US history timeline

By Tyson Baak
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus lands in America

  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to

    US history timeline

  • Settlement of James Town

  • French Indian war

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention was held

  • Invention of cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition acts

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • The war of 1812

  • The missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The panic of 1837

  • Trails of Tears

  • Telegraph Invented

  • The Mexican American war

  • The compromise of 1850

  • firing on fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th amendment

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln assassination

  • The 14th amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th amendment passed

  • The telephone is invented

  • Electric light bulb invented

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust