US History Timeline Thailer and Haley By haleykayers May 3, 1565 Spain establishes St. Augustine, Florida May 6, 1598 Acoma rebeliion in New Mexico Period: May 6, 1603 to May 6, 1625 James I, King of England May 6, 1607 English settlers Jamestown, Virginia May 6, 1608 Samuel de Champlain found Quebec May 6, 1613 fur trading post, Manhattan Island by Dutch May 6, 1620 Pilgrims found Plymouth colony May 6, 1621 Dutch West India Company Chartered Period: May 6, 1625 to May 6, 1649 Charles I, King of ENgland May 6, 1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay colony May 6, 1634 Maryland settled May 6, 1651 First Navigation Act Period: May 6, 1675 to May 6, 1676 Bacon's Rebellion May 6, 1680 Pope's Rebellion in New Mexico May 6, 1681 William Penn founds Pennsylvania Period: May 6, 1689 to May 6, 1713 England, France, and Spain at war May 6, 1692 Salem witchcraft trials May 6, 1705 Virginia enacts slavery legislation May 6, 1732 Parlliament charters Georgia May 6, 1733 Molasses Aact May 6, 1750 Iron Act May 6, 1751 Currency Act Period: May 6, 1754 to May 6, 1763 French and Indian War May 6, 1763 Treaty of Paris May 6, 1767 Townshend duties on colonial imports May 6, 1772 Committees of Correspondence formed May 6, 1773 Tea Act/ Boston Tea Party May 6, 1774 Quebec Act May 6, 1775 General Thomas Gage marches to Lexington and Concord May 6, 1775 Bunker Hill May 6, 1777 Valley Forge May 6, 1783 Treaty of Paris May 6, 1786 Shay's Rebellion May 6, 1787 Northwest Ordinance May 6, 1789 George Washington as first president May 6, 1791 Bill of Rights Ratified May 6, 1794 Whiskey Rebeliion, Pennsylvania May 6, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers May 6, 1798 XYZ Affair May 6, 1803 Louisiana Purchase May 6, 1807 Embargo Act May 6, 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe Period: May 6, 1812 to May 6, 1815 War of 1912 May 6, 1817 Erie Canal began May 6, 1819 Adams Onis Treaty (Texas Border) May 6, 1821 Mexico independant from Spain May 6, 1828 Tariff of Abominations May 6, 1833 Forve Bill May 6, 1837 Steel Plow, John Deere May 6, 1838 Trail of Tears May 6, 1846 Wilmot Proviso May 8, 1849 Gold Rush May 6, 1850 Railraods starting to expand May 8, 1850 Fugitive Slave Act May 6, 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe May 8, 1857 Dred Scott May 6, 1861 Abraham Lincoln May 6, 1862 Homestead Act May 6, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation May 6, 1865 13th amendment May 8, 1867 Reconstruction Act May 8, 1870 peak of KKK power May 9, 1870 Jay Gould begins Missouri Pacific railway system May 9, 1871 Chicago fire May 8, 1875 Whiskey Ring May 9, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, telephone May 9, 1879 Thomas Edison, incandescent light bulb May 9, 1881 Andrew Carnegie offers to build libraries May 8, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act May 8, 1887 Dawes Act May 9, 1888 The American Commonwealth by James Bryce May 8, 1890 Indian Massacre. Wounded knee May 9, 1890 McKinley Tariff May 9, 1892 Peoples Populist Party started May 8, 1893 "City Beautiful" Movement May 9, 1896 McKinley's free silver campaign May 9, 1898 Hawaii annexed May 9, 1898 Cuban Civil War May 8, 1901 New York Tenement House Law May 9, 1901 Eugene V. Debs founded Socialist Party May 9, 1901 McKinley assassinated May 8, 1903 Nqtionql Womens Trade Union League started May 9, 1904 Supreme Court dissolves Northern Security Company May 9, 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair May 9, 1909 NAACP started May 9, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire May 9, 1913 WoolWorths Building opens in New York City May 9, 1914 Panama Canal opens May 9, 1914 US declares neutrality Period: May 9, 1914 to May 9, 1918 World War I May 9, 1915 Lisitania hit by Germans May 9, 1917 Selective Service Act May 9, 1917 Espionage Act9 May 9, 1919 Red Scare and Palmer Raids May 9, 1920 19th amendment, women voting May 9, 1921 Sheppard Towner Act May 9, 1923 Time Magazine founded May 9, 1925 The Great Gatsby be F. Scott Fitzgerald May 9, 1927 Ford's Model A car May 9, 1929 Stock Market Crash May 9, 1931 Scottsboro Case May 9, 1933 Emergeancy Banking Act, Hundred Days May 9, 1933 Alphabet Soup Cilvilian Conservation Corps Agricultural Adjustment Act National Industrial Recovery Act Tennessee Valley Authority May 12, 1933 Hitler is Chancellor of Germany May 9, 1935 Wagner Act May 9, 1935 Social Security Act May 9, 1936 Genral Motors sit down strikes May 12, 1937 Japan invades China Period: May 12, 1937 to May 12, 1938 Rooselvelt Recesssion Period: May 12, 1939 to May 12, 1945 World War II May 12, 1941 Lend Lease Act May 12, 1941 Japan attack on Pearl Harbor May 12, 1944 D-Day May 12, 1945 Yalta Conference May 12, 1945 Atomic Bombs, Hiroshikma and Nagasaki May 12, 1947 Jackie Robinson May 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine May 12, 1949 Soviet Union detonates atomic bomb May 12, 1955 Montegomery Bus Boycott May 12, 1957 Sputnik May 12, 1958 NASA started May 12, 1961 Berlin Wall May 12, 1961 Peace Corps May 12, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis May 12, 1962 Free Speech Movement, Berkeley May 12, 1963 JFK assassinated May 12, 1964 Civil Rights Act May 12, 1965 Voting Rights Act May 12, 1965 Medicare and Medicaid started Period: May 12, 1972 to May 12, 1974 Watergate May 12, 1973 Endangered Species Act May 13, 1973 Roe v. Wade May 12, 1975 Fall of Saigon May 12, 1976 Love Canal Crisis May 12, 1979 Hostages in Tehran, Iran May 12, 1981 MTV May 12, 1986 Iran Contra Affair May 12, 1992 Los Angeles riots May 12, 1995 troops sent to Bosnia May 12, 2000 Terrorist attack USS Cole May 12, 2001 9/11