DATES
  1. 1492 Columbus landed in the New World
  2. 1585 Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony
  3. 1607 Jamestown founded in Virginia
  4. 1619 Virginia House of Burgesses established
  5. 1619 First Africans arrive in America
  6. 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth
  7. 1649 Act of Toleration in Maryland
  8. 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
  9. 1692 Salem witch trials
  10. 1754 Albany Congress
  11. 1754-1763 French and Indian War
  12. 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War
  13. 1763 Proclamation of 1763
  14. 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
  15. 1764 Sugar Act
  16. 1765 Stamp Act
  17. 1765 Quartering Act
  18. 1766 Declaratory Act
  19. 1767 Townshend Acts
  20. 1770 Boston Massacre
  21. 1770 Townshend Acts repealed (except on tea)
  22. 1773 Boston Tea Party
  23. 1774 Intolerable Acts
  24. 1774 Quebec Act
  25. 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord
  26. 1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Congress
  27. 1785 Land Ordinance of 1785
  28. 1787 Shay's Rebellion
  29. 1787 Northwest Ordinance
  30. 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
  31. 1789 Washington elected president
  32. 1791 Bill of Rights adopted
  33. 1791 Bank of America created
  34. 1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
  35. 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
  36. 1798-1799 Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
  37. 1803 Madison v. Marbury
  38. 1803 Louisiana Purchase
  39. 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition
  40. 1807 Embargo Act
  41. 1807 Robert Fulton invents the first steamboat
  42. 1808 Congress outlaws slave trade
  43. 1812 United States declares war on Great Britain
  44. 1814 Treaty of Ghent signed
  45. 1814 Battle of New Orleans
  46. 1819 Spain cedes Florida to the United States
  47. 1820 Missouri Compromise
  48. 1823 Monroe Doctrine
  49. 1830 Indian Removal Act
  50. 1835-1839 Trail of Tears
  51. 1836 Battle of the Alamo
  52. 1846 Wilmot Proviso
  53. 1846-1847 Mormon migration to Utah
  54. 1846-1848 Mexican War
  55. 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  56. 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention
  57. 1849 California gold rush
  58. 1850 Compromise of 1850 (Fugitive Slave Law)
  59. 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
  60. 1854 Republican Party formed
  61. 1856-1860 "bleeding Kansas"
  62. 1857 Dred Scott decision
  63. 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates
  64. 1859 John Brown raids Harper's Ferry
  65. 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union
  66. 1861 Fort Sumter fired upon
  67. 1861 Formation of the Confederate States of America by the seven states that seceded
  68. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
  69. 1863 Lincoln proposes 10 percent Reconstruction plan
  70. 1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  71. 1865 Lincoln assassinated
  72. 1865 Freedmen's Bureau established
  73. 1866 Ku Klux Klan founded
  74. 1867 Military Reconstruction Act
  75. 1877 Military Recontruction ends
  76. 1890 Census Bureau declares an end to the frontier
  77. 1898 Spanish-American War
  78. 1898 Hawaii anenexed
  79. 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  80. 1904-1914 Construction of the Panama Canal
  81. 1910 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People established
  82. 1917 Zimmerman telegram
  83. 1917 United States enters World War I
  84. 1919-1920 "Red Scare"
  85. 1920 Women gain the vote (Nineteenth Amendment)
  86. 1921 Sacco-Vanzetti trial
  87. 1924 Indians granted U.S. citizenship
  88. 1925 Scopes trial
  89. 1929 Stock market crash
  90. 1933 The Hundred Days
  91. 1941 Lend-Lease Act
  92. 1941 Atlantic Charter
  93. 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
  94. 1945 Yalta Conference
  95. 1945 United Nations established
  96. 1947 Truman Doctrine
  97. 1947 Marshall Plan
  98. 1947 Taft-Hartley Act
  99. 1949 NATO established
  100. 1950-1953 Korean War
  101. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
  102. 1955 Montgomery bus boycott
  103. 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine
  104. 1961 Bay of Pigs
  105. 1962 Cuban missile crisis
  106. 1963 President Kennedy assassinated
  107. 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  108. 1964 Civil Rights Acts
  109. 1969 Armstrong walks on the moon
  110. 1972 President Nixon visits China