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Jamestown Founded
On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. -
Santa Fe, New Mexico founded by Spanish
Don Juan de Oñate Salazar established the New Spain colony of Santa Fe de -
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
The Anglo–Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early 17th century. -
New Netherland
New Netherland was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States. -
Mayflower Lands in Massachusetts
On December 18, 1620, the English ship Mayflower arrives at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepare to begin their new settlement -
Salem , Massachusetts
Salem is a city on the north coast of Massachusetts above Boston. It's famous for its 1692 witch trials, during which several locals were executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft. -
Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars / French and Iroquois Wars)
The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America -
Slavery begins in Maryland
The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves arrived at St. Mary's City. -
Angelo Dutch Wars
The Anglo–Dutch Wars were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England in the mid-17th and late 18th century. -
King Philip War
King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. -
Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. -
Delaware Colony Granted Charter
The final document is a “Charter” deed from Charles II to James, the Duke of York for the entire territory now known as Delaware -
Queen Anne's War
Queen Anne's War was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain -
Treaty of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. -
First Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. -
Province of Georgia
The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British America. -
Russian America
The Russian colonization of North America covers the period from 1732 to 1867, when the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories -
John Peter Zenger Trial
The Zenger case demonstrated the growing independence of the professional Bar and reinforced the role of the jury as a curb on executive power -
King George's War
King George's War is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession. -
Father Le Loutre's War
Father Le Loutre's War, also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia -
French & Indian War (Seven Years' War)
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Declaration of Independents
The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. -
Constitution of the United States of America
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
Northwest Indian War (Ohio War, Little Turtle's War)
The Northwest Indian War, also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy. -
Whiskey Rebellion
In 1794, farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
Ohio enters the Union (17th state)
Ohio was admitted to the Union on February 19, 1803, as the 17th state. -
12th Amendment to the US Constitution
Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 12 – “Electing the President and Vice President” Amendment Twelve to the Constitution was ratified on June 15, 1804. -
Embargo Act of 1807
Embargo Act, Legislation by the U.S. Congress in December 1807 that closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain. -
Louisiana enters the Union
Louisiana was admitted to the Union on April 30, 1812, as the 18th state, with generally the same boundary as the present state. -
Creek War
The Creek War, was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century. -
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson -
First Seminole War
First Seminole War, conflict between U.S. armed forces and the Seminole Indians of Florida that is generally dated to 1817–18 -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the power to regulate interstate commerce -
Erie Canal completed
The Erie Canal was completed on October 26, 1825, making it the longest artificial waterway in North America. -
Era of the Common Man
The extension of democracy to nearly all white men characterized the Age of the Common Man, sometimes called the Age of Jackson. -
Petticoat Affair
The Petticoat affair was a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. -
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty signed in 1850 between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
Third Great Awakening
a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and spans the late 1850s to the early 20th century. -
Dred Scott Decision
the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. -
Crittenden Compromise
The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians -
Haymarket Affair
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws -
President William McKinley assassinated, Vice President Roosevelt becomes the 26th president
One bullet grazed McKinley; the other entered his abdomen and was never found. McKinley initially appeared to be recovering, but he took a turn for the worse on September 13 as his wounds became gangrenous. He died at 2:15 am on September 14 and was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt -
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission -
Ford Model T appears on the market
The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908. -
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a United States law passed in response to the Panic of 1907 which established the National Monetary Commission. -
New Mexico and Arizona become states
January 6, 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state and on February 14, 1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the Union. -
Vice President Sherman dies
\James Schoolcraft Sherman was an American politician who was a United States representative from New York from 1887 to 1891 and 1893 to 1909, and the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912. -
End of the Philippine–American War
The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, or Tagalog Insurgency, was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, is a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act seeks to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
RMS Lusitania sunk
The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915 -
The Great Migration begins
the first phase of the Great Migration Study Project, which aims to investigate all immigrants to New England from 1620 through 1640. -
U.S. enters World War I
On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
19th Amendment, grants women the right to vote
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.