Timeline Project

By Laurin88
  • English Colonists Arrive at Jamestown

    English Colonists Arrive at Jamestown

  • Galileo Uses His Telescope for the First Time

    Galileo Uses His Telescope for the First Time

  • Smallpox Epidemic

    Smallpox Epidemic

  • The Mayflower Arrives at Cape Cod

    The Mayflower Arrives at Cape Cod

  • Anne Hutchinson is banned from Massachusetts

    Anne Hutchinson is banned from Massachusetts

  • The Taj Mahal is Completed

    The Taj Mahal is Completed

  • King Phillip's War

    King Phillip's War

  • Peter the Great Becomes Tsar of Russia

    Peter the Great Becomes Tsar of Russia

  • King William's War

    King William's War

  • The Great Plague of Marseille Begins

    The Great Plague of Marseille Begins

  • The Second Continental Congress Approves Declaration of Independence

    The Second Continental Congress Approves Declaration of Independence

  • At ten years old John Quincy Adams, John Adams, went with his father aboard the Boston to go to France

  • The Constitutional Convention Begins

    The Constitutional Convention Begins

  • John Quincy graduates from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts

  • President George Washington appointed John Quincy minister to the Netherlands_

    Impressed by young Adams’s writings, Washington had first considered naming him U.S. District Attorney for New England, but after reviewing the young man’s early experiences with his father and Francis Dana in Europe and recognizing his command of the French, Dutch, and German as assets possessed by few Americans in government, he decided to send John Quincy to Holland(Unger 82).

  • The U.S. Senate confirms John Quincy as minister to Prussia

    Despite Abigail’s protests, Bache’s “billingsgate” had its desired effect on the Senate, which postponed consideration of John Quincy’s Berlin appointment three times before acceding to the President’s wishes. John Quincy Adams, his wife Louisa, and his brother Thomas set sail for Hamburg, on October 18, 1797, elated by prospects of a new adventure (Unger 108).

  • John Quincy wins election to the state senate

    He spent most of his time tilting at political windmills---as he would the rest of his life. In one sortie, he tried unsuccessfully to strip the legislature of its control over the judiciary; in another he tried just as unsuccessfully to block legislators from using public funds to underwrite a new bank “whose shares were reserved to. . .members of the legislature” (Unger 122)._

  • James Madison asks John Quincy to become minister plenipotentiary to Russia

  • President James Monroe names John Quincy to be secretary of state_

  • John Quincy is elected to the House of Representatives

  • Austro-Prussian Begins

    Austro-Prussian Begins