US history a timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US history timeline

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The beginning of the French and Indian War

  • The end of the French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cottim gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Act

  • The louisiana purchase

  • The war of 1812

  • The Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The panic of 1837

  • The beginning of the Mexican-American war

  • The end of the Mexican-American War

  • The compromise of 1850

  • The firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclomation

  • The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assasination

  • The 13th Amenment

  • Andrew Jackson's impeachment

  • The 14th Amendment

  • The 15th Amendment

  • The organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • the invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Pullman's Strike

  • The Homestead's Stirke

  • The beginning of the Spanish-American War

  • The end of the Spanish-American War

  • Theordore Roosevelt becomes president

  • the invention of the airplane