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Jan 1, 1000
Vikings Land in North America
The vikings land in North America making them the first foreigners to have set foot on "American Soil." -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Timespan of the Timeline
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Oct 14, 1066
William of Normandy conquers England
William built a large fleet and invaded England in September 1066, decisively defeating and killing Harold at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. -
Jun 15, 1215
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta basically secured the Liberties of the elite social class of England, which had a big effect on the American Revolution taking place. -
Aug 23, 1492
Christopher Columbus discovers America
Columbus is convinced that he has landed in Asia but it is really only America. Along with him he brings many diseases and also takes many natives in slavery. -
Aug 23, 1500
John Cabot explores North America
Cabot explores the continent of North America for a little over 2 years. -
Jan 1, 1517
Protestant Reformation
A major European movement initially aimed at reforming the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. -
Jamestown, Va
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first representative government in North America. -
The Pilgrims come on the Mayflower
Settlers fleeing from England come to the New world to start a new life, but some are missing family members who perished on the long voyage over on the Mayflower. -
Puritan Migration
Puritans are a group of rigorous religious people who came to the Americas to freely practice their style of the Christian faith. -
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a sprawling intellectual, philosophical, cultural, and social movement that spread through England, France, Germany, and other parts of Europe during the 1700s -
Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led an armed rebellion with settlers in Virginia against the governor. -
The Great Awakening
The great awakening was a religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the ’40s. It was a part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century -
French and Indan War
A war where the French and the Indians made an alliance to fight against Great Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
The significance of the Proclamation of 1763 was that the colonial settlers in America were protected from Indian attacks and the Indians land was protected from colonial encroachment. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was an act enforced by British parliament on the colonist in the Untied states that said they had to pay a tax for all paper that they used. -
Townsend Acts
The townsend acts basically forced all colonist to give up there freedoms and give them to the soldiers of the British army. -
Boston "Massacre"
The Boston Massacre was a riot that began when a group of 50 citizens gathered outside of the State house to protest the large presence of British soldiers in the city. Five colonists were killed during the riot. -
Boston Tea Party
a gathering of Boston citizens led by patriot Samuel Adams disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and boarded three British ships docked in the Boston Harbor in search of imported tea. These men, armed with axes and tomahawks, chopped open the tea trunks they found onboard and dumped almost 10,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The first act of Congress in the New Americas. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect was a policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a formal way of saying that the colonist were no longer part of Great Britain, but were their own nation and had their own individual rights. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was the official declaration of peace between the United States and Great Britain.
