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On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered the New World
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On May 13, 1607 the English colonists founded Jamestown
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The war between British America and New France and Indians lasted from 1754 until 1763.
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On December 16, 1773 upset colonists dumped boxes of tea into ocean as an act of rebellion against Englands taxes.
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On April 19 1775 the first battles of the American Revolutionary War are fought within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, and Cambridge.
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On July 4, 1776 the 13 colonies of America declared themselves independent from Britain.
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On September 28, 1781 The Battle of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, begins.
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The Constitutional Convention began on May 25, 1787 and spanned through September 17, 1787. The product of the convention was the Constitution of the United States of America.
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In 1793 Eli Whitney, an American inventor, invented the cotton gin.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were signed into law by President Adams in 1798.
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On April 30, 1803 negotiations between France and the U.S.A. over the Louisiana Territory are concluded.
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On June 18, 1812 a war between the U.S.A. and the United Kingdoms as well as their allies begins.
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On March 6, 1820 President James Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
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On March 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as the seventh president of the United States.
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In 1830 Andrew Jackson gained approval of the Indian Removal Act from Congress.
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In 1837 Samuel Morse invented the telegraph used for long distance communication.
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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The Mexican-American War started on April 25, 1846 after America tried to annex Texas.
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In 1849 Antonio Meucci is credited with creating the first basic phone.
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On January 29, 1850 Senator Henry Clay introduced some solutions to the upset balance of free and slave states in an attempt to make a compromise.
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On April 12, 1861 the Confederate Army bombarded Fort Sumter.
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On January 1,1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Standard Oil Trust was formed by John Rockefeller in 1863.
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On April 9, 1865 the Confederate Army surrendered to the Union near the town of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
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On April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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On December 6, 1865 the 13th Amendment was ratified which formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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On February 24, 1868 the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was initiated.
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On July 9, 1868 the 14th Amendment was ratified which gives citizenship tol "all persons born or naturalized in the United States."
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On February 3, 1870 the 15th Amendment was ratified which granted African American men the right to vote.
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In 1879 Thomas Edison created the first commercially practical incandescent light.
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On July 6, 1892 there was a violent strike against Carnegie Steel Company by its employees.
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On May 11, 1894 the widespread railroad strike and boycott began.
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On April 21, 1898 a war between Spain and the United States began after the explosion of USS Maine.
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On September 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States.
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In December 17, 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright tested their newly invented airplane.