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Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies.
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Columbus is given royal permission to equipt his fleet of ships.
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Columbus sets sail from Palo's Spain
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John Cabot discovers it
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Vasco De Balboa crosses the isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific ocean.
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Spanish Conquer the Mayan people
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Defeated by Hernan Cortez
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Hernando de Soto discovered it strengthening Spanish hold on North America.
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Sir Walter Raleigh founds it the first english colony
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Jamestown founded by John Smith. Major crop was tobacco.
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Slavery is introduced to Virginia
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present day New York City founded as new amsterdam
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Founded
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founded
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founded by Thomas Hooker
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Founded by Roger Williams
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founded
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Escalates to full warfare.
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Captured by the English throught the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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present day Charleston
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Led by Nathanial Bacon the Virgina colonist were sick of the kind treatment of indians so they took matters into their own hands. They started to attack them and rebel.
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Founded by William Penn
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Phildelphia opens "Pest House" to quarentine immigrants.
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First Jockey Club is formed in South Carolina
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John Zenger is arrested for Libel against New York Governer.
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first opera house opened in Charleston, South Carolina
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Jury removes blame of John Zenger for what he said about the govener.
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Runner Edward Marshell finished the walking purchase. bought 1.2 milliion acres from the Lenape- Delaware Indians. It all went to the Pennslyvania colony.
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Pennslyvania and Maryland signs treaty to end the dispute of boundries and exchanges prisioners.
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French explorer Veredrye reaches the shores of Lake Michigan.
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Slaves rebelled in Stono South Carolina. Led by Jemmy, 25 whites were killed.
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Andrew Bedford publishes the first US magazine called "American Magazine"
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Benjamin Franklin works on getting his magazine published.
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Captain Bering sails to America.
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He discovers it in Alaska.
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Danish explorer Vitus Bering finds Alaska
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Wilhelm KH Frisco tests his mother's potatoes
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"The Christian History" is created.
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America's first town hall meeting, taking place at Boston's Fanuile Hall.
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The colonials capture Louisburg from the French.
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Princeton Univerisy Recieves it's charter
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The Church is created.
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Created in Philidelpia
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First Shakespean play to be performed in America, Richard III
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Founded as a French trading post by Pierre LaClade Ligue
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John wilkes gets thrown out of the House of Commons after writing an essay on women.
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First medical colleges opens up in Philadelphia
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Patrick Henry delievers speech against stamp act
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Stamp Act Congress meets in New York
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Stamp act congress writes the declaration of rights
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Miss Abigail Smith maried Mr. Johm Adams
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They refuse to pay the stamp act
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Govener of New Jersy, William Franklin, signs for Queens College
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Britain disbands the duty of tea imports to the America
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Finally agreed on by PA amd MD
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first mustard maunfactured in the usa
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first fire insurance company formed
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First published patrotic song
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Dr. John Archer
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1st methodist church
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Exploration of Kentucky
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John Harris builids a spinet piano
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Finally recieves its charter
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Vermont becomes independent from New York
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The American Flag is flown for the first time in Battle. Cooch's brigde in New Castle County, Delaware is where it first flew.
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The Articles of Confederation are adopted by Congress
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in response to burgoynes surrender our nation has it's first national thanksgiving day!
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spain declares war on britian with US support
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Ben Franklin invents the Bifocals
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US Congress decides on Dollar for our currency
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At 16 he graduated and was 42 in his class of 51. He was graduating from a militatry acadamy
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both were adopted by congress
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takes place in Sprinfield, Massachusetts
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the Revolution starts up, the Assembly of Notables is convoked
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Arthur St. Clair was elected under the Articles of Confederation
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The rebellion was put down
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The society is formed in Philadelphia, Pennslyvani
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is Drawn up in Phildelphia
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is proposed at Constituional convention
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Steamboat patent issued
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Thanks to New Hampshire for Ratifying
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Written By WH Brown "The Power of Symphay" is the first American Novel.
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for George Washington
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James Madison Introduces it the House of Representives
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battle of new orleans ended the war, but nobody knew
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first oil deposit found in the US
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They have the right to review State court cases
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Charter renewed for bank of US
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10' snowfall in New England
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founded on this day!
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First savings bank created
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Indiana becomes the 19th state
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Founded!
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First school for the Deaf
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Opened in Philadelphia, but now it is named friend Hostpitol.
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Erie Canal begins construction
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First show, held in Mississippi
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Begins in Florida
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Performs in NYC
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academican created in NYC
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First Immigration Law passed in USA
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created in NYC
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first printing press in Hawaii!
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African Colony made by Americans
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Settled by free blacks
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Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morge is published
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Alabama licenses Dentists
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven is published
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Held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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16th president
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