US History Timline

Discovery of America by Columbus

Oct 12, 1492

US History Timeline

Period: Oct 12, 1492 to Dec 17, 1903

Settlement of Jamestown

May 14, 1607

The French and Indian War

Period: Jan 1, 1754 to Jan 1, 1763

Boston Tea Party

Dec 15, 1773

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

Battle of Yorktown

Period: Sep 26, 1781 to Oct 19, 1781

Constitutional Convention

Period: May 15, 1787 to Sep 17, 1787

Invention of the Cotton Gin

Jan 1, 1793

Alien Act

Jun 25, 1798

Alien Enemies Act

Jul 6, 1798

Sedition Act

Jul 14, 1798

The Louisiana Purchase

Jan 1, 1803

War of 1812

Period: Jun 18, 1812 to Feb 18, 1815

Andrew Jackson Election

Period: Oct 31, 1828 to Dec 2, 1828

Trail of Tears

Period: Jan 1, 1830 to Jan 1, 1850

Panic of 1837

Period: May 10, 1837 to Jan 1, 1844

Invention of the Telepraph

May 24, 1844

Mexican-American War

Period: Jan 1, 1846 to Jan 1, 1848

Compromise of 1850

Sep 1, 1850

The Missouri Compromise

Jan 1, 1854

The Firing on Fort Sumter

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 14, 1861

Signing of the Emancipation Proclomation

Jan 1, 1863

13th, 14th, and 15th Ammendments

Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1870

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

Apr 15, 1865

Andrew Jackson's Impeachment

Feb 24, 1868

Organization of Standard Oil Trust

Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Jan 1, 1911

Invention of the Telephone

Mar 10, 1876

Invention of the Incandesant Light Bulb

Nov 4, 1879

The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

Period: Jun 30, 1892 to Jul 6, 1892

The Spanish and American War

Period: Apr 25, 1898 to Aug 12, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

Sep 14, 1901

Invention of the Airplane

Dec 17, 1903