CC Timeline

  • Period: 570 BCE to 497 BCE

    Pythagoras

  • Period: 540 BCE to 480 BCE

    Heraclitus

  • Period: 500 BCE to 428 BCE

    Anaxagoras

  • Period: 495 BCE to 435 BCE

    Empedocles

  • Period: 490 BCE to 420 BCE

    Protagoras

  • 470 BCE

    Socrates is Born

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

  • 428 BCE

    Plato is Born

    IN ATHENS
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle is Born

  • Period: 365 BCE to 275 BCE

    Pyrrho

  • 347 BCE

    Aristotle goes to Assos

    He left Athens
  • 342 BCE

    Aristotle is appointed tutor of Alexander the Great

  • Period: 341 BCE to 271 BCE

    Epicurus

  • 334 BCE

    Aristotle founded Lyceum

  • Period: 334 BCE to 262 BCE

    Zeno

  • 322 BCE

    Aristotle Dies

  • Period: 322 BCE to 384 BCE

    Aristotle

  • Period: 204 to 270

    Plotinus

  • 323

    Alexander the Great Dies

  • Period: 354 to 430

    Augustine

  • Period: 1225 to Mar 7, 1274

    Thomas Aquinas

  • Period: 1492 to 1504

    Columbus's four voyages

  • Period: 1492 to

    The City on the Hill

  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    Cortés conquers Mexico

  • Period: to

    Roanoke Island colony fails

  • Period: to

    René Descartes

  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

  • First Africans arrive in Virginia

  • Virginia House of Burgesses formed

  • Pilgrims found Plymouth, Massachusetts

  • Puritan migration to Massachusetts

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    John Locke

    "father of modern empiricism"
    how human knowledge is acquired and what we can know.
  • Calverts found Maryland

  • Period: to

    Pequot Indian War

  • Anne Hutchinson convicted of heresy

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  • Pennsylvania Settled

  • Massachusetts becomes a royal colony

  • Salem Witch Hunts

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    Queen Anne's War

  • England, Whales, and Scotland form the United Kingdom

    (Great Britain)
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    Colonial Adolescence

  • Period: to

    King George I's reign

  • Period: to

    George II's reign

  • Period: to

    The First Great Awakening

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Period: to

    Colonies No More

  • Boston Massacre

  • Proclamation of 1773

  • Boston Tea Party

    (and Tea Act)
  • First Continental Congress

  • Washington Appointed Commander in Chief

  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Newburgh Conspiracy

  • Treaty of Paris

  • The Federalist Papers

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Washington Elected

  • French Revolution Begins

  • Hamilton Issues Report on Public Credit

  • Washington Begins Second Term

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Gradual Manumission Act

    a work to end slavery.
  • Washington DC becomes nation's capital

  • Black Slavery Fully Entrenched

  • Jefferson is Elected President

  • War of 1812

    •Pointless war
    •No one really knows how/why it started.
    •Jackson was a 'hero' of the war
    •Britain was also fighting the Napoleonic​ wars.
  • Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812

    •The U.S was stubborn.
    •Britain eventually figured it was as good as they were gonna get.
    •Terms were iffy, they didn't stick.
  • James Monroe elected President

    •Pretty self-explanatory...
    •Monroe Doctrine
    "In his December 2, 1823, address to Congress, President James Monroe articulated United States' policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas and the role of Europe in the Western Hemisphere. ... European mercantilism posed the greatest obstacle to economic expansion"
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Florida Purchase​ greement between the USA and Spain. Negotiated by secretary of state John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onís, Spain gave up its land e of the Mississippi River and claims to the Oregon Territory; the US assumed debts of US$5 million and gave up claims to Texas.
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

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    In McCulloch v. Maryland, ​the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank.
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    Missouri Compromises

    The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    In his December 2, 1823, address to Congress, President James Monroe articulated United States' policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas and the role of Europe in the Western Hemisphere. ... European mercantilism posed the greatest obstacle to economic expansion.
  • American Fur Company establishes Fort Union on Mississippi River

    Between 1828 and 1867, Fort Union was the most important fur trade post on the Upper Missouri River.
  • Panic of 1837

    The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time.
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    Mexican American War

    The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
  • Zachary Taylor Elected President

    12th president of the US
  • Gold Discovered in California

    The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
  • Fugitive Slave Law is Passed

    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.
  • Taylor Dies in Office

  • Millard Fillmore Becomes President

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.