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War of Spanish Succession Begins
From 1701–14, the general European wars were caused by the efforts of King Louis XIV when wanting to extend French power. The aftermath of the death of Charles II, disputes over separation of the Spanish and French crowns and commercial rights led to war in 1701 between the Bourbons of France and Spain and the Grand Alliance. So fighting over power to rule as Charles II died with no children to take over. -
Massacre of English Colonists by French and Indians
This conflict consisted of series of raids by the English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies against a largely peaceful population of Apalachee Indians in northern Spanish Florida. -
United Kingdom of Great Britain Formed
The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland. Once sharing the monarch two countries then changed into their own crownings. -
The Findings of Georgia
Georgia received its name in honor of George II, King of England. Around this time, several gentlemen in England, most importantly the head of those men, James Oglethorpe, a member of the British Parliament, and greatly distinguished for his philanthropic views, organized a plan for planting a colony in America for the indigent and persecuted in Britain in hopes that the one class might find relief from poverty, and the other from persecution. -
Findings of Alaska
In 1741, A Russian expedition led by Vitus Bering, along with George Steller, made the first "discovery" of Alaska, landing near what today is Kayak Island. -
Battle of Culloden
On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were defeated by Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. -
Seven Years War
The seven years war begins with French Indians and the English involving every European great power spanning five continents affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India and the Philippines. -
Battle of Quebec
This war was the aftermath of the successful capture of Louisbourg in 1758. Since then, the British leaders began planning for a strike against Quebec the next year. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 imposed new duties on sugars and other goods. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act happened out of spite of the doings and teachings of the sugar act. Ever since the sugar act, the British tightened its reigns of the colonies. The stamp act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-Britain sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key factor in the British economy leading to the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773, colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard to prove their point, prior to the war two years later. -
Revolution Begins
By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached their breaking point due to all the tension found in Tea Acts of both Parties. This lead to April 18, where General Thomas Gage ordered British troops to march against the Patriot arsenal at Concord and capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. They declared themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
Battle of Yorktown
Known as the most important battle in the Revolutionary War as it was the last battle in the war. -
Peace Signed in Paris
A set of treaties which ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts consisting of four thousand rebels lead by Daniel Shay in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. -
Constitution Ratified
Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to revise a previous one, in order to meet the changing needs of a nation that has obviously changed since the eighteenth century -
French Revolution Begins
The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, catalyzed violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon who brought many of its principles to areas he conquered in Western Europe. -
George Washington
George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States. -
Whiskey Rebellion
This tax protest in the United States began in 1791 and ended in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government and was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. applying to all distilled spirits. -
Washington
Death at Mount Vernon home. -
Jefferson
Elected and taking place of Washington.