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First Successful Colony
The first successful and permanent English colony is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia, which is also known as Jamestown. -
Lake Champalin
After Samuel Champlain furthers his exploration of the ‘New World’, he battles an Iroquois Party. He discovers the Champlain Lake in early July and claims Vermont as the Kingdom of France. -
Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims formed the Mayflower Compact, which established legal structure and government. -
Thanksgiving
The first thanksgiving is celebrated for three days between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe. -
Indian Massacre
Chief Opechancanough and the Powhatan Confederacy tried to rid the colony of settlers which led to the Indian Massacre of 1622. The Indian Massacre also known as the Powhatan Uprising of 1622, was a sudden and fierce attack on English colonists in Virginia. Powhatan warriors burned settlements and killed approximately 347 people. -
Manhattan Island
One of the eight men left by the Dutch explorers, Peter Minuit, heads for the Albany area on Manhattan Island and buys the island from the Man-a-hat-a Indians for, what is said to be, $24 in trinkets. -
Roger Williams
Roger Williams first arrived in North America. Roger Williams questioned the religious policies in the Massachusetts Colony, which caused him to get banished to Massachusetts for five years. He created the first baptist church in America. -
Harvard University
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University is founded. -
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay as a punishment for speaking out about her views on religion. -
First Book
The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book -
First Anti- Slavery Law
Rhode Island passes the first law in the American colonies, which restricted slavery and illegalized it for more than ten years. It did not last due to the shippers realizing the high profits they made from save trade. -
Peach Tree War
An attack on New Amsterdam and Pavonia begins the Peach Tree War. The Peach Tree War was a reaction to the abuse suffered by the Native Americans in the Netherlands for a decade. The war started when a Native American woman was shot for stealing a peach from a peach tree which unleashed the fury in the Native American Community. The Natives burned down homes and farms, killed 100 Dutch and held 150 hostages, -
First Quakers
The first Quakers to arrive to Boston, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, are arrested and later deported back to England. -
From New Amsterdam to New York
Three hundred British troops seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York. -
Dutch Recapture
In 1673 the Dutch force recapture New York from the British and held power in the area for one year. -
King Philips' War
King Philip's’ War in New England begins with the Meta-com Indian forces attacking colonial settlements. When the war ended, the British settlers began taking even more land from the natives. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion causes the burning of Jamestown. Nathaniel Bacon leads the rebellion of planters against Governor Berkeley. The initial cause of the rebellion was Governor Berkeley's refusal to retaliate on the Natives attacks. -
Pennsylvania
William Penn signs a treaty with the Delaware Indians and pays them; establishing the Pennsylvania colony. -
First Newspaper
The first newspaper issue in the United States is published in Boston. Richard Pierce printed the paper and Benjamin Harris edited the newspaper titled, Public Occurrences: Both Foreign and Domestic. -
Plymouth Colony
The Plymouth colony joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Yale University
The colony of Saybrook passes an Act for a Collegiate School named Liberty to Erect, which would later be named Yale. -
The Boston News- Letter
The first regular newspaper is created by John Campbell was named The Boston News- Letter. John Campbell, who was the postmaster of Boston,published the first newspaper and titled it, The Boston News Letter. This newspaper issue appeared weekly until 1776 and didn’t have any competition until December 21, 1719. -
Siege of Port Royal in Nova Scotia
British troops begin a nine day Siege of Port Royal in Nova Scotia. -
First Theater
The first theater in the colonies is opened in Williamsburg, Virginia. This is considered the first British American theater built on Palace Green. -
North Crolina
Lord proprietors sell their interests in North Carolina which establishes North Carolina as a Crown Colony. This is the first time the Carolina's become two different states. -
Poor Richard's Alamac
Poor Richard's Almanac is published in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and sold 10,000 copies a year. -
Freedom of Press
After the trial of John Peter Zenger, Freedom of Press became recognized in New York. -
George Whitefield
George Whitefield arrived to North America for the first time and becomes the predominant preacher for the First Great Awakening movement. -
Second Uprising
A second uprising of slaves occurs in New York and leads to seventeen slaves being hanged, thirteen burned, and seventy being deported.The second up rising of slaves in also known as the New York Conspiracy of 1741 and the Negro Plot of 1741. A fire broke out at Fort George by poor whites and black slaves. It lasted the whole spring and summer of 1741. -
Georgia Trustees
Georgia Trustees forms a petition parliament to overturn the ban against slavery. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's war was launched by Native Americans that disliked the British postwar policies. The war began when a confederacy of Native American warriors under Ottawa chief Pontiac attacked the British force at Detroit. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an attempt by the British to tax the American colonies. This tax required the people of the American colonies to have a stamp on every piece of printed paper they had. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is known as the incident where British soldiers shot and killed many people while under attack by a mob of angry people. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was the protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty threw 342 boxes of tea overboard a ship. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First Revolutionary Battle was at Lexington and Concord. In April 1775, when British troops were sent to confiscate the colonists weapons. Their army defeats 700 British soldiers. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania’s Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 -
Battles of Saratoga
The two Battles at Saratoga were the turning points in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the battle known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a army of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia -
Treaty of Paris
On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, bringing the Revolutionary War to its final conclusion. -
President George Washington
All 69 presidential electors unanimously chose Washington to be the first U.S. president. -
Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France. -
Slave Trade Act
The Slave Trade Act was formed and it ended slave trade -
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the U.S and Great Britain and their respective allies, also called the second war of independence -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse political rivalries, this was requested by the state of missouri. this was made to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri as a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a united states policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner's rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Slaves killed close to 60 people. -
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution or also known as the War of Texas Independence,was a war fought against Texans and Mexicans which gained Texas’s independence from Mexico -
Manifest destiny
Manifest Destiny was America’s expansion into Mexico and Native American territory. The 19th-century belief was that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
the U.S acquired California and the territory of New Mexico which included present-day Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made to avert conflicts between the North and the South -
The Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, it was sold to the U.S for 10 million dollars. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, and the democratic party split apart because of Lincoln beating Breckenridge in the presidential election. -
Fort Sumter
The Civil War began at Fort Sumter. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
The thirteenth amendment
The thirteenth amendment was formed and abolishes slavery in the united states of america. -
Alaska
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl -
Big Business
From the era of Reconstruction to the end of the 19th century there was a rise in big businesses. -
Time Zones
With the use of railroads, railroads created the first time zones. the four dividing lines that were adopted back then are very close to the ones we use today. -
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase Act was made, it was supposed to stop the draining of the US’s gold reserves. -
Pollock v Farmers' Loan and Trust Company
Pollock v Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company was a US Supreme Court case that declared the federal income tax unconstitutional. 157 U.S. 429 (1895), affirmed on rehearing, 158 U.S. 601 (1895), with a ruling of 5–4. -
Spanish American War
America defeated the Spanish in the Spanish-American war, which ended Spanish colonial rule in the U.S. This war started and ended in the same year. America granted the Spanish with 20 million dollars post war.
