history timeline

By Tyler Blair
  • Oct 12, 1492

    the discovery of America Christopher Columbus

  • the settlement Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

    this is one of my favorite historical events

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence signing

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    the Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The invention of the electric light

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    The War of 1812

    the war of 1812 actually is not only in 1812 it ended in 1815

  • The Missouri Compromise

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    Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    The Panic of 1837

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

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    The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court house

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the electric telephone

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

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