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Jan 1, 1095
Crusades
The Crusades was a serious of gruesome religions wars between Catholics and Muslims to see who would own the holy land;Jerusalem. -
Jan 1, 1348
Black Death
The Black Death or Bubonic Plague was a serous of epedemics that whiped out 2/3 of Europes population.It turned your skin black and first sign of the sickness ment immediate death. The desease was spreaded through flee invested rats and had no cure at the time. -
Jan 1, 1450
Dias Voyage
Bartolomeu Dias was the first European explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. He set out in 1487, charged by King John II of Portugal with finding a route around Africa to India. His expedition made it around the cape and traveled east to Kwaaihoek before stopping. Dias wanted to continue to India, but conditions led his crew to threaten mutiny unless they returned home. -
Jan 1, 1460
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama (1460 - 1524) was a Portuguese explorer. He led the first expedition that traveled from Europe to India by sailing around Africa. Vasco da Gama left on his first voyage from Lisbon, Portugal on July 8, 1497. He had 170 men and 4 ships: the Sao Gabriel, Sao Rafael, the Berrio, and a fourth ship unnamed and used for storage. -
Jan 1, 1474
Juan Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Leon became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown.He was determined to find the fountain of youth,which would restore ones youth.So he led an expedition to the coast of what is now Florida in 1513. Thinking it was the island he sought, he sailed back to colonize the region in 1521 and never found what he was looking for. -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Voyage
Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, commanded by Columbus himself, the Pinta,Niña.He wanted to find a route to Asia going West so he sailed off but landed in The caribbeans.Finding even newer land made colmbus happy. -
Oct 27, 1496
De Soto
De soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River. As they were looking for gold and silver in the American wilderness,they traveled as far as Florida,Georgia,South Carolina,Alabama and found the Mississippi. -
Jan 1, 1505
Martin luther becomes a monk
One stormy night,when Martin was riding home on his horse,he was almost struck by lightning. He thought god was trying to give him a sign,so he promised he would become a monk and spend all his time on the bible or religion. -
Oct 31, 1517
Posting of the 95 Theses
On Oct. 31,Martin Luther posted a Theses stating and giving reasons on why he believed the Church was corrupted.So he nailed the theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. Many people had thought the way he did at the time,so people took this as a surprise and excommunicated him from the Church. -
Jan 3, 1521
Luther is excommunicated
Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum pontificem,which excommunicated Martin Luther.After the posting of the 95 theses,the Church started lossing money and followers because the people were questioning thier own beliefs and the Churches.So,Leo went and kicked Martin out for giving them the ideas that the church was "broken". -
James Town
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.The settlement was not doing well because everyone was getting sick.Luckly in a uprising Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquian chief.Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.France made alliance with Indians while us Americans won the war on our own.After we did,this was when they made the Proclamation act. -
Treaty of Paris
After the French and Indian war,the British won the war and made the Treaty of Paris to seperate the land.Sadly Paris was left with nothing except the Caribbean. -
Proclamation Act
The proclamation act was made to forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.The King did not want people messing with unknown indians and didnt want people to have more land.The line was put there after the French and Indian War. -
Sugar act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
Instituted in November, 1765. Every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp, or British seal, on it. The Stamp, of course, cost money. The colonists didn't think they should have to pay for something they had been doing for free for many years, and they responded in force, with demonstrations and even with a diplomatic body called the Stamp Act Congress, which delivered its answer to the Crown. -
tea act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston and was designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Bostin Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.They beleive this would help end the stamp and tea act,but only resulted in the Coercive act,which was one w=big reason of the American Revoultion. -
Declaration of Independece
The Declaration of Independence announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.Written mostly by Tomas Jefferson was,it was signed by almost everyone in congress. -
Winter of Valley Forge
12,000 men and women of the Continental Army arrived in Valley Forge on December 19, 1777 with Commander In Chief, General George Washington, and were half-starved and no longer believed they could win the war.They got tents and things built for the soldiers to stay.So in an effort to help his soldiers,Washington hired Friedrich von Steuben to help make his men real soldiers. -
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803,America purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of land.The land stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.It said that this is the most important achievement of Thomas Jefferson while in presidency. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western partof the United States.They left in May 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, and made their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific. -
Division/Civil War-Under ground rail road.
People involved in the Abolitionist Movement would help slaves escape to free countries like Canada.They would use a term called "The Underground Railroad" to keep it a secret, and thier was never a real railroad they used. However one of the most rememberal members of the U.G.R was Hariette Tubman -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military war, lasting for two-and-a-half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies. Britian attempted to restrict U.S. trade.The Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory is one of the causes of the war of 1812 -
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a 2,200 mile long wagon route that took 6-7 months to finish and led people to Oregon where they could start a new farm and other things. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.This put in effect of the Fugitive Slave Law,so the North and South could get together. -
Assassination of Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth,an actor,on April 15 shot Preisident Abraham Lincoln in the back o the head while he was watching a play.Booth had then jumped into the stage and ran out the back door.Lincoln had then died the next day. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. -
Batle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union's Army.