Timeline: US History Timeline 1492 - 2011 Reese Carlen And Anthony Rolston

Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Jan 1, 2011

US History Timeline 1492 - 2011

USA history

Sep 6, 1492

Columbus “Discovers” America

Jun 24, 1497

John Cabot claims North America for England

Sep 1, 1534

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

Aug 17, 1585

Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

May 14, 1607

Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown

Oct 10, 1619

20 slaves in Virginia...

Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported
into Britain’s North American colonies. Like indentured servants, they were probably freed after
a fixed period of service.

Dec 11, 1620

Mayflower Compact

Apr 23, 1635

First Public School (Boston Latin School

Mar 13, 1636

First College - Harvard College, the first institute for higher education in a North AmericanColony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts

Oct 10, 1636

Colonial North America's slave trade begins...

Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier,
Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.

Dec 16, 1689

English Bill of Rights

Apr 7, 1749

Benjamin Franklins's Lighting Rod

Oct 9, 1754

French And Indian War

Oct 7, 1763

Proclamation of 1763 by King George III

Mar 17, 1766

Stamp Act

Oct 10, 1773

Santa Claus - Colonial America

Jul 6, 1775

Revolutionary War

Jul 4, 1776

Declaration of Independence

Oct 10, 1777

Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves.

Feb 21, 1781

1787 Articles of Confederation

Jun 21, 1787

Constitution

Dec 7, 1787

Delaware Added

Dec 12, 1787

Pennsylvania Added

Dec 17, 1787

New Jersey Added

Jan 2, 1788

Georgia Added

Jan 9, 1788

Connecticut Added

Feb 6, 1788

Massachusetts Added

Apr 28, 1788

Maryland Added

May 23, 1788

South Carolina Added

Jun 21, 1788

New Hampshire Added

Jun 25, 1788

Virginia Added

Jul 26, 1788

New York Added

Apr 30, 1789

George Washington becomes president

Nov 21, 1789

North Carolina Added

Jan 1, 1790

Census Population- 4 million

May 29, 1790

Rhode Island Added

Mar 4, 1791

Vermont

Dec 15, 1791

Bill of Rights

Jun 1, 1792

Kentucky Added

Oct 10, 1793

Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin

Mar 4, 1795

11th Amendment

Jun 1, 1796

Tennessee Added

Mar 4, 1797

John Adams becomes president

Both John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams were both president of the United States of America

Jan 1, 1800

Census Population- 5.3 million

Mar 4, 1801

Thomas Jefferson becomes president

Mar 4, 1801

James Maddison becomes president

Mar 4, 1803

Ohio Added

Dec 9, 1804

12th Amendment

Mar 4, 1809

James Monroe becomes president

Jan 1, 1810

Census Population- 7.2 million

Apr 30, 1812

Louisiana Added

Jun 18, 1812

War Of 1812

Dec 11, 1816

Indiana Added

Apr 14, 1817

U of M- 1817 - Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837

Dec 10, 1817

Mississippi Added

Dec 3, 1818

Illinois Added

Dec 14, 1819

Alabama Added

Jan 1, 1820

Census Population- 9.6 million

Mar 15, 1820

Maine Added

Aug 10, 1821

Missouri Added

Mar 4, 1825

John Quincy Adams becomes president

Mar 4, 1829

Andrew Jackson becomes president

Oct 10, 1829

Graham Cracker

Jan 1, 1830

Census Population- 12.8 million

May 28, 1831

Indian Removal Act (1838 Trail of Tears)

Dec 3, 1833

Oberlin College - First College to accept Women

Oct 7, 1835

Texas Revolution

Dec 21, 1835

Oberlin College - First School to accept Blacks

Jun 15, 1836

Arkansas Added

Jan 26, 1837

Michigan Added

Mar 4, 1837

Martin Van Buren becomes president

Oct 10, 1839

Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear

Jan 1, 1840

Census Population- 17 million

Mar 4, 1841

William Henery Harrison becomes president

Apr 6, 1841

John Tyler becomes president

Mar 3, 1845

Florida Added

Mar 4, 1845

James Knox Polk becomes president

Oct 10, 1845

Baseball - Alexander Cartwright

Dec 29, 1845

Texas Added

Apr 25, 1846

Mexican American War

Dec 28, 1846

Iowa Added

Oct 10, 1847

Doughnut

May 29, 1848

Wisconsin Added

Mar 5, 1849

Zachary Taylor becomes president

Jan 1, 1850

Census Population- 23 million

Jul 9, 1850

Millard Fillmore becomes president

Sep 9, 1850

California Added

Mar 4, 1853

Franklin Pierce becomes president

Feb 12, 1855

Michigan State Established

Mar 4, 1857

James Buchanan becomes president

May 11, 1858

MInnesota Added

Oct 10, 1858

Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman

Feb 4, 1859

Oregon Added

Jan 1, 1860

Census Population- 31.4 million

Oct 10, 1860

Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henr

Jan 29, 1861

Kansas Added

Mar 4, 1861

Abraham Lincoln becomes president

Apr 12, 1861

American Civil War

Oct 10, 1861

Jelly Bean - William Schrafft

Oct 10, 1861

Machine Gun - Richard Gatling

Jun 20, 1863

West Virginia Added

Oct 10, 1863

Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson

Oct 31, 1864

Nevada Added

Apr 15, 1865

Andrew Johnson becomes president

Oct 10, 1865

13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery

Mar 1, 1867

Nebraska Added

Jul 9, 1868

14th Amendment

Mar 4, 1869

Ulysses Simpson Grant becomes president

Oct 10, 1869

American Football - Walter Camp

Oct 10, 1869

Soccer - Princeton vs. Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)

Jan 1, 1870

Census Population- 38.6 million

Oct 10, 1870

African Americans’ Right to Vote

Dec 7, 1870

15th Amendment

Oct 10, 1873

Jeans - Levi Straus

Aug 1, 1876

Colorado Added

Mar 4, 1877

Ruthford Bichard Hayes becomes president

Oct 10, 1877

Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler

Oct 10, 1879

Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison

Jan 1, 1880

Census Population- 50.1 million

Mar 4, 1881

James Abram Garfield becomes president

Sep 19, 1881

Chestar Alan Arthur becomes president

Mar 4, 1885

Grover Clevland becomes president

Oct 10, 1886

Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton

Oct 10, 1887

Softball - George Hancock

Mar 4, 1889

Benjamin Clevland becomes president

Nov 2, 1889

North Dakota Added

Nov 2, 1889

South Dokota Added

Nov 8, 1889

Montana Added

Nov 11, 1889

Washington Added

Jan 1, 1890

Census Population- 62.9 million

Jul 3, 1890

Idaho Added

Jul 10, 1890

Wyoming Added

Oct 10, 1890

Stop Sign - William Phelps En

Jun 3, 1892

CMU Established

Mar 4, 1893

Grover Clevland becomes president

Oct 10, 1893

Radio - Nikola Tesla

Oct 10, 1894

Corn Flakes- Will Keith Kellogg

Oct 10, 1895

Volleyball

Jan 4, 1896

Utah Added

Mar 4, 1897

William Mkinley

Mar 4, 1897

William Mckinley becomes president

Jan 1, 1900

Census Population- 76.2 million

Sep 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

Oct 10, 1901

Car - Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds

Oct 10, 1901

Assembly Line - Henry For

Oct 10, 1902

Teddy Bear - Morris Michtom

Oct 10, 1904

Banana Split - David Strickle

Nov 16, 1907

Oklahoma Added

Mar 4, 1909

William Howard Taft becomes president

Jan 1, 1910

Census Population- 92.2 million

Jan 6, 1912

New Mexico Added

Feb 14, 1912

Arizona Added

Mar 4, 1913

Woodrow Wilson becomes president

Mar 15, 1913

16th Amendment (Income Tax)

Jul 9, 1913

17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)

Jul 28, 1914

World War I

Jan 16, 1919

18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)

Jan 1, 1920

Census Population- 106 million

Aug 18, 1920

19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote

Mar 4, 1921

Warren Gamiel Handing becomes president

Aug 23, 1923

Calvin Coolidge becomes president

Oct 10, 1927

Kool Aid

OOOHHHHHH YEAHHHH! :D

Oct 10, 1927

Television - Philo T. Farnswort

Oct 10, 1928

Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney

Oct 10, 1928

Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”

Mar 4, 1929

Herbert Clark Hoover becomes president

Jan 1, 1930

Census Population- 123 million

Oct 10, 1931

Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacke

Jan 20, 1933

20th Amendment - Jan. 20 inauguration

Jan 22, 1933

21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment.

Mar 4, 1933

Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president

Oct 10, 1938

Soft Serve Ice Cream

Sep 1, 1939

World War II

Jan 1, 1940

Census Population- 132 million

Apr 12, 1945

Harry S. Truman

Oct 10, 1948

Cable TV

Oct 10, 1948

Video Game

Jan 1, 1950

Census Population- 151 million

Jun 25, 1950

Korean War

May 17, 1951

22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President

Oct 10, 1952

Barcode

Jan 20, 1953

Dwight David Eisenhower becomes president

Oct 10, 1956

Video Tape

Jan 3, 1959

Alaska Added

Aug 21, 1959

Hawii Added

Jan 1, 1960

Census Population- 179.3 million

Nov 1, 1960

Vietnam War

Jan 20, 1961

John F. Kennady becomes president

Mar 29, 1961

23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation

Oct 10, 1963

Computer Mouse

Nov 22, 1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Jan 23, 1964

24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal

Oct 10, 1964

Buffalo Wings

Oct 10, 1965

Minicomputer ($18,000!)

Oct 10, 1965

CD

Feb 23, 1967

25th Amendment - presidential succession

Jan 20, 1969

Richard Milhous Nixon becomes president

Jan 1, 1970

Census Population- 203 million

Jul 1, 1971

26th Amendment - 18 as voting age

Oct 10, 1971

Email

Oct 10, 1973

Cel Phone

Aug 9, 1974

Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes president

Jan 1, 1980

Census Population- 226.5

Jan 20, 1981

Ronald Wilson Reagan becomes president

Jan 20, 1981

George Herbert Wilson Bush becomes president

Oct 10, 1981

Laptop

Oct 10, 1983

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Jan 20, 1987

James Earl Carter Jr. becomes president

Jan 1, 1990

Census Population- 248.7

Aug 2, 1990

Persian Gulf War

May 18, 1992

27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term

Jan 20, 1993

William Jefferson Clinton becomes president

Jan 1, 2000

Census Population- 281.4

Jan 20, 2001

George Walker Bush becomes president

Oct 7, 2001

U.S. Invasion Of Afganistan

Oct 10, 2001

Ipod

Mar 19, 2003

U.S Invasion Of Iraq

Jan 20, 2009

Barrack Hussin Obama

Jan 1, 2010