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30,000 B.C.

Asians begin migrating to North America across the Bering Strait

1000 A.D.

Norsemen set up temporary settlement in Newfoundland

1492 Columbus reaches san Salvador Island in the Caribbean 1493 Syphilis first recorded in Europe 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas divides New World between Spain and Portugal 1497 John Cabot establishes first English claim in North America 1513 Ponce de Leon arrives on Florida mainland1518 Smallpox epidemic begins devastating Indian populatio 1521 Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico, Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1524 Verrazano explores North American coast 1533 Pizarro captures Inca capital in Peru 1539 de Soto explores southeast U.S. 1540 Coronado explores southwest U.S. 1558 Elizabeth I takes throne in England 1585 Roanoke Island colony established, then disappears 1603 James I takes throne in England 1607 Jamestown founded 1608 Champlain founds Quebec 1609 Henry Hudson explores Hudson River 1611 First Virginia tobacco crop harvested 1619 First Africans arrive in Virginia 1620 Plymouth Colony founded, House of Burgesses established in Virginia 1622 Powhatan Confederacy attacks Virginia settlers 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony founded 1635 Roger Williams establishes Rhode Island colony 1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay1638 Harvard College founded 1647 Massachusetts law requires a public school in every town 1649 Charles I executed 1660 Charles II becomes king 1662 Halfway Covenant established in New England 1673 Marquette and Jolliet explore Great Lakes and Mississippi River valley 1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia 1681 Pennsylvania established 1682 La Salle reaches mouth of Mississippi River 1688 Glorious Revolution; William and Mary succeed James II 1692 Witchcraft trials begin in Salem 1696 Board of Trade established 1714 George I takes throne, beginning Hanover dynasty 1734 Great Awakening begins1755 Franklin establishes College of Philadelphia 1765 Hudson River land riots 1767 Regulator movement in South Carolina 1754 Albany Plan of Union1759 Quebec falls to British 1760 George III becomes king1763 Peace of Paris


1764 Sugar Act1765 Stamp Act1766 Stamp Act repealed 1767 Townshend Duties1770 Boston Massacre1772 Gaspee incident in Rhode Island 1773 Tea Act1774 Intolerable Acts1775 Lexington & Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill 1776 Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", Declaration of Independence1777 Valley Forge, British surrender at Saratoga 1778 French-American Alliance 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown 1783 Treaty of Paris recognizes American independence1781 Articles of Confederation adopted 1784 Spain closes Mississippi River to American navigation 1785 Land Ordinance 1786 Annapolis Convention, Shays's Rebellion 1787 Northwest Ordinance, Constitutional Convention meets 1788 "The Federalist" published, Constitution ratified 1789 Washington becomes first president, Bill of Rights adopted by Congress1790 Report on Public Credit 1791 1st Bank of U.S. chartered, Bill of Rights ratified by states 1792 Washington re-elected president 1793 Washington issues Proclamation of Neutrality, Cotton gin invented1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 Jay's Treaty, Pinckney Treaty, Treaty of Greenville 1796 Adams defeats Jefferson in first contested presidential election 1798 XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions1800 Jefferson defeats Adams (and Burr) for President1801 John Marshall becomes Chief Justice, War with Tripolitan pirates (through 1803 Marbury v. Madison establishes judicial review, Louisiana Purchase 1804 Lewis & Clark expedition (through 1806), Zebulon Pike explores southwest 1806 Burr conspiracy discovered 1807 Chesapeake affair, Embargo Act 1808 Madison elected president, Economy enters depression 1809 Embargo repealed, Non-intercourse Act passed 1810 U.S. annexes west Florida 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe 1812 Congress declares war on Britain 1813 British build naval blockade, Americans burn York (Toronto) 1814 British burn Washington, D.C., Treaty of Ghent, Hartford Convention 1815 Jackson wins Battle of New Orleans 1817 Rush-Bagot Treaty 1818 Jackson invades Florida 1819 Panic of 1819, Adams-Onis Treaty 1790 Samuel Slater opens his cotton mill in Providence, R.I. 1793 Eli Whitney manufactures cotton gins 1807 Robert Fulton builds Clermont


1810 Fletcher v. Peck expands contract clause 1814 Waltham (Lowell) system is born 1817 New York Stock Exchange founded, Erie Canal begins 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland enhances power of federal government1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 John Quincy Adams wins disputed election, Gibbons v. Ogden 1825 Erie Canal completed 1830 Baltimore & Ohio becomes first American railroad company 1831 McCormick invents mechanical reaper 1834 Women workers at Lowell mills stage first strike 1837 Financial panic 1844 Baltimore-Washington telegraph line 1849 California gold rush1817 American Colonization Society founded 1821 New York constructs first penitentiary 1828 Jackson elected president, Tariff of Abominations1829 Jackson inaugurated as "People's President" 1830 Webster-Hayne debate, Jackson vetoes Maysville Road bill1831 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1832 Jackson vetoes bill to recharter U.S. Bank1833 Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of U.S. 1836 Jackson issues specie circular 1837 Horace Mann becomes secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education1841 Brook Farm commune founded in Massachusetts 1844 Joseph Smith killed by mob 1845 Frederick Douglass publishes autobiography 1847 Mormons found Salt Lake City 1848 Women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York 1822 Mexico wins independence from Spain 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico 1842 Migration to Oregon begins 1844 Polk elected president, Anti-Catholic rioting in Philadelphia 1845 Texas annexed to U.S. as slave state 1846 Oregon Treaty, U.S. declares war on Mexico1847 Refugees from Irish potato famine arrive in large numbers to U.S. 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settles Mexican-American War1849 Cholera epidemic erupts in Eastern cities 1850 Compromise of 1850 1852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party formed 1856 Bleeding Kansas, Pottawatomie massacre 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford, Lecomptom Constitution 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine 1859 John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry 1860 Lincoln elected president as Democrats split, Crittenden Compromise fails1861 Confederacy formed, Ft. Sumter attacked, First Battle of Bull Run1864 Grant assumes command of all Union armies, Battle of the Wilderness1865 Hampton Roads Conference, Lincoln assassinated


1864 Wade-Davis Bill passed 1865 Freedmen's Bureau established, Johnson permits passage of Black Codes1866 Congress passes Civil Rights Act, 14th Amendment proposed1867 Tenure of Office Act, Alaska purchased, Southern states establish 1868 Johnson impeached by House, acquitted by SenateGrant elected president 1869 15th Amendment proposed 1873 Comstock lode discovered1874 Gold rush begins in Black Hills of South Dakota1875 Several Grant assistants indicted for corruption in Whiskey ring scandal 1876 U.S. v. Cruikshank, Custer defeated at Little Big Horn 1877 Compromise of 1877, Hayes awarded presidency1881 Pres. Garfield assassinated, Helen Hunt Jackson, "A Century of Dishonor" 1882 Standard Oil Trust formed, Chinese Exclusion Act 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act 1892 Sierra Club founded 1895 U.S. v. E.C. Knight 1901 McKinley assassinated 1902 Northern Securities Company dissolved, Platt Amendment passed 1903 Elkins Act passed 1904 Lincoln Steffens writes The Shame of the Cities, Roosevelt Corollary 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth settles Russo-Japanese War 1906 Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle, Pure Food and Drug Act passed 1907 Great White Fleet embarks on world tour 1908 Muller v. Oregon Taft elected president 1909 Payne-Aldrich Tariff 1910 Mann Act passed 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Mexican Revolution erupts 1912 Progressive Party nominates Teddy Roosevelt for presidency1914 Clayton Antitrust Act passed, Federal Trade Commission created1915 Lusitania torpedoed, Secretary of State Bryan resigns 1916 Sussex Pledge, Gen. Pershing pursues Pancho Villa in Mexico1917 Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmermann note intercepted1918 Wilson's 14 Points, Sedition Act, Armistice declared in World War I 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Senate rejects U.S. entry into League of Nations1920 19th Amendment ratified (giving women the franchise), Palmer raids, Red Scare 1920 First commercial radio broadcast, Warren Harding elected president1921 Congress enacts immigration quotas, Washington Naval Conference 1922 Sinclair Lewis writes Babbitt1923 Harding dies, succeeded by Coolidge, Teapot Dome scandal unfolds 1925 Scopes Tennessee Evolution trial 1927 Lindbergh's solo flight across Atlantic, Sacco and Vanzetti executed1928 Hoover elected president 1929 Stock Market Crash 1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 1932 Franklin Roosevelt defeats Hoover for president 1933 100 Days legislation, Prohibition repealed1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established 1935 Schecter Poultry v. U.S. invalidates National Recovery Administration


1936 United Auto Workers begin sit-down strikes 1937 Roosevelt announces court-packing plan, Roosevelt's quarantine speech 1938 Appeasement at Munich by Chamberlin 1939 Fall of Czechoslovakia, Austria annexed by Germany, Germany invades Poland 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany1935 Neutrality Act passed, Nye Committee hearings, Italy invades Ethiopia 1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Germany reoccupies Rhineland 1937 Japan launches invasion of China, Japan attacks U.S. gunboat Panay 1939 Munich Conference (appeasement), Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact1941 Lend-Lease aid provided for Britain, Germany invades Soviet Union1942 Japan captures Philippines as Bataan and Corregidor fall1943 Americans take Guadalcanal, Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad1944 Allies invade France at Normandy (D-Day), Roosevelt elected for fourth term1945 Yalta Conference, Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Truman1945 Atomic age begins, United Nations founded 1946 Crises in Iran and Greece, Atomic Energy Commission established 1947 Communists take over in Hungary, Truman Doctrine announced1948 Communists take over in Czechoslovakia, Draft re-instated1949 NATO established, Soviet Union explodes atomic bomb1950 Korean War begins, U.S. troops invade North Korea1951 MacArthur relieved of command by Truman, Peace negotiations begin in Korea 1952 U.S. ends Japanese occupation, Eisenhower elected president 1953 Korean War ends with truce, Stalin dies 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings1956 Suez crisis 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik, Germany joins NATO1959 Castro takes over in Cuba, Khrushchev visits U.S. 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates, John F. Kennedy elected president1961 Freedom rides, Bay of Pigs invasion fails1962 Cuban Missile Crisis1963 Kennedy assassinated in Dallas 1964 President Johnson announces war on poverty1965 Medicare funding begins, Race riots in Watts1968 Race riots in Newark and Detroit, Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, Woodstock Music Festival 1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia, Killings at Kent State and Jackson State 1971 Pentagon Papers published 1972 Nixon goes to China , Detente with Soviet Union 1973 Roe v. Wade decision permits abortions , Israeli-Arab fight Yom Kippur War 1974 Impeachment proceedings begin against Pres. Nixon 1975 South Vietnam falls 1978 Supreme Court issues Bakke decision1979 U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations, Iran deposes shah 1980 U.S. boycotts Moscow Olympics , Reagan elected president 1981 Hostages released in Iran , Reagan breaks air traffic controller strike 1982 Equal Rights Amendment fails to be ratified by states 1983 Reagan proposed Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") 1985 U.S. bombs Libya , U.S. begins secret Iran-arms negotiations


1986 Iran-Contra scandal breaks 1989 China crushes revolt in Tiananmen Square , Berlin Wall falls 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait 1991 Operation Desert Storm launched 1993 Clinton defeats Bush for presidency 1998 Clinton announces first balanced budget in 20 years

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