1492-1830

By kwhite10
  • Dec 10, 1492

    Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • Period: Dec 10, 1492 to

    Colonial and Early Nationalism

  • Dec 10, 1503

    Davinci paints Mona Lisa

  • Dec 10, 1508

    Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel

  • Dec 10, 1519

    Chocolate is introduced to Europe

  • Dec 10, 1520

    Magellan sails around the world

  • Dec 10, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen

  • Dec 10, 1580

    Montaigne's Essays published

  • Shakespeare completes A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Don Quixote published in Spain

  • First English settlement in Jamestown

  • Pilgrims land at Plymouth

  • Harvard College founded

  • First printing press in America

  • Bay Psalm Book becomes first book printed in colonies

  • England civil war starts

  • Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse

  • Paradise Lost published

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

  • Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

  • Peter Zenger trial

  • Great Awakening

  • Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God

  • Deism

  • Republicanism

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Interchangeable Parts

  • Treaty of Alliance of 1778

  • Critical Period

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Yeoman farmers

  • Land Ordinance

  • Shays Rebellion

  • The Annapolis Convention

  • The Great Compromise

  • Three-fifths Compromise

  • The Virginia Plan

  • Northwest Ordinance

  • Federalist Papers

  • Republican Motherhood

  • Loose Constructionists

  • Full Funding/Assumption

  • BUS

  • Haitian Rebellion

  • Bill of Rights

  • Federalist/Firat American Party System

  • Benjamin Bannecker

  • Samuel Slater

  • Cotton Gin

  • Citizen Genet

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Jay's Treaty

  • Pickney Treaty

  • Washington's Farewell Address

  • Abigail Adams

  • XYZ Affair

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions

  • Quasi-War

  • Revolution of 1800

  • Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion

  • Union Membership

  • Barbary Pirates

  • Marbury vs Madison

  • Judicial Review

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Lewis and Clark

  • Orders in Council

  • Embargo Act of 1807

  • War Hawks

  • Impressment

  • American System

  • Tecumseh

  • Lowell/Waltham System

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • American Colonization Society

  • Era of Good Feelings

  • Erie Canal

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

  • Henry Clay

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Corrupt Bargain

  • Gibbons vs Ogden

  • National Republicans

  • Roanoke Island disappears