History Final Timeline

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  • 100,000 BCE

    Out Of Africa

    All modern humans stem from a single group that emigrated from Africa over 100,000 years ago
  • 10,000 BCE

    The Stone Age

    About 10,000 BCE to 3,500 BCE. The Stone Age is divided into three periods: the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. The first societies were clans and they were hunter-gatherers. They had the means to make fire.
  • 8000 BCE

    The Neolithic Revolution

    Beginning in about 8,000 BCE, the hunter-gathers settled down into villages, and began farming and domesticating animals. This was a long period of change. This was the beginning of agriculture.
  • 3500 BCE

    The Bronze Age and Iron Age

    From about 3,500 BCE-479 BCE. Ancient civilization started during the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. Empires began to emerged in the Iron Age. Some of the empires were Sumerian Empire, Babylonian Empire, the Shang Dynasty, Phoenicians and the Persian Empire.
  • 455

    The Dark Ages

    The Dark Ages were from 455 CE-1492 CE.
    In this time frame, Rome was declining.
    The Western Roman Empire was decline for 150 years. The Vandal invasion was the final fall of Rome.
    The Black Plague was a disease that began during this time, 1346-1353.
    The Viking age began about 1200 years ago because they invaded Britain.
    The renaissance also took place during this time. It was given a huge boost by the De Medici Family.
    Christopher Columbus arrived to North American in 1492.
  • 1300

    The Inca Empire

    The Inca Empire began its rise around 1300 CE on the western coast of South American, in what is now Peru and Chile.
    - The Inca were skilled politicians and manged to govern a realm that included 12 million people. Instead of a money tribute, they demanded labor and military service. It was all ruled from the Inca Capital at Machu Pichu.
  • 1325

    The Aztec Empire

    • They found their capital at Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, in 1325 CE roughly 200 years before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors.
    • Overtime the Aztec traded and intermarried with other tribes and civilizations.
    • The first emperor was Itzcoatl who reigned from 1428 to 1440.
    • The Spanish explorer Cortez arrived in 1519 when the Aztec Empire was at its peak.
  • 1492

    The New World

    • The new world started in 1492.
    • Beringia: also called Bering Land Bridge, that many human populations first passed from Asia to populate the America.
    • Clovis People were the fIrst ancient tribe to appear on our continent
    • The Tainos were the first people Columbus met.
  • 1500

    Columbian Exchange

    During the 1500's Spain, Portugal, France and England set explorers to the New World. They brought animals, plants and other goods. They brought illnesses and the native people had no natural immunities.
  • 1565

    The First Colonies

    1565-1607
    St. Augustine, Florida (1565): first and oldest permanent settlement in the New World
    The Lost Colony of Roanoke, Virginia (1587): the whole colony disappeared and to this day no one knows what happened to it.
    Jamestown, Virginia (1607): Americas first permanent English colony.

  • The First African Slaves

    The first documented Africans in Virginia arrived in 1619. They were from the kingdom of Ndongo in Angola, in West Central Africa. These first Africans were treated as indentured servants.

  • Plymouth Colony

    Farther to the North, in Massachusetts Bay, the Separatist Pilgrims established their own colony.
    The Mayflower Compact: was the first document democracy of the New World that was signed on the ship.

  • The Molasses Act, The Sugar Act

    A 6 pence tax on each gallon of molasses was imposed in 1733.

  • French and Indian War

    Massive European War involving Austria, English, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden called the Seven Year War (1756-1763).

  • The Townshend Act

    Were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The purpose if these acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade and shipping.

  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free export of tea from Britain.
    The Boston Tear Part: December 16, 1773: When the Sons of Liberty boarded tea ships anchored in the harbor and dumped the tea overboard.

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The battle that started the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    The turning point of the Revolutionary War. Washington gained an important victory.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The New World declared that they are not going to be governed by England anymore.

  • The American Government

    Articles of Confederation: in 1781 the Continental Congress passed this. Each state had their own laws and their own currency. This was clearly not working.
    US constitution: 1787 was signed. It became a law in 1788. The constitution describes how the New US Government would look. The constitution provides for three branches, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney built a machine that could effectively and efficiently remove the seeds from cotton plants, called the cotton gin.

  • Forms of Government

    Monarchy: The most common government in history. This is normally a King or Queen, often a part of dynasty- meaning the monarchs are members of the same family over a period of several decades or centuries.
    Dictators are a form of monarchy but they are usually temporary.
    Democracy: The people have all the power. They vote on everything and elected officials must do as the people require them to do.
    Republic: Most of America is Republic. We elect representatives who vote on our behalf.

  • The War of 1812

    James Madison was president in 1812, and was the last of the big five. The causes of the War of 1812 were a seres of economic sanctions by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars. US was outraged at the British oractice of Impressment (forcibly kidnapping men to serve on Naval vessels)

  • The Civil War

    The war was from 1861 to 1865, which determined what kind of nation it would be. This war resolved two fundamental questions left unanswered by the revolution, whether the US was to be an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government and whether this nation would continue to exist as the largest slave holding country in the world. Northern victory in the war preserved the US as one nation and ended the institution of slavery. This was the largest and most destructive conflict.

  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded knee was a tragic and avoidable massacre with armed troops and a small group of Indians. Marked the end of the frontier and the beginning of Modern age.

  • The Mayan Empire

    The Mayan Empire is a civilization with the only fully developed written language.
    - Initially established in 2000 BCE, many Mayan cities reached their highest state of development around 250 to 900 CE and until the arrival of the Spanish.
    - The Mayan people developed an agriculturally intensive, city-centered civilization.