U.S. History so far

By Gandalf1337
  • 1000

    Leif Erikson discovers North America

  • 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias has to turn back from Cape of Good Hope

  • 1492

    Columbus sets sail on the ocean blue

  • 1497

    Vasco de Gama able to find sea route to Asia successfully

  • 1497

    John Cabot sailed for England and set up the basis for England's claim in North America

  • 1501

    Vespucci credited with America being named for him

  • 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa- sees the Pacific Ocean

  • 1517

    Martin Luther starts Protestant Reformation

  • 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan- dies on journey but crew still circumnavigates the globe

  • 1535

    Jacques Cartier sailed for France and set up their claim in Canada in modern day Montreal

  • Virginia gets established in by Sir Walter Raleigh after receiving a charter

  • Phillip sends his Spanish Armada to crush Queen Elizabeth but loses

  • Henry Hudson sailed for the Dutch and English and founded the Hudson Bay

  • Dutch found New Netherland as a fur trading post

  • First slaves in America arrived by the Dutch colonists in Virginia

  • Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock in MA

  • Maryland is established for Catholics

  • Thomas Hooker leaves Massachusetts Bay Colony and finds CT

  • William Rogers also leaves MBC to find New Jersey

  • Toleration Act is passed in Maryland

  • Charles II gave land away to eight different supporters for the Carolina Colony

  • The English take New Amsterdam from Dutch and it becomes New York

  • Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia

  • King Charles II will grant William Penn a charter and he will name the capital of PA, Philadelphia which means Brotherly Love

  • Georgia is founded as a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the English Colonies under James Oglethorpe

  • Virginia land surveyors looking for a place to settle at Forks of the Ohio

  • Georgia becomes a slave colony

  • Half King agrees for the English and Virginians to establish a trading outpost on Forks of Ohio

  • George Washington is sent to peacefully ask the French to leave Ohio Country especially the Forks of Ohio

  • French kick out English and Virginians at the Forks of the Ohio. Make Half King look weak

  • George Washington shoots French diplomats in the Woods of Pennsylvania: Starts French and Indian War

  • George Washington surrenders at Fort Necessity on July 4

  • Braddock and the British forces lose 1,000 men to the French at Battle of Fort Duquesne

  • Battle of Lake George and stalemate for Lake Champlain Campaign

  • Declarations of War between France and Britain

  • Surrender and Massacre at Fort William Henry for the British

  • British lose outside of Fort Ticonderoga

  • British take Louisbourg

  • British take Fort Frontenac

  • British make peace with the Iroquois, Shawnee and Delaware Indians

  • The British recapture Fort Duquesne, rename it Pittsburgh

  • British win Battle of Quebec. Montcalm and Wolfe, the commanding generals of both armies, die in battle.

  • Montreal falls to the British; letters are signed finishing the surrender of Canada

  • Treaty of Paris – All French possessions east of the Mississippi, except New Orleans, are given to the British. All French possessions west of the Mississippi are given to the Spanish.