US History - Timeline So Far

Chapter 1

Timeline of US History

1200

1492

1519

7000 BC

Rise of Mali & Benin

Columbus makes his first voyage to America

Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico

Agriculture develops in Mexico & the Andes

1400

1502

1528

900

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) League established

First African slaves transported to the Caribbean

Las Casas writes his first volume on the mistreatment of natives.

Ancestral Publoans and Huhugam build planned towns

Chapter 1

Timeline of US History

1608

1610

1530

Champlain establishes Quebec

Santa Fe established

Pizarro's conquest of Peru

1609

1680

1542

Hudson claims New Netherland

Pueblo Revolt

Spain proclaims the New Laws

Chapter 2

Timeline of US History

1607

1619

1624

1215

Jamestown established

First Africans arrive in VirginiaHouse of Burgesses

Virginia becomes first royal colony

Magna Carta

1610-1614

1620

1630s

1584-1590

First Anglo-Powhatan War

Pilgrims found Plymouth

Great Migration to New England

English attempt to colonize Roanoke

Chapter 2

Timeline of US History

1636

1637

1649

1630

Roger Williams banished to Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson Trial

Maryland adopts an Act Concerning Religion

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded

1636-1637

1642-1651

1662

1632

Pequot War

English Civil War

Puritans' Half-Way Covenant

Maryland founded

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Timeline of US History

1670

1676

1682

1651

First English settlers arrive in Carolina

Bacon's Rebellion

Charter of Liberty drafted by William Penn

First Navigation Act issued

1675-1676

1677

1683

1664-1674

King Philip's War

Covenant Chain alliance

Charter of Liberties & Privileges drafted by New York

Anglo-Dutch Wars (New Amsterdam becomes New York)

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Timeline of US History

1689

1692

1729-1730

1686-1689

Parliament enacts a Bill of Rights

Salem Witch Trials

Natchez War

Dominion of New England

1691

1705

1737

1688

Plymouth Colony absorbed into Massachusetts

Virginia passes slave code

Walking Purchase

Glorious Revolution in England

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Timeline of US History

1728

1732

1739

1707

Pennsylvania Gazette published

Georgia colony founded

Stono Rebellion

Act of Union Created in Great Britain

1730s

1735

1741

1712

Beginnings of the Great Awakening

John Peter Zenger tried for libel

Rumors of slave revolt in New York

Slave uprising in New York City

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Timeline of US History

1756-1763

1764

1789

1749

Seven Years' War

Paxton farmers march on Philadelphia

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano published

Virginia awads land to the Ohio Company

1763

1769

1754

Pontiac's WarProclamation of 1763

Father Serra establishes the first mission in California

Albany Plan of Union proposed

Chapter 5

Timeline of US History

1765

1768

1773

1760

Stamp ActSons of Liberty organized

British troops stationed in Boston

Tea ActBoston Tea Party

George III assumes the British throne

1767

1770

1774

1764

Townshend ActDaughters of Liberty organized

Boston Massacre

Intolerable ActsFirst Continental Congress

Sugar Act

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Timeline of US History

1775

1777

1779

1783

Battle of Saratoga

Sullivan Expedition

Treaty of Paris

Battles of Lexington & ConcordSecond Continental Congress

1776

1778

1781

Thomas Paine's The Common SenseDeclaration of Independence

Treaty with France

Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

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Timeline of US History

1770s

1777

1782

1700

Slaves begin presenting freedom petitions

Vermont state constitution bans slavery

Deborah Sampson enlists in the Continental army

Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph, first antislavery tract in America

1776

1779

1783

1765

Adam Smith's The Wealth of NationsJohn Adam's Thoughts on Government

Jefferson writes Bill of Establishing Religious Freedom

Freeman's and Walker's freedom suits end slavery in Massachusetts

Phillis Wheatley published her first poem

Chapter 7

Timeline of US History

1783

1785

1787

1781

Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution

Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

Constitutional ConventionNorthwest Ordinance of 1787

Articles of Confederation ratified

1784-1785

1786-1787

1788

1782

Land Ordinances approved

Shays's Rebellion

The FederalistConstitution Ratified

Letters from an American Farmer

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Timeline of US History

1794

1808

1790

Little Turtle defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers

Congress prohibits the slave trade

Naturalization ActFirst national census

1795

1791

Treaty of Greenville

Bill of Rights ratified

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Timeline of US History

1793

1797

1789

1791-1804

First federal fugitive slave law

Inaguration of John Adams

Inauguration of George Washington

Haitian Revolution

1792

1794

1798

1791

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Whiskey RebellionJay's Treaty

XYZ AffairAlien and Sedition Acts

First Bank of the United States

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Timeline of US History

1804-1806

1812-1815

1800

1801-1805

Lewis & Clark Expedition

War of 1812

Gabriel's Rebellion

First Barbary War

1803

1809

1814

1801

Louisiana Purchase

Inauguration of James Madison

Treaty of GhentHartford Convention

Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 9

Timeline of US History

1814

1825

1793

1806

Waltham Textile Factory

Erie Canal Opens

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

Congress Approves Funds for National Road

1807

1819

1831

1790s-1830s

Robert Fulton's Steamboat

Dartmouth College v. WoodwardAdams-Onis Treaty with Spain

Cyrus McCormick's Reaper

Second Great Awakening

Chapter 9

Timeline of US History

1854

1837

1845

Henry David Thoreau's Walden

John Deere's Steel PlowDepression Begins

John L. Sullivan coins "manifest destiny"

1845-1851

1844

Ireland's Great Famine

Telegraph put into commercial operation