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Magna Carta was signed and created in Great Britain.
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"Lost Colony" of Roanoke sponsored by Walter Raleigh, was founded on Roanoke Island.
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Capt. John Smith started the first permanent English settlement in the 'New World' at Jamestown.
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House of Burgesses becomes the first representative assembly in the 'New World', elected at Jamestown, VA.
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Mayflower Compact was an agreement to form a self-government.
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Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island
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British Parliament passed the first Navigation Act.
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Nathaniel Bacon led planters against autocratic British Government.
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William Penn signed a treaty with Deleware Indians.
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Witchcraft delusion at Salem, Massachusetts; 20 alleged witches were executed by a special court.
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Great Awakening Religious revival began.
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Benjamin Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac.
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French and Indian War began when French occupied Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh).
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Britain passed a law that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Sugar Act placed on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum in the colonies.
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Stamp Act enacted by Parliament required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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Quartering Act requiring colonist to house British troops went into effect.
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Townshend Acts levied taxes on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea.
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British troops fired into a Boston mob and killed five.
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Colonists threw cargo overboard on tea ships at the Boston Tea Party to protest the tea tax.
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Intolerable Acts of Parliament curtailed Massachusetts self-rule.
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Paul Revere and William Dwes rode to alert Patriots that British were on their way to Concord to destroy arms.
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Common Sense, famous pro-independence pamphlet by Thomas Paine, was published.
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Declaration of Independence approved.
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The Americans won the battle of Saratoga which led to a turning point for the Revolution.
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Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress but took effect on March 1, 1781.
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John Paul Jones defeated the ship Serapis in British North Sea waters.
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Cornwallis of the British surrendered his army.
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British and the U.S. signed the Paris Peace Treaty recognizing American independence.
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The Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia.
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Northwest Ordinance which set an orderly pattern of growth in the U.S. was adopted by Continental Congress.
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George Wshington was chosen as the first president of the United States by all electors voting.
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Bill of Rights submitted to states.
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First Bank of the U.S. is chartered.
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Washington's Farewell Address as president warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers, big public debt, large military establishment, and devices of "small, artful, enterprising minority."
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Louisiana Purchase doubled U.S. area.
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Lewis and Clark expedition ordered by President Thomas Jefferson to explore what was then Louisiana.The expedition ended September 23, 1806.
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Robert Fulton made the first practical steamboat trip.
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War of 1812 started.
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Francis Scott Key was inspired by a British fleet which failed in it's bombardment of Fort McHenry, to write the words to "The Srat-Spangled Banner" which later became the national anthem.
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Monroe Doctrine opposing European intervention in the Americas, enunciated by President James Monroe.
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Cherokee Indians were forced to walk the Trail of Tears from Georgia to Oklahoma.
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First message over first telegraph line sent by inventor Samuel B. Morse from Washington to Baltimore.
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Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
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Compromise of 1850 passes in Congress.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published.
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The Dred Scott decision was made in Court.
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Abrahem Lincoln was elected president
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Southern states seceded and set up the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis elected as president.
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The Battle of Antietam was the boloodiest battle of the Civil War
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation of Proclamation.
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President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
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13th Amendment passed abolishing slavery.
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14th Amendment which provided citizenship of all persons born or naturalized in U.S., is ratified.
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15th amendment which made race no bar to voting rights, is ratified.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
