of
America Flag |
1865 |
|
Flag with 36 stars (Nevada) |
1865 |
|
Third National Confederate States of America Flag |
1867 |
|
Flag with 37 stars (Nebraska) |
1877 |
|
Flag with 38 stars (Colorado) |
1889 |
Flag with 39 stars that
never was! Flag manufacturers believed that the two
Dakotas would be admitted as one state and so manufactured
this flag, some of which still exist. It was never
an official flag. |
1890 |
|
Flag with 43 stars (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
Washington, Idaho) |
1891 |
|
Flag with 44 stars (Wyoming) |
1896 |
|
Flag with 45 stars (Utah) |
1908 |
|
Flag with 46 stars (Oklahoma) |
1912 |
|
Flag with 48 stars (New Mexico, Arizona) |
1959 |
|
Flag with 49 stars (Alaska) |
1960 |
|
Flag with 50 stars (Hawaii) |
???? |
|
Proposed flag with 51 stars, to be used if a 51st
state is added. |