American History 1

By sarai.glez
  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE

    Crossed through Beringia

    Native Americans crossed the land bridge through Beringia into North America.
  • 650 BCE

    Slaves revolt in Sparta

  • 600 BCE

    Greeks perform in early plays

  • 594 BCE

    Solon becomes leader of Athens

  • 507 BCE

    Athens becomes a democracy

  • 459 BCE

    Aeschylus writes the Oresteia

  • 331 BCE

    Astronomy advancement, Euclid and geometry, Archimedes & physics

  • 264 BCE

    Rome rules the entire Italian Peninsula

  • 219 BCE

    Hannibal

    a soldier who became general of the Carthaginian army in Spain.
  • 107 BCE

    Marius

    army leaders came to power in Rome. First, the general Marius did in 107 B.C. and he saved Rome from attack by Germanic tribes
  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar gets assassinated

  • 14

    Augustus Caesar dies

  • 128

    Architecture, engineering and science

    Appian Way
  • 180

    Pax Romana ends

  • 330

    Constantine builds city of Constantinople

  • 395

    Roman Empire splits

  • 400

    Emperors & empresses were crowned by the patriarch of Contantinople

  • 400

    End of the Western Empire

  • 409

    Romans abandon Britain

  • Period: 410 to 476

    Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals invaded Italy

  • Period: 475 to 1500

    Economic growth

    long-distance trade, the rise of guilds, and the emergence of a middle class
  • feudal system
    476

    feudal system

  • 476

    German solider Odoacer seizes Rome

    overthrew the young emperor
  • Period: 476 to 1520

    Middle Ages

  • 570

    Birth of Muhammad

  • Period: 622 to

    Historical jihads

  • Islamic conquests by 750 A.D
    750

    Islamic conquests by 750 A.D

  • 768

    Charlemagne becomes Frankish king

  • Period: 798 to 1000

    Viking invasion

  • 900

    Trade decline and economic collapse during invasion

  • Holy Roman Empire
    961

    Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: 962 to

    Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: 1000 to 1150

    Architecture develops into Gothic style

  • 1094

    Crusades

  • 1095

    Exposed to advanced mathematics, science, and philosophy during the Crusades

  • 1095

    Crusaders brought back textiles, spices, and other techniques

  • East Slavic lands occupied
    1100

    East Slavic lands occupied

  • Gengis Khan invasion and becomes ruler of all Mongol tribes
    1206

    Gengis Khan invasion and becomes ruler of all Mongol tribes

  • 1300

    Humanism thought in the Renaissance

  • 1300

    Scientific and artistic thoughts

    (Figures I learned about like Joahn Kepler, Dante, Michealangelo etc.)
  • Period: 1300 to

    Italian Renaissance

  • 1400

    Prehistory

  • 1453

    Eastern Orthodox religion

  • Columbus reaches the Bahamas
    1492

    Columbus reaches the Bahamas

  • Mercantillism
    1500

    Mercantillism

  • Period: 1516 to

    Reformation

  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses

  • 1527

    Henry VIII establishes Church of England

  • Jamestown founded

    Jamestown founded

    England’s first permanent colony in North America.
  • Starving Time

    Starving Time

    Jamestown colonists died from no food, sickness, horrible leaders, and wars between Indians. They did not receive the food supplies from the Virginia Colony.
  • Plymouth

    Plymouth

    Puritans, Separatists, and Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower.
  • Stamp Tax

    Stamp Tax

    Tax on legal documents, playing cards, newspapers etc.
  • Period: to

    King Phillip's War

  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    Hysteria occurs in Salem, Massechusetts, where two girls frame several people as witches. (many were prosecuted)
  • Period: to

    William Wilberforce

    ended British slave trade, was part of the Evangelical cause
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • U.S. Constitution signed

    U.S. Constitution signed

  • Start of French Revolution

  • The Three Estates

    Clergy, Nobles, and Commoners (hierarchy of pre-revolutionary France, where their conflict over power, taxes, and rights was central to the French Revolution)

  • End of French Revolution

  • Napoleon and the beginnings of "nationalism"

  • Period: to

    Age of Imperialism

    Three ways:
    colonies, a protectorate, and a sphere of influence

  • Eli Whitney (cotton gin)

  • Beginnings of socialism

  • Labor unions started-late 1800s

    Labor unions started-late 1800s

  • Period: to

    Lord Shaftesbury

    Evangelical leader, promoted laws to limit working hours for women children.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • Samuel Morse (morse code???) jk obvi

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

  • Claude Monet

  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • Gold Rush begins

    Gold Rush begins

  • Louis Pasteur

    learned why Jenner's vaccination worked. discovered bacteria/germs and that they cause infectious diseases
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

  • Vincent van Gogh

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Gregor Mendel

    his work became the basis of genetics, science of heredity
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • Period: to

    Homesteading the plains

  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

  • Period: to

    Cattle drives in Great Plains

  • Alaska Purchased

    Alaska Purchased

  • First transcontinental railroad

    First transcontinental railroad

  • Sues Canal opens

    Sues Canal opens

  • Period: to

    Massive immigration to America

  • Carnegie builds steel mill

    Carnegie builds steel mill

  • Period: to

    Plains Wars

  • Guglielmo Marconi (wireless telgraph)

  • First telephone conversation—Alexander Graham Bell

    First telephone conversation—Alexander Graham Bell

  • Period: to

    Jim Crow Laws created

  • Period: to

    Progressive Era

  • The Panic of 1893

    The Panic of 1893

  • Period: to

    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

    Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

  • U.S gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands

    U.S gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands

  • United States has become a world power

    United States has become a world power

  • U.S takes over Panama Canal constuction

    U.S takes over Panama Canal constuction

  • Theodore Roosevelt become President

    Theodore Roosevelt become President

  • Wright brothers make first airplane flight

    Wright brothers make first airplane flight

  • Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

    Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

  • Start of WW1

    Immediate causes: Assassination of Archduke
    Other factors:
    Militarism (the glorification of war and the military), Alliances (Triple Alliance)
  • U.S.. opens the Panama Canal

    U.S.. opens the Panama Canal

  • End of WW1

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    U.S ENTERS WAR
    battle of Somme and Verdun
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

  • Period: to

    World-wide depression

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • United Nations established

    in San Francisco
  • First atomic bomb exploded

    First atomic bomb exploded

  • Beginning of Cold War

    Beginning of Cold War

  • Communists proclaim the People's Republic of China

    The defeated Nationalists fled to the offshore island of Taiwan where they set up the new capital of the Republic of China at Taipei.
  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • American occupation of Japan ended

  • North Korea and South Korea sign truce

  • Cuban Revolution

  • Assasination of President Kennedy

    Assasination of President Kennedy

  • United States and China established diplomatic ties

  • Collapse of Communism in Europe

    Collapse of Communism in Europe

  • End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union

    End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union

  • The European Union (EU)

  • Formation of the Europe Union

    Formation of the Europe Union

  • Terrorists attack American landmarks

    Terrorists attack American landmarks

  • Period: to

    Iraq War

  • Election of President Barack Obama

    Election of President Barack Obama

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