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Oct 27, 1450
Johannes Guttenberg
Johannes Guttenberg had developed the moveable printing press. -
Oct 27, 1492
Columbus Discovers The New World
He landed on San Salvador, He had made his first voyage. -
Oct 27, 1501
Amerigo Vespucci reached South America
He led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present day South America. -
Oct 27, 1508
Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce De Leon landed on the Carribean island of Puerto Rico. -
Oct 27, 1511
Juan Ponce de Leon conquered Spain
He had conquered Spain and founded the city of San Juan. -
Oct 27, 1517
Martin Luther Publicity Critized The Roman Catholic Church
He said that the church was to wealthy and abused its power. -
Aug 27, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He was a Portuguese navigator who had set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America. -
Oct 27, 1528
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca Joined Conquistador Panfilo De Narverez
Joined him on an expedition to North America. -
Oct 27, 1534
Franisco Pizarro
By 1534 Pizarro and his Native american allies had conquered the entire Inca Empire. -
Oct 27, 1534
King Henry VIII
King Henry VIII founded the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. -
Jamestown Was Founded
Was the first English settlement. -
New Netherland
The Dutch founded New Netherland in 1613 as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Iroquois. -
John Rofle married Pocahontas
John Rofle married Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhattan leader, in 1614. -
The Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact. -
The Spanish Empire In The Americas Had Grown
They had grown some 3-4 million people. -
Stamp Act of 1765
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. -
Tea Act
This allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into the Boston Harbor. -
Second Contiental Congress
Delegates from 12 colonies met again in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. -
Deceleration of Independence
On July 4Th the 13 colonies issued the Declaration of Independence and broke away from Great Britain. -
Genral Clinton & The Force
General Clinton landed a force of 14,000 troops around the port city. -
Trade With Spain
Spanish official closed the lower Mississippi River to U.S shipping. -
Congress Passed The Land Of Ordiance
Which set up a system of surveying and dividing western lands. -
Farmers Rebel
Farmers in three western countries began a revolt, starting the Farmers Rebel -
Shays's Defeat
Shays's forces were defeated by state troops. -
James Madison
Madison began writing down a huge list of proposed amendments. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
This act created three levels of federal courts and defined their powers and relationship to the state courts. -
The Bill Of Rights
By December 1791 the states had ratified 10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizens rights. -
George Washington Dies
George Washington died at Mount Vernon, Virginia on December 14. -
War With Great Britain
Congress declared war on Great Britain. -
John Quincy Adams
John Adams was elected president. -
The Tom Thumb
This became the first locomotive in the United States to carry passengers. -
Pony Express
A system of messengers on horseback and began to carry messages west. -
General Joseph E. Johnston
He headed toward Manassas with another 10,000 Confederate troops. -
Mc Clellan's Force
Poised outside Richmond, the Confederate army in Virgina came under the command of General Robert E. Lee -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln finally wrote the Emancipation Prolamation, which was the order to free the Confederate slaves, -
Second Battle Of Bull Run
Jackson's troops met Pope's Union forces on the battlefield in august in 1862, this 3 day battle became known as the Second Battle Of Bull Run. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This was a key battle that finally turned tide against the Confederates. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau, an ageny providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Amerians. -
Andrew Johnson
He was the first president to be impeached. -
First Contiental Railroad
The first continental railroad ic completed. -
Fifteenth Amendment
In 1868 Congressed proposed the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave African Americcan men the right to vote. -
Knights of Labor
The first national labor union was founded. -
Alexander Graham Bell Made A New Invention
He invented the tellphone -
Haymarket Roit
Thousands of union members in Chicago went on strike because they wanted an eight-hour workday. -
Ellis Island Opened
It was one of the busiest imigration centers, and was located in the New York Harbor. -
Homestead Strike Took Place
It took place at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead steel factory in Pennsylvania. The Union members there protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs. -
Pullman Strike
Workers began this strike whisch stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs, -
Siege of Vicksburg
General Grant's troops began the Siege of Vicksburg in mid-May 1863, cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly. -
Treaty Of medicine Lodge
The most southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservation.
