Timeline

Most Important Events in U.S History

  • 1565

    First European settlement in St. Augustine

    First European settlement in St. Augustine
    The first European settlement within the US, St. Augustine, was established in 1565 by the triumphant Menéndez. According to the course of events, the Timucua Natives who had lived in the old settlement of Seloy spanning numerous years were driven out by the Spanish.
  • New World Columbia Exchange

    New World Columbia Exchange
    The New World Columbia Exchange. was similarly subjected to a commodification trend in the 1600s. Native Americans engaged American tobacco, silver, and other objects for rituals; these eventually became European goods having a marketable worth that were able to trade.
  • First Shared British Colony

    First Shared British Colony
    The 1607 founding of the first shared stable British colony. The 13 distinct towns were created by three individuals with varying religious backgrounds. They went by the names of Catholics, Quakers, and Anglicans. They resided in different sections of the nation and held differing opinions concerning their respective religions.
  • Virginia First Case of Slavery

    Virginia First Case of Slavery
    The first case of slavery was encountered in Virginia where around 30 slaves from Africa arrived at Point Comfort. In the region, they traded Africans for various supplies. Days after the first arrival, additional ship emerged with other slaves from Africa under the English privateers.
  • Plymouth and Pilgrim

    Plymouth and Pilgrim
    The arrival of Mayflower in Plymouth harbor established the first pilgrim for colonist to erect their town. They experienced pneumonia as a result of not having shelter, lacked salt-free food and exposure to cold weather which weakened their bodies during their pilgrim killing half of her team.
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening
    In the decades between 1730 and 1740, an outbreak of intense revivalism known as "The Great Awakening" swept over the colonies at the time. It placed more weight on the human being and their metaphysical experience while downplaying the significance of church dogma.
  • Massachusetts Law

    Massachusetts Law
    Registered the establishment of Massachusetts law or the old deluder Satan Law, so named because it was supposed for keeping Satan at bay. Fifty families were supposed to sign up their kids with an educator so they could learn to read to defeat Satan. The American colonies witnessed a rise in Latin academic institutions at this time.
  • The Glorious Revolution

    The Glorious Revolution
    The Glorious Revolution resulted in the creation of a British country that gave its citizens protections and constrained the king's authority. The constitutional monarchy was created in October 1689, the exact year "William and Mary" became king and queen. This was made possible by the bill known as the "1689 Bill of Rights".
  • Carolina Slave Laws

    Carolina Slave Laws
    The Carolinas started enacting slave laws throughout the beginning of the 1700s, patterned upon the "Barbados slave codes", which created the legal foundation for enslavement. Africans were degraded by these regulations to the status of property that might be purchased and sold like other goods.
  • The Seven Years War

    The Seven Years War
    These disagreements between France and Great Britain were the reason behind the start of the battle in May 1754. The worst American battle of the eighteenth century were the French and Indian battle, a colonial escalation of the seven-year war that devastated Europe between 1756 and 1763.
  • The Revolutionary War

    The Revolutionary War
    The Revolutionary War in the United States took place between 1775 and 1783. The conflict between the British army and the militiamen of the area in "Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775", marked the beginning of the Revolution. State soldiers and local militiamen augmented the Continental (Federal) Army during the war.
  • Article of Confederation

    Article of Confederation
    Establishment of the Article of confederations. With a single legislature as the legislative body, the Articles established a federal government. The judiciary and executive branches did not exist separately. Every state, irrespective of population, received one vote from the delegations in Congress, who cast their votes state by state.
  • The Constitution

    The Constitution
    The ultimate legal authority in the Republic of America remains the Constitution. The Congress, with a bicameral structure, which is the legislative; the President, who leads the executive department; and the United States Supreme Court, which leads the federal court system, are the three arms of the US government that are defined by the initial 3 Articles of the Constitution.
  • The Bill of Rights Amendments

    The Bill of Rights Amendments
    The very first Congress established the 12 Amen dement legislatures. By the conclusion of 1791, 10 of the 12 amendments that Congress had adopted had been confirmed by state legislatures. The Constitutional Bill of Rights is made up of the initial ten revisions to the Constitution.
  • Rise of Manufacturing Industry

    Rise of Manufacturing Industry
    Became the rise for manufacturing industry in the America. Great Britain had the globe's most sophisticated textile factories and machinery in the latter part of the 1790s, and the Americans kept depending on Great Britain supply completed goods. Keeping its economic edge against its earlier colonies in the Americas was Great Britain's goal.
  • US War on Germany

    US War on Germany
    US war on Germany. With minimal Spanish involvement in Florida, the US and her native allies battled against the UK and their respective indigenous alliances in British North America during the Wars of 1812. On the eighteenth of June, 1812, the Americans proclaimed war, which was the start of it.
  • Civil Wars

    Civil Wars
    The beginning of Civil Wars. Began in 1860. Abraham Lincoln, who took the US presidency at the time, led this conflict. Fighting against slavery between the North and the South. The North supported the abolition of slavery, whereas the South opposed. Slavery was ultimately outlawed, and the "Declaration of Independence" included the thirteenth Amendment. Due to the Civil War, enslavement is currently not an option in America and has been for all time.
  • The Great War

    The Great War
    Wilson dispatched soldiers to Cuba within 1917 to defend American-owned sugar estates against rebel assaults; the soldiers were in Cuba for a total of 4 years. A few weeks prior Wilson took office, the rebel commander Victoriano Huerta had taken over leadership of Mexico after an earlier insurgent government. This was the subject of Wilson's most famous foreign policy expedition during WWI.
  • The Great depression

    The Great depression
    The start of the great depression period in US economy. The Depression represented the greatest and most severe economic downturn in American history as well as the founding period of the contemporary industrial sector. Whenever the economic boom of the "Roaring Twenties ended in August 1929", the depression that followed officially started. A sequence of economic downturns interspersed the shrinkage.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Beginning of the end of contact with England. The "Declaration of Independence", that Congress ratified, offered official grounds for this decision. Following approval, every colony began referring to itself as a state. The majority of the Declaration was drafted by "Thomas Jefferson with assistance from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin".