US History Timeline

By Maddox Rhude
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    The Battle was from 1754 to 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

    The Battle was from 9/28/1781 to 10/19/1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of The Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

    The War was from 6/18/1812 to 2/18/1815

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Elected

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • Telegraph Invented

  • The Mexican American War

    The War ended on 2/2/1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • The Surrender at The Appomattox Courthouse

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • 14th Amendment

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Invention of Electric Light

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • The Invention of the Airplane