US History and American Literature

By O Stanley
  • 1453

    Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople

  • 1488

    Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

  • 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • Period: 1492 to

    US History and American Literature

  • 1493

    Columbus reports to Ferdinand and Isabella

  • May 4, 1493

    Pope Alexander VI divides world between Spain and Portugal

  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • 1497

    Cabot lands in North America

  • 1509

    Henry VIII succeeds Henry VII throne

  • 1513

    Ponce de Leon names Florida

  • 1519

    Magellan heads for the Spice Islands

  • 1521

    Hernan Cortes vs. Aztecs in Mexico

  • 1535

    Fransisco Pizzaro vs. Incas in Peru

  • 1541

    Pizzaro murdered

  • 1547

    Henry VIII dies

  • 1553

    Queen Mary I takes throne

  • 1558

    Queen Mary I dies

  • 1558

    Queen Elizabeth takes throne

  • 1558

    English defeat the Armada

  • King Philip II of Spain assembles the Armada

  • Queen Elizabeth dies

  • Jamestown settlers begin building

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Captain John Smith saved by Pocahontas

  • John Rolfe introduces tobacco to the New World

  • A Description of New England (book) by John Smith

  • Pocahontas dies

  • Pilgrims set sail for America on Mayflower

  • Pilgrims sign treaty with Massasoit

  • The Great Migration

  • Harvard University is founded

  • Deluder Law

  • England becomes a Commonwealth

  • England becomes a Monarchy again

  • King Philip's War (1675-76)

  • Sieur de La Salle sails down Mississippi and names Louisiana

  • King William's War (1689-97)

  • Tituba accused of witchcraft in Salem

  • Great Britain comes to existence with Acts of Union passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments (Mr. Jones)

  • Ben Franklin's, The Pennsylvania Gazette, begins

  • Ben Franklin's, Poor Richard's Almanac, begins

  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

  • Ben Franklin founds, The Philosophical Society

  • Franklin flies kite with key

  • The French and Indian War

  • The Albany Plan of Union

  • James Otis on Writs of Assistance

  • Peace of Paris signed

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • Davy Crockett born

  • The Contrast Excerpt by Royall Tyler

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • George Washington's Farewell Address

  • Federalist Papers #1

  • Federalist Papers #23

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Last of the Mohicans

  • Andrew Jackson's Elected

  • Sketch of a Blue Stocking by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Ministers Black Veil by Hawthorne

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Big Bear of Arkansas

  • The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Patchwork Quilt by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

  • The Mexican - American War

  • Civil Disobedience by Thoreau

  • The Scarlet Letter

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

  • Dred Scott vs. Sandford

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • My Contraband by Louisa May Alcott

  • End of Reconstruction

  • Standard Oil Trust - Formed

  • 13th Amendment - Senate

  • 13th Amendment - House

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment -

  • 15th Amendment - Congress

  • Standard Oil Company - Renamed

  • 15th Amendment - Ratified

  • Invention of the Telephone - Bell

  • Invention of the Electric Light - Edison

  • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

  • The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

  • Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

  • The Spanish and American War

  • The Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • To Build a Fire by Jack London

  • Invention of the Airplane - Wright Brothers

  • The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

  • Penrod by Booth Tarkington

  • Sumer is Icumen In

  • America: The Best Last Hope