Pre-History to 1776

By Sammy the Samverian King
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1450

    Early Native Americans

  • Period: 500 BCE to 100

    Mound Builders civilization

  • 800

    The Mississippians civilization

  • Period: 1100 to 1520

    Aztecs of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 1200 to 1572

    Incas of South America

  • 1325

    Tenochtitlan founded

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1419

    Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation

  • Period: 1440 to 1468

    Montezuma I ruled the Aztecs

  • 1441

    Portuguese navigators begin slave trade

  • 1455

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

  • 1487

    Portuguese sail to South America

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus sails to Caribbean

  • 1500

    Leif Eriksson settles Vinland

  • Period: 1502 to 1519

    Montezuma II ruled until Cortes defeat

  • 1507

    Amerigo Vespucci reaches South America

  • 1510

    the first enslaved Africans come to the Americas

  • 1513

    Ponce de Leon lands in Florida

  • 1517

    Spanish conquistadors begin conquest of Aztecs and C. America

  • 1519

    Hernando Cortes defeats Montezuma

  • 1519

    Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas

  • 1519

    Magellan begins circumnavigation of the earth

  • 1533

    Spanish conquistador Pizarro obliterated Incas

  • 1534

    Cartier sails St Lawrence River and claims land for France

  • Sir Walter Raleigh settles first colony at Roanoke Island

  • Francis Drake takes St Augustine

    and sends Roanoke colonists back to England

  • John White settles Roanoke - the Lost Colony

  • Capt John Smith and others found Jamestown

  • London Company sends 3 ships to Cape Henry, VA

  • Period: to

    The Starving Time

    Only 60 of 500 settlers in Jamestown survive winter

  • Tobacco planted in Virginia

  • Pocahontas marries John Rolfe

  • African slaves arrive in Virginia

  • House of Burgesses is formed in Virginia

  • Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower

  • Plymouth Colony founded

  • Massachusetts Bay Puritan colony founded

  • King Charles 1 is beheaded

  • London's Great Plague and Great Fire

  • Hudson's Bay Company

  • William Penn founds Pennsylvania

  • Period: to

    England's Glorious Revolution

  • Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts

  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • Period: to

    The Great Awakening

  • Daniel Boone is born

  • Washington starts French and Indian war

  • Treaty of Paris ends 7 years War

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Colonists cannot settle west of the Appalachians

  • Stamp Act

    colonies have to pay taxes on printed items

  • Sons of Liberty

    formed to rebel against taxation without representation

  • Stamp Act repealed

  • Parliament taxes tea and other goods

  • Boston Massacre kills 5 Americans

  • Boston Tea Party

    Rebels board ships and throw tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea tax

  • First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

    names George Washington commander in chief of American forces

  • American Revolution. Britain declares war.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Tom Paine publishes Common Sense

  • Washington crosses the Delaware

  • the winter at Valley Forge

  • French and American troops defeat British at Yorktown

    The war is over.

  • Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation

  • Britain recognizes American independence

  • Northwest Territory forbids slavery

  • Constitution becomes law

  • George Washington becomes first president

  • James Madison writes the Bill of Rights