history timeline By bananamoopierocks 1492 Discovery of America May 13, 1607 Settlement of Jamestown 1754 French and Indian war Jul 10, 1754 Albany plan of Union Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party Apr 19, 1775 Battle for Lexington and Concord Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Ratified Oct 19, 1781 Battle at Yorktown Sep 17, 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Cotton Gin 1798 The alien and sedition acts 1803 Loisiana purchase 1812 War of 1812 Mar 9, 1820 missouri compromise 1829 andrew jacksons election 1830 Trail of Tears 1832 Invention of the Telegraph 1846 mexican-american war 1850 Compromise of 1850 Apr 13, 1861 firing on fort sumter Jan 1, 1863 Emancipatiion Proclamation 1863 The organizatioon of standard oil trust Apr 9, 1865 surrender at appommatox Apr 14, 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1869 Andrew Johnsons impeachment 1870 13th,14th,and 15th amendments 1877 end of the reconstruction May 11, 1894 pullmann and homestead strike 1898 Spanish American war 1899 Newsboys Strike 1901 Theodore Roosevelt President 1903 Invention of the Electric light and the Airplane