Discovering America to Inventing Airplanes - US History By Saviat 1492 (1) The Discovery of America by Columbus Period: 1492 to 1903 US History Timeline 1607 (2) The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 (3) The French and Indian War 1773 (4) The Boston Tea Party 1776 (6) The Declaration of Independence 1781 (7) The Battle of Yorktown 1803 (11) The Louisiana Purchase 1812 (12) The War of 1812 1820 (13) The Missouri Compromise 1830 (15) The invention of the telegraph 1850 (19) The Compromise of 1850 1865 (23) Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1868 (25) Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1894 (27) The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1901 (29) Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 (30) The invention of the airplane
