American Timeline

  • Exploration and Settlement
    1400

    Exploration and Settlement

  • European Contact North America
    1492

    European Contact North America

    Marked a Beginning of contact between Europeans and Native Americans Columbus lands at Hispaniola in the Caribbean
  • The Discover
    1513

    The Discover

    Balboa "discovers" the Pacific Ocean in Panama
  • Mexico City
    1521

    Mexico City

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs at Tenochittlan
  • De Soto
    1539

    De Soto

    exploring the region between Florida and the Mississippi River
  • English Settlements

    English Settlements

    Virginia Company was established the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown
  • English Settlement Found

    English Settlement Found

    The First permanent English settlement is founded in Jamestown, Virginia
  • William Bradford

    William Bradford

    helped organize the voyage of the Mayflower, bringing a hundred people to Massachusetts
  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

    Pilgrims found Plymouth colony in Massachusetts
  • John Winthrop

    John Winthrop

    bringing others to Boston in 1630 to set up a City upon a Hill (godly society that would be an ideal for others to follow)
  • King Philips War

    King Philips War

    English Setter defeated Native Americans
  • Louisiana

    Louisiana

    was named when France claimed the Mississippi River Valley
  • Migration

    Migration

    My grandma migrated from Mississippi to California at 6 years old with her mom, dad, her 2 sisters, and her brother