United States of America

By Marianne.272
  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    US events

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacques Cartier of France explores the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River

  • Captain John Smith found the English colony of Jamestown

  • Henry Hudson explores Northeastern North America including the Hudson River

  • Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

  • Colonist declare their independence from England with the Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed with France

  • War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britan

  • Oregon Treaty signed and the boundry between Canada and the United States is established at the 49th Parallel

  • Civil War begins

    Civil War begins

  • Civil War ends

  • Alaska is Purchased from Russia

  • Gold is discovered in the Yukon's Klondike

  • United States enters WWI fighting with the British and the French

  • Great Depression begins in the U.S.

  • Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WWII with the Allies

  • U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon

  • United States sign a Free Trade Agreement with Canada

  • Persian Gulf War

  • North American Free Trade Agreement is signed between Canada the U.S. and Mexico

  • Occupation of Iraq by the United States