American History By Renisa Rivera-Williams 1492 Discovery of New Land 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 1607 History of Jamestown 1619 The 1619 Landing 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony 1660 The British Parliament 1691 Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges 1735 The Trial of John Peter Zenger 1754 The French vs the Indians 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 1764 The Sugar & Stamp Acts 1765 Uproar over the Stamp Act 1765 Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress 1765 The Stamp Act Controversy 1767 Colonists Respond to the Townshend Acts 1768 Colonial Women Spin for Liberty 1770 The Boston Massacre 1770 Boston Massacre: Declaratory & Townshend Acts 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 The First Continental Congress 1775 The Shot Heard Round the World 1775 The Second Continental Congress 1776 4th of July was Born 1776 Common Sense 1781 The End of the Revolutionary War 1781 The Articles of Confederation 1783 Peace of Paris 1783 Treaty of Paris after Revolutionary War 1784 Empress of China and the Start of US-China Trade 1786 Shay’s Rebellion in Massachusetts 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1788 The Day the Constitution was ratified 1789 Presidency of George Washington