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Columbus landed in the Bahamas
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Treaty Of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
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Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain.
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Ponce de Leon explores Flordia
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Magellans fleet circumnavigates the world
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Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of north america
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Pizarro crushes the incas
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De Soto explores the Southeast and discovers the Mississippi River.
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
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the Spanish build a fort at St. Augustine
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Drake Circumnavigates the world
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England defeats the spanish armada
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James I becomes the king of england
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Spain and England sign peace treaty
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the Spanish form New Mexico
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Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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Charles II restores the throne
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North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
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New York slave revolt
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Georgia colony founded by James Edward Oglethorpe
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Johnathon Edwards begins the Great Awakening
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Zenger free-press trail in New York
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George Whitefield spreads the Great Awakening
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The war of Jenkin's Ear was started
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King George's war (War of Austrian Succession) started
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Princeton College was founded
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King George's war (War of Austrian Succession) ended
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Washington battles French on the frontier
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The French and Indian War was started
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General Braddock's defeat to the French
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Pitt emerges as the leader of the British government
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The battle of Quebec was fought between the English and the French
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Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures
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The French and Indian War was ended
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Peace of Paris ending the French and Indian War
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Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia
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Rutgers college founded
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american colonization society is formed
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Missouri Compromise
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vessey slave rebellion
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The Republic od Liberia is formed
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Publishes "appeal to the colored citizens of the world"
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Slave rebellion in virginia
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Garrison publishes the liberator
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Abolishes slavery in the west indies
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American anti-slavery society formed
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abolitionist students expelledfrom Lane Theological Seminary
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Post offices order destruction of abolitionist mail
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house of representatives passes the gag resolution
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canadian rebellion
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mob kills lovejoy in illnois
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Weld Publishes "american slavery as it is."
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Harrison dies and tyler take presidency
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aroostook war went over the maine state boundry
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polk defeats clay in manifest destiny election
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united states annexes texas
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The Nebraska bill was presented to senate with the new modifications made by Douglass.
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dispute over the texas mexico boundry
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Fremont conques california
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Mexicar War
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Treaty of guadalupe
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The New York Times was founded on September 18, 1851, by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond,
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Present day southen arizona was purchased from mexico to accomadate the new railway.
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Henry Clay's deathe causes the fall of the whig party.
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The four stroke or otto cycle engine was patented.
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Fredrick Douglass Publishes his Autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom.