US History Timeline 2018

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

    Columbus, financed by the rulers of Spain, sails on the Pinta, Sante Maria, and Nina to find a new way to get to India and China. But instead he finds a new continent.
  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The french and Indian war

  • The Albany plan of union

  • The Boston tea party

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The battle of Yorkshire

    September 28, 1781 - October 19, 1781
  • The Constitutional Convention

    May 27, 1787 - September 17, 1787
  • The invention of Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The war of 1812

    June 18, 1812 - February 18, 1815
  • The invention of the telegraph

    1830-1840
  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The trail of tears

  • The Mexican and American war

    April 25, 1846 - February 2, 1848
  • The compromise of 1850

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • The firing on fort Sumter

    It lasted to the 13th of april
  • The emancipation Proclamation

  • The organization of standard oil trust

  • Surrender at appomattox couthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • 14th amendment

  • 15th amendment

  • 13th amendment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The end of reconstruction

  • The invention of electric light

  • The Homestead strikes

  • The pullman stikes

  • The spanish and American war

    april 21, 1898 - August 13, 1898
  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane