history timline By timelordobi1 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian War 1763 The French and Indian War ends 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1789 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1793 The invention of the cotton gin 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1819 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Election 1830 The invention of the telegraph 1831 The Trail of Tears 1837 The Panic of 1837 1846 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1863 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1865 13th, Amendments 1868 14th, Amendments 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1870 15th Amendments 1870 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1876 The invention of the telephone 1878 The invention of the electric light 1892 the Homestead Strike 1894 The Pullman Strike 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 The invention of the airplane