History A Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French/Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Invention of the Electric Light

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

  • Trail of Tears

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican/American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at the Appomattox

  • Abraham Lincolns Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt is Elected President

  • Invention of the Airplane