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Spaniard Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in the Bahamas.
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Spain and Portugal sign a treaty dividing land between the two.
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Juan Ponce de León explores what he first thought was an island, but what turned out to be present day Florida.
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Hernán Cortés takes control over Mexico and the Aztecs.
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Ferdinand Magellan's last remaining vessel returns home without him after circumnavigating around the world
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Francisco Pizarro crushes the Incas in South America
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Elizabeth, the protestant, is crowned Queen of England
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The English crush the uprising almost immediatley after it starts.
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Spanish built this fortress to protect sea lanes to the Caribbean
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Francis Drake returns home with a ship full of Spanish treasure
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After many English failures, Spain was defeated at sea by the English and what they called the protestant wind.
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Don Juan de Onate and his army of Spaniards ruthlessly mistreat the Pueblo people they encounter
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James I is crowned King of England
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England and Spain sign a peace treaty which produced the opportunity for English growth
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Colony that was formed with nearly 100 English, male settlers
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Virginia becomes the royal colony and the English saw the Indians there as useless
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After having Oliver Crumwell, the English behead Charles
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Passed by the local representative assembly and quarenteed tolleration to all christians
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Pueblos destroyed Catholic Churches and killed priests in an act of rebellion
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The last of the 13 colonies founded, it was in the pine forests of Georgia
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Conflict between Great Britain and Spain named after Robert Jenkin when his ear was severed
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It was the third of the four french and indian wars
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The French Army was led by the Marquis de Montcalm and the English Army by Major-General James Wolfe.
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A war that was fought between the colonists and the French with help from Native Americans
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Tax passed by Parliament for the colonies
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Act that stated that the colonists have to house any British troops that were sent over there and feed them too.
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Act after the repeal of the Sugar Act that stated that Parliament can impose taxes even though they are repealling this one.
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British troops stationed in the colonies open fire on drunk, protesting colonists
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The Committee is formed that was like a government for the colonists
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Act of rebellion against Britain by colonists by dumping tea into the harbour
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First official battles of the Revolutionary War
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The Articles of Confederation went into draft
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The climax of the war that eventually leads to the victory of Americans over the British
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General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown in the final big battle of the war
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Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
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Louis XVI was beheaded which sent France into the phase of a Revolution
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This was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington.
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This was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy, including minor support from the British, against the United States for control of the Northwest Territory
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On November 19, 1794 representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence.
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This was signed on August 3, 1795, at Fort Greenville, now Greenville, Ohio; it followed negotiations after the Indian loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers a year earlier. It ended the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country and limited strategic parcels of land to the north and west.
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To announce his decision not to seek a third term as President, George Washington presented his Farewell Address in a newspaper article September 17, 1796.
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This was a political and diplomatic episode involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
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These were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
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Jefferson defeats Adams in the election of 1800 for presidency.
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This act reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five and eliminated the justices' circuit duties.
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530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for US $15 million.
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Robert Fulton's first steamboat Embargo spurs American manufacturing.
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The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the Federal Government.
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Proposed in 1808, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. An engineering marvel when it was built, some called it the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. An engineering marvel when it was built, some called it the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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First U.S. Railway Chartered to Transport Freight and Passengers. On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for commercial transport of passengers and freight.
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Not long after Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, Cyrus McCormick invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming: the mechanical reaper. Prior to this invention, reaping was a painstaking process (done by hand with a scythe) that limited a farm's harvest.
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The Tariff of 1833 (also known as the Compromise Tariff of 1833, ch. 55, 4 Stat. 629) was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis.
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Boston and the Irish, on the Anniversary of the Ursuline Convent Riots. On August 11 and 12, 1834, a riot fueled by anti-Catholic fervor resulted in the burning of an Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in what is now Somerville
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John Deere develops the first steel plow.
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Indians are removed from their homes and forced west
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President Van Buren establsihes ten-hour day for federal employees
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Massachusetts declares labor unions legal in this famous court case
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
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The Philadelphia Nativist Riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place between May 6 and 8 and July 6 and 7, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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A great famine in Ireland occurs and most of the population dies
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A set of tariff rates adopted by the United States which was enacted by the Democrat. It was based on a report by Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker.
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The treaty was signed on June 15, 1846. The Oregon Treaty set the U.S. and British North American border at the 49th parallel with the exception of Vancouver Island, which was retained in its entirety by the British.
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The Independent Treasury was a system for the retaining of government funds in the United States Treasury and its subtreasuries, independently of the national banking and financial systems. In one form or another, it existed from 1846 to 1921.
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During the rapid expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century, establishing an exact western and southern boundary for the country plagued the nation and its neighbors alike.
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The Capture of Santa Fe, also known as the Battle of Santa Fe or the Battle of Cañoncito, took place near Santa Fe, New Mexico, the capital of the Mexican Province of New Mexico, during the Mexican-American War on 8 August through 14 August 1846. No shots were fired.
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The California Campaign (1846−47), colloquially the "Conquest of California" or Conquest of Alta California by the United States, was an initial period of the Mexican–American War that took place in the western part of Mexico's Alta California Department, the present-day state of California. The California Campaign was marked by a series of small battles over 1846 and early 1847.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the fighting in the Mexican war.
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Started when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
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It was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic.
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The United States presidential election of 1852 was the 17th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1852. It bore important similarities to the election of 1844.
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(Known as Venta de La Mesilla, or Sale of La Mesilla, in Mexico) is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden who was the American ambassador.
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Matthew Calbraith Perry was a Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the Mexican–American War and the War of 1812.
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This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery or not.
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William Walker was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary, who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering."
