-
25,000 BCE
Humans Cross into the Americas
(25000-12000 BCE) -
11,000 BCE
Paleo-Indian Period
(11,000-9,000 BCE) -
2500 BCE
Hopewell-Adena cultures flourish
(2500 BCE - 400 AD)
Cahokia is a major city -
Sep 24, 1100
Overland Spice Trade
(1100s to 1400s) Europe-to-Asia flourishes, monopolized by Italian city-states like Venice -
Sep 24, 1300
Black Death ravages Europe
(1300) -
Sep 24, 1325
Aztec Empire
(1325 - 1500s) -
Sep 24, 1453
Ottoman Empire takes Constantinople
(1453) modern day Istanbul -
Sep 24, 1492
Columbus arrives in Americas
(1492) -
Sep 24, 1517
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
(1517) -
Jamestown founded
(1607) -
Pilgrims settle in Plymouth
(1620) later part of Massachusetts colony -
War between Jamestown and Powhatan Confederacy
1620s -
Puritans begin to settle Massachusetts Bay colony
(1630) -
Pequot War
(1636) mostly in Connecticut -
Quakers to Massachusetts and New England
(1650s) -
Large-scale switch to slave labor in the Chesapeake by planters
1670s-1690s -
Metacom’s War or King Philip’s War
(1675-1676) -
Bacon’s Rebellion
1676 -
Salem Witch Trials
(1690s)