U.S. History pre-1800s

By jayrobertson
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbs landed in Americas

  • Sep 1, 1565

    St Augsutine founded

  • Period: Jan 1, 1580 to

    US History 1500 to 1799

  • Roanoke founded

  • Jamestown founded

  • Plymouth colony founded

  • Mayflower Compact

  • MD founded

  • Roger Williams banished

  • Pequot War Starts

  • Thomas Hooker founded Hartford

  • Harvard University founded

  • Trial of Anne Hutchinson

  • CT Fundamental Orders:

  • Maryland Toleration Act passed

  • Navigation Acts: first passed

  • King Phillip's War begins

  • Bacon’s Rebellion begins

  • PA colony founded:

  • End of the Glorious Revolution

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Great Awakening

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • John Peter Zenger trial

  • French and Indian War begins

  • Treaty of Paris signed

  • Parliament passes the Proclamation of 1763

  • Parliament passes the Currency Act

  • Parliament passes the Sugar Act

  • Parliament passes the Quartering/ Mutiny Act

  • VA resolves

  • Parliament passes the Stamp Act

  • Stamp Act Congress started

  • Sons of Liberty started

  • Parliament passes the Declaratory Act

  • Stamp Act is repealed

  • Daughters of Liberty founded

  • Parliament passes the Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre occurs

  • Gaspee Affair

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Committees of Correspondence formed

  • Coervice Acts

  • 1st Continental Congress meets

  • Lexington & Concord occurs

  • 2nd Continental Congress meets

  • Battle of Bunker Hill occurs

  • Continental Congress adopts Olive Branch Petition

  • Common Sense

  • Declaration of Independence is adopted

  • Battle of Saratoga begins

  • Articles of Confederation ratified

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Land Ordinance Act enacted

  • Shay’s Rebellion begins

  • Shay’s Rebellion ends

  • Philadelphia Convention meets

  • Northwest Ordinance Act enacted

  • G.Washington is elected president

  • Judiciary Act passed

  • Bill of Rights adopted by Congress

  • Hamilton issues “Report on Manufactures”

  • Citizen Genet affair

  • Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

  • Whiskey Rebellion quelled

  • Jay’s Treaty signed

  • Pinckney’s Treaty signed

  • J.Adams elected president

  • Alien & Sedition Acts passed

  • XYZ Affair occurs

  • VA & KY Resolutions passed

  • US capitol moves

    The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation's capital because of its geographical position in the center of the existing new republic. The states of Maryland and Virginia ceded land around the Potomac River to form the District of Columbia, and work began on Washington in 1791. Jun 3, 1800, Pres Adams moved to a temporary residence in the new capital as construction was completed on the executive mansion. On Nov 1, the pres was welcomed into the White House

  • Gabriel Prosser hung

    Prosser devised a plan for slaves to seize control of Richmond by killing all of the whites (except the Methodists, Quakers and Frenchmen) and then establishing a Kingdom of VA with himself as monarch. However, earlier in the day two slaves who wanted to protect their masters betrayed the plot to VA authorities. Prosser & the other revolt leaders were probably influenced by the US Revolution and with the rhetoric of freedom, equality and brotherhood.