U.S.History Timeline

Discovery of America by Columbus

Period: Aug 3, 1492 to Oct 12, 1492

Travel on Nina, Pinta and Santa maria

The Settlement of Jamestown

Period: May 4, 1607 to 1610

The French and Indian War

Period: 1754 to 1763

The Boston Tea Party

Period: Dec 16, 1773 to Dec 16, 1773

Only lasted about 3 hours

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Apr 19, 1775

The Declaration of Independence

Period: Jul 4, 1776 to Jul 4, 1776

The Battle of Yorktown

Period: Sep 28, 1781 to Oct 19, 1781

The Constitutional Convention

Period: May 25, 1787 to Sep 17, 1787

The invention of the cotton gin

Period: Oct 28, 1793 to 2019

still continues today

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Period: 1800 to 1801

The Louisiana Purchase

Period: 1803 to 2019

The War of 1812

Period: Jun 18, 1812 to Feb 18, 1815

The Missouri Compromise

Period: Mar 3, 1820 to 2019

Andrew Jackson’s Election

Period: 1828 to 1828

The Trail of Tears

Period: 1831 to 1877

The Panic of 1837

Period: 1837 to 1843

The invention of the telegraph

Period: 1840 to 2019

still used today

The Mexican-American War

Period: Apr 25, 1846 to Feb 2, 1848

The Compromise of 1850

Period: Jan 28, 1850 to 2019

Still no slavery

The Firing on Fort Sumter

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 13, 1861

The Emancipation Proclamation

Period: Jan 1, 1863 to Jan 1, 1863

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Period: 1865 to 2019

it was between 1865-1870. 5 years following the civil war.

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Period: Apr 9, 1865 to Apr 9, 1865

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

Period: Apr 14, 1865 to Apr 14, 1865

Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

Period: Feb 24, 1868 to 1868

The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

Period: 1870 to May 15, 1911

The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

Period: 1876 to 2019

The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

Period: Jul 1, 1892 to Sep 20, 1892

The Spanish-American War

Period: Apr 21, 1898 to Aug 13, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

Period: Sep 14, 1901 to Mar 4, 1909