History Timeline A (Kai G.) By RunAwayProdigy Period: 1450 to 1950 History Timeline 1492 Discovery of America by Colombus 1604 Settlement of Jamestown 1754 French and Indian War 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 Declaration of Independence 1781 Battle of Yorktown 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Invention of Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1812 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson's Election 1828 Invention of electric light 1830 Trail of Tears 1837 Invention of Telegram 1837 Panic of 1837 1846 Mexican American War 1850 Compromise of 1850 1861 Firing of Fort Sumter 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Battle of Appomattox Court House 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865 13th Amendment 1868 14th Amendment 1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 1870 15th Amendment 1870 Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1875 Invention of telephone 1892 Pullman and homestead Strikes 1898 Spanish American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Presidency 1903 Invention of airplane