US History timeline By A_Person735 1492 The discovery of America by Columbus Period: 1492 to 1903 US History timeline A timeline of US history 1607 The settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian war begins 1763 The French and Indian war ends 1773 The Boston tea party 1775 The battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The declaration of independence 1781 The battle of Yorktown 1787 The constitutional convention 1794 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The alien and sedition acts 1802 The electric light gets invented 1803 The Louisiana purchase 1812 The war of 1812 1820 The Missouri compromise 1828 Andrew Jacksons Election 1831 The trail of tears begins 1837 The invention of the telegraph 1837 The panic of 1837 begins 1843 The panic of 1837 ends 1846 The Mexican-American war begins 1848 The Mexican-American war ends 1850 The compromise of 1850 1861 The firing on fort Sumter 1863 The emancipation proclimation 1865 Surrender and Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincolns Assassination 1865 13th Amendment 1868 14th Amendment 1868 Andrew Johnsons impeachment 1870 15th Amendment 1870 The organization of standard oil trust 1876 The telephone is invented 1877 The trail of tears ends 1894 The Pullman strike 1894 The Homestead strike 1898 The Spanish-American war 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 Airplanes are invented