Timeline: America

Period: Jan 17, 1706 to Apr 17, 1790

Benjamin Franklin

Period: Feb 22, 1732 to Dec 14, 1799

George Washington

Period: Oct 30, 1735 to Jul 4, 1826

John Adams

Period: Apr 13, 1743 to Jul 4, 1826

Thomas Jefferson

Period: Mar 16, 1751 to Jun 28, 1836

James Madison

Period: Jan 11, 1755 to Jul 12, 1804

Alexander Hamilton

Period: Apr 28, 1758 to Jul 4, 1831

James Monroe

Period: Mar 15, 1767 to Jun 8, 1845

Andrew Jackson

Period: Jul 11, 1767 to Feb 23, 1848

John Quincy Adams

Period: Feb 9, 1773 to Apr 4, 1841

William Henry Harrison

Period: Dec 5, 1782 to Jul 24, 1862

Martin Van Buren

1783

Hot-air balloon Invented

French Brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier make the first practical hot-air balloon.

Period: Nov 24, 1784 to Jul 9, 1850

Zachary Taylor

Period: Mar 29, 1790 to Jan 18, 1862

John Tyler

Period: Apr 23, 1791 to Jun 1, 1868

James Buchanan

Period: Nov 2, 1795 to Jun 15, 1849

James K. Polk

1800

Battery Invented

Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).

Period: Jan 7, 1800 to Mar 8, 1874

Millard Fillmore

Period: Nov 23, 1804 to Oct 8, 1869

Franklin Pierce

Period: Feb 12, 1809 to Apr 15, 1865

Abraham Lincoln

Period: Apr 27, 1822 to Jul 23, 1885

Ulysses S. Grant

Period: Oct 4, 1822 to Jan 17, 1893

Rutherford B. Hayes

Period: Mar 18, 1837 to Jun 24, 1908

Grover Cleveland

Period: Jan 29, 1843 to Sep 14, 1901

William McKinley

Period: Dec 28, 1856 to Feb 3, 1924

Woodrow Wilson

Period: Sep 15, 1857 to Mar 8, 1930

William Howard Taft

Period: Oct 27, 1858 to Jan 6, 1919

Theodore Roosevelt

Period: Nov 2, 1865 to Aug 2, 1923

Warren G. Harding

Period: Jul 4, 1872 to Jan 5, 1933

Calvin Coolidge

Period: Aug 10, 1874 to Oct 20, 1964

Herbert Hoover

Period: Jan 30, 1882 to Apr 12, 1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Period: May 8, 1884 to Dec 6, 1972

Harry S. Truman

Period: Oct 14, 1890 to Mar 28, 1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Period: Aug 27, 1908 to Jan 22, 1973

Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: Feb 6, 1911 to Jun 5, 2004

Ronald Regan

Period: Jul 14, 1913 to Dec 26, 2006

Gerald Ford

Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy

Period: Jun 12, 1924 to Nov 30, 2018

George H W Bush

Period: Oct 1, 1924 to 2019