US History timeline

  • 1492

    The discovery of America by Columbus

  • Period: 1492 to

    US History timeline

    A timeline of US history
  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian war begins

  • The French and Indian war ends

  • 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 cotton gin

  • The alien and sedition acts

  • The electric light gets invented

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • The war of 1812

  • The Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jacksons Election

  • The trail of tears begins

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The panic of 1837 begins

  • The panic of 1837 ends

  • The Mexican-American war begins

  • The Mexican-American war ends

  • The compromise of 1850

  • The firing on fort Sumter

  • The emancipation proclimation

  • Surrender and Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincolns Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnsons impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The organization of standard oil trust

  • The telephone is invented

  • The trail of tears ends

  • The Pullman strike

  • The Homestead strike

  • The Spanish-American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Airplanes are invented