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Aug 26, 2019 · If you believe the age of the United States should be counted from when Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America, landing on the ‘uninhabited’ (if you don’t count the somewhere between 8 million and 112 million Native Americans) shores of North America, then the United States is 529 years old.
Feb 26, 2024 · As of February 2024, the United States of America is officially 247 years old, but the human history of the nation’s land predates the country’s formation by tens of thousands of years. And that history shouldn’t be ignored.
- Austin Harvey
Jul 18, 2021 · Although the US is 245 years old as of 2021, the country has existed for more than 2.5 centuries. The first Native Americans migrated to North America long before the Declaration of Independence.
- John Misachi
Dec 16, 2019 · The United States of America declared independence from Britain on July 4, 1776. Which means it is 243 years old.
- John Misachi
The United States of America was founded in 1776, making the country 243 years old as of 2019. The earliest history of what is now America occurred when the land was settled by indigenous people before 15,000 B.C.
Let’s start with the official age of 240-250. Relatively speaking, the USA is a very young country. The United States of America became an official country in its own right on July 4th, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence following the War of Independence. 4th of July celebrations.
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In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the colonies as the "United States of America". Led by General George Washington, it won the Revolutionary War. The Paris peace treaty of 1783 established the borders of the new sovereign state.
