U,S

  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born john cabot claims north america for england

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    U,S

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacques Cartier of france explores the great lakes and the st lawrance river

  • Captain john smith founds the english colony of jamestown

  • henery hudson explores northeastern north america including the hudson river

  • treaty of paris ends french and indian war

  • colonists declair their independance from england with the decloration of independance

  • louisiana purchase treaty sighned with france

  • war of 1812 beetween united states and great britain

  • oregon treaty sighned and the boundary beetween canada and the united states is established at the 49th parallel

  • cival war begians

  • cival war ends

  • alaska is purchased from russia

  • gold is discovered in the yukons klondike

  • united states enteres wwi fighting with the british and french

  • great deprrison begins in the U.S

  • japan attacks U.Sat pearal harbor u.s enters wwii with the allies

  • u.s drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and nagaski

  • neil armstrong is he first man to step on the moon

  • united states sign a free trade agreement with canada

  • persian gulf war

  • north american free trade agreement is sighned between canada the united states and mexico

  • occupation of iraq by the united states