What important event did rip van winkle miss?

Answer 1

The American Revolution.

In the story by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle fell asleep while "the country was yet a province of Great Britain", likely sometime between 1769-1774, and awakes twenty years later, when George Washington is the nation's first president.

Answer 2

Here are some things that changed while Rip Van Winkle was in his "deep sleep"

After Rip awakens from his long sleep and returns to the village, he does not recognize the people he encounters. But not only their faces are new but also their fashions and the look of the village: It is larger, with rows of houses he had never seen. His own house is in a shambles now with no one living in it, and the inn he frequented is a hotel. His wife and old Vedder are dead. Others left the village and never came back. Everything is different, it seems; nothing is as it was. There has even been a revolutionary war in which America gained its independence from England and became a new country.

Answer 3

Rip Van Winkle fell asleep drinking whiskey with the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew

Answer 4

Rip Van Winkle missed the American Revolutionary War during his twenty-year nap. This war marked the colonies' fight for independence from British rule.