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Christopher Columbus arrives in America.
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Spain and Portugal didved the New World.
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Vasco Nunez Balboa claimed the pacific for his king
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Ferdinand Magellan begins a voyage around the world with five small ships.
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Hernan lays seige to and captures the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan
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The only surviving ship from the group of five sent out by Magellan returns, completing its trip around the globe.
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Francisco Pizzaro conqueres the Incas in Peru.
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This was the first attempt at colonization in the New World
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the Virginia Company established the Jamestown colony.
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The Spanish battled and defeated the Pueblo poeples
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Lord De La Warr arrives with a relreif party to aid the Jamestown settlers.
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War breaks out between the English settlers and the Powhatan Indians.
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A dutch ship brings the first African slaves to the colonies.
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Lord Baltimore travels to the New World and founds the Maryland colony
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This act garunteed religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland colony.
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Egnlad secures more land for plantations and production of sugar.
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Carolina is founded and named sfter King Charles II
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The Tuscarora indian tribe attacked the North Carolina town of Newbern. They settlers were aided by other colonies and crushed the Tuscaroras.
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North Carolina becomes a seperate colony
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The Georgia colony, named for King George II is founded and was the last of the thirteen orginal colonies
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Johnathan Edwards begins a new style of preaching that starts a regilious revival.
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John Peter Zengrer is arrested for critizing the governor in his newspaper.
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Over 50 angry African slaves tried to march to spanish controled Florida.
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War breaks out between England and Spain, causing hostility between colonists and Spaniards.
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Parliament passes the Iron Act to limit the iron industry in the colonies.
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Parliament passed the Currency Act which prevented the colonies from issuing paper money.
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Washigton builds fort Necessity during french-Indian.
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War breaks out because of land disputes.
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General Braddock brings two regiments of English troops to the colonies to assist in the war.
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Gen. Braddock and George Washington are deafeated by the french and their Indian allies.
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Due to the french-Indian wars in the colonies, England declares war on France.
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Nearly 2000 men were killed during this battle near Lake George in New York.
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the first indian reservation is established in New Jersey
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The English capture the French fort Niagara
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The British defeat the French and gain control of Canada
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War between the Cherokee indians and the southern settlers begins
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The population in the American colonies reaches 1.5 million
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The Treaty of Paris ends the french and Indian War
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King George III signs the Proclamation od 1763, prohibiting any settlment west of the Alleghenies.
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Taxed the colonists for the French and Indian Wars
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Tax on documents and printed papers such as flyers and newspapers
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The Sons of Liberty join together to fight taxation without representation.
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Parliament is forced to repeal the Stamp Act.
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Acts proposed by Charles Townshend that taxed things such as glass, paper, and paint.
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Clash between townspeople and redcoats, resulting in the death of about eleven citizens.
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Samuel Adams forms the committees of correspondance.
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An angry mob swarmed British ships and emptied 342 tea chests into the harbor.
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Series of Acts passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts.
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This Act expanded the Qubec territory for England's French subjects.
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The Continental Congress meets for the first time in Philadelphia.
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British troops march on Lexington and Concord to sieze gunpowder and weapons from the colonists.
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The Continental Congress meets for the second time, and names George Washington leader of military forces.
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Colonists seized Bunker Hill and attacked British forces.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed by Congress, declaring America a free nation.
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France begins aiding the colonists against the British by supplying them with weapons, money, and naval aid.
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The Georgia colony was overrun with British troops who then moved on the South Carolina.
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Gen. Bedendict Arnold turned into a traitor. He plotted to sell out West Point.
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Cut off by French ships and surrounded by French troops and colonists, British Gen. Cornwallis surrendered.
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This oeace treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War, and Britain recognized the United States as independent.
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Delegates from the colonies met to draft a constitution.
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Ordinance that created and organized the Northwest Territory.
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The federalist papers are published.
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George Washington is elected the first president of the U.S.
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John Adams takes office as the second president.
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Four seperate acts that made sedition illegal along with giving the president power to deport any alien person who is considered dangerous.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ran against each other for the spot of president
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Thomas Jefferson becomes president
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The Lousiana Teritory was purchased form France.
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James Monroe is elected president of the U.S.
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The Rush-Bagot treaty is signed, limiting the amount of military forces near the Great lakes.
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The 49th parallel is established as the border between the U.S, and Canada
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Henry Clay's Missouri compromise bill is passed.
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A group of free blacks found the colony of Liberia.
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Florida is added as a U.S. territory
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs is established. It s purpose was to regulate trade with Indian tribes.
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John Quincy Adams became the new president of the United States, with John C. Calhoun as his vice president.
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Joseph Smith claims that he was given golden plates by anangel, that translated into the Book of Mormon.
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Daniel Webster publishes the his dictionary
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South Carolina declares nullification of federal law within its borders, in opposition to the Tariff of Abominations
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Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as president
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Joseph Smith organizes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion, killing 57 people.
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The first wagon train on the Oregon Trail departs
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President Jackson signed the force bill, which gave him authority to send troops to South Carolina in necessary.
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Stephen Austin, the founder of Texas, is improsoned by the Mexican government
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A CHerokee tribe was forced to give up its land after gold was found there.
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Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph from Baltimore to Washington.
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Congress took a vote to annex Texas
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The first conflict in the war with Mexico occurs between Gen. Taylor and Mexican troops.
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General Winfield Scott takes Vera Cruz leading to the capture of Mexico City.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the war with Mexico and securing California and all of Texas for the U.S.
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The Compromise of 1850 admits CAlifornia as a state and adds Utah and New Mexico as territories
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Commodore Matthew C. Perry travels to Japan to negotiate trade between Japan and the U.S.
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The U.S. purchases 29,640 square miles of land from Mexico
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law, allowing the issue of slavery to be decided by settlers.
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SC Congressman Preston Brooks attacks Senator Charles Sumner with his cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate.
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The Supreme Court rules that a slave is not made free when transported to a free state.
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Edwin L. Drake strikes oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. His well is the first used for commercial use.
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Abolitionist John Brown with 21 other men raid the U.S. Armory in Harper's Ferry.
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The Pony Express, a mail carrying service is started in Sacremento, Ca.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president. He becomes the sixteenth president, and will go on the guid the nation through one of its darkest times.
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In response to the election of Lincoln as president, South Carolina secedes from the Union.
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A convention was held in Montgomery, Alabama to establish the C.S.A.
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Fort Sumter is bombarded by Confederate forces for 36 hours straight
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The USS Monitor wona battle against the Confederate ship The Merrimack. This was the first battle between iron war ships, after this battle wooden warships were replaced.
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After the union victory at Antietam, President Lincoln delivers his Emancipation Proclimation, wich proclaimed all slaves in Confederate states free.
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The battle of Gettysburg begins, at the end of the battle the South retreated, but over 51,000 lives were lost
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Grant of the Union at Appomattox Courthouse
