history timeline

  • The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod

  • The first Latin Grammar School was opened.

  • in virginia the first free school was open for students.

  • The first printing press in the American Colonies is set up at Harvard College.

  • The first New England Primer is printed in Boston. It becomes the most widely-used schoolbook in New England.

  • A Catholic school for girls was opened.

  • Benjamin Franklin forms the American Philosophical Society

  • The Revolutionary War officially ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris

  • The Young Ladies Academy opens in Philadelphia and becomes the first academy for girls in the original 13 colonies/states

  • The Bill of Rights is passed by the first Congress of the new United States

  • the modern blackboard was invented.

  • the war of 1812 begins

  • one of the first public schools open

  • Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance law.

  • The 13th Amendment is passed which is abolishing slavery.

  • the first public community college in the U.S. opens.

  • first junior high opens in the u.s.

  • world war l ends.

  • All states have laws providing funds for transporting children to school.

  • World War II ends.